RobotToaster
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- Comment on Where do you think elon musk would be if he wasn't born into wealth? 1 week ago:
/r9k/
- Comment on what unbiased media sources do you use? 2 weeks ago:
I prefer sources with obvious bias since it makes it easier to account for. Sources that pretend to be unbias are far more insidious.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
Turned? Have you ever heard of the Rockefeller and Morgan families?
- Comment on Communism 3 weeks ago:
Your impression is basically the Trotskyist view.
Stalin himself answered your question in an interview with an American reporter some time ago.
Yes , you are right, we have not yet built communist society. It is not so easy to build such a society. You are probably aware of the difference between socialist society and communist society. In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed. That is why wages, and, moreover, unequal, differentiated wages, still exist. Only when we have succeeded in creating a system under which, in return for their labour, people will receive from society, not according to the quantity and quality of the labour they perform, but according to their requirements, will it be possible to say that we have built communist society.
You say that in order t o build our socialist society we sacrificed personal liberty and suffered privation.
Your question suggests that socialist society denies personal liberty. That is not true. Of course, in order to build something new one must economize, accumulate resources, reduce one’s consumption for a time and borrow from others. If one wants to build a house one saves up money, cuts down consumption for a time, otherwise the house would never be built.
How much more true is this when it is a matter of building a new human society? We had to cut down consumption somewhat for a time, collect the necessary resources and exert great effort. This is exactly what we did and we built a socialist society.
But we did not build this society in order to restrict personal liberty but in order that the human individual may feel really free. We built it for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.
- Comment on Communism 3 weeks ago:
The confusion is between communism as an economic system and communism (more properly, Marxism-Leninism) as a political system.
Economically communism is a classless, stateless, society.
Most Marxist-Leninist states take the position that transitioning to that instantly is impossible, and you need to build the material conditions for it by transitioning through capitalism (be that state capitalism or some other form) to socialism to communism. The Communist Party of China for instance has a goal of achieving socialism by 2050.
That’s a very simplified version anyway, and some (Trotskyists mostly) disagree that a transition period is necessary.
- Comment on Are there people without handedness? 3 weeks ago:
I have it, it’s annoying to say the least. I’m not fully ambidextrous though.
- Comment on Study finds young people more likely to spend Christmas alone 3 weeks ago:
Especially with how cities in the UK are effectively banning driving for anyone but the rich.
- Comment on Are there people without handedness? 3 weeks ago:
The closest I can think is someone who is ambidextrous but also dyspraxic.
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t they abandon decentralisation a while ago?
- Comment on how do you separate your clothes and linens to avoid fabric degradation and bleeding? 5 weeks ago:
I’m a little obsessive about this myself.
Usually I have
- Dark colours, woolens, and delicates
- Stuff I think could run (raw denim, etc)
- Whites
- Light colours and stuff I don’t care about fading, which can be washed either way.
While most non-colour detergents don’t contain bleach any more, they contain optical brighteners that absorb UV and emit white light, to make whites look “whiter than white”. This can make dark colours, and especially blacks, look dull grey. Other than that you don’t usually have to worry about most colours, especially after the first wash. There are exceptions to this, such as raw denim which runs like crazy. You can also get “colour catcher” sheets for peace of mind that stop runs.
Usually I use a non-biological delicates wool detergent for dark colours, woolens, and delicates, which I wash together, on a wool cycle. It doesn’t hurt to wash something more delicately than it’s supposed to be washed, and it means I don’t need to do as many loads. Sometimes I’ll throw light colours in with this if I have room. Anything “runny” I’ll wash with like colours, at least for the first few washes.
Whites, light colours, and stuff I don’t care about looking dull like towels gets the cheapest own brand biological detergent.
If you have dark coloured bedding you may want to get biological colour detergent, I don’t.
- Comment on Are there humans who require heating lights like pet reptiles? 5 weeks ago:
Charles Mountbatten-Windsor
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
My understanding is by medical standards, the evidence is pretty low quality, which is why GnRH agonists aren’t approved by the EMA, MHRA, FDA, or NICE for gender dysphoria.
It highlights a wider issue in medicine though, the obsession with randomised controlled trials, which is basically the only evidence the GRADE method considers “high quality”. We are seeing exactly the same problem with MDMA assisted therapy, any therapy where blinding is difficult is dismissed by the medical establishment. NICE dismissed (es)ketamine for depression for the same reason. Add to that the fact that GnRH agonists are off patent, so there’s no incentive for industry to fund studies.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
except for use in clinical trials
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s pretty depressing that by modern standards the Lewinsky affair, and even Watergate, would be considered a normal Tuesday.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 month ago:
Yeah sure, so they can rig their primaries again.
- Comment on Since Syria goverment has fallen, do we have any inkling of what will replace it? 1 month ago:
Islamofascists worse than what it’s replacing.
- Comment on Why are Republicans struggling in Swing State Elections? 1 month ago:
I once read that socially conservative but economically left wing voters are quite a large group, but usually get very little representation. It’s just a guess, but it makes sense that those people would vote for AOC on economics while tolerating her on social issues. On the other hand economically right wing democrats like Kamala would have zero appeal to people like that.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 1 month ago:
In an ideal system the jury would decide the sentence, and give him one day community service (time served).
- Comment on If you speak a second language better than your native language, would you describe your second language skill as "native" or "fluent"? 1 month ago:
Depends how badly you speak your native language?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
He was basically resurrected from hell, so probably there.
- Comment on alpha 1 month ago:
That’s the cutest pseudoscience I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
I had to look that up, it’s the Spanish spelling? I didn’t realise. It’s commonly misspelled by native speakers.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
bourgeois, the spelling is bourgeois.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
The truth is often crass.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
Well, that’s one way to reduce, to quote Sir Starmer, “the benefits bill blighting our society”.
- Comment on Gloves and Boots Very Budget 1 month ago:
I’ve not worked in a cooler, but I know for cold weather military surplus “mickey mouse” boots used to be cheap and warm.
- Comment on Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness. 1 month ago:
Depends on the time of day.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
People with depression and other mental illnesses who aren’t capable of making that decision will use it. It also makes it a lot easier to argue for cutting mental healthcare and other suicide prevention measures.
Honestly as someone who’s struggled with depression for 20 years, and had a couple of attempts, the idea that the government may just decide there’s no problem with me yeeting myself is terrifying.
- Comment on Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness. 1 month ago:
It’s impossible to know, he’s a bit of a wildcard.
The one redeeming thing about right populists is that they generally want to be popular, so it’s perhaps less likely for him to do it than a more “conventional” republican.