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I’ve got a work van (one of the smaller Ford Transits), but it’s just not capable of towing anything really. Trucks do a lot better on the muddy hillsides I find myself on frequently.

FWIW I’m not arguing against you, I’m just saying in my personal case, I would be able to put a reasonable truck to good use. I don’t need a King Ranch or anything stupid like that.

I’m dying for a return to 80s style trucks but with hybrid/electric engines

Please just let me have a functional, strong truck that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to drive

Short beds and unibody designs are the worst fucking things to happen to trucks

If you need a truck - and as a rural tradesperson, there are plenty of good reasons to need one - get something that’ll actually do the job.

Sick. Where’s this at?

Reading the news this morning was like “oh thank God the tyrant is gone! …wait a minute, this is still gonna screw the Kurds over, isn’t it?”

Edit: and to the surprise of nobody: https://www.voanews.com/a/as-assad-falls-fighting-intensifying-over-northern-syria-town-/7891689.html

Because taking action isn’t in their self-interest. That’s it.

If the people voted by filling out Facebook quizzes

Yeah I don’t envy drywallers. That is exhausting work, especially since a lot of them get paid by the sheet. There’s a running joke in construction about them constantly leaving soda bottles full of piss because they can’t take the time to go to the john.

Electrical construction (I mostly did commercial fwiw, but dabbled in residential and industrial as well) can be pretty rough too. Other than the brief time I worked with the union, you’re pretty much expected to bust ass all day every day, forever. It was… not fun, most of the time.

But you’re right on the last point too - once you really understand the system, most faults can be tracked down and figured out pretty quickly. After all, electricity is basically binary - either the circuit works, or it doesn’t, in which case you just keep following it back to the part where it does work, and now you can find the problem.

It’s not always that simple, like if multiple circuits are sharing a neutral, or you’ve just got a loose neutral connection… but as you may guess, if you’ve got power where you’re supposed to but the thing still won’t work, the problem is the neutral. So… it’s still kinda simple lol. There’s only so many parts to a circuit after all.

Kinda depends? But yeah they’re mostly separate.

When I worked for a shop (self-employed now), they had us divided into Construction and Service, and the two pretty much kept to themselves. Service guys looked down on Construction guys because they didn’t know much about troubleshooting; Construction guys looked down on Service guys because most of them couldn’t build their way out of a wet paper bag.

Most of my experience as an apprentice was construction. I did some service calls now and then when jobsites slowed down in the winter. Now I mostly do service calls, and, frankly, it’s a HELL of a lot easier.

No problem!

Honestly, one of the best introductions to anarchism is The Conquest of Bread by Petr Kropotkin. It’s a century old and still very relevant and approachable. You can find it for free on The Anarchist Library.

Am electrician, can confirm.

To be fair, I don’t get called out to fix good work. If something’s fucked, it’s usually because some “handyman” who “totally knows what he’s doing” was there before.

Between that, and the fact that most of the people involved in wiring up houses are just laborers under an electrician’s supervision (ostensibly), yeah, I get plenty to complain about.

It also makes it easier, I feel, for customers to stomach the bill if I can adequately explain how much better off they are now that I’ve done my job.

Can’t get ad revenue if the site’s down.

The same as everyone else’s - a society without hierarchy.

I see it playing out perfectly fine, just like it has throughout human existence in numerous societies across the globe. But it takes a lot of work to get there.

Dual-power structures, consensus-based democracy, and federated communes. Between those three are most of your answers.

And obviously we don’t have the conditions necessary for anarchism at present, or we’d already be living it.

Tell me you don’t know anything about anarchism without saying it

Anarchism.

I’d kill myself to prevent further drain of resources, but not before convincing every other elite I can find to do it too.

Or, alternately, go to Mars and sabotage/monkeywrench the whole thing.

Wait, so… Turkish militias are fighting alongside the Kurds?

How long will that last?