Mike Pondsmith just extrapolated the trends he saw in the society - corporatism, drugs, plastic surgeries, stress, crime, prostitution. He just pushed these things to the extreme and put in scifi setting. This isn’t just Trump thing, this is happening for decades now.

When you have this much money, the life is just a game

Kind of a far left version of “Look what’s happening in Sweden” kind of thing.

Well, Sweden has a rising crime issue since 1970s. Especially increase in rape after year 2000 is concerning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden

As someone living in Poland I have no idea what is he talking about. Poland is like any other european country. Maybe somewhat more right wing leaning than western EU, but that’s it.

slashes fuel costs by up to 50 per cent

And the cost of the battery will be recovered in… How many years?

Demonic forces of physics.

What’s next? Banning Einsteins general relativity?

Child porn is a bad thing

Tell that to the priests

Every time I get either downvotes or a non answer like this.

they rely on more social cohesion to enforce social rules

How is this supposed to work in situation where individuals aren’t agreeing with each other? What about communication overhead when large amount of people is involved in decision making? These are the questions anarchists avoid answering.

The only thing I know to work in practice is Torrent protocol for data exchange - but it works in an environment where violence is completely infeasible, and it doesn’t even try to be fair or equal. It’s pure tit-for-tat (aka favor-for-favor) model when there’s bandwidth deficit, and pure charity when there’s a surplus

Also, data is perfectly quantifiable, which is not a thing in more complex enviroments

You just can’t apply torrent in the real life

Anarchy means without hierarchy. That’s it. Rules can still be agreed upon.

Im not aware of any system (outside P2P file exchange protocols) that would make it possible.

But it’s the exact same thing. If there’s no hierarchy of some kind, then who’s going to enforce the law? Like putting criminals in jail and prevent violence on the streets?

Isn’t that a definition of anarchy? No law enforcement, everything goes, including uncool things?

highly problematic because it’s hazardous and radioactive?

Thing is, there’s very little of that waste, with much less impact than say, burning coal.

Also, it’s highly radioactive only when taken fresh out of reactor - this waste is stored in pools, until it decays. What you’re left is weakly radioactive, long term waste that needs to be buried for a long time.

They’ll own nothing and will be happy!

Whatever. Tencent will either buy them now, or after bankruptcy

So comparing to New Horizons mission

• New Horizons mission cost is estimated to around 780mln in 2001-2017
• Voyager cost is estimated at 850mln in 1977, which is ~2.8bln in 2006 dollars

Meaning you unpress it, and computer gets 2x faster?

Lemmy is full of communists/socialists - this is an opposite side of political spectrum

This looks like a crypto bubble.

-What’s the difference between pack of terrorists and humanitarian aid convoy?

-How the fuck should I know? I’m just a drone operator

Wait until you install some package and then scratch your head not knowing how to run it.