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What’s the problem with either of these?

I think coffee can fill all of these functions

That’s great! I finally cleaned up a lot of junk in the garage to make a usable work space. But it took me almost 3 years to get there!

Capitalism is where there is a class of people whose role is to own things. Or put another way, it’s where substantial portions of industry are owned by private interests that the public has little oversight over. Money and markets don’t necessarily require capitalism. Free markets can exist without capitalism with systems like these:

• All businesses are employee-owned, such as through cooperatives, or employee stock ownership plans where employees own effectively all the stock.
• Businesses are publicly owned via a democratic government, but those businesses are expected to operate in a largely self-sufficient way, and are allowed to compete with each other.
• Public ownership like above, but by industrial unions

Those are forms of “market socialism”. A real system is likely to have a mixed economy, such as cooperatives, with some state-controlled or union-controlled industries for cases where trade-offs don’t favor market competition.

“We Boyles aren’t swimmers. We’re burrowers!”

Pretty sure that’s my favorite Boyle line.

Yeah, I agree this is reasonable. But there’s a difference between creating an alt account for experimentation vs throwing games to get to or to maintain a lower rank. My feeling is that “smurf” typically implies the latter.

It’s a gang. The white house has been making up stories that people they arrest are dangerous gang members, notably including Kilmar Ábrego García.

There’s a pretty thorough write-up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/150bkal/comic_strips_so_i_think_it_makes_no_sense/

And remember that every Trek series since TOS has seen a reaction claiming, “This ruins the franchise!” It takes time to make the mental journey from, “this is not what I wanted”, to appreciating a new work on its own merits.

I don’t see exactly what you’re referencing. But although it is a phonetic alphabet, my understanding is Shavian is not designed to be a fast writing system, unlike Gregg or other shorthands. I think the pitch is a spelling reform for English, which puts it in a different category.