I’ve been waiting for it for three years now. Still using my Lenovo Explorer…

Neither, and I never once had the cable fall out. Just imagine the countless seconds I saved from not screwing and unscrewing.

I was so invested in that show’s ongoing plot as a kid. The writers put a lot more thought into it than they needed to. And the voice actors were all awesome, especially Megatron.

Don’t worry, I’m still here

The thing is, having a walking robot chassis that could be built to run autonomously isn’t impressive. Those have existed for some time; Honda had Asimo walking around in the year 2000. The hard part is the software and there is no evidence that they’ve achieved anything there, which basically makes this all vaporware.

The Fabio of ducks

I know it’s not the same thing, but the corporate TLDs like “.google” make me irrationally irritated. You think you’re too good for “.com”?

They’ve taken the design in a very minimalist direction.

Is this lossregex?

I see, thanks. That’s something I’ll have to look into further, because it seems to me that it’s really a prerequisite for a functioning society. I appreciate you going over all of that!

So the specifics of how a community would allocate resources without there being a state is considered more of an open question, then?

Interesting, thanks. I guess a major element in how feasible that would be is in the administrative structure a community would use in deciding who gets what materials. Obviously if it’s a representative democracy, there’s huge incentive for corruption of the representatives if they have absolute control of who gets what. Wouldn’t this be considered a state, though? I guess statelessness is another aspect that doesn’t make much sense to me.

Thanks, I guess it’s the “get whatever they want” part that doesn’t make much sense to me. What if what I want is astronomical, and I want to get it by doing as little work as possible? Who says whether I can or can’t have it?

This is an aspect I’m genuinely curious about (as someone who is relatively uneducated on this subject) because my answer would be that yes, there will definitely be people who want to regress. There have always been individuals who are willing to sacrifice absolutely anything to obtain more material wealth or power. They’re a minority, but their existence has to be assumed and accounted for. For all of capitalism’s failings, one of its strengths is that it does give these people a path to follow that produces (some) benefit to society. How does a fully-implemented communist society deal with these individuals without them subverting and corrupting the system?

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