Jessica (sie/ihr)

“Our currently best plan is to lay on our backs, spread our limbs, and pretend to be dead.” - EU, probably.

There is a great book called “A Pattern Language” by Christopher Alexander, et.al. that came out in 1977 and that contains everything you need to do to solve almost all of today’s problems. Relevant for your question are for example the patterns:

• Independent Regions: “[…]the government of a region becomes less and less manageable with size. […] We believe the limits are reached when the population of a region reaches some 2 to 10 million.”
• Community of 7000: “People can only have a genuine effect on local government when the units of local government are autonomous, self-governing, self-budgeting communities, which are small enough […]”
• Local Town Hall: “Local government of communities and local control by the inhabitants, will only happen if each community has its own physical town hall which forms the nucleus of its political activity”
• Necklace of Community Projects: “The local town hall will not be an honest part of the community which lives around it, unless it is itself surrounded by all kinds of small community activities and projects, generated by the people for themselves.”

Generally, almost all of our problems stem from our isolation from the society that surrounds us, which in turn stems from the architecture of our cities and houses. This book shows how to not do that.

I always replace onions with fennel in every recipe. I have yet to find one where that wasn’t an instant improvement. I honestly don’t understand why people eat onions when fennel exists.

In order to make money you need to sell something for more than its production costs you. You can either sell something at a small margin to a lot of people or something at a big margin to a few. Selling at a small margin to few people doesn’t make you a living and selling at a big margin to a lot of people just isn’t possible. Selling at a big margin to a few people means you need to find a specific community, become a part of this community and sell something to them they want enough to justify the price. Furry porn would e.g. fall in this category. Alternatively you can sell at a small margin to a lot of people. In this case you need to find a bland and generic product so it appeals to a lot of people, and find a method to produce it so cheaply that other people can’t easily undercut your price, and finally find a spin to advertise it to a majority. In this category are all “livestyle products” that sell to underclass white people the idea they’d belong to the middle class. Also selling mainstream books and music would fall under this category.

Devon Cole - W.I.T.C.H https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLy05ywVM8

I keep saying Reloaded and Revolution would make one great sequel if you cut all the crap out. As they are the scenes are just a little too long and there’s too much gratuitous fighting. But there are enough great ideas for one great movie, just not two.