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- Comment on Thoughts on r/antiwork drama and implications for Lemmy 2 years ago:
Aether works like that in theory, but I think that the feature was never created.
- Comment on A question about the Great (American) Resignation 2 years ago:
From my experience even the bottom of the social strata in the US is far better off than some middle-low class in a third world country. I've seen people in /r/homeless who own cars, laptops, phones, tents, shit that would sound fucking impossible where I live for a homeless to be honest, so I'm guessing they have some sort of financial support, but I'm just guessing.
- Comment on Is there is something as left-wing nationalism? 2 years ago:
From this thread:
I would consider National Bolshevism as more of a right wing ideology since it is not internationalist as opposed to Marxism Leninism (where there in fact exists nationalism, for example Ho Chi Minh was one, but it is combined with internationalism). National Anarchism is simply one of the stupidest things it could exist, since anarchism is a proponent of a stateless society therefore it is contradictory to its roots; it can be considered as much anarchist as Anarcho Capitalism.
Basically, Marxism Leninism can be nationalist and left wing at the same time.
- Comment on Adblocking Does Not Constitute Copyright Infringement, Court Rules 2 years ago:
How the fuck ad blocking could ever be copyright infringement? Fucking lobbyists.
- Comment on Have you ever tortured an insect? 2 years ago:
Yes, in a multitude of ways different times.
- Comment on My personal 10/10 video games 2 years ago:
- Half Life 2
- Spec Ops: The LIne
- Thirty Flights of Loving
- Ico
- Shadow of the Colossus
- The Talos Principle
- Dear Esther
- Beckett
- Hylics
- Four Last Things
- Comment on Do you think Technology makes us more lonely...? 2 years ago:
it's different because papers are huge and don't make it easy to walk while reading, but the trend on lonelines existed way before smartphones arrived, this painting is a portrait of that society, there's also a good book called bowling alone
- Comment on [deleted] 2 years ago:
- This sub is not for feature requests
- Open an issue in GitHub
- I didn't understand your feature request but ok
- Comment on Mobilize the homeless 2 years ago:
I think there's potential there, but it's hard to ask people that can barely sustain their existence to spend time they could be using to earn money is a bit complicated, if there were some true promise of true economical compensation, maybe, but for that you need to expropriate some land which would never happen in the US because their military industry is too big, that generally happens like in countries with heavy levels of peasantry.
- Comment on Do you think Technology makes us more lonely...? 2 years ago:
Like that picture in the train with ppl with phones and before with ppl with papers.
- Comment on How should we respond when random people tell us how china isn't socialist, but actually a state capitalist country? 2 years ago:
Thing is, what does exactly State Capitalism mean for that people? They probably don't even know, yet they're the first ones to be against it, or to call them communists, or whatever. But let's try and understand their little minds and see if we can come up with a conclusion.
So by "State", we can assume they mean some form of centralized economic system where the government is in charge of the decision making, where all of the productive forces are put in place with the idea of capital growth and maximization; and by "Capitalism" we can understand it as the fact that there's still class society, private property, and so on, but also from the fact that China will interact with other capitalist and non capitalist nations alike in international trade. Now, this does not seem that bad, does it? Well, basically what's happening here is that they're defining SwCC (Socialism with Chinese Characteristics) and branding it as "state capitalism" to delegitimize communism as a whole, because to rightists socialism has never existed, or it was never socialist enough, or whatever. That's why they're both at the same time evil communists and greedy capitalists within their narrative.
Now, let me explain a bit more what SwCC does and why it tries to improve upon previous mistakes of other socialists movements.
The core idea is that you need to develop your productive forces. It doesn't matter how much good will your movement has, if you don't have the material conditions to improve the life of your people, you will achieve nothing because you can't defend against external aggressors and because you can't procure your citizens with a minimum living standard, which will create interior conflicts. To do this, SwCC takes advantage of the remaining bourgeoisie within your country and uses it in their favour by keeping a tight control on how they operate, while at the same time they own most of the national resources which they use in a centralized way with the purpose of capital growth, which in turn use this capital to strengthen its international presence with commerce routes and trades.
I am not a marxist scholar, and even though I could give you a better explanation I don't want to be all day here writing a walltext, so I think this is good enough, if you're interested in understanding better the concepts of SwCC I'm sure you could ask in a bunch of communities for resources.
This probably does not belong here, and for future references you should post this kind of questions in something like /c/communism101, you'll get few down votes.
- Comment on With a snap of a finger, you can kill anyone on earth. Do you kill anyone, and if you do choose to kill anyone, who? 2 years ago:
I'd kill you OP.
- Comment on How do people enjoy horror games? 2 years ago:
IMO Dark Souls and its spawns are not horror games so the feeling you're getting is just your heart pumping AF from having to concentrate a lot to beat an enemy, which does not happen in most horror games unless there's an extremely hard boss/section.
Regarding your question, I don't get scared or anxious or that shit neither with horror films or video games so I just play them and enjoy them for their story/gameplay/whatever.
- Comment on Brave proven to have the strongest Fingerprinting Protections - Evaluating Anti-Fingerprinting Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2 years ago:
- Comment on 2 years ago:
maybe if both of us could have a job, but no
- Comment on 2 years ago:
Praise be the sickle. May the hammer be with you. Good red sun.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well, I'm poor and I'm already expecting that stuff for free, my poor friends are also not going to pay for that and therefore they will not switch to a private messenger therefore, so give me free real state or gtfo. I know people want to live from that and it must be great, but I live in capitalism and I don't have many choices.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
Hope someone forks it and makes all premium features free, lol.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
probably yes but for jobs that require some technical skill, not for workin in a mcdonalds
- Comment on [deleted] 2 years ago:
I think your question belongs in /c/lemmysupport but I really don't understand the point of an extension for this.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
Sure, but that would be the case if it was designed like that from the ground up, but BookWyrm's developer didn't and it's understandable, so now you either fork it and make it like that or fork it and make it work specifically for whatever you want to keep track of.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
I asked them if it's possible and they said yes if you modify the back end, but I don't think they have time to maintain two projects like this. :/
If you get yourself a Python developer which isn't that crazy you could do it though.
