I had a conversation on Lemmy about this recently which is the inspiration for my question. I hope this is the right community to be asking this question.

Added context:

Arguably, you’d need start-up cash in our current system to start a cashless community, but once it’s up and running, you technically can use bartering and maybe a handful of people with jobs outside that community to get anything else the community would need.

So, could people buy land/properly that is not currently that developed, in a territory/state with no property taxes, and just build up from there? The land could be put into a community trust as well, so it’s not something that could get sold down the line after the land already gets developed.

I feel the pros of the concept are that it could legitimizes many of the points online about a cashless society being possible. If the proof of concept works out for one community, that eventually grows to a town, then the concept could be tried in other places as well.

I think another benefit of the concept is that it’s not something that should require having to change the current outside system to functionally work. Whatever is produced in excess by the community can be sold externally with the funds entering back to the trust to spend on resources that community may not be able to produce on their own.

To me, as an outsider, I feel this would be a tangible and realistic way of even popularizing the concept of cashless society being possible. It would take time and investment for a project like that to get off the ground, but I think it would be a beneficial way for people that do see a cashless society as the future to really reap the immediate benefits of the concept, and show its something sustainable and even scalable.

Sorry for the confusing title, but earlier when I was sipping some coffee I felt the heat emanating off of the liquid in the cup without touching the cup.

So it made me think, why don’t we treat heat sensitivity as a distinct sense to touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing? I’d love to hear a catchier name for ‘temperature sensitivity’ for its distinct sense as well, since those other ones are less of a mouthful.

Thank you for coming to my shower thought!

When talking with people that I’m on good terms with, but aren’t my immediate family, I find that I really struggle to voice my thoughts or feelings at times without it sounding forced or insincere.

For instance, I’ll want to say that something is great or that I’m sorry they’ve been going through it, but when I go to actually say it, it just comes out like I’m pushing the words out of my mouth and in a very quiet voice.

Now, I’ll really be feeling what I’m saying, but I notice it’s not coming out that way at all. Maybe I’m in my head too much about trying to word it right and I just am flopping the delivery entirely? I feel like I tense up a lot when I’m trying to respond genuinely.

I would really appreciate any advice or tips anyone could share :D

Thank you!