Indeed. But seriously, how does passing on leadership to their child for two generations in a row not give cause to super grave concern for all socialists?

One can be socialist and critical of dynastic states

Maybe you’ve mistaken criticisms of the MS claims for criticisms of quantum technology in general?

You can now see the estimated delivery date on the Steam Controller page!

Oof, ouch, my bones!

That would make those black holes the dark matter.

Also why don’t they evaporate like other small black holes? Sorry I can’t watch your video right now.

I used to love reading their video game diaries. They do them seldomly these days, if at all.

Stuff like this.

I like reading the RockPaperShotgun reviews. Nice writing, no score, usually some interesting points about the game going deeper than what a trailer shows.

In my experience most people understand that it’s not the fault of every individual citizen that their state behaves a certain way, but at the same time the citizens of a country have a vastly larger influence on their state than the citizens outside that country.

So no, don’t distance yourself from your country. Distance yourself from your government or state. And work in a safe way to leverage whatever influence you have over your fellow citizens, your local or national systems, to hinder the bad guys and help the good guys.

Ah, for sure, if you want the money to have a large piece of land and a house, a car, private healthcare, then you’re talking about the life of a rich man (from my perspective). You want to own property worth a million dollars plus, as you point out.

If you can get by without that much property, things get a lot easier. In the extreme you could live like a vagabond. In my Scandinavian home country some people live decent lives on the road without much property. Not comfortable lives, but not necessarily bad ones either.

Or with modest US savings you could move to a cheaper country and build a little life there.

I mean

Dutch kids are consistently judged to be some of the happiest in the world.

They’re not just happy, they’re ranked as happiest in the world. That will always be unusually happy.

I don’t know what kind of place you’re living in, but around here you’re quite free to do as you please as long as you don’t interfere with other people. Your children must receive some kind of schooling (which they can get for free), but other than that nobody will get in your way.

Not sure how exactly it would work in practice. You will need some way to feed yourself and your kids, and you will need to pay property taxes if you own land. That’s not so much about corporate enslavement, but more about recognising that you’re living on land that is being supported by the national infrastructure. And it’s not a huge amount, especially if your land isn’t worth much.

I think with Outer Wilds and Obra Dinn I realized that “Information games” are just my absolute favourite genre of games. Portal is incredible, but more a regular puzzle game than an information game.

Every game I play is like “this is good, but it’s no Outer Wilds…”

Anyone who grows up thinking that two - or more - consenting adults can’t live or love together is a(nother) victim of that (in the legal sense only) “crime”.

Ah, but then they’re a victim of the illegitimate criminalisation of LGBT relationships, not the victims of the LGBT relationship itself. Meaning the crime has no victims, the law has victims.

Where I currently live there is an old and much copied legal system but I’m not really qualified to think about nor answer your second question.

Sure you are, don’t put yourself down like that. All citizens living under a law should have their say in the justness of that law.

I’m all for kinks and all that, if it floats your boat

That’s nice - but certain kinks and LGBT relationships were illegal for a long time, and still are some places. Are they victimless crimes then?

If yes, do you think that your specific society crossed a threshold at some point going from a legal system with victimless crimes to a legal system without victimless crimes?

Idk, if given the choice between 50 death camps or 51 death camps, it would be pretty fucked up to choose 51.

There most certainly are victimless crimes. Who’s the victim when a woman gets a dog to lick peanut butter off her vagina? It’s certainly a crime in most places.

The meter doesn’t work :(

Gotta find your way back to this vibe. There’s a lot of good out there, a lot to be grateful for. And on a long term timescale the world is in many ways better than ever before on important stuff like infant mortality.