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- Comment on Science saves lives 4 months ago:
Literally Charles McGill
- Comment on Guess I'll km/s 4 months ago:
don’t speak like the french
- Comment on Coyote 4 months ago:
What the fuck
- Comment on Corn 🌽 4 months ago:
Which person decided to domesticate that thing. Just like “hey I found this weird looking grass fruit wanna enslave it” and chief’s like “hell yeah of course I wanna enslave it!” and then they just ate increasingly beady grass for a few thousand years
- Comment on Helth 4 months ago:
Shhh shhh no we have to make the peasants believe every exploitable activity is an intelligent sidehustle. THEIR idea. Not something that will be forced upon them by capitalism. How do you think we create like half of professions ever?
- Comment on What if? 4 months ago:
What in the hell is a “Caramel Ribbon Cursetard”
- Comment on What if? 4 months ago:
What do you mean women don’t like a FOSS privacy-oriented user experience? Don’t they like going through 500 pages of documentation when Gentoo breaks only to realize all along that the problem was fixed by turning the computer off and on again?
- Comment on big bro jupiter 4 months ago:
Well, its mass certainly contributed to it losing heat more efficiently. But Mercury (much smaller than Mars) and Ganymede (around the same size as Mars) both have a magnetic field, so there are a lot of other factors at play. Something to do with a change in the chemical composition of Mars’ mantle, I’m not so familiar with it though.
- Comment on big bro jupiter 4 months ago:
Venus was habitable for about 3 billion years, until about 700 million years ago… it stopped being habitable because of Jupiter.
Considering there’s a good chance Jupiter obliterated an entire planet of living organisms… yea it’s not as nice as it seems
- Comment on ecologists be like 4 months ago:
Violence solves all of our problems
- Comment on Aluminum 4 months ago:
Really now? I thought most steel had way more carbon & chromium than that. I guess I underestimate how little is needed to make iron no longer mushy.
- Comment on On Bears 4 months ago:
- Comment on Aluminum 4 months ago:
I was super confused when I read “loaner”, I thought you meant loaning as in like borrowing. But then I realized you meant “loner”. Lol
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 4 months ago:
Well for the most part if we want to have a less context-dependent measure, with some caveats – “left” is advocates of a socialist (or communist if you wish to separate them) economic system and social equality, and “right” is advocates of a capitalist or fascist economic system and social hierarchy. Around the center would be where social democrats/capitalists who want strong social safety are, or in other words people who want a mixed-economy/regulated capitalism and are for the most part socially progressive.
Also it’s hard to tell what you mean by “pure libs” but in most of the world that implies extremely free-market capitalist and pro-discrimination under the guise of “free speech” – very to the right. They’re usually called “libertarians” or “ancaps” in the US.
If by “pure lib” you mean a principled American “liberal” then there’s not really much to differentiate that from a social democrat – in practice America’s liberal politicians are either social democrats, or corrupt politicians who suck up to corporate money and stand in the way of social democrats – the latter definitely not being centrists. Same goes for “social liberals”.
Either way there is no chance that democratic socialists are as extremist as national conservatives. Democratic socialists are barely left of social democrats, so much so that social democrats label themselves democratic socialists all the time. The ideology is dependent upon reforming a fundamentally capitalistic system in an attempt to achieve socialism, while more lefty ideologies are focused on forcing the ruling/regressive capitalist class to comply (and some just outright skip to purging all the aristocracy who are anti-worker).
An accurate-ish description may be “socialist” and “syndicalist” vaguely can be anywhere on the left, so 5.5 to 10; “communist” and similar adjectives like “ararcho-communist” encompass 9 to 10; “anarchist” contains ideologies between center and fully left, so 5 to 10 (although most anarchist ideology is very far to the left, a lot of them are communists); “democratic socialist” is 5.5 to 7; “social democrat” is 5; the American “left” is mostly anywhere between 4 and 6 nowadays, although a decade ago it’d be more like 3 to 4.5, with actual social democrats being considered fringe or “extremists”. US “conservativism” (or “conservatism”, pick your poison on the spelling) is pretty much entirely “sounds kinda like fascism” to “fascism” at this point, so 1.5 to 2.5, with some politicians in the faction maybe squeaking it out to 3 or 3.5. Full-blown Nazis are 1. Libertarians/classical liberals are harder to classify in this sort of system, as in practice they’re usually as right-wing and reggressive as American conservatives, but their ideology is theoretically supposed to be more like a 3.5. Ancaps are just straight up 1 to 2.5 though, a complete lack of law applying to corporations & companies in general, being anti-government funding except when it’s military or police (except some of the farthest right of them believe even those should be completely private). They’re on par with fascist in terms of the scale from left to right.
Generally, the American public (or rather, the white majority) hovers at 3 to 4, with younger people being more like 4 to 7.
What’s fucked is most people think of prominent historical figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela as at a similar position in a political spectrum as American liberals, when in reality they were literally full-blown revolutionary socialists/marxists and belonged to communist organizations. And figures like Gandhi and Orwell were openly reformist socialists. I mean it’s intentional rightwashing by the government to get rid of any and all semblance of left ideology from now-near-legendary people, and it’s not surprising at all, but it’s still fucked. This is the framework of thinking Americans have when they try to categorize ideologies on a left-to-right spectrum; the most leftist historical figures they know that aren’t Stalin or Mao or something are all rightwashed into oblivion, portrayed to be liberal in the American sense, which tricks people into believing the farthest left you can go before you cross the centrist line is Bill Clinton or something.
