and i am never showing up on your feed again. BLLLLLOCKED :D

Japan...

i just really freaking love public transportation infrastructure

i want to ride ALL THE TRAINS

It's only a matter of time for me...

Then again, the account I left behind says "user has deleted" instead of "user was banned" so...

false dichotomy.

art belongs in the public domain.

no billionaire has the right to exist.

whether one wishes to call it "currency" or not, there will always be some form of communication between the systems that decide what is produced, how it's produced, and for whom.

Although part of the problem with currency in the liberal capitalist paradigm is that the household sector has a deliberately suppressed voice in that decision making process.

In capitalism, the private corporations and government bureaus just eat each other's excrement and try as hard as possible to ignore the household sector (the citizen population).

The ability to communicate demand is the entire purpose of even HAVING some store of value/means of exchange/unit of account.

Automating this such that nobody would even have to do any personal tabulation, though, would indeed be ideal. Such as the lovely Fully Automated Gay Space Communism of Star Trek! Everybody's basic needs are met and even most of their reasonable wants. Even then, not everybody can just requisition a whole-ass starship for their own personal use, though. There are inevitably SOME limiting factors on what someone can acquire.

fuck me dead, these people really are tweaking all my alarms. red flags as far as the eye can see. they sound exactly like born again southern baptists asking an atheist "why do you hate god" >_>;

The Centauri: "You call this a convention center? I would not host my second cousin's baby shower here; it stinks of commoners."

(which is to say, i watched it two decades ago)

can't stop the signal

leaf on the wind

they killed me with a sword, Mal--how weird is that?

OH WAIT

"You can't take the sky from me."

See, that was their problem. Their last best hope for peace was a truck stop? That is not where you get peace. That is where you get the opposite of peace. They could have only done worse if it were a space waffle house.

needs a Babylon 5 and Farscape reference too.

but not Andromeda. Fuck Andromeda.

Surely it will work this time!

It's only pure dumb luck it backfired (literally every other time) before (including immediately prior to the great depression)!