Curse you, filthy heretic!

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our lord and saviour, Linus Torvalds?

It definitely happens.

He’s got my vote.

These people went through the process I described above. I’m not saying you need a degree to do scientific work. I’m saying you need to do scientific work to achieve scientifically relevant results.

Easy. First you survey the existing literature for your theory. Chances are, somebody already came up with it, or, more likely, debunked it. If that’s not the case, you write up a paper, presenting your theory together with its supporting evidence and submit it through the usual channels. I know that sounds pretty discouraging, but the chance of some rando contributing something meaningful are pretty close to zero

I had to learn to program CNC machines with punch tape back in the eighties, so not too far off.

I was going to say, don’t give them ideas, but the tech bros have already given them all the ideas.

How about not having a hegemon but instead we all get along for our mutual benefit? Regular people in all countries have no quarrel with each other. It’s all being instigated by power hungry, greedy assholes.

Large corporations don’t buy small companies to make better products. They buy them to eliminate the competition.

I agree. The US have oligarchic crony capitalism supported by an utterly corrupt political system. Trying to abolish capitalism without restoring democracy and the rule of law is a fools errand. Not like it’s never been tried. And every time it just replaced one ruling clique of assholes with another one.

Odysseus was a minor character in the first book before he became the main protagonist of the sequel. So yes, Odysseus was there before the Odyssey.

That’s reductive. Seeing capitalism as the root cause of all problems is disingenuous. The particular ideology oligarchies are using to justify their rule is incidental.

Pathetic! My penis rocket is much bigger than your penis rocket!

What are you talking about, you filthy usurper? I’m the only legitimate king of the internet!

We can change our technology to be more sustainable or we can regress to a pre-industrial society with 90% of the population dying in the process. Which do you prefer?

Nonsense! That’s clearly sea-ent!

But that would require travelling to the US. I’ll have to pass on that until some semblance of sanity returns there. I don’t expect to see that in my lifetime.

Indeed I haven’t.

That sounds very much like a pedophile fantasy.