I mean, there can be weird exceptions, like the one person still collecting a US civil war pension because certain participants had kids as very old men. But yes, most people with an uncle of Tesla’s generation are very dead.

One hit and one miss, although the trustworthy one still has issues, as most people do.

I know what you mean. I live in Florida and people always mention alligators. Truth is you can go a decade and never even see a gator.

TIL. I thought you guys must just avoid lingering near shallow water bodies.

Nobody mentions the bush flies that molest you. It’s not injurious, but bugs that are addicted to human sweat is just a super gross concept, and that’s the one you actually invented a hat to keep away.

Yep. And if for whatever reason you do have a problem with a bear out in the open, it’s a bit harder to escape than a spider or snake.

Source: Knew a guy growing up who got eaten by a bear.

(Although moose actually scare me a lot more, since they’re territorial as opposed to just wanting your pic-i-nic basket 99.9% of the time)

They value not being a target. Their sponsors definitely value not being a target.

Apparently Australians feel the same about North Americans living around bears. Either way, you just learn to be cautious and mind your own business.

If it’s not publicly traded it can actually be worse, too. Like the other poster said, you need some kind of actual strategy to make a boycott worthwhile.

Never was, honestly. If it’s not on your computer it’s on someone else’s, and it’s only a matter of time until that’s somebody you don’t trust.

Yes, we call our dollar coins “loonies” as a result. By analogy, the bimetallic $2 coin is the “toonie” for two.

That looks like a joke written out, but it is not.

Yeah, exactly. He’s not even in charge anymore.

A human absolutely could walk 100 miles, and people often have. The weight thing needs to be scaled for body size, but you can carry quite a bit while doing it, too.

The only maybe-counterexample anthropologists talk about is actually sled dogs. Horses run out of steam faster. Presumably they’ve thought about about camels too.

No, there’s tons of records of barter in ancient Egypt, and it actually lasted until the Greeks came and forced the use of silver drachmae on them.

Gift economies existed too, but they weren’t universal. Just helping family and close friends out was and is universal, but it sounds like you’re thinking of more than that.

I mean, I guess you could be an anarchist who just doesn’t want anarchy, or something like that.

The default, most common view is that power vacuums inevitably fill, not that they’re the natural state of things.

No specific kind would bother me, but if they have tons and tons I might suspect they’re really into that one thing and we’d have little common ground.

If I saw that, I’d be so fascinated I’d have to try to talk to them.

Fixed, thank you!

Yeah, “detect alignment” is not a call available in any standard library.

Don’t do it, Europe. Listen to your experts.

OP also presupposes some kind of communal thing was happening before or by default. Not everyone here is an anarchist.