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How old are they?

My boss does this all the time, and at first I was confused. I then learned that older generations tend to use ellipses to indicate a casual tone in writing. It’s something that predates most written communication being digital.

Ooh, yucca is fantastic! How do you like yours prepared?

That sounds like a wonderful retirement

Nah, that’s Kentucky

You’ll be incorrect, and people will think you don’t know what you’re talking about as a result, but you’re certainly welcome to do that.

Lol ok

I’m not here to tell you what to believe, but the Gadsden flag is pretty closely associated with right-wing American libertarianism. If you want to keep using it, go right ahead, just don’t be surprised when that’s what people assume you stand for

Are you a libertarian socialist? Or an American “libertarian”? The convolution of the term in the US has really done a disservice to understanding what people mean when they say they are libertarian, I’ll grant you that

I’ll be honest though, I’ve never seen the Gadsden flag used by any flavor of libertarian that I find agreeable

American libertarians are misguided at best and fascist at worst

In probably sixth grade, four of my friends held me to the ground, one on each arm and leg, while a fifth brought the girl I liked over and told her I had something I wanted to ask her.

I’m not sure how they thought it would go, but needless to say, she wasn’t interested.

The tragedy of the commons, as Hardin put it, supported the need for government to impose regulation to prevent “rationally self-interested” actors from depleting the common resource. However, the scenario he imagines in which that’s necessary does not mirror the real world. What Ostrom found was that when faced with a dwindling resource, communities find ways to cooperate and develop rules to manage those resources without requiring a central top-down authority.

I actually don’t find all that much connection between the image I posted and the tragedy of the commons argument. (I just really hate Garrett Hardin.) My interpretation of the post is less an advocacy for no rules in managing common pool resources, and more a complaint and pondering of how work seems to lose meaning when it is on behalf of someone else

The tragedy of the commons is ahistorical bullshit used to prop up bad policy, and it is completely detached from any resemblance of how the commons actually functioned. Garrett Hardin had no idea what he was talking about. Elinor Ostrom literally won the Nobel Prize in Economics for her work studying how common-pool resources are collectively managed in real life.

I mean, yes, food is not literally free. But there are certainly ways to organize an agricultural society that don’t automatically lead to social hierarchies, and that would be vastly preferable, imo. The enclosure of the commons has been a disaster