The free market never existed and cannot exist. “Free” for Adam Smith meant free from rents (e.g. by monopolists, landlords, etc), but capitalism tends toward monopoly as bigger players swallow up smaller ones and use anticompetitive tactics to maintain their position.

Yup. Once you go from a community of lasting relationships to a spot market of one-off, arms length transactions between strangers, the commons disappears. The Commons is not a place, it’s a set of relationships.

It isn’t supported by evidence (see ostrom link below) and was spread by eugenicists to support their claims

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-the-commons/A8BB63BC4A1433A50A3FB92EDBBB97D5

Elinor Ostrom knew

Ahh yeah sorry on android it’s keepassDX

Keepassxc

All of them, as long as we have capitalism

Good translation work is difficult and can take a long time. In the past, it was either done as part of academic research or if a publishing company was willing to invest that much. At least as far as works of fiction, history, plays, and anything else with nuance and cultural context go.

Now, machine translation is OK for straightforward factual works and can convey the gist of a story, but still do not measure up to a studied, thoughtful translation. I disagree that a bad translation is better than no translation, since a bad one will give the wrong impression of a text or kill its magic or imply things about the culture it came from that aren’t accurate.

AI slop translations threaten to make what’s left of the cultural differences in this world bland, bias them based on the mostly English language works that AI is t trained on, and who knows what else. AI doesn’t understand meaning, it just provides a plausible answer to the input prompt. What would it do with Ulysses or The Bible if translations of them didn’t exist?

Being forced to work for billionaires keeps us from leading more fulfilling lives

Organize movements of workers, tenants, etc. Build up support & experience, establish a program of things you want to accomplish, then organize various actions up until you have enough power to strike

It’s not a single, neat answer. Decades of history led to this point. One interesting entry point: https://thedigradio.com/podcast/counterrevolution-w-melinda-cooper/

broadly, the attitudes range from “you’d make it yourself and its okay because you’d have time to if all your basic needs are met” to “well surely someone would do it altruistically.” I also found a few people who just said “people die, get over it,”

None of this is anarchism. While no one can lay out in detail exactly how complex manufacturing & medical care will work, the principles of it would be

• solidarity
• collaboration
• lack of formal, institutional hierarchy (but not lack of expertise, managerial roles, or medical standards)
• consent

I am not in medicine or pharma production, so maybe you can help me think of how to arrange a system along these lines?

We already have medical associations, unions of nurses, and university & hospital affiliations. What would those look like without capitalism or other hierarchy weighing them down?

Are there less exploitative ways to manufacture drugs and distribute them to all, where there is no need to distribute profit to shareholders or goose the share price, because the company is now a bunch of cooperatives?

We need you, the medically trained folks, to help us think about how we can provide care and medicine in an anarchist way.

Firestorm coop, Haymarket books, Anark, Taylor Lorenz, Zoe baker, saint andrew

Use resources available through your library’s website

Yes. Bandcamp has lots of great independent artists & labels

You can thin out some sauces with a neutral oil, like canola or sunflower oil. You can mix some sauces into mayonnaise for an aioli. You can use or make sauces that are less hot or less salty.

This all or nothing “complicit” knowledge is great for personal purity testing and useless for moving the needle. You don’t need to bring someone 100% into alignment with your views, you just need them to stop supporting one kind of harm or start supporting one helpful position (which will be diff for each person)

Meet people where they are to make change

Every tax break for a billionaire or subsidy for a fossil fuel company is money we pay for things we don’t want

A change in lifestyle is bigger than a change in numerical age. If you go away to college, that’s a big change. If you get a job, that’s a big change, etc etc