I just finished a player of games a few months ago! Someone suggested the series to me here on lemmy (perhaps you? Lol. I never take note of screen names when I should), and I read Phlebas and APoG before I got distracted. It’s so good. Like ridiculously good. Phlebas wasn’t quite my speed, not bad by any stretch, I just found myself wishing for more of what there was little of and less of what there was much of, but APoG was fantastic and exactly what I was looking for!

I never grew past the phase of childhood where kids will be like “oh my God cool shirt we should be friends!” Lol I make a point to do my best never to come across as creepy or predatory (especially given I am physically quite large. Over weight by about 60 pounds, but even at my ideal weight I’d be an imposing figure), but clothing choices are what I notice, just like when I was a kid. I’ll be walking through Walmart and be like “I love your T-shirt!” And the smiles are so amazing. I don’t know why more people don’t do it, it feels so good seeing people get happy, when all I did was say the thing I was thinking already.

A favorite one was a woman in Walmart a few months ago. She was tall, and dressed in, full, hippie gear. I’m talking log flowing earth tones, chunky crystal necklace, an om/aum pendant, peace symbol ear rings, her hair was in this really elaborate braid, the type that looks super simple but probably takes a ton a work, super tall chunky cork platforms… It was like she stepped out of the 60s, but not in a fake way, it was obviously not a costume, either. This these contemporary items that she put together for this look. She looked amazing.

I initially went to compliment the necklace that I really liked, and then took in the whole look and it came out like this:

“I love your ne-- I love your whole freaking vibe!”

She laughed hard and smiled and just looked so incredibly joyful. Then she noticed the two tiny puppies I had and she got the play with puppies for a minute, and it was a rare example of joy in this crushing dystopian world.

The other one from around that era was:

Wanna hear a clean joke? A girl took a bath with Bubbles.

Wanna hear a dirty joke? Bubbles was a clown.

I hope that’s not true. I used mine to find the lost condom in my room the day my mom called on her way home from work when I was 13 and said she’d bought us a new bed and we were rearranging furniture when she got home.

My guess would be they’re using the all feed? Idk, I’m not one of those people lol

As an anarchist, I answer this just about the same way I answer most questions. Through consensus of those involved, the form that takes is going to be different for each region, community, et cetera. Those that make up society need to have some way of making collective decisions, but it doesn’t need to be a state to achieve that. States are new, governing is not. I favor consensus democracy, but it’s by no means the only method. But questions like this are a double edged sword, they’re vital to explaining left libertarianism, but they’re also proof of how far we have to go before people understand even the basics of it. Stateless does not mean ungoverned, just as anarchism does not mean chaos. It’s simple a governing by the people. If we cannot be trusted to govern ourselves how in the hell do we think this is a tenable system, in which we choose individuals to govern us?

I can think of a ton, actually. The just don’t overlap with a fourth circle, “mainstream appeal,” they’re all folk singers like Phil Ochs and David Rovics. Most main stream is probably Todd Snider and he’s by no means nationally popular or anything.

I’m sure I recall them using the cargo transporter at least a few times, but it might be enterprise I’m thinking of? I wonder what resolution they had…

There are folks who just instantly down vote anything 3d printer related, I think it’s a plastic waste thing?

An Amish boy on rumspringa decides that he wants to experience all that the English world has to offer, so he gets a date with a girl, and she suggests that he goes to the video store and gets them a porno to watch that night, before she takes his virginity.

Later that night he shows up at her apartment with a bottle of wine and a vhs. “What movie did you get us?” She asks,

Excitedly, he pulls out the vhs and says “this looks really sexy! It’s called head cleaner!”

My older brother told me that joke as a kid. It was my first dirty joke. Lol