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I'm quite aware of the history of the field, thanks. It's had a lot of cycles of fast movement followed by a brick wall. You can't assume it'll have a nice, smooth upward trajectory.

Buy any bubble memory lately?

I have a book from the early 90s which goes over some emerging technologies at the time. One of them was bubble memory. It was supposed to have the cost per MB of a hard drive and the speed of RAM.

Of course, that didn't materialize. Flash memory outpaced its development, and it's still not quite as cheap as hard drives or as fast as RAM. Bubble memory had a few niche uses, but it never hit the point of being a mass market product.

Point is that you can't assume any singular technology will advance. Things do hit dead ends. There's a kind of survivorship bias in thinking otherwise.

Anarchism is a project. It's not just a matter of eliminating the state. That would just result in Mad Max.

You need people to work together to help each others needs. I help you because I might need help someday, too. That builds a real community. And then maybe, just maybe, we solve each others problems enough that the state is unnecessary.

Is it a pipe dream? Maybe. But the steps towards that are worth doing, anyway.

1. Eat the rich
2. Luxury gay space communism

Not ships, but bases. Like subspace relays that have a two-person crew. Or the first Star Fleet base the Prodigy kids ran across, which was crewed by a single Denobulan.

(Which must have been torture, given that Denobulans have even tighter social bonds than humans.)

The one subspace relay crew we see (TNG: Aquiel) is clearly not considered the best of Star Fleet.

See many leftists open carrying?

The joke is that nuclear reactors need to operate at critical to function. "Going critical" is a good thing.

Still, the "art" is obvious slop.

There's a lot of preppers among them. Steve Huffman, in particular.

There's a lot more to it than that.

There was widespread feeling that if they just went along with it, the Nazis would leave them alone. That was a deadly wrong assumption. There's also factors like having enough able-bodied young adults to do it when there was a need for them to take care of older people.

Forgotten Weapons has a video about a college paper he wrote on the topic. It largely shows that people in the Jewish Ghettos could get crude but workable firearms if they needed, but the factors above tended to get in the way.

Just to expand on that, there's value in just having them. The US military has developed anti-insurgent tactics over the past 20 years. One of them is that to occupy an armed populace, they expect to need one soldier for every three civilians in the area. They have to assume everyone is armed and everyone will be against them.

That would mean that if they want to put the US under martial law, they will need to mobilize 25% of the US population into the military directly and expect them to follow orders to the same level of competence as the existing military. This is a pipe dream. Approximately 10% of the US population was uniformed up in WW2, and agreement on the war was nearly universal. The draft existed not so much to get enough people, but to make sure the military could take in people at a sustainable rate without cutting too much into industrial production at home.

All combined, the regular military, the National Guard, and ICE do not have enough people to put the entire country under martial law. They don't even have enough to put New York under martial law. They might have enough for Vermont. The ICE recruiting surge won't change this.

Ever study Black Panther tactics? They were so effective that they changed the rules to make their tactics illegal.

I know you're being facetious, but I'm thinking through the implications of someone actually doing this. ISPs aren't always handing out static IPv6 prefixes for some damn reason, so you can't count on that address staying the same when self-hosting. Even if you can, you don't know what will happen when you change ISPs.

So yeah, really bad idea regardless.