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Paywalled. What are the "profound consequences"?

Here I thought I didn't have one of The Names, then I notice one of my nicknames in there...

I agree that we need to find a way to make this communal rather than individualistic, but government backing isn't that. It would be nice if that happened and all, but with a thesis like that it feels like it's missing the mark calling state-hosting "community ". How do we make self-hosted services something that can serve at the level of the community? Like a load balancing reverse proxy that points to the servers those in the community can host and everyone invites their friends and neighbours.

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To clarify, by polycule I mean the total chain of romantic relationships. Currently it's four of us living together, and two more living together as a couple where me and my chosen family member have been dating one of them for years. For most of it, the section living together was three of us, romantically a v but more than that we think of eachother as chosen family.

It definitely helps with financial stability insofar as there's a lot of buffer when someone is between jobs, but otherwise it's not all that different. Housing space needs scale with number of people in the family, after all. We're starting to look in to purchasing a house together, and to an extent the purchasing power of four working professionals helps there, but if we also want kids it means looking at big houses so again it kinda evens out. There's also an added layer of legal complexity that becomes necessary with home ownership - we don't have a ready made framework like marriage.

Edit: I realized I didn't answer your first question. It depends. Not as much as a traditional monogamous married family would - we mostly have separate bank accounts. But we share most of our expenses (even split for ease) and have income-scaled split of rent.

Synonyms aren't necessarily interchangeable. Asking about the distinctions is a good question.

The joke is it inverts the usual "what a week/but captain it's Wednesday" meme. Wednesday (the character) calls the captain Commodore (a title for someone in command of a group of ships, but lower rank than an admiral). The captain corrects Wednesday, saying he's just a captain.

Assume they're asking because they want to make sure it's not imposing, in which case it's good to assert boundaries you need too. If they push it was just a manipulation tactic, in which case you're more than justified in walking.

Leave it to the Terrans to build censorship right in.

Votre spécéficité culturelle constituera la nôtre. (Pardon, je ne parle pas français. Les commentaires sont appréciés.)

It's what I use and it works well for me. It seemed like the best option when I was researching this recently. Plus the icon is cute.