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I reject societal contracts that do not support individual and body sovereignty. Of course, you can do with that as you will, because.. ..well.. ..sovereignty. Just know that if you take body sovereignty from people in one area, you empower the government to make decisions about your body, as well.

..and as we all have seen, the benevolence of the government is largely dependent on what party is in power, and what societal dynamics are in play. it's.. ..unreliable, at best.

I literally called it, the day Democrats started pushing forced vaccinations, that the Republicans would go for reversal of abortion law. ..and they fucking did, and they fucking succeeded in many ways, and that is direct consequence of permitting the government to violate body sovereignty, even when the voiced arguments do not pertain to it.

So, you can have your contiguous society, with forced social contracts rather than ones people actually are willing to agree to. ..and you'll also have the consequences, whether or not you can cognize how bad that will be right now.

Crackpot theories.. ..like.. ... how evolution works? ..or how regressive evolution works?

Diseases have killed countless people, and we have multiple vectors (and should have multiple vectors) for addressing them.

We have technology, as in vaccines. This is a good thing.

We have social behaviors including social pressure (which is, unfortunately, often compulsive and not well-aimed by the people that exercise it, but such is life).

We have individual immunity, and the direct biological pressure for health and general genetic robustness, which is also a good thing, even though it kills some of us.

the cool thing is, we're now at a point where there are lots of anti-vaxxers who are totally willing to throw their lives away for the benefit of the species. ..and, their surviving genetic lines and the rest of the species, as their children interbreed with the rest of humanity, will be better off for it. That's true, whether you like it or not. It's also true that forcing vaccination rather than simply providing and incentivizing vaccination is a terribly, terribly flawed strategy which causes far more issues than it fixes.

I understand that you're making social-pressure arguments, and that they are valid in the context you're in. But they aren't the end-all be-all, and they're not fundamentally scientific (or even logical) just because you're trying to support science by using them.

I also know this whole conversation brings up tons of uncomfortable topics, for which I'll probably get yelled at. I just don't care, because being more forceful about an argument, or getting the last word, really has no bearing on the truth of that word.

I'm absolutely for the rights of people to either have or refuse vaccines. Of course, in your mind, that probably just equates to being an anti-vaxxer. I get vaccines when it makes sense to me to do so, which doesn't include all vaccines.

Nah. It's not concerning that otherwise intelligent people can't figure out how to deal with their own lives without resorting to controlling others.

this is the disturbing reality of the current attitude. People have no idea how important body sovereignty is.

sorry, I just don't relate.

KDE connect and/or Synching/Syncthing-fork.

I don't think you're ready for self-hosting, but getting these installed and sorted out will help you move along that path, plus it will meet your needs in the mean time.

Bit, as others have suggested, get familiar with networking a bit.

You might want to get a raspberry pi or cheap SBC with a good amount of memory and disk space, and fuck around for a bit, trying some things.

communism depends on everyone involved choosing communal benefit over individual benefit, and poorly handles individuals who chose individual benefit over communal benefit - particularly if they just talk the talk of the reverse.

The foundation of a solid community is individual rights. Collectivist sovereignty is my preference. I have sovereignty, and recognize the benefit of getting others to recognize their peril sovereignty. ..but I still gain the benefits of sovereignty whether or not others learn how to do the same.

You think that preventing exposure to problematic concept prevents infection. you're right, in the short term. But in the long term, you destroy collective immunity to the concept.

Let it live, fight it when you have to, but don't think you can eradicate it. It's to be learned from, not simply destroyed. Otherwise, the experience is wasted, only to be repeated by the next generation.

No, it won't solve the problems you think it will. You are misidentifying the problem as being religion. ..but the problem is human, and psychological in nature - and, because you can't see that, you're just as susceptible to it as any other sot out there, drunk on the idea that you've got this one weird trick that solves the issue, and doesn't involve you sorting your own shit out.