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"... For the machine is immortal." But the machine does break. That's why I'm here.
Replying to Avatar Jeff Swann

Anarcho-capitalism has no democratic process, no public councils, & no political leaders of any kind. All services would be privately supplied & funded, & anyone who does not like a particular service would be able to support a competitor or start their own.

I suspect that getting from here to there will involve a lot of active local disregard for federal & state laws & any other dictates of larger institutions. And I think those larger institutions will increasingly lack the resources & political will needed to enforce any decent sort of justice or order. This seems likely to happen at all levels at once, & I think we can already see it happening with States & counties defying federal demands around covid, States effectively nullifying federal drug & gun laws, etc. Uber, is actually a decent example; it started in direct defiance of taxi monopolies in most major cities, but they were too popular to kill by the time legal action was attempted. Uber isn't even decentralized. I think we will see truly decentralized versions of all sorts of services that will undermine all sorts of laws & regulations. Eventually the political institutions that remain will just be seen as irrelevant groups of incompetent authoritarian weinies hurling empty threats to annoy the people who are actually doing something productive.

Smaller communities may be more successful in the short to medium term. I suspect major cities will continue to degrade into socialist hellholes, as has been the trend for some time.

A smaller population will have, potentially, more success at maintaining social norms. Personal responsibility being one of the most critical for fostering an environment where anarcho-capitalism can succeed.

It's a turbulent time. Sadly, it may get far more turbulent.

This too, shall pass.

Peace be with you.

Prepare, grow your own skill set, smile at everyone around you. Be kind to those that deserve kindness.

Used an airbnb garage tonight to diagnose a vehicle...

Cool thing about crap locks and nobody home.

The obvious is Adeptus Mechanicus (specifically Stygies viii for their known "heretekal" studies and technology), but I've been working on an outdated 2nd edition space marine army of mine and seeing if I can convert them to a Legion of the Damned army.

Really interested in the new updates in Necron, though.

Watching all the new transplants to central Arizona freak out over "record heat wave". (Not to mention national news sources)

The rest of us go on with business as usual.

Full work days, on site, all weekend.

Worded almost as awkwardly as anything Marcuse ever wrote.

The othering of those with differing opinions is cult behavior... Right before the purges.

Board games and, recently, got my boys into painting minis and playing 40k.

A fair number of TTRPG as well.