Totally, yeah. Just wanted to highlight how long ago that whole debacle was and how old it makes me feel :(

The patent went through in 2021.

Cameras on teachers… for the children’s wellbeing only, right?

<Anakin smirks>

…Right?

I have revived two old computers back from being utterly unusable thanks to Linux. Thats two less sitting wasted in a landfill somewhere.

You are talking as if this post just discovered ‘Excluding Disabled People’. When discrimination arises, it does so in opposition to anarchism. Anarchy doesn’t need its terms and conditions updating. We learn how to implement it, we don’t gush over tweets that read like ‘does anyone else think being shitty to disabled people is bad or is it just me?’ That just draws anarchism into the most superficial part of the culture-war.

I genuinely apologise if I sound strangely ticked off by this, but I have an admittedly-unhealthy issue with anarchy being used as a means of scoring good-boy points on social media.

I appreciate that, but it’s redundant to the point of being unhelpful. It would be like reminding BLM that racism is bad. The very point of anarchy is to remove these social hierarchies.

“Hey there, Defund The Police forum - just to let you know that if you aren’t for police reform, you aren’t my friend!”

Like, what are we doing here?

If someone said ‘if there are nothing but a bunch of racist bigots in flippanarchy, I don’t want any part of it!’ then all people would see is ‘there are racists in flippanarchy’.

Anarchy is not abelist, racist, sexist or homophobic in its very nature. There is zero point in making this signalling gesture, all it does is imply no-smoke-without-fire assumptions.

Thats why I am downvoting. It would be like me saying ‘if lyrial is a rapist, I want nothing to do with them’.

I am yet to encounter any form of anarchy that excludes the disabled.

I heard a rumour that if you smash open enough of them, you have a good chance of finding a golden ticket.

(Sorry for word-salad, can’t type this morning)

I figure that hierarchy only works if it has full-and-consistent consent of everyone within it. So for example if it was 20 people and electrical decisions were being made, and there was one electrician, people would collectively vote that guy to be in charge of electrics.

Within the current system, for example, we have no direct vote over having 70 year old boomers with no experience using the internet (outside of sending emails to their mate Jeff) making decisions that completely disrupt the way the internet it used. This is where anarchy is arguably far better.

That implies that you can’t have any rights unless the government says you can have them.

Agreed. People should dislike modern Star Trek for it’s bad writing, not because it’s progressive.