ProdigalFrog
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- Comment on Video Game development throughout the 80s (Short Documentary) 1 week ago:
Glad you enjoyed! :)
I’ll be posting more of StrafeFox’s stuff here, they’re criminally lesser known considering the consistent superb quality of their videos.
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- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 3 weeks ago:
It’s not that they don’t process words, it’s that those without internal monologues may think in concepts, images, or visualized actions rather than using the words those concepts are attached to. As an example, some deaf people if they have an internalized monologue have reported their monologue being visualized sign language, instead of audible speech spoken in their head.
Simon Roper does a couple really excellent videos on this subject, if you’d like to hear a very eloquent first hand experience of someone else’s non-monologue internal thoughts.
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 3 weeks ago:
Catalonia during the Spanish Civil war did a good job of demonstrating that smaller communities could federate and work together cooperatively without a centralized hierarchical government.
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- Comment on Commodore Industries Is Trying To Prevent The Revived Commodore International From Using The Iconic Name 1 month ago:
I also thought buying the name for so much money (over a million, and Peri refinanced his house to afford it) just wasn’t worth it.
But with so much invested now, they’re likely to fight it out in court to the end. Apparently the Dutch company’s ownership of the name is more dubious, but it will still be costly to fight.
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 1 month ago:
Fair enough :p
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 1 month ago:
Ding ding!
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 1 month ago:
It’s the name of the channel, not a description of what Oracle does.
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- Comment on Promising Graphene Perovskite research may dramatically increase efficiency and lower costs of Perovskite solar cells 1 month ago:
I personally have found Just Have a Think to have far more conservative optimism on newer technologies like this, unlike say, Undecided w/ Matt Farrell.
Some of the technologies talked about by the less click-bait-y and grounded youtubers have become a reality, such as sodium Ion batteries, which many had the same (mostly deserved) speculation about it ever seeing the light of day.
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- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 month ago:
Ah, gotcha, so when my neighbor’s house needs to be redone because he rewired it himself, I’m on the hook for that.
I’m starting to get the impression you’re not reading my responses entirely. I already mentioned that a community could collectively decide to continue to enforce building codes.
Too bad I have to stand by and let a couple of transient drug addicts cook meth in the house next door again
There would be much less incentive to create drugs for profit in a world without money.
Not saying there wouldn’t be drugs or addicts, but it’s extremely likely the scale of the problem would be fairly drastically reduced, as many people turn to becoming drug addicts due to becoming homeless as a way to find some way to cope with the extreme stress and trauma of the situation. Without money, there would be no reason for China to continue to sell fentenyl and other drugs to the cartels to be shipped into the US, and the same for Cocaine from South America. That would leave only what could be reasonably produced at home, which would likely take the form of weed.
If, on the chance that someone did start producing meth in a community that has collectively agreed to not allow for that, they could potentially be ejected from the community.
Sure thing. That’s totally going to happen. … it fall apart into vague handwaving about how everyone will be all helpful sunshine and smiles, which we know for a fact, people aren’t that at any level of their being.
It seems that you believe people are only motivated by money, status, or power. But we have examples of societies that were able to implement an Anarchist way of existence, such as Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, which abolished money, the state, and was able to thrive as federated communities. George Orwell went there, and spoke of how excellent that mode of society was, to the point that he fought in the war and got shot in the neck for it.
Except it wouldn’t be their home. Someone else built it
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 month ago:
So the community bears the effort and cost of maintaining houses (or apartments) which they are not allowed to benefit from.
Bear in mind that the community would render aid to anyone who needs assistance in maintaining their own properties as well. It would be mutual aid. For the ‘cost’ of perhaps choosing to maintain a temporarily empty property, you would never need to ‘purchase’ a new roof, heater, or repairs for your own home. The community would help you the same way you helped them.
You’re also ignoring my mention of the benefit that this mutual aid would enable others to travel to maintained community housing anywhere in the world for free.
I think we would see a significant number of people jumping from home to home, trashing each one and then moving on to the next, leaving the community with the choice of cleaning up those homes, or letting them become uninhabitable hazards, and a blight on the neighborhood.
I think you’re putting a bit too much weight into the idea that the only thing keeping most housing stock in good condition is that financial barrier. I think most people would want to keep their home in good condition without financial pressures forcing them to keep it nice. If everyone let their home go into disrepair, then there would be no ‘good’ homes to jump to. It’s in the interests of everyone to maintain good housing stock, so that if you ever did move you wouldn’t only have shitholes to choose from.
If you think people would suddenly start taking care of a home just because they have one, then I’ve got a bridge to sell you, just look at all the litter and pollution people dump everywhere. Take a moment and look at cars in parking lots, and I bet you’ll find at least one that is packed to the brim with garbage, to the point of being dangerous to drive.
I’m not saying in this new way of society that everything will just become magically perfect, but I very much doubt it would be an epidemic on the scale you’re thinking of. Even in your example of garbage filled cars, you don’t find half the parking lot like that, only one at most. Just because a handful of people might not take care of their home doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth it to stop millions of people worldwide from suffering and dying on the streets, throwing themselves under busses due to hopelessness.
No, there is a financial risk and financial incentive when you own a home, or even rent an apartment. If you don’t take care of it, then you lose out on that risk.
There are millions of dilapidated homes that are owned by the people who live in them. There are thousands upon thousands of rental properties that landlords will let become unlivable and condemned. Owning a property or even having consequences does not stop that from happening.
but it’s also clear that “just make housing a right and let anyone move into a house that the community has to pay for and work to maintain” is an idealistic dream that naively handwaves away reality.
“It’s easier to imagine an end to the world, than to the end of capitalism.”
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 month ago:
Maybe it the family in it moved out because they only needed a quick place to stay short term after moving to a new city? Could be that it’s housing for a college student who has gone back home during summer break?
I think in most cases, short-term housing as you describe would be best served by more dense apartment complexes that are maintained by the community, and the people who stay in them for those short periods. They would be maintained in the same way that public transport or libraries would be maintained, as a public resource that everyone has access to and needs.
The benefit to those who maintain such complexes is that they would also freely have access to use such facilities in other parts of the country. This is not terribly disimilar to how Native American tribes were able to travel anywhere in the US and expect accommodation from virtually any tribe they came across (that weren’t hostile due to a larger conflict), because without such universal accomodation, each tribe would be limited in how far they could travel or trade. It was to all tribes mutual benefit to give each other that accommodation, in an early form of mutual aid (you can read more about that in David Wengrow’s book, The Dawn of Everything, a very interesting read).
Maybe a nicer house opened up in the area, so the resident left their old house to go to the new one?
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le’Guin offers an interesting solution to that scenario. In that book, money does not exist, and housing is simply a right that all are entitled to. Couples and families are given larger accommodation when it becomes available, which is managed by an elected housing committee.
A single family home would be unlikely to be empty for long in a desirable area, so I don’t think abandoned homes would be a significantly bigger issue than they already are under our current system. As a current example, In Japan, many smaller rural towns with dwindling populations have such an abundance of unoccupied homes, that they’re actively paying people to move out to the area, and will sell the house for under $10k in the hopes someone will take them up and maintain it.
It would fall on the neighbors to maintain the house until someone else moved in to it.
Only if they wanted to. There would be no one to force them to do such a thing. They may elect to do so since they would have much more free time in a socialist world (estimates usually suggest around 3 months of community work would be required to give everyone a good standard of living, with the remainder of of the year being free time to do with as they please).
How do you think they are going to feel when some “house jumper” moves in who just lets the place fall apart and moves on to another location because it costs them nothing to let the house go to ruins and they have no personal interest in maintaining it?
How is that prevented in our current society? Many home owners let their home go into disrepair despite owning it. Sometimes this is done out of poverty, or a lack of motivation for upkeep. The only way to force someone to maintain their home is with HOA’s who give fines to individuals if they don’t. They don’t have the most popular reputation.
Regardless, a community could decide to implement HOA-like rules if they all agreed to it, and then someone could decide if they wanted to live there and abide by those rules, or go somewhere where there aren’t any (like our current system).
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 month ago:
Cheers :)
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 month ago:
I don’t mean regarding maintenance, I mean why are the houses empty?
I could see a very undesirable area having houses left abandoned, just as they are in our current system. But in areas that are desirable, why would a house be left abandoned?
- Comment on Is. It....German????? 1 month ago:
No prob my friend :)
