yeah. USPS almost always has access to apartment buildings to leave packages inside. other carriers are more spotty

I wonder how this would work in a modern world of increasing hyperspecialization. I guess it’s probably still workable if you are able take the cuban doctors approach and just train a surplus of professionals, scientists, engineers, etc, but honestly I’m not sure you can do that for every profession all at once, at least not while having to exist in a hegemonically capitalist world.

On the other hand maybe specialization is a process which can be reversed somewhat. I do think its undesirable to have (for example) chud STEM bros who only know anything about their area of specialty, and actively denigrade other disciplines especially social sciences. Creating an education system to produce more generalists would help, and seems like a good ideological fit for a socialist society. A whole society of people where most have 4 or 6 years of post secondary education, with a focus on well-roundedness and political education is probably a lot more resilient than one where 70% of people have none, 20% have 4 years but 10% are career specialists with 10+ years in academia focused almost solely on their hyper-specialty and get exalted above the rest.

I appreciate the sentiment and its not like some of these types don’t deserve it, but in all seriousness execution isn’t a silver bullet and shouldn’t be the goal of any communist society. When it’s needed it’s needed, but it isn’t the primary solution to any problem.

I do think death sentences with reprieve (ie they aren’t actually executed unless they try to do more corruption) are a pretty solid approach for high level offenders caught doing major corruption, send them on an emperor puyi journey to live a normal life… but for lower level corruption offences different approaches are needed.

I have one of those somewhere I have to find and wash out… The bag was a ziplock resealable kind but I think either it didn’t seal all the way or it wore through

Its hard to know what the shape of things to come will be.

If the shocks are just higher food prices due to higher diesel prices… That’s a tough situation honestly because I don’t see it opening up a lot of cracks in the existing food system. Stockpiling now is a good idea but will only carry you so far and you don’t necessarily have a lot of resources to do so, by the sound of it?

If the shocks are more severe, with genuine shortages or breakdowns in parts of the distribution system, there may be opportunities that open up to provide your own transport or labor in collecting food from farms or other points in the supply chain yourself that commercial operators can’t or won’t bother with due to the cost or low availability of diesel. That would still require some of the hard work of building connections, but a crisis situation would make that easier in some ways. Volunteers with electric vehicles could be a real asset here in providing transport that isn’t disabled or rationed?

I mean there are a million situations that would call for a specific, non-individual bedtime for practical reasons, and having someone informed to make that call and help everyone actually get well rested for the morning’s action is useful.

But its only used as a knee jerk reaction because it infantilizes our anarchist comrades so… That sucks

I haven’t revisited them since I was a kid so no idea if there’s any… themes but I read a lot of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques as a little one.

I’m just realizing I read more then than I do now

Pop science is also full of bullshit though. If you don’t have at least some solid grounding in the scientific method and science basics, you won’t be able to tell if the pop science you read is bullshit or real.

Similarly, and even worse because of the sheer quantity of intentional misdirection in the political realm, if you don’t have some baseline grounding in theory, a working understanding of historical materialism perhaps, then you will not have the mental tools to evaluate the pop politics and decide if they are right or full of shit. It isn’t something that’s common sense or easily reasoned from first principles

As communists, we should aspire to go beyond just trusting prominent figures, whether they’re influencers, politicians, publications, whatever, and improve our faculties and awareness and understanding of the world