Best way to address this is to reword a bit:

I probably would not use avoid using an instance that wasn’t federated to Threads

Using “not” twice in a single sentence is generally something worth avoiding IMO.

Anarchists develop structures and agreements that discourage concentration of power

MLMs believe that they must use the state, capitalism, and by extension coercive control

Are these not different words for the same fundamental concepts?

I fail to see how “the state” and “capitalism” aren’t just a more developed form of “structures” and “agreements”. And if the community decides punishment is an appropriate response to breaking an “agreement”, how is that any different from “coercive control”?

And if you’re community gets large enough (say even like a couple hundred people), how are any decisions gonna get made even remotely efficiently?

Feel like you’re a hop skip and a jump from a representative democracy. And as soon as bartering becomes too inconvenient, I’m sure a new “agreement” still be made to use some proxy as a form of current and boom now you’ve got capitalism too.

IMO there are big risks consuming news & opinion from any single source.

Whether it’s the CCP manipulating the TikTok algorithm, Russia buying ad space on Facebook, or American conglomerates pushing narratives on western mainstream media, there will be implicit biases everywhere.

The only real answer is to get news from multiple sources with diverging perspectives, try to find where facts overlap, challenge your own implicit biases, and form a perspective in line w/ your values.

Seeing America blame TikTok for pushing propaganda is the pot calling the kettle black – and honestly more of a distraction than anything else.

The real important issue is that people are dying, and the existing power structures are doing jack shit to stop it.

Star Trek is the only reason I’m paying for Paramount+.

If Lower Decks and/or SNW go, I go.

This is a great suggestion – I used balance a few years ago the last time they did one of these year free trials and thought it was great.

It was after that free year ran out that I found medito, which was a worthy substitute despite not being quite as personalized.

I’m really happy we secured the funding, but I really hope at least some of it goes towards building transit-oriented development around the new stations.

Many of the renders CTA have put out depict stations in lifeless neighborhoods that are mostly 4-lanr stroads and parking lots, which would really sap much of the potential value this project could provide.

If someone makes a dangerous product, it is reasonable to expect them to include appropriate safety features to reduce the risk their product poses to society.

The “victims” here aren’t the automobile manufacturers, they’re the people whose cars got stolen and those who were run over by a reckless joyrider or shot in a drive-by enabled by criminals having easy access to insecure, easy-to-steal vehicles. These are all people who wouldn’t have befallen harm if these vehicles had standard anti-theft features.

The reason nobody’s talking about suing bike manufacturers is because nobody was stealing bikes and riding around shooting people or crashing through the sides of buildings.

I think there is absolutely a legal argument that anti-theft features are critical safety features in cars, specifically. Not sure whether that argument will hold up in court, but it’s not anywhere near as straightforward as “bike manufacturers don’t have to care about theft, why should car manufacturers?”

Additionally…

Uyghurs when they’re detained sent to a concentration camps free job training program:

Chuckles. I’m in danger immensely grateful to the glorious Chinese Communist party for graciously offering me this tremendous opportunity.