I find lemmy a lot more tolerant than most other social media, myself.

I wasn’t taught that in school.

I was gonna say.

Off the Bryn Mawr stop on the far North Side of Chicago, there was a little storefront called “Barry’s Pizza Spot”. They sold stuffed pizza^* by the slice, and they almost always had one that sausage, mushroom, and onion. I sublet an apartment off this stop for a month one summer and ate this slice for dinner over a dozen times. The first time, it was the best pizza of my life. Two other times surpassed the record before I moved away. It closed a couple years later. My mouth is watering just thinking about it now.

^*If you don’t know what stuffed pizza is, it’s the best of the three Chicago pizza styles. It’s stopped pretending to be anything other than a pie, and the cheese and “toppings” are all underneath a second, upper crust that’s prevented from burning by a top layer of sauce. One slice is a meal.

I drink anywhere from 24-72fz of tea a day. I don’t really keep track. Every year I take two weeks to get completely out from under the addiction, but since I enjoy tea it gradually creeps back. If I could find a decaffeinated tea that tastes good I’d put caffeine in the rear window completely. I abhor the idea of being addicted to anything.

My livejournal account, my email, and my website are all of an age, though the website is oldest. But my submissions on Z2 are my oldest artifacts on an active website.

Nah, I’m just checking it more often, which is a sign I need to take some preventative corrections towards my mental health now that I think of it

great here in Chicago, at least for bicycle commuters

we called it “cat’s cradle” and yeah, we ‘played’ it in the American Midwest in the 80’s and 90’s

It’s only funny if they’re in on the joke.

You’ve got a bit of circular reasoning going on there: Homeschool is inferior because it leads to lower income averages but then income matters so much that an education that doesn’t increase it as much must be inferior.

Look, I’m not a homeschooling stan. I just don’t like bad logic or incentivizing antisocial behaviors. We probably agree on, like, 99% of this and my nitpick about half a sentence is a blip comparatively.

Both have a somewhat idealized view of human nature, specifically vis-a-vis power vacuums.

But there are in fact both right- and left-libertatians. Right-libertarians more-or-less see people as a kind of business and think the government shouldn’t get in the way of businesses unless they’re engaged in unfair anti-competitive practices, because competition is the highest good. Left-libertatians see corporations as more-or-less hostile but useful entities that should be yoked to human interests, and that this kind of regulation is the role of government while leaving human individual behavior completely unregulated, because human liberty is the highest good.

Whereas anarchism is pretty much orthogonal to any economic axis. Ideally, there’s no entity to regulate economic forces and there’s no central currency, so who gets regulated and for what reason is an absent question. Corporations can’t exist under anarchism because they’re so clearly a predatory hierarchy that frankly I’m surprised we even allow them in regular society.

So, uh, teal dear long-story-short, no, they’re incompatible world views because libertarianism presupposes power structures abhorrent to anarchism.

Edited to fix a typo that significantly changed the meaning of a sentence.

Being poor sucks. But above fairly low baseline, income level signifies antisocial tendencies more than hard work, education, or intelligence.

I have to object to using income level as metric of success.

It’s a tool parents have to improve their child’s education, but it can also be abused to damage the child’s education. The state has an interest in regulating it and making sure children receiving it are still meeting educational benchmarks.

I think it works best in tandem with public schooling rather than as a replacement, but I know most people talk about it strictly as an opposing option.

Sam Jackson and nothing else

Can’t believe I forgot to mention the time I played hackeysack with Dashboard Confessional

I would love to see NOFX sometime

The Decemberists - multiple times, always a good show

The Long Winters - multiple times, always a good show

Electric Six - multiple times, absolutely amazing live, highly recommended

Weezer - past their prime, you’re better off listening to the albums at home

The Hold Steady - multiple times, not that good live

The Pipettes - amazing performance, very fun

Aleks & the Drummer - multiple times, sadly now defunct but so much better live than their already great studio work

Side Walk Slam - multiple times, mostly at music festivals; really fun guys and generous to fans

Zapruder Point - once live, fun but not a big experience change from their studio recordings

The Mountain Goats - once live, venue was terrible, makes it hard to evaluate the performance

Amy Ray - electric performer, worth seeing, I’d love to see her live again

Franz Ferdinand - too commercial, very rehearsed live, no real improvement in experience over studio recordings

Torres - good energy, nice show, would see again live but not as a priority

That that specifically, no.