FlashMob there is exhibiting a common bias that the only reason to keep traditional group display behaviours around is if they’re religious. This means they are probably from a settler state where colonialism relied on suppressing local culture.

Sorry bud, comparing the haka to animal noises is not “tone”, so fuck off with the disingenuous bullshit.

Now that you mention it, the lunatic fringe right wing that calls every social benefit or progress “communism” is a little bit correct.

The state, and private ownership of the means of production, withers away the more we have things like retirement benefits and weekends and universal healthcare and livable welfare payments.

Each increase in public services reduces the profits of the owner class. As we deal with the oligarchic stages of late capitalism there will probably have to be a lot of nationalizing, or monopoly breakups. Eventually, as governments take on more and more ‘essential’ services, including housing, public ownership becomes normalized.

So, assuming continuing “progress” in economics away from capital worship, and that we survive both energy overshoot and rapid A.I. development:

Co-operatives etc. will eventually take over as the most common economic organization, globally. Co-ownership in many variants. Nationalized industries and assets will likely devolve into more local control. Traded and private companies will have to adapt to less opportunity to skim surplus labour, and innovate more. Fewer rentier activities for passive income will likely be a common policy in many regions. Many will do just fine as gig workers with automated administrative systems, and that time freedom will come to be normalized.

U.B.I. in some forms will be a bridge in a lot of regions, I expect.

[note: this scenario does not appear to be the current timeline for much of the world… work to be done]

Atari 520ST with the monochrome monitor. Motorola 68000 I think. 1986.

I was a student and paid for the computer plus most of my tuition by typesetting essays using a word processor named Paper Clip. Started a bad habit of independent geeky gig work because of it.

Boyle uses low budget guerilla film techniques for feature films sometimes. 28 Days was the first feature shot on consumer tape cameras, Canon X1 I think, and they compensated by using a lot of them at once.

Most expensive scene was an empty bridge in London at 5:30AM, IIRC, and they only had a few minutes to pull it off. Lots of cheap cameras gives you options, if you can work with resolution and lens and colourspace issues.

Your recent comment history is a series of bitter one-liner quips designed to drag people down.

Is it that uniformly bad? I guess the exceptions to the rule stand out starkly then.

You know that this is a global forum, right?

Oh, do your regional school districts let teachers design their own curriculum?

Just a reminder to non-canadians that a core part of Canadian identity has always been not being American. It’s a quasi-colonized pov. Make it real and it will be life-or-death for many many folk.