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- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 2 days ago:
Microsoft has the WORST product people
- Comment on Speak American 2 days ago:
America has one of the largest Spanish speaking populations in the world, so in future web applications I will use the American flag to indicate Spanish, for the lulza
- Comment on “It’s Compiling!” 3 days ago:
Even C++ has gotten better if you use precompiled headers and parallel compilation in MSVC
- Comment on “It’s Compiling!” 3 days ago:
I feel like this has gotten a lot better though. I used to work on projects that took 10 minutes to compile and now the build tools I use are nearly instant
- Comment on I'm gay and I dunno what it means 3 days ago:
I think it’s supposed to be that the 2nd hairstyle is considered lower class
- Comment on Dammit dad 6 days ago:
I’m in the South so when I was a kid a imagined the bears eating grits. It wasn’t until I was older than I learned that porridge isn’t grits
- Comment on Dammit dad 6 days ago:
What is porridge?
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 6 days ago:
This is satire right lol
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
Whataboutism
“Russia invaded ukraine! Putin must be held accountable!”
“Yeah well what about Iraq, 2003???”
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 week ago:
I think most people just leave it in the plastic bag, but personally I have a bread bag that breathes so the crust doesn’t become spongey
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 week ago:
I have never in my entire life seen an actual bread box, I thought they were a thing from England or something
- Comment on Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break 1 week ago:
I’d be fucked lol, I go months between playing some games
- Comment on I fucking hate modern design and modern designers. 1 week ago:
I believe it’s changed the expectations around “instant” messaging. When I was growing up, if someone texted you, you weren’t obligated to reply immediately. With IMs, you might reply if you were near your computer.
Now, my project manager messages me on slack over lunch break and then messages me like 15mins later with “Hello???”
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
There are lots of examples where a socialist approach is preferable to unfettered capitalism.
None of the things you described are examples of socialism. Socialism is not “when the government does things”
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
Tell me why that’s a bad thing? Why should I care?
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
I don’t subscribe to any philosophy which advocates for the murder of its enemies
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
Did you read your own link? The one you yourself even quoted? It calls itself an independent socialist magazine.
Dylan Sullivan is an Adjunct Fellow and PhD candidate in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, where he teaches politics, sociology, and anthropology.
Which is why I don’t value his economics paper very highly
Richard Wolff, another economist, explains socialism in a very clear and comprehensive way. If you’re not intellectually curious enough to entertain Richard Wolff, I’m done responding. On the other hand, I’m happy to engage with someone interested in learning and discussion.
No serious economist refers to themself as a Marxian. A “marxian economist” is like saying “a psychic physicist”. Right off the bat, anyone who commits themselves to a pseudoscientific view should not have their scientific views taken very seriously at all.
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
To be frank, I don’t take anything economic commentary by “An Independent Socialist Magazine” seriously lol. Socialism has been so thoroughly discredited that anybody who willingly accepts such a label is inherently not a serious person
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re mixing terms. Capitalism is the private ownership of property. Socialism is the worker’s ownership of property; often managed by a state (which in theory should be run by the workers). None of the things you mentioned are examples of socialism.
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
The official state religion of the Soviet Union was called “Marxism-Leninism”
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
Wow, it’s horrible that so many people live in extreme poverty. It’s also fantastic that most people on earth no longer live in extreme poverty, thanks to capitalism and free trade!
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
What do you think most younger people not ever being able to afford their own property?
Housing prices are extremely expensive because of government intervention in the market. Local governments have artificially restricted the supply of new housing in order to intentionally make it more expensive. Unironically: the free market would make housing less expensive, like it did when our parents’ generation were buying houses.
Or the fact that grocery costs have been skyrocketing to unaffordable levels even if you make good money
Food inflation would not be solved by state intervention. I don’t think there’s any serious economist who will tell you that food inflation is caused by unfettered capitalism.
All while billionaires are hoarding unfathomable amounts of wealth? Extreme poverty might not be as high globally but regular poverty is gaining traction at record speeds.
Wealth inequality is gaining traction. The standard of living of the average poor American is better today than it was in the 1960s. What has changed is how we feel about it. Wealth inequality makes us mad, but it has not resulted in worse overall living standards on an absolute scale.
How do you guard against that when having vast wealth enables you to trick people into voting against their best interests?
I think we should solve specific problems. Some problems can be solved with more regulation (dismantling monopolies, safeguarding elections) and others can be solved by reducing regulation (taking away authority from local zoning boards, reducing the amount of legal hurdles for building public transportation).
But none of these problems are caused intrinsically by the existence of private property. Various European liberal democracies manage to provide high quality of life for their people without resorting to socialism
capitalism ends in the extreme poverty that you say it solves.
There is no evidence to support your claim. To the contrary, the evidence suggests that since 3rd world countries began liberalizing their markets from the 1970s/80s onward, it has resulted in huge increases in quality of life for their poorest citizens.
The same cannot be said of socialism, which experienced a worldwide delegitimization from the 70s onward as it collapsed under its own inherent contradictions and failed to provide for the people living under it.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
No, voltage adapters are built into basically every electronic device now so it doesn’t matter which you plug into
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
No. Capitalism is the primary engine for human development. Thanks to capitalism, fewer people now live in extreme poverty than don’t. This means that, starting in the 1970s and accelerating today, less than half the world (and the number continues to decrease) lives in extreme poverty.
- Comment on History Channel 2 weeks ago:
Fuck communism all my homies hate communism
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
England perfected it
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
Thailand has really cool plugs. they’re shaped so they can fit European or American outlets, quite often. I rarely needed an adapter when I was there
- Comment on Google AdSense Won't Let You Block Video Games Ads 2 weeks ago:
Note, you can still use the “Video Games, Consoles & Accessories” and “Online Games & Puzzles” general categories or their subcategories to block ads from video games, online games, and downloadable games if you believe these types of ads are unsuitable for your users.
Literally no story here at all. They’re moving the block from one section to another. Google implements OpenRTB which has a field in requests for blocking arbitrary IAB categories
- Comment on 8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs 3 weeks ago:
Lol, obviously it’s terrible that business are pulling out of the US, and in the next few months we will begin to learn what the 1970s were like, but I’m just glad I already have mine
- Comment on 8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs 3 weeks ago:
Good thing I got mine already!