- Comment on Aluminum 4 months ago:
I can’t think of many things you encounter every day that just use straight iron. Only alloys that use iron
- Comment on I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath 4 months ago:
Actually I mixed them up with a different channel. Hard to differentiate them by name when half of them are “Chess” plus some other word lol
- Comment on I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath 4 months ago:
I’ve seen a lot more chessnetwork drama than you’d believe
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 4 months ago:
The calorie used to be the base unit, until we released in the 19th century “wait, heat isn’t a gas” and threw out caloric theory, and made the Joule. Now the calorie is defined as 4.184 Joules.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 4 months ago:
of an approximation of a Roman foot in metric*
The Roman foot was between approximately 0.96 and 0.99 British imperial/US customary feet. The modern foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 meters, by international agreement.
- Comment on Science is Magic 4 months ago:
Philosophy is the way we try to assign (semantic) meaning to science/scientific observations.
Does the universe really exist outside of our minds? Is the position of matter actually the position we view it at? What is consciousness? I mean it depends on what you mean by existing, or being in a state, or consciousness. When you break language down far enough it becomes clear that it’s not objective, and it’s entirely suited to each person’s unique subjective understanding and interpretation with the context. Language is definitions all the way down. It doesn’t make sense to use human language to describe the real world objectively, yet we try anyways.
At least, that’s how I feel about philosophy as a linguist and someone who really likes theoretical universe stuff.
- Comment on Anon rides a bike 4 months ago:
bicycle lanes are usually death gutters. they’re better than nothing but it can be safer to not use them depending on where you are
there should be separated bicycle paths/lanes separated by barriers that motor vehicles can’t… y’know… easily go into or open their door in front of
also I have legitimately never seen people on bicycles disrespecting road laws unless those road laws enforce something that is unsafe on a bicycle. like disallowing rolling stops. car drivers violate road laws all the time though, not including speeding but i’m pretty sure almost every driver sees speeding as normal too
- Comment on A kick right in the selbstbild 4 months ago:
What makes you say they almost won? They certainly did not. They could’ve taken Moscow and it would’ve made no difference. The USSR had way too many people, people who really didn’t want to be taken over by Nazis, and way too many resources from the US/UK for Germany to overpower them. And Germany was doing extremely poorly on resources (especially oil and steel) even by 1940– the entire reason they invaded the USSR to begin with was because they didn’t have enough oil to meet their demands and they would collapse without seizing the USSR’s oil reserves. The British cutting them off from North African oil made the issue signicantly more urgent.
Germany practically signed their own death warrant the moment they invaded France. They just didn’t have the resources or arguable even the manpower to sustain that kind of war, even when controlling most of Europe outside of the USSR and a large portion of Africa.
I’ll give some numbers to help visualize: During WW2, Germany’s peak oil production was 71,000 barrels per day (1944), mostly synthetic oil from coal. For comparison, the United States’ peak oil production was 1,875,000 barrels per day (1944) and the USSR’s was 700,000 barrels per day (1941). Germany’s peak steel production was 29.3 million tons (1944); the United States’ was 89.6 million tons (1944). The USSR produced less, about 8.5 million tons at peak (1943), but they also received about 400,000 jeeps, 7,000 tanks, 5,000 other armored vehicles, 12,000 aircraft, and a bunch of other supplies totaling up to about USD$150 billion injusted for inflation, so steel wasn’t really much of an issue. Comparing populations, Germany’s was 69 million. The US’ was 132 million and the USSR’s was 190 million.
Considering that, it may become easier to see why Germany had absolutely no chance in the long-run, even in a hypothetical (impossible) scenario where they only fought either the USSR or the US.
- Comment on Anon practices time management 4 months ago:
no they just have ADHD
- Comment on I still crie evrytiem 4 months ago:
Is there not a comedygraveyard community on Lemmy? !comedygraveyard@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon hates fast food 4 months ago:
how many $$$ says she a minor
- Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump? 4 months ago:
If that were the case anymore, it would’ve happened after the 1912 election when Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive party got more votes (27.4and electors than the Republican (Taft). But it didn’t. Things went back to normal after that. That was also the election where the Socialist party gained the most votes (6%).
The Republicans and Democrats are here to stay until our voting system is overhauled.
- Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump? 4 months ago:
Well, the largest group in Texas is Latinos… idk how many of them can vote and how mant would actually vote blue though.
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 4 months ago:
The fact that we have people getting paid multiple times the average wage for fucking marketing and advertising is proof our economic system is a complete and utter failure
- Comment on Anon goes to a donut shop 4 months ago:
Since I have ADHD and Dyspraxia (motor disorder) I fuck up the delivery of things I want to say 9 times out of 10. I stopped giving a damn long ago because it really doesn’t matter unless you’re trying to get a job or something else that requires being fake as fuck to get ahead, but I would be lying if I said it doesn’t keep me up at night…
- Comment on Anon goes on a date 5 months ago: