Anarchism is: fixing your own neighbourhood's potholes

[freebeard]

Well, I've been wrong before.

The Sustainable City thread is the new one I created. It's got 0 responses so everyone is welcome to visit.

Originally Posted by myself

I'm not sure this is a bug, but I know this thread is monitored.

This is from the Bug Report thread (for the peanut gallery). It's embarrassing, but if you could change it to Anarchism is: fixing your own neighbourhood's potholes that would be awesome.

[Fat Charlie]

Anarchy's great, I'm a fan of it when it's positive.

Seed bombs FTW.

There, I used bombs and anarchy in the same post (twice, even) for the Gubmint to find. Now all our email addresses will be getting extra scrutiny.

[MetroMPG]

Title changed.

[freebeard]

Now all our email addresses will be getting extra scrutiny.

Email address? Your microwave is watching you.

[gone-ot]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Email address? Your microwave is watching you.

Only *IF* (1) you have it plugged in and (2) Kelly-Anne is taking her selfie

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by rmay635703

I have long wanted to mark a variety of intersections here where there is a 2 lane road that goes into a single, there are no directional arrows so sometimes both lanes try to go straight.

No sign indicating the merge, and which lane has the right of way?

[freebeard]

Merge left?

100 years ago in Seattle, there weren't any potholes becasue there weren't any roads. So the anarchists had to build highways:
Just A Car Guy: The Pacific Coast Highway, 1915, an area near Seattle was a plank road. Made by car clubs, not the local, county, state or federal government

It was the creation, not of government, but of a loose affiliation of auto clubs in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The group chose an official north-south route and placed signs along the way identifying it as the Pacific Highway.

Anarchism's been tried before; in 1917 Russia it was crushed by the Bolesheviks and in 1930s Spain it was dog-piled by everybody. Today there is an infrastructure is place with crypto block-chains that enable consensus without trust.

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Email address? Your microwave is watching you.

I seriously doubt that, as mine likely dates from sometime in the late 1980s :-)

[freebeard]

You made me look. Sharp Carousel II, June 1989.

I like it because there is no push-to-start; just a rotary dial with a blade I can grip between the fingers on my left hand* ...then elbow the door closed.

Edit: knuckle grip and twist, so you don't have to wash your hand.

[freebeard]

All politix is local. Here is a pothole in the lane in my neighborhood. There is a 5mph speed limit, so it doesn't take much. Some Anonymous Coward contributed the paver block. I dug it out to level it with the pavement and added the crushed rock. That was sluiced out of the muck that accumulates under a 40ft fir tree (at about 1/2" per year).

Edit: there's a 2 minute video on Youtube from one of my favorite commentators, Sargon of Akkad mocking the Portland pavement crew.

I won't link it because language, but you can seek it out: "Anarchists Don't Understand Roads — The Thinkery "