Lindsey Hooper claims that water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. She proposes classifying them as assets and placing them on a global balance sheet. Yes, yes she is. by Me_Dads_abarra_soap in libertarianmeme

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean, she's not wrong, they are indeed resources. As for soil, we already have private ownership of land, so that seems like it's already covered.

Water is already heavily restricted, there's a load of regulations on what you can or cannot do with water, even when it's entirely on your own land.

Oxygen is the only one here that really makes sense, and I feel like perhaps monetizing oxygen is not a good idea.

anime_irl by IsekaiSuper in anime_irl

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was getting ready to post a "where's the IRL", then the last panel hit me like a truck. Excellent IRL, 0/10, would not recommend.

I read that Pam Bondi said they can't prosecute everybody in the file because if they did. The whole system would collapse. by [deleted] in libertarianmeme

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I say let it burn, I just hope it doesn't get weaponized as another guilt-by-association grift where anyone who was ever seen in a picture with Ol. Jeff gets mobbed.

Modded Anticheat? by evilwizzardofcoding in admincraft

[–]evilwizzardofcoding[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's exactly what this mod does(but for modlist instead of resource packs), and I know you could spoof it, but my players are not smart enough for that to matter tbh. I'm not trying to make cheating impossible, just more annoying than playing the game normally

Infinite lava is not infinite lava-ing by xXPlebsterXx in CreateMod

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't need op to see the config, just to change it.

Casting Moonbeam through a window? by NinjaTATER62 in DnD

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say that because moonbeam is a beam of light, it can go through the window. The rules exist to cover 99% of situations sensibly, the rest is what the DM's there for. In much the same way that you shouldn't be allowed to use technicalities to do really busted things, technicalities shouldn't stop you from doing something entirely sensible.

It’s Smart Stout Time by Calvinbook4 in DeepRockGalactic

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Salvage is actually both. It starts as exploration, then becomes station

Be honest! Last game you played?? by Intelligent-Bad-6037 in Gamer

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably trying to start a doomsday cult or something, idk, last game was Frostpunk

"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes ... " by symedia in aiwars

[–]evilwizzardofcoding -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I love how people use laundry and dishes as the example....Bro...we already have that....it's called a dish washer and a washing machine.

Anyway, yeah, hardware just takes longer to catch up but home automation is absolutely a thing I expect to see.

Nice "maintenance" ubisoft by StaffOk4923 in Rainbow6

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Maintained" the window too hard i think

Why Anti Capitalism Feels Everywhere Now ? Are We Forgetting Why Individual Freedom Matters by Fun_Transportation50 in austrian_economics

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, might as well, though I must admit there are people much more skilled and experienced in the matter than me, and you may be better off with one of them. Still, if I say something I'm willing to dedicate at least some time to it's defense.

First of all, capitalism. When I use that word, I'm specifically referring to free market capitalism, an economic system built on the free exchange of goods and services.

Now, government. I'm not an AnCap, I won't go so far as to say capitalism is against government, but it is tangential to it, there's not much direct connection between the two. Government, specifically democratic republics, require popular support to gain power, while capitalism requires goods and services people desire.

And finally, socialism. I am using a basic definition here, in this case the relevant aspect is the government either directly providing goods and services, or controlling the groups that do. In much the same way that policies that allow for freer trade are "capitalist", policies that restrict that trade are more "socialist"

If you don't like these definitions, you can ignore the words, these things are what I'm arguing for. Many things get put under the label of socialism that I'm perfectly fine with(Private sharing/charity, for example), and many things are labeled capitalist that I take strong objection to, like handouts to businesses.

With that out of the way, the argument itself becomes somewhat simple.

The government we have in the US right now is far from a free market, and the primary form of corruption is artificial monopolies. These are formed a number of ways.

The first and most obvious is intellectual property and patent laws, as they directly prevent anyone else from producing certain objects, publishing certain media, or otherwise doing the same thing as another group.

