Alcoholicorn
@Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 8 hours ago:
I have much less problem with yellow headlights, and most people mentioning color temp in this thread are expressing as much.
My bike has a yellow headlight and white high beam, which makes it very obvious if I’m flashing someone as opposed to the changes in intensity some headlights have when the reflector is angular.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day ago:
This is the plot of Mortal Engines.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day ago:
Here in vietnam, probably half of cars and bikes have yellow headlights that don’t mess with your night vision, then white brights.
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 2 days ago:
A community isn’t just a bunch of people with good feelings towards eachother, look for mutually beneficial relationships. Clearly he has no use for socializing in and of itself, is he mechanically inclined? Ask him for help or just advice with a car problem, bake extra bread and give him some, do you both have kids? Theres common interest in discussing whatever is going on with them.
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 2 days ago:
I am self aware enough to know when to just let it go and avoid thing becoming uncomfortable
They simply don’t yet know they want to be your friend. Abduct them and bring them on an adventure, use that time to learn how your lives can mesh together.
You can’t go wrong with motorcycle journey and/or hiking up a mountain.
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 days ago:
Now you will spend the rest of your lifetime imagine what type of wingtip would be most suitable for a bird.
- Comment on Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Polanski’s Green Party 1 week ago:
Not British so I can’t make very close observations, but can’t both times be attributed to his own party?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Well that’s simply incorrect, here’s a screenshot of my desktop on wifi in Nanning, loading apnews.com. Image
they allow everything.
Hahah no they block so much, youtube, google, probably 80% of western media, just not apnews, despite AP news historically just being a state department mouthpiece peddling whichever lies for whatever war.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
AP isn’t blocked here. But while in China, I can access anything that is blocked via VPN, like any chinese person. Its common enough a cop or security guy in Tianjin airport helped me install a hk-based esim via alipay that gets around the Great Firewall when I arrived the first time and couldn’t pull up my gmail.
That said it is still a nuisance.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
China doesn’t have free healthcare, but they build hospitals and train doctors to keep healthcare cheap. There’s also state run insurance. I got a ortho consult for 1.5USD, and a retainer reattached for 15 USD, as a walk-in.
Cuba is a better model given that they’ve done so much with so little.
- Comment on Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Polanski’s Green Party 1 week ago:
This is just what happens when reactionaries cry about a non-existent communist purge, and then take power and sideline anyone left if Thatcher. The only way to avoid this was for Corbyn to purge the Blairites.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Nobody needs to be comfortable around people who take offense to being alerted they’re carrying water for antisemites
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Yall are using 2 different definitions of liberalism. The cable news definition means like socially permissible and supporting social welfare. The academic definition refers to the philosophy of capitalism. Here’s a book going over every major liberal philosopher and how they dealt with the conflicts inherent to liberalism (hint: In the end, it’s the freedom of the dominant group to exploit the working class). Here’s Huey P Newton talking about his experience with liberals.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Don’t be wrong and people won’t correct you lmao.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
“Democrats are really like the center right in Europe.”
But they are lol.
The Arabs as semites thing is weird, while yes if you use a definition of semitism from a century ago and make technical arguments sure you can logic yourself there, but that’s not how language works. When someone says antisemitism, they’re specifically referring to bigotry against jews. It’s like all the debates about whether hotdogs are sandwiches, if sushi is a type of taco, etc. If you say “antisemitism” or sandwich or taco, nobody is going to understand you’re talking about racism against arabs or hotdogs or sushi.
As far as “I like the ideas of communism, but the average person isn’t ready for it”, maybe just accept that you haven’t ready any works by any communists, and don’t know how AES states work, like 99% of westerners instead of opining on a subject your understanding of comes entirely from adversarial sources. It’s not even wrong, it’s just indicating that you’re unfamiliar with the subject.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
What were you saying that got angry attacks lol.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
I wish there was a way to break through to liberals. They’re able to see how fucking dumb conservatives are when they inoculate themselves against education by letting other conservatives tell them about wokeness, then do the same exact thing for anybody to their left.
Has a single lib reading this thread looked at the communists saying “That’s not what dictatorship of the proletariat means” and didn’t immediately go “No, I know better, you want 1 single person in charge of everything and accountable to nobody and also you’re racist and like genocide”?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
I am in China right now, I will be back in Vietnam in a week, I talk to people all the time, is there something specific you want the opinion of the next rando I talk to on?
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
There’s been some, Bamco had the parent for minigames during loading screens until 2015.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Deng: Mao was at least 20% bad. I don’t think I need to list Deng’s mistakes. Or mention Hu Jintao.
The USSR beat the Nazis, turned hundreds of millions of farmers living under feudalism into a space-based civilization with living standards comparable to the west within a single lifetime, and materially supported positive social movements all over the planet, but if you want to talk about any particular period, I can talk about things that in hindsight weren’t great, even with proper context.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Yeah no if you’re calling the Khmer Rouge, whom authoritarian communist, Ho Chi Minh, kicked out and the US armed and supported in exile until the 90s, an example of leftists, no shit you’ll get banned, clearly you’re not there to have an actual discussion.
As far as the USSR and Mao, communist circles tend to have much deeper understanding and criticisms of these things because we actually engage with what actually happened, why it happened, it’s effects, how it’s perceived by modern historians, etc, as opposed to liberals who don’t actually care beyond its utility in jerking off while grunting “communism bad”.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Wtf are you talking about?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Wtf are you talking about?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
It’s for the party bosses. People on time means more economic production
HSR is for long distances, nobody is commuting 250 miles when you can live in the city becayse rent is <300/mo. But you are correct in that party bosses interests are selfish; they’re graded by economic development, human health, veggie prices, etc, and at the end of each 5 year term can get promoted to a bigger area, demoted from being able to run anything, or literally thrown in prison depending on their performance.
Let’s see the rural infrastructure and collapsing tofu dreg bridges
The buildings in less economic areas aren’t as nice, but that’s true literally everywhere. As for collapsed bridges and other infrastructure, I’ve literally never seen that.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
You’ve literally never had a real conversation with a communist have you?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Do you think the people communists elect, who you call despot, would have a different answer from the people who keep them in power?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
repression was easy to notice with bare eyes
Did you try talking to anyone? Its difficult because google translate doesn’t do Uhygur speech-to-text, but does translate Uhygur as Kazakh kind of.
That’s not to say there’s not serious issues, but it seemed plainly obvious to my bare eyes that the bulk of the claims of genocide are outright fabrications.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Who do you think does the punching while liberals whine about the free speech of nazis?
Hint: Even anarchists who engage in antifascism are definitionally being authoritarian.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Who exactly do you think communists are intolerant of, who themselves aren’t intolerant and therefore shouldn’t be tolerated? Billionaires and their bootlickers? Racists?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
I can’t believe the communists hate freedom so much so sad. I guess sