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Or “my town is small that’s why everything is far apart”

Everything is far apart because the streets are too wide. This dates back to the 1780s, it's actually older than cars, and it was what made people adopt cars in the first place - for instance, Manhattan already had its car-sized streets of their current size way, way before cars were invented.

In the long term, the problem is the street grid itself - squish everything closer together and everything will be nicer to walk to (because it's human-scale), closer to walk to in the first place, and cheaper to maintain.

The electric trams were bad, because they were never actually intended as transport - the electric companies just wanted an excuse to hook the neighbourhoods up to electricity, and electric trams were just their excuse for doing so. It wasn't cohesively designed, they didn't necessarily think it was better than cars.

Note that saying they were bad is not the same as saying they had to be bad - they were just poorly executed because they didn't give a shit.

Most Nazis predated the Nazis, the Nazis were only around 20ish years or so.

Putin will kill those dissidents, handing over the list is murder. Anyone who hands over a list of dissidents to an authoritarian dictator deserves to be Luigi'd.

100% correct. If AI somehow replaces junior devs, someone will have to train them in substitute for paid real-world experience.

The PineNote. Depending on your definition of "proper", since it ships with GNOME and AFAICT only supports Wayland, and Wayland doesn't have many compositors that work well on a device with no keyboard.

Do any of the DOGE kids play War Thunder?

My 150 mile commute

Is that 150 miles each way, or is it 150 miles roundtrip?

If you have three whole generations of time and the energy and tech to generate people, then maybe spend that time fixing your orbit trajectory. Idiot.

Governments accepted crops. Long after the invention of currency, governments still took their cut in wheat. What kind of money is a peasant going to have? All the king’s horses eat grain. This obsession with tax is a weirdly libertarian lens on a history that’s mostly anthropology.

States are the reason everyone uses currency. States are fundamentally an army that wields its power to pay itself, and currency is a huge force multiplier for projecting power (and therefore paying itself).

The problem with crops is that they're hard to transport, so if you and your army try to go conquer some other land, and if the army still insists on being paid upfront (it does), then you have to haul the food, using people/animals that eat some of the food they're hauling. Now you're facing sharp logistical limitations analogous to the 'tyranny of the rocket' equation, where carrying food requires more food to feed the mules, and carrying that extra mule food requires more mules which requires more mule food.

Currency solves that whole issue. The state forces the farmers to pay tax via currency, and so the farmers need to sell their crops for currency that they can pay tax with, and so now the soldiers can buy food from the farmers with the currency the state pays them. Carrying currency along with the army during a march is a relatively simple problem.

And sure, farmers could trade with currency even if the state didn't exist, but ultimately farmers don't actually want to trade with others - they want to be self-sufficient (within their local community), and what few trades they do actually require (e.g. buying salt, if they live inland), can still be done with crops. And do note that salt is incredibly value-dense.

Also, currency is mostly useless for farmers - what they'd mostly want to buy is food, during a famine. But if there's a famine, everyone is hoarding food instead of selling it. So the currency is useless to buy food. Which means other farmers would be even less willing to sell the food they're hoarding. It's like the opposite of "don't look down".

Okay, counterpoint: If fascists can't produce decent engineers, then why did the US hire the nazi rocket scientists after WW2?

Adding to OP:

Framework: You are self-employed.