Dinh AaronMk

Roses are red, Violets are blue,

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i know

@Shorticus

o what r u doing standing around, come right in

Roses are red, Violets are blue,

Roses are red
violets are blue
YOU DON'T BELONG HERE STALKER

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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What do you think my 2L camelback is filled with? Water? I'm not a fucking casual.

@TheEvanCat

I think we're ready to penetrate the heart of the Zone my friend.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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I have some dirty Iraq-era body armor, a gas mask from the 1990s, and a rucksack that permanently compressed my spine a half inch. I look like a goofy grey blob. I'm not a cool STALKER.

@TheEvanCat

That is optimal STALKER equipment man. No one in the Zone but the Ukrainian military uses perfect-condition military equipment. It's all hand-me down shit.

All you'd need to do is paint it grey or green. And then add red detail highlights.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

Touche.

@Shorticus

That said, he will definitely take over all of America as a Duty commander in a warlord situation.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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Clearly, it's the guy who has the largest collection of LARPing equipment.

@Shorticus

Well Evan's at West Point so we can argue he has access to more STALKER LARPing equipment than any of us. Or really: more modern LARPing equipment than any of us and the most authentic.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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Yeh, you get rid of the government and those with property become the government. There ain't no utopia's, and every system is going to be chalk full of people trying to fuck you over. That's why I pull to the left anymore, because if imma be fucked over, I'd least like some consolation prizes in the bargain.

@Vilageidiotx

I could argue additionally that we're a government for the people by the people then it'd be proper if we all bit the bullet and admitted to the horse-shit that happens because we allowed it to happen. But that doesn't apply here at all because no one actually goes out to vote enough. But that's also a whole other plate of worms.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

The main thing seems to be about pollution and environment. But I already said how government restriction made that actually worse, via Cap-Trade. And the way you can get people to not pollute is by creating private propriety, so for example, someone buys a lake and if someone damages their lake they bought, they can sue for damages. You might be right that were arguing different things, but I still thinks its common sense that all of these bullshit regulations DO hurt small businesses and saying they don't just doesn't make any kind of sense. There's another on a list that forced people to put calorie counts on all items on their menus, which costs a ton of work hours (time = money) to accomplish. Its not always state level, their's flat out bad regulations period.

@SleepingSilence

The consumer is owed to have a certain level of information to make an appropriate, correct, and appropriately judged purchasing decision. Whether that's knowing the calorie counts in food or the limits of a certain grade of nut and bolt. To have uninformed consumers is to have easily abused consumers, which can be taken advantage of those companies who can, will, or could.

Now you might bitch about how much "time" it takes to jot that down next to the item of choice, but it's the most effective. Yes, I worked in a family business too but guess what: it's harder to learn that stuff and would take much more time or money to educate an employee working there on company time so he may convey to the customer the facts he or she needs to make a smart buying choice. But really he or she may not do that and sell them an inappropriate piece of the stock. And then it all rolls back on the company. And if that thing is faulty in some way leading to personal injury or a health risk then the company will be liable for a injury suit or other which will sure as hell cost more in damages than a simple fine from the county or state.

And it rolls back into what I said earlier about what defines a free market, and really I'd argue that an appropriately educated populace is a more than healthy aspect of a free market. It is as well more than impossible to teach every consumer the specifics of daily products which would in the end probably be another ten to twenty years of education that'll be forgotten.

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As for Adam Smith, his entire thesis is that punitive taxes are bad. He also argued for labor unions well before any started to form, that long term educational requirements wasted the labor of youth, and he had a tendency to snark about how stock holders complain about the price of labor but never say a word about their own income from the stock.

@Vilageidiotx

Basically what Libertarians and what not forget.

An interesting aside is that even without government in the market we'd still need government in the market to dictate what a free market is. Ultimately, free market capitalism doesn't really exist since on many larger levels it requires input. Whether in the grandiose requests and actions of the federal level (issuance of patents, investigation of, action against, and defining of what is a market scam (insider trading), etc) to the local level (heil County Board).

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

I wish this sausage deli platter deal had come with more crackers and less cheese, as it stands I had to break into my own crackers and I may be making spreadable cheese and cracker sandwiches soon.

Not an absolute nightmare, but I have half a container of cheese left and I already ate one of two sausages.