If they existed it would be The Boys style super"heros". So I don’t know, I’d kinda prefer they didn’t know how to catch a punch.

I’ve had too much raw XML parsing for one lifetime.

We still use a bastardized mixture of soap, rest, and grapqhl with zero consistency.

What’s your favorite brand of air fryer?

I’m shocked that friday’s deployment to prod didn’t explode.

Which is why you have a judiciary and constitution outlining protections.

So maybe we should switch to systems that represent everyone equally, with equal and fair democratic representation, so that when evil inevitably arises it can be squashed.

Breezy weather for Android. It works exactly the same, and doesn’t have any of the privacy bullshit strings attached.

I’d rather see gooner shit than boot licking shit

🎵 Kier, chosen one, Kier.

Kier, brilliant one, Kier.

Brings the bounty to the plain through the torment, through the rains,

Progress, knowledge show no fear,

Kier, chosen one, Kier. 🎵

Fellas is it gay to have sex with women?

Maybe we wouldn’t have millions of people trying to live here if we hadn’t systematically destabilized half of latin america. We’re reaping what we’ve sown.

Fuck off with this fascist apologia.

I’ve been doing some shady shit with regex lately (parsing .md files for interactive TTRPG sheets), but I’m glad to have not been touching XML

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If your state concept is broad enough to entail any organization of a certain size, be my gast in a council republic

It’s somewhere along the lines of “any organization that handles the administrative work and protection for a given territory”.

And I don’t think that’s all that broad of a definition, and it includes your world wide net of councils as a state.

Importantly, you didn’t answer the second question:

What would prevent centralization of power?

That’s state welfare/insurance, not socialism.

Shit that’s all you had to say

Unfortunately I quite prefer my mind being the only one I can hear.

How is that different from a state, aside from the decentralization of power?

What would prevent centralization of power?