We used to kinda have that back in Yugoslavia. There was this national agency called Narodna Tehnika (it translates to technical resources for the people… more or less). It was mostly meant for kids to learn the basics of how things are produced and made, but it also had some production facilities with some larger scale machines at disposal to the people (lathes, engravers, welding appliances, etc.). They were free for use, you just had to schedule a time when you’d like to use them (time share concept basically).

I had this idea proposed to our local community. Every parking zone should have 1 car floor pit that can be used by anyone that is a paying customer of that zone (mostly locals in mind, but anyone that has paid to park there, can use the pit). You could do simple fixes there, like oil changes or maybe just check for leaks. You park your car there, bring your own tools, that was it. Their main concern was bad drivers and them failing to park the car correctly above the pit (not drop one of the weels in the pit), which is a valid point, but this could’ve been avoided with some intelligent engineering of the pit (sensors that will tell you that you’re not approaching the pit from the right angle and you might drop the car in the pit). It was shot down as being too complicated to put into practice.

I just hate how capitalism works. If it’s easy and has a lot of benefits, implement it. If it’s a bit more complicated, drop the idea 😒.

What about social labor, we used to have that back in Yugoslavia, it was a nice way to meet people, plus the food was good and it was also paid in some cases (not much, but enough to cover expenses as a student - education was free back then, so don’t compare to how much uni is worth now in the US).

That’s easy, fixing what was f*cked up for at least 150 years, that’s the hard part.

I’m for reasonable gun control. Waiting periods, no fully automatic weapons.

Reasonable, agrred.

And the US is on the decline from being a superpower now. I don’t need or want America to be the world police. The world should have more partnerships, treaties, and such, and less superpowers dominating the landscape.

Agreed, but not what most US citizens like to hear… cuz like it or not, that will also impact economical power, which will translate into less for everyone. Not necessarily poor, but the upper middle class will be dropped to lower middle… and they’re still a large percentage of the population.

I don’t think we should be grooming children for leadership, I think leaders will emerge naturally as people grow and develop. We should be giving children resources to be their best selves with free education, housing, and food. People can elect those who feel best represent them and their interests. I’m a moral relativist, mores and values shift constantly and it is hard to predict what would be best with future technologies and societies.

Mhm, agree on this as well. But, I believe that if we are to survive as a species, leaders need to appointed, not elected. The only logical answer that came to mind as how can this peron be trusted is to be “programmed” from child with values that reflect the current social order and moral values.

Still, we’ll see, I may be wrong about this, but the current system doesn’t work well either. It’s easilly corruptable.

Why Mexico, they also killed native americans (as far as I know).

You do realize that if all this is implemented, this will make the US more like Sweeden, i.e. the US will no longer be a superpower.

What about gun control?

EDIT: I like how you approach the issue though, well though of. Just have some other questions.

And what are your thoughts on leadership grooming of children… if the child has the right potential of course. This idea goes back to how tribes chose and educated their leaders (shamans). Basicaly, you embed emotinal connection to the people when they’re still young. That and other things as well (moral values, deep seeded sense or right and wrong, empathy, etc.).

As in not exist any more as a federation? The states should exist, just not within a federation?

If I have to work for free, that’s hardly a reform.

I can tell you the exact reasons why 1 in particular is no more. There were mistakes, but also 3rd party factors at play… I’d say it was about 50/50 regarding the mistakes and 3rd party foul play.

No real threat now. Plus, Chernobyl was an inside job.

In that case, we should also judge how communism and socialism was put into practice.

Yeah, this is more accurate.

Wow, I’m definitely failing advanced physics 😂.

I was actually thinking it was Jerboa’s fault, holding the comments in cache, lol 😂. Cuz I know I posted some stuff in some of the threads, but now they’re gone 😂.

Hmmm… my posts from Jerboa didn’t seem to make it to this instance… I made a few of them over the past few hours.

I’m using the alpha release now, 0.34, let’s see how it works.

Bacially, it’s excactly lke that. Every configuration is done through plain text files. Whether there is a GUI to control that or not, that’s a completely different issue. But, yes, even if there isn’t a GUI for it, you can manually edit the correspodning text files and get the desired result.

Meeh, nothing that nano can’t handle IMO. For quick edits (which is more than 90% of what you’d need to do for configuring this or that), it does the job just fine.

CMD is a toy if you ask me. Basically, there are very few options for customization regarding it, not to mention group policies, things that are really needed in production environments, like AD… nope, no tools to export “just this policy”, you export the whole thing, then you filter things out (you don’t actually export only one thing you need, nope, you have to filter/delete everything out and just leave that one thing you DO need in there, lol 😂), and then you import it back again… I mean, WTF 😂.

Ah, but we have PowerShell for that… yeah, right, as if I’m gonna learn your whole complex C# based syntax that just doesn’t make sense most of the time (this is done like this, but this other thing, that is very similar to this one, nope, that is done completely different 😤) just so that I can export and tweak this one policy I need to automate loading on new installs. And why am I even doing this? Because apparently, AD can’t handle that. Why? MS doesn’t seem to be interested in implementing that as a group policy across AD, just locally with no global control over it… go figure 🤷.

So I just use the quick and dirty approach regarding stuff like that. See what reg entries the policy changes, make a cmd script that does those changes via regadd, load that script as runonce in AD, done. Mind you, this doesnct actually reflect what is done in gpedit, it just loads the settings without gpedit ever knowing about that. Such BS, I hate it 😒.

Depends on your needs, but if it does the job for you, I wouldn’t budge either.

If you’re shifting from a distro that you got bored with, like Ubuntu (libs are outdated on LTS releases, so compiling stuff on it can be a PITA), and just wanna try something that you can tinker a bit more, but not break often, I would actually recommend Void (and BTRFS with snapshots of course). This, plus the fact that it has amazing tools/scripts that automate most of the building process is why it’s my personal preference. Arch is too cutting edge, stuff break often. Void is kinda this sweet spot. It’s rolling release, but not as bleeding edge as Arch. They’d rather opt for stability instead of bleeding edge, that is what I also like.