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  • The root problem is that there is a huge self capturing black market demand for drugs, which itself is a problem rooted in capitalist countries throughout the americas prioritizing GDP expansion over human wellbeing.

    It’s the result of failing healthcare systems, the evaporation of 3rd places, the requirement of a car to survive, the failing housing system, the lack of job security and mobility, etc

    No amount of military intervention can change that. Even if you somehow successfully destroyed every cartel with a button press, they’d all be replaced overnight because of the huge demand for drugs.

    What can actually effect the demand is:

    • food, water, housing, education and healthcare being well funded human rights

    • mixed used development/relaxation of zoning laws

    • transportation infrastructure that allows people to actually have a choice in how they get places

    • unions, workplace democracy, worker protections

    You get the picture. Life actually has to be worth living.





  • It doesn’t. Someone with a “left” view and a “right” view can cancel each other out,

    Only if the person with a left view also has a right view. And only if the other person with the right view has a left view.

    You seem confused. The point of it isn’t to give a fully accurate explanation of a person’s views on every topic. It’s to give somebody a general idea.

    Plus, someone can say they are for something, but actually not support it in reality.

    All political measurements fall victim to that. It’s a moot point. But just because some people are like that doesn’t mean everyone is.




  • It’s definitely a terrible system, and there are better ones out there like 10Groups. But astrology is completely meaningless. The PCT at least tells you a vague (terrible, yes), but somewhat meaningful direction in which you believe.

    For example, I know that since I’m libertarian left on the PCT, that I’m going to disagree with 90% of the things somebody who’s authoritarian right on the PCT believes.

    Astrology doesn’t have that ability to reliably compare, since it is literally and completely meaningless.

    But again, shit like 10Groups is better and everybody should switch to measures that have more than 2 axis.


  • This is exactly the thing I’ve been looking for. It saves everything as a sqlite db, and has csv export options. So you’re not fucked over if you need to switch to something else. It’s compatible for linux/windows.

    And the import options seem pretty good too.

    Congrats, you’ve made me spend the whole day switching everything over to that lol.

    The only real issue is that one of my banks deals with more than one type of currency. So I’ve had to write a custom script to handle that. But all in all, this is a massive upgrade for me. Thank you for this recommendation.