Market Socialism - aka capitalism but debts are non-transferable so the value companies create are owned by their workers.

Switch over to only reading communities you opt in to - avoid political ones.

38 / M / Canada/Spain

So I am a male, born in the eighties, split about 75/25 NA/EU.

Do I fit the demographic? You misunderstand…

I AM the demographic.

Floozy. I’m saving my full cheese wheels until after marriage.

Possibly? But VT is tiny, its like a twenty minute drive to get down to Montpelier. As a former Burlington resident I never minded that the state legislature infrastructure was a little way down the highway.

Montpelier is an amazing city! Yes, it’s tiny, but it’s beautiful and easy to walk through (outside of the winter).

Switzerland. Don’t go unless you’re perfectly happy spending 50+ USD for mediocre food per day. It is incredibly fucking expensive.

Just to clarify - there is no direct chemical addiction mechanism with mj. You can become emotionally or psychologically dependent on it but there’s no physical addiction mechanism involved.

It’s super helpful for breaking migraines and has other medicinal uses. The trips are pretty chill and it isn’t even chemically addictive.

People ask me to do shit and I do it… unless someone asks me to do something else before I’m done.

That’s easy to obey… but samaos seem to spontaneously evaporate near me.

Always add tests to your code!

If you’re fluent in Spanish you can probably bullshit your way through comprehending most romantic languages so French and Portuguese (the other big colonial languages) are probably out.

Maybe Arabic for the fact that while it isn’t a dominant language in most countries there are fluent communities in all sorts of parts of the world.

Alternatively, Hindi/Mandarin for the sheer number of people it’d let you communicate with.

It’s not just vaccination - European eggs aren’t pressure washed like American ones to remove the protective coating.

I’ve honestly never understood why America does that to their eggs.

And wizards - by far the greatest community out there.

None, I’ve seen hateful speech here and when I do I report it and carry on… I don’t dislike reading news or opinions I personally disagree with however.

Whoops, missed the communities portion of the question. I don’t browse all, I have a specific list of communities I’ve subscribed to that I read through in New order.

Where do you think interest come from? Do you think banks just give you free money every month?

I don’t because I’m not working in the US but I do have a retirement fund. I can critize the system we live in and those that revel in exploiting it while also realizing that if I completely eschew investment I’ll be a pauper. I’m not going to bankrupt myself and be unable to afford my partner’s medical expenses to win an argument on the internet.

I’m aware that the stock market is slicing off income from laborers in an unjust manner - it slices off my income as well… I don’t celebrate participating in this system, but I do participate in it while acknowledging how bad it is. It isn’t a significant portion of my income and if I could personally will it out of existence I would.

By your definition game development (in the old style) is also passive income… so is art… so is building a house or a car or pretty much any form of manufacturing.

These activities all involve building something with no promise of selling it - then trying to find a buyer… in each case you, the producer, are investing up front in a venture which may or may not succeed and then hoping someone will pay you for it.

But being loud about it just contributes to the problem!