You knowing nothing about fishing is a perfect example. Would it be a good idea for you to set policy about fishing? No, there is too much nuance and complexity in managing existing sea life. Some fishing is good for a healthy ecosystem, too much fishing is bad. To manage the shared resource of the sea requires the input of fishing folks, conservationists, environmentalists, and anyone else with an interest. No one group or even small coalition should be allowed to control any aspect of commercial fishing. It must be decided collectively or not at all.

By force I mean anything that would compel action from someone with a threat of consequences. Changing the incentives is not force because you're not imposing consequences, just making the prospect less appealing.

The Affinity suite is a suitable replacement. It's not quite as advanced as the creative suite, but it serves 90% of most professional needs. I switched about five years ago and haven't looked back.

There is no destruction like self-destruction

Earlier that summer my father had made me clean a deer that had been shot in the gut and he did some hollywood style child abuse when I barfed about it, so I was pretty numb to the gore. What really bothered me was some of the dialog. I shudder 30 years later when I think about the line, "where we're going we don't need eyes to see."

My stepdad was horrified he'd taken his stepdaughter to see something so graphic and made me and my friends promise not to tell anyone what we saw and to downplay the gore.

I would say pragmatist, rather than a reformist. Reform makes the least mess to clean up after and leaves the smallest window for a hypothetical Joe the Billionaire from starting an actual monarchy after the overthrow of the system. If I had my way we'd replace the constitution with a new one that establishes a strong, expanded bill of right and the power to enforce it at a national level and all other decisions would be made at a city or county level, with state governments becoming caretakers and losing all legislative, executive, and judicial power beyond what's needed to maintain the roads and grid(s).

Replacing consumerism as a means of validation and acceptance is easier than it looks. Alienation is a combination of disenfranchisement, social rejection, and a lack of agency. The "buy nothing, buy less, buy used, buy local" is part of the zine I'm currently writing. The idea is that you replace consumerism with community. Buy nothing groups, swap meets, farmer's markets, flea markets, craigslist meets all provide real human interaction and social validation. Actively trying to avoid any money possible going to billionaires and corrupt state coffers means more time spent shopping, specifically in meatspace, rather than online (where huge chunks of your money go to billionaires).

I've actually been working on compiling all of the zine and essay content into a website, I will make a note and drop you a link when it goes live (months still, but this year). If I wasn't already on a watch list (old crusty anarchist), I will absolutely be on one when that goes up, lol.

I set my mom (62) up an old laptop running Ubuntu last year when her laptop was stolen out of my sister's car. She's adjusted fairly well to it. She needed a lot of hands on support at first and any time she uses her printer, but she has figured out how to do a lot of things on it on her own.

She makes papercraft activities in inkscape for a weekly storytime she hosts at a bookstore and has gotten very proficient, but still needs some hand holding when printing errors crop up.

Wikipedia says the sportage was a Mazda with kia branding back then. Which probably explains why I only ever had electrical problems that weren't from unrepaired damage.

Pet supplies for animals you don't have. Things that don't exist but sound like things you might find at a grocery store, like pot slippers from the kitchen utensils, vegan mangos, aged vermhölsterdoif cheese, or barkley salt. Rare spices the stores your partner shops at do not sell. I get a kick out of being macabre so long pork, stray child. Ingredients your partner hates. Confusing typos.

Might as well start from scratch at that point.

There aren't many ways to organize raising the money required to build a better youtube or reddit. You could kickstart it, but you'd better hope whoever does the dev doesn't sell. Another option would be a large open source ngo funding the development, but you're still talking long timelines to completion.

There definitely is room for a more pro-social social media platform that isn't a clone of something else. Paying for it is another matter.

I never said there were more than that. I said most gamers can't afford $3,500 computer setups which is well supported by that data. Just because you can doesn't mean that performance is required or even needed. What's the difference between smooth 60fps at 1080 on max settings and 165fps at 4k on ultra? Not much in terms of gameplay, beyond the perceived "better" experience.

Cool? That level of performance is incredibly niche and not required to play any game. Maximal theoretical performance is one way to play, but not even a majority of PC gamers have that kind of hardware and no one needs it (for gaming at least). The only area where you need power to participate is VR, but stand alone sets run on phone hardware.

The performance differences between an Xbox, a laptop with a good igpu, and a $3k gaming rig doesn't matter if your top priority is having fun playing a game and not tinkering with specs and hardware.