I’m not on someone else’s federation, I’m on everyone’s federation.

You’re fucking delusional if you think communists don’t silence dissent once in power. I’ll prove it to you, right now.

99% votes are the result of intimidation.

Yes.

I’m not “concluding”, I’m just answering OPs question. He asked if price caps have a place in capitalism I don’t understand why you guys have to be so adversarial all the time.

Never.

When prices are capped, it creates a supply and demand imbalance, the demand is higher than supply can keep up with and so the thing with the capped price experiences shortages. People want (at the capped price) the thing and can’t get it. This usually results in a black market for the item, where scalpers buy it up at the artificially reduced price and sell it for a profit at close to or above what the market rate would be.

For a good example of this look at the price controlled housing market in Sweden, people wait years for an apartment and some people rent them illegally when they get them.

“It’s summer what do you expect of course it’s going to be hot”

It’s a hosted community generated CSV index of torrents and their titles that you can fuzzy search and host locally, no torrent site needed.

Drink charcoal filtered, reverse osmosis water and then try drinking tap water after that. It’s disgusting. Also, you can’t guarantee it’s purity, most public tap water contains small amounts of benzine and pharmaceuticals that governments say are below safe levels, that’s sub par to my standard.

I used to say the same thing and drank tap water, then I tried filtered water for a while and theres no way I can go back. Try it.

Well in a lot of places there are these reverse osmosis stations at grocery stores and car washes in parking lots, you put a quarter in and a gallon of water comes out, just bring your own bottle. It’s as good as bottled water you buy at the store.

That’s cool, well filtered water is great.

What kind of tap water do you have at your house? Where I live, and everywhere I’ve lived, tap water sucks.

Yeah I know, therefore it doesn’t help.

How is this not xenophobia

Nope, TLS fails.

A manual hand pump water pump for 3 and 5 gallon jugs.

You can fill the 5 gallon jugs up for $1.25 at those watermill type stations in parking lots and car washes, you don’t need a big bulky water cooler, just a little plastic hand pump pneumatic water pump you slap on top. Endless, clean water real cheap, much cheaper than bottled water and as good, and you don’t throw away a ton of plastic.

Popular culture and media are propaganda used by states deliberately to modify the culture of their constituents.

New technologies usually occur when a state makes an environment conducive to the creation of them. That doesn’t mean they are always the ones a state wants invented, mind you, some culture is not deliberate, often enough it’s more like blowback or fallout that a state then has to manage, but all of it is the consequence of state action.

Not quite, more than that. All cultural artifacts are created either deliberately or not by a state or state like institution.

Think about what a state is. Is it a government? Well, basically the two are the same thing, but not quite, a state is more than that. A state is a set of institutions that exercise sovereignty to some degree over a population. It can be as complex as the EU, or as simple as a shaman and a war chief.

We have this democratic idea that we institute states to govern us to our liking, but this is a lie, not one single person alive today voluntarily subjected themselves to state sovereignty as a choice, and almost every state that exists or has existed governs or has governed unwilling people. All “nations” were created by states, fabricated, maybe using cultural artifacts that already existed when the state came into existence, artifacts that were fabricated by a previous state, in just about every case.

Surely you understand that “disallowed” and “federated” are mutually exclusive, no?

Block and move on. Maybe pick an instance that doesn’t allow them. If they’re useless then it won’t make much of a difference.

Those people are being insincere.

Youre wrong, although I’d say corporate structures, especially big ones, are more like states than not.

Do you know why you have a last name? Because some government a long time ago decided it would be easier to collect taxes from you and your family if you did. It worked, and so a lot more governments did it. Now people get them tattooed on themselves. Imagine something as fundamental to the culture of your society as surnames, that’s how big of an impact I’m talking about. All culture is downstream of state action, your nation and identity was created by a state.