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Then you are not a decent human being? :P

He isn't wrong though.

Is this a 'how can we do complex production without capitalism' question or a 'how can we motivate people to do work without capitalism' question?

Former: Catalonia ran entire industries while at war. Something needs doing and it isn't getting done? Volunteer, find people to help you, etc.

Latter: I dunno, ask your mom how she cleaned and fed you for decades without financial compensation.

Bonus: a significant portion of drug research at least in the US is (or was anyway) funded by the US government, so capitalists aren't exactly doing all the work themselves.

Meh, fair enough.

If that's the case then both of you failed to read the part of my comment where I explicitly addressed that:

The issue is whether or not anyone can associate that IP with yours, and what that comes down to is how willing they are to give up their records when the government asks nicely (or, even more importantly: not so nicely.)

I admit I didn't include the possibility of the VPN operator themselves being malicious, but it seems weird to call me out for not addressing the issue of record security re:governments/LE when pretty much the entire point of my comment was to address that specific issue because no one else was, no?

GDF is also wrong about Israel.

Oh, my bad, I didn't even notice the 'no thanks' button. Thanks.

Neat, I'll check that out, thanks!

Edit: Ugh, it looks like all of the book clubs that are tagged as 'sci-fi' are actually 'sci-fi/fantasy' (or sometimes sci-fi/fantasy/historical/romance, which makes no sense) which is not what I'm looking for. Do you happen to know of any that are pure sci-fi? Preferably ones that focus on big-idea sci-fi like Greg Egan or Peter Watts?

My point is that whether you send down divers or haul 400+ tons of concrete and equipment up from the bottom of the ocean, it's going to be expensive to maintain either way, especially if things don't go according to plan and they have to perform maintenance more than once every 20 years or whatever.

No one gets thanks for being a decent human being, it's sort of the standard that everyone is expected to hold to.

No doubt, but as a mechanism of applying pressure to get them to stop invading Ukraine, I think you'll have to agree that it's failed miserably. That's what I (and most people) mean by 'working': accomplishing the intended aim. Huge problems or not, the war continues unabated. Why do you imagine doing more of the same would be any more effective?

lol, k, I definitely respect the opinion of someone who drops a half-assed comment like that without bothering to offer what they believe to be the correct information.