Wait, you are saying you can’t pay for groceries with cash? Or socks? Or a tire rotation? Vehicle insurance? Or bus rides? Or the farmer’s market? I’m so confused. What region are you talking about? Online maybe?

Are you reading OK? I said they were linked.

It’s still conflation of discrete but related, and yes in some respects dependent concepts to suggest that they are entirely synonymous. Yellowjackets are not bees.

Out of curiosity, how is cash becoming obsolete in the USA? Here in Canada it’s still accepted pretty much everywhere except parking meters (which is infuriating).

In the same way we separate yellowjackets from paper wasps, even though those with phobias call them all bees.

Colonialism is a type of imperialism that maintains economic and social subjugation of the (usually) remote region, and may or may not involve some form of genocide. It’s a geopolitical term describing historical aspects of imperialism, and spills over into doctrine and ideology, which is maybe why you are conflating the terms.

Liberal, and liberalism, in the narrow non-colloquial but generally pejorative usage that you are implying, refers to a doctrine of possessive individualism. That leads to colonialism, via imperialism, yes, but they are not the same.

Nah, liberal democracies are generally partly socialist in limited but notable ways, and common property is not unusual. Nobody is massacring groups over the ideological principle of public highways, or nature preserves, or recreation centres, or national corporations. I mean, in Canada, for instance, people died due to colonialism, but that’s a different, if related story. It’s a very capitalist society with a bunch of popular collective property and “crown” (nominally state-owned) corporations.

Economic systems historically overlap. We still have shreds of feudalism hanging around.

Is the academic speaking as a representative of Japan, or are you making him one? I can’t read the paywalled article. Looks like he’s just an ‘expert’ with an opinion. If it’s blindly capitalist and doesn’t include debatable geopolitical analysis, address that.

Are you kneejerking because you are playing team sports? I suggest you improve your public discourse to avoid essentialism, it will build better arguments and be more convincing.

My everydaycarry is a Fenix AA, about 10 years old.

Uses today included: checking on the henhouse, and going out back to smoke a joint, and I stuck it in my mouth to hang the hummingbird feeder. Before dark, I used it to help me vacuum in a hurry before guests arrive (lay it on the floor to highlight everything needing a cleanup), to look into a corner of the car trunk, to poke around in the storage room briefly, and at work to better look into the guts of a computer.

My swiss army knife got used a few times today, too. Different blades and tools. I’m semi-rural so dont leave the bedroom without those two items.

I have been in a flood that turned the land into a lake, horizon to horizon. Densely populated. Utterly devastating. The railway was elevated enough to get between two mid-sized cities, and on the 12km trek I saw an amazing amount of compassion, mutual aid, and casual, natural-feeling grassroots organization to just get on with life.

I have been in a few crises and minor disasters, come to think of it. I think generally, most people like banding together and helping out when shit gets crazy.

Capitalism overruling democracy.

I would be so mad if I was a producer, and there was only one copy of anything important.

Oh, so, like my coworkers then.

/s

Well the Test now includes casual tasks like counting letters, doesn’t it? You have to move your head in a certain way to spot the leopard in the shaded forest.

Uh nope. Well almost, RTFA:

He reportedly beat rival candidate Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde after campaigning on the slogan “I’m the good Hitler”.

Missed the point, friend