Yeah, I’ve never heard that called mutual aid. I’m talking about the anarchist concept

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Yeah. I’m not talking about engaging in solidarity with others — that’s part and parcel of being a socialist — but mutual aid doesn’t aid in struggle, it just eases the conscience of those doing it and, if you’re lucky, makes suffering more bearable. Every dollar that’s spent in mutual aid is a dollar not spent on bail support or a strike fund. We need to be clear-minded about our priorities.

I know it isn’t, that’s why I listed both of them

It’s one thing to suggest giving money to socialist organizing and quite another to suggest putting money toward charity/mutual aid. Marxist analysis shows that the latter are counterproductive, so it shouldn’t be surprising most people don’t support them

You can get a scotch guard-type spray for shoes to keep them cleaner. Also it only rains a few days each winter in some parts so that’s not as much of a consideration.

Why would a strong player use an objectively bad opening outside of blitz? Maybe performance art?

No disagreement there (and I haven't looked through their code so what do I know), but you would have to go out of your way to screw up password hashing. I don't see how there's any way a company like Twitch, whose engineering team is known for being good at what they do, wouldn't lock that down.

If they’re using a good key size (e.g. 128 bits), it’s functionally impossible to break a blowfish cipher (pretty standard in my experience). It would take billions of years to run a brute force attack against a reasonably strong cipher.

What kind of wood?

I’ve known and worked with many anarchists whose relationships I value, but I’ve noticed that self-identified anarchists are just as likely to be reactionaries as they are to be left wing in any sense. Not so much for anarchists involved in organizing, but when I meet an anarchist it’s always a yellow flag for me until I get to know them a bit. It seems in America it’s a term used by politically unsophisticated people obsessed with lifestyle politics more than by libertarian socialists.

Yeah I was just talking shit

The idea of an Italian nationality is as real as the idea of an American nationality. Both of them created from whole cloth in the interest of securing a home market

There have been ammo shortages in my neck of the woods for about a decade, despite the price being way too high

Definitely, and you can’t really fault them for trying to fight for their class interest

They were certainly wrong to think that an artisan class could be sustained under capitalism, and we couldn’t have achieved the development of productive forces needed to build high-stage capitalism or socialism without their failure

Yeah I’m with you. I hate cars myself, and you won’t find a bigger advocate for clean air than anyone with a respiratory illness. I’m saying that I’d rather have a rail and bus system than a city that relies on people needing to bike anywhere.

Not sure what study you’re talking about, I’ve just heard this repeated by pulmonologists over the years

Edit: the American Lung Association says it’s 37 million, so 1 in 8. Regardless, my point is that biking isn’t an option for lots of people and isn’t a general solution for cars.

If there were a good public transit system, biking isn’t really necessary anyway, at least in my experience.

Most people can cycle anyway; if you can walk, you can cycle (except for in hilly cities I’ll admit)

I don’t think this is really true. I can walk fine for long distances, but biking more than about 10 minutes is out of the question for me, despite my illness being well managed and exercising regularly. I could be an exceptional case though

No doubt. That doesn’t help me though