I’m struggling to read that that fine text around the edge in a circle. I think it might be some form of elvish. Something about a ring

This is an interesting bit of writing, drawing that distinction.

It seems focused on what a protest isn’t, could do with more on what it is. What does it look like to think systemically when you turn that into action?

It’s a university

My students will be so disappointed to learn of my ignorance when I cover that topic this year. I’ll have to get your input on my lesson plans. 😏

In any form it’s fundamentally misleading as a model.

Even if we were to accept that the dilemma proves the value of universal cooperation, achieving that outcome would create the most fertile environment for exploitation. When everyone is trusting, that’s the best time to lie.

The mathematical solution to the prisoners dilemma depends on how the variables are framed. The standard values are chosen to represent your point and so don’t provide evidence of anything.

Would that mean faster buses through the village?

Maybe spend a few billion on a high-speed rail though the countryside to my little place?

What harm could that do?

Election US

It already takes me an hour to get to work from my rural home. You wanna make it two?

For example, the seeming contradiction between the values good people claim to pursue in life and the contradictions to those they’re willing to tollerate.

That’s not a product of the modern deceptions of a globalised economy as some have claimed, it’s a product of the way humans are not capable of including the whole world in sense of what’s real

The opposing force is the idea that whatever exists is the result of luck, bad judgement, random choices or ill intent, rather than inherent or inevitable consequence.

It’s not linear. History is one of those machines with the balls that fall down randomly and form a bell curve.

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I’ve known him for over 30 years so don’t expect me to agree

UK cops are so careful about it, according to my two friends who do or did that work. They know their work can be undone in an instant if they’re caught in a lie and it’ll impact on them personally.

Funny how accountability in the police makes a difference to abuse!

In a lot of places these don’t apply, most western countries cops are not allowed to lie

I can think of nowhere else on the internet, outside of 4chan, where that would be appropriate

When I die I also want to be scattered in the McDonald’s ball pit. But not cremated.

I should, should I?

You previously suggested I’ve not read enough economics, so should I assume you have? Do they all use that word with that meaning?

Also, I’m wondering if you have an answer to the other question. How is everyone going to afford this food that’s being sold even if it doesn’t have a markup?

You’re failing to differentiate between gross and net profits.

Ever run a business?

How is everyone going to afford this food if you’re selling it for a gross profit? I believe that was your original point.

Excellent, so we’ll need some profits on that food then, to pay them?

Let’s keep going with this thinking. We’re inventing a system from first principles

Farming requires a lot more than land