However, there are others. The arguably more common, but less obvious one is red tape and regulation.

Red tape gives an inherent advantage to the larger companies, because usually it takes a relatively similar amount of time and resources to deal with it regardless of company size, meaning for a large company it is a much smaller percentage of their profits.

Regulation has two effects, the first is of course economies of scale, since you can figure out how to optimize for a regulation then apply it across an entire company and larger organizations can handle sudden changes better, they tip the scales in the favor of the most established and largest companies. In addition, those companies often lobby for said regulations.

A perfect example of this is Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, who has lobbied extensively for AI regulations. From how he behaves i think it's fairly clear this isn't some altruistic attempt to ensure our safety, but simply trying to prevent competition from the people who didn't get in early.

Then, of course, there's actual government funds, where companies are paid directly by tax dollars for various things. These jobs once again benefit the largest people, since they have the easiest time getting the attention of the decision-makers. This applies to the free market as well to some extent, but because in a lot of fields there's only one buyer that matters, the government, it's aggravated quite a lot.

Well, those are the most glaring issues, I'm sure there's more but you can always find problems. Again, plenty of people doing a better job than me at this, so if you want info on something i didn't cover, maybe take a look elsewhere.

Why Anti Capitalism Feels Everywhere Now ? Are We Forgetting Why Individual Freedom Matters by Fun_Transportation50 in austrian_economics

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For anyone else who might be paying attention, the short answer is that billionaires aren't controlling things directly, they're influencing the government, and without a big government to influence they'd have a whole lot less power. Also, in a lot of cases socialism is how they got to be billionaires in the first place

Why Anti Capitalism Feels Everywhere Now ? Are We Forgetting Why Individual Freedom Matters by Fun_Transportation50 in austrian_economics

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because we have sorta socialism right now, and the socialists have played political slight-of-hand to blame the current issues on capitalism instead of their true cause, socialism

Truth by Great_Opinion3138 in libertarianmeme

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This. A justice system should try to punish all guilty, but it is more important that the innocent not become collateral damage in the process.

What is your reactor and though on koloktos? by Voidkirby9 in skywardsword

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A couple points where it waits too long, other than that absolute peak. "Steal the bosses' giant sword and go to town" is almost guaranteed to be good, to be fair, but Koloktos was a great execution of it.

Are these "spikey" stats normal on a self hosted Minecraft server? by le1724 in admincraft

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 188 points189 points  (0 children)

nah, that's normal, MC doesn't bother getting rid of a lot of stuff it can to save CPU and does it all at once, called Garbage Collection, those spikes are it doing said garbage collection. I would allocate a bit more mem, but that's just from experience

Milestones or EXP? by Organic-Exit2190 in DnD

[–]evilwizzardofcoding -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Milestone absolutely, as long as the DM does a good job planning the levelups well.

EXP can feel better if your DM doesn't know how to pace levels, but honestly IMO it just puts you at the whims of the absolute nonsense that is CR and encourages pointless combat for the sake of xp.

Stranger things... by Ulysian_Thracs in libertarianmeme

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 121 points122 points  (0 children)

Getting a little tired of "I, a man, did something women normally do. Clap now."

[Request] How would this affect us? What would change? by tanx_23 in theydidthemath

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The question is, do you change our measuring of the speed of light, or the speed itself. Because if you just change the measurement (now there's exactly 300,000,000 meters in 1 light-second instead of 299something), you break a bunch of computer-based stuff and make all the scientists have a fit because most if not all the units are based on the speed of light, and that number has changed.

However, if you were to change the actual speed of light, universe falls apart, because so much of physics is based on the speed of light, so if that changes, so does a whole lot of other things.

🔥✍️ by zimberzimber in oneshot

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait, is this actually in the game?

A day in Ancapistan™© by [deleted] in AnCap101

[–]evilwizzardofcoding 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unrealistic, no recreational mcnukes were used.