ttmrichter
@ttmrichter@lemmy.ml
Personal pronouns: 同志 / 同志 / 同志的
- Comment on Chinese telecom Hytera charged for stealing trade secrets from Motorola 2 years ago:
Spotted "CCP". Disregarded poster for being an ignoramus.
- Comment on Jaw-dropping photos show the scale of delivering food and medical supplies to the millions of people still under coronavirus lockdown in China 2 years ago:
Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53nhErXUd9A
- Comment on Jaw-dropping photos show the scale of delivering food and medical supplies to the millions of people still under coronavirus lockdown in China 2 years ago:
I lived through this (I live in Wuhan). The scale of the logistical operation to keep a city of 11 million people alive during a two-month lockdown is mind-boggling. And yet on top of that not only did they manage to do this for us, they also built two purpose-made hospitals in a matter of days: Huoshenshan (1000 beds, Jan23-Feb02) and Leishenshan (1500 beds, Jan25-Feb06) not to mention sixteen further treatment centres around the city.
You want jaw-dropping? Here's time lapse of (I think) Huoshenshan being constructed over ten days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJUaq6XhdLs
- GitHub - jokteur/python_communism: A module for initiating the communist revolution in each of our python modulesgithub.com ↗Submitted 2 years ago to socialism@lemmy.ml | 0 comments
- Comment on Do you think Technology makes us more lonely...? 2 years ago:
Tech has no agency. As such technology makes us do nothing. We are the agents in the relationship.
If your tech is making you feel lonely, sit down and see what it is about the tech that does that. Then expunge the portions of the tech doing this to you. You are the one with agency, after all. You are the one picking up that phone, turning on that computer, firing up that video game, logging in to that social media site. If you feel compelled to do any of that, look closer at the source of that compulsion. You'll find to your shock that it's not the tech doing it. It's people.
The cut the people out that are making you feel lonely. Foster relationships instead with people who don't make you feel lonely.
- Comment on Do you think Technology makes us more lonely...? 2 years ago:
Show me now a picture of people walking around public spaces reading papers.
- Comment on Comparing capitalist and socialist pandemic handling 2 years ago:
It's already stepped into at least Shenzhen and Ningbo and got sent packing with bloodied face and nose.
- Comment on Comparing capitalist and socialist pandemic handling 2 years ago:
Here's another stark, but interesting, comparison. (Countries selected as countries I have friends or family in.)
What I see in this is that it's more than just capitalist and socialist differences. There are some "socialist" nations that did pretty badly in that mess. There are some "capitalist" nations that did OK.
But the real reason for China's success is spelled out more here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1480168091745075200.html
My guess is that China would have done roughly equally as well under its imperial system because the very nature of the people is different.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
I would really recommend finishing off the web page at least before advertising. I understand this is a volunteer-based movement, but it's a volunteer-based movement that needs more volunteers. When I see things like this…
…I kind of look askance at the people organizing and documenting the movement.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
Your question has only one answer: 无 (in the Chan/Zen formulation of 'unasking' a badly-formulated question).
At least for me, finding work is hard and knowing i could be easily fired for the first 6 months is stressful.
This is irrelevant in a properly socialist world. In a properly socialist world your basic needs would be met so losing your job isn't the source of stress that it is in a capitalist world where your basic needs are a negotiation strategy.
ANY job, even working in whatever passes for a McDonald's in such a society, has skills and abilities you must have to perform it. Not all people can do every job. This is most obvious in heavily technical fields, obviously (like, say, medicine or technology), but even working as a janitor has things you need to do which you may be socially, physically, or psychologically incapable of doing. And the only way to find out if you can do them is to try it out.
But…
With your basic needs met, if you try out and fail you're not risking your health and very life. The desperation isn't there. So I'd say yes, obviously, there would still be a period of evaluation for fit and ability in jobs in a socialist world. It's just that failing at it wouldn't be the devastating experience being fired in a capitalist world bears.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
And yet there's nostalgia for Maggie and Ronnie.
Nostalgia's a fucked-up thing.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
I'm not sure this is meaningful. A lot of people yearn back for the days of Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Raygun as well.
