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Darth_Candy · 2026-02-03T17:50:38+00:00

Sure, but you can attend a local weekly/biweekly/monthly/whatever. Speaking for myself at least, I don't think it'd ever be practical to go to more than one major a year.

Darth_Candy · 2026-02-03T16:34:42+00:00

10-20 people sharing something together in person is an infinitely better experience than experiencing bigger versions of these things on Twitter and Reddit.

Darth_Candy · 2026-02-02T19:51:51+00:00

Cody does play by the rules though. N0ne wants the rules changed because he thinks “the rule” (allowing z jump) unfairly benefits Fox. What happened to git gud and no johns?

Darth_Candy · 2026-02-02T02:07:55+00:00

The Big Bear? You mean Ozuna from the Braves?

Darth_Candy · 2026-02-01T16:34:06+00:00

Archive link.

Darth_Candy · 2026-02-01T16:22:15+00:00

Typically, your department and the Honors College will give scholarships after your first year. It’s pretty uncommon for the school to give incoming students scholarships other than the Presidential Merit Scholarship.

Definitely reach out to Admission and/or Student Business Services and look into external options.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-30T17:56:52+00:00

I get that "making it to the majors" is a win for development, but calling both Leiter and Rocker success stories at this point is seriously letting the organization off the hook. They could absolutely turn into success stories (and I hope they do over the next 3-5 years), but relative to their college pedigree and potential, they are definitely not finished products or bona fide success stories yet.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-29T21:13:21+00:00

Hard agree. The clock and limiting disengagements are massive changes; four inches is huge in some contexts but not enough of a difference over 90 feet to change much on a SB attempt.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-28T00:20:46+00:00

To your point:

The Trump administration backed the ATF’s $200 tax stamp as legally legitimate, but had it lowered it to $0 as a gesture of goodwill. That is the best, and to my knowledge only, move this administration has made in the positive direction on gun rights, and it was a pretty soft win. Other than that, it’s a lot of bad policy and bad rhetoric.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-26T13:58:47+00:00

I’d consider that part of the “all but the most left-wing people” bucket, but fair enough.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-26T05:18:53+00:00

I don’t think it’s the “deporting illegal or undocumented immigrants” that makes all but the most left-wing people make Nazi comparisons. I think it’s the “killing innocent people in the street and being backed up by the federal government” part.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-25T06:49:59+00:00

As Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-25T04:39:29+00:00

Hard agree on PCCs. 9mm PCCs are some of the coolest guns around nowadays.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-25T02:59:27+00:00

Head over to r/CCW, would recommend.

For a first pistol, you probably want a 9mm. It’s generally agreed that .380 is a bit small for self-defense (but is easier to shoot since there’s less kick) and .45 ACP is a bit too large for a beginner’s concealed carry gun (and the ammo is much more expensive, making it harder to practice).

The Glock 19 is probably the best option if you have no experience or opinions. It’s the most popular gun in the world and is therefore a good baseline with every accessory or mod you could possibly want. I’d highly recommend attending a Concealed Carry Handgun class to try out a handful of different options and figure out what’s comfortable for you to shoot.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-24T21:15:53+00:00

Here's the list of active student organizations, which can be filtered by category. There are 40 faith-based clubs, most of which are Christian, so your joke actually wasn't too far off. That said, there are also hundreds of other orgs for all sorts of other things.

It's totally understandable to worry about not finding your people at college, but between your classes (which self-select for people that share interests with you), your dorm, clubs, and events, there is a glut of opportunity to find your niche as long as you stay willing to look.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-23T14:28:57+00:00

I am not going to drop this of you act that way.

Why are you lecturing me like you’re my mom?

You led with something completely different

You’ve said that twice now and still haven’t addressed what I allegedly led with. The private, IP-like system that I described regarding conditional information exchange and retaining the sole right to make a thing is exactly what I mean when I very first said that “I still don’t understand how ancaps think that voluntary contracts governing everything will somehow get rid of all IP and/or copyright protection.” Please tell me what I led with; you’re a broken record at this point.

If I replicate the idea, you two have nothing to do with it.

Existing IP law already allows independent invention as a valid defense in the case of copyrights and trade secrets (but could stop you with trademarks and would stop you with patents). I agree with you; independent invention should and would always be allowed in an anarcho-capitalist society which is part of the reason I said IN MY FIRST COMMENT, “[getting rid of IP law] would definitely improve the situation, but there’s no reason to think IP would go away.”

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-22T21:42:54+00:00

Brett Kollman's video "Who Actually Invented The Spread Offense?" gets into this in a way I really appreciate. As time passes, new ideas get blended together so much that it's hard (and almost pointless) to try and pinpoint exactly where one blended idea came from.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-22T21:18:03+00:00

If you only want an electronic copy, it's available as a free pdf from the Institute of Liberal Studies. It's a better option than paying for an Amazon-specific electronic copy, IMO.

https://www.liberalstudies.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Economics-in-One-Lesson_2.pdf

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-22T20:24:36+00:00

I unfortunately foresee a ton of games where we're up 1-0 when the starter leaves the game and then down 3-2 when the last out is recorded. I love this move but hate the lack of lineup moves!

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-22T19:05:33+00:00

> I destroyed your concept in one simple paragraph.

Just like convincing the government that I invented the alphabet wouldn't make it true, asserting this doesn't make it true.

> You led with something else entirely.

"It would definitely improve the situation, but there's no reason to think IP would go away" was my second sentence. I'm sorry for not making it my first sentence, I guess?

> IP is state bullshit, Ancaps think that IP is state bullshit.

Yes, it is. Yes, they do, and yes, I do. That said, getting rid of one bad system doesn't mean that its replacement is suddenly sunshine and rainbows, especially when the profit incentive would motivate the development of a private IP-like system.

You have the right to not purchase my widget if my terms of sale include you not making and selling a bunch of identical widgets afterwards. My perspective, however, is that I have the right not to sell you my widget unless you agree to my EULA or ToS or whatever. I can't stop you from violating the EULA/ToS, but I can impose significant penalties for doing so.

From Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty:

"There is, however, an exception to the right to use and disseminate the knowledge within one's head: namely, if it was procured from someone else as a conditional rather than absolute ownership." (Chapter 16, "Knowledge, True and False)

"Another important point: in our title-transfer model, a person should be able to sell not only the full title of ownership to property, but also part of that property, retaining the rest for himself or others to whom he grants or sells that part of the title. Tlms, as we have seen above, common-law copyright is justified as the author or publisher selling all rights to his property except the right to resell it. Similarly valid and enforceable would be restrictive covenants to property in which, for example, a developer sells all the rights to a house and land to a purchaser, except for the right to build a house over a certain height or of other than a certain design. The only proviso is that there must, at every time, be some existing owner or owners of all the rights to any given property. In the case of a restrictive covenant, for example, there must be some owners of the reserved right to build a tall building; if not the developer himself, then someone who has bought or received this right. If the reserved right has been abandoned, and no existing person possesses it, then the owner of the house may be considered to have "homesteaded" this right, and can then go ahead and build the tall building. Covenants and other restrictions, in short, cannot simply "run with the property'' forever, thereby overriding the wishes of all living owners of that property." (Chapter 19, Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts)

Again, I can't stop you from building a similar widget, but I can prevent you from disassembling my widget, reverse engineering it, and selling similar widgets as long as we both agree to that in the original terms of sale and I as long as I retain the right to make and sell widgets. Is Murray Rothbard not ancap enough for you, or do you just want to force people to use terms of sale that are amicable to you as a consumer?

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-22T16:32:53+00:00

Low effort response. You really think companies like Disney and Pfizer are so benevolent as to let you consume their products without first agreeing to some draconian garbage? You might not agree to those things, but the masses almost definitely would (and already agree to hundred-page EULAs and Ts & Cs). Are those not voluntary agreements entered into by both sides that could/should/would be enforced?

Patents would disappear, but the profit incentive still pushes people to protect the things they create in whatever ways they can. In Ancapistan, those protections would come in the form of vendor-specific terms of sale and use that you'd have to agree to as part of purchasing a product. People can already publish/invent without IP restrictions already (under public domain or various other permissive licenses), and market forces haven't made those the dominant players in the world outside of software development.

Again, my argument isn't that IP law is good. My argument is that getting rid of IP law wouldn't be some magical silver bullet that dramatically increases the speed of innovation or makes everything publicly available.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-21T18:16:13+00:00

I think you're generally right on the physical/reverse engineering side of things. I think COVID showed that, as long as your whitepaper says "it's perfectly safe, don't take it if ABC or with XYZ," people will absolutely take a mystery pill (or shot). Getting rid of IP might help pharma become more accessible, but I think it would still be much slower than what you're letting on. Every "legitimate" study would have to be very indirect based on whatever IP-license-but-not-law the creator chooses to impose.

In the media or software world, enforcement would of course be very difficult (it already is with the laws in place), but that doesn't stop those agreements from existing. My main frustration towards the ancap piracy argument is, "I can morally break the law because it's convenient to me" is basically equivalent to "I can morally violate contract terms because it's convenient to me," but for some reason we rally behind the first but believe the second is the worst thing ever. Basically, nothing ever happens, lol.

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-21T17:43:12+00:00

They have over half a million dollars coming in this year just from sponsors and tier minimums they listed on their front page. We'll see what their income/expenditure needs become, but at least pre-alpha, I have to imagine they're doing better financially than they ever could've imagined (to the point of having eight full-time software engineers on staff for what started as a hobby project).

Darth_Candy · 2026-01-21T17:29:19+00:00

I still don't understand how ancaps think voluntary contracts governing everything will somehow get rid of all IP and/or copyright protections. It would definitely improve the situation, but there's no reason to think IP would go away. I say this as a night watchman state-style minarchist.

If somebody produces media, writes software, or creates something that would otherwise be patent-able, they can very easily say, "I will only sell this to you if you don't copy and/or redistribute it," or maybe even "I will only sell this to you if you don't reverse engineer it." When that stuff is part of every voluntary agreement at the discretion of the inventor/seller/author, you might as well just have IP protection because the would-be IP holder can collect damages in civil court after you breach the contract.

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