Hey don’t talk poorly of the GobliFantaForestCore community. It’s a thriving scene and just because you’re not sophisticated enough to get it doesn’t mean you can put it down

Haha probably not a bad place to start

Santa is Exxon confirmed?

Fabian Socialism

Well that’s another Wikipedia rabbit hole I’m about to dive into

But totally agree with your suspicions. From what I’ve read so far, the Catholicism link is from Christians who actually believed in the fact that the bible says to take care of each other, but I’m not fully ready to trust that. (Like you said though, this could be a product of its time)

To me it really reads like something invented by a capitalist who knows that the system is unjust but is still devoted to it. Which, to be honest, I can respect, especially for the time period.

That being said, in my limited understanding of it, it doesn’t sound all that bad? (definitely drop any religious connections). If I were to choose between the current system (in Canada/USA specifically), and this one, I might be willing to try it out.

Maybe I could be brought around if someone can explain what it actually is.

That’s for sure my issue. I’ve read a number of articles on it at this point and I’m still not grasping exactly what it is. Was really hoping someone here would be an expert on it lol

I believe this is mostly managed through the Compensated Price part of Social Credit, but yeah I’m with you on that book. Was hoping someone here would be an expert on the subject

You’re right, I’ll see if I can find a better (human written) summary. Asked ChatGPT for this one since I don’t understand it well enough to write one myself and I didn’t want to paste the whole wikipedia page in.

It’s a summary of the wikipedia page by ChatGPT. Should have labelled it as such, I’ll do that now

I’m not going to lie, I don’t fully understand it myself (partially why I’m asking about it lol), so don’t take my word on this but:

My understanding is that the amount of money distributed throughout the country is directly tied to the value the country as a whole produces. It basically keeps the buying power equal to the production value.

I’m unclear on how this would work when global trade is added to the mix though.

I guess gift links are a bit similar but obviously at a much smaller scale. I’m not sure how a fully similar digital system to sharing newspapers could be setup while still funding decent journalism.

I don’t hate paywalls though because I get it but I can’t say I’ve ever subscribed to get around one.

Is growler not used in the US the same way? It’s a style of jug in Canada most often for beer, wine or cider

That flex has pretty much been Canada’s national identity for years

I travelled to the US from Canada recently and was super confused when I didn’t need to enter my PIN. Was also really confused about giving away my credit card to bartenders

I don’t remember that. Do you have a source? Not doubting you btw, just want to read into what happened

Weirdly when I open that in instance I only see one post but if I open the full link, I see plenty

You can quit the drug but you can never forget it. (been sober from stims for many years but the desire never fully goes away)

I’ll happily sign the adoption papers

I miss Apollo. Voyager is nearly as great and is open source so it’s not all bad. Still miss it though…

I’d recommend a 2009 Honda Civic. Mine has held up really well and is nice and dumb

Minecraft is still really good if you just ignore the fact that Bedrock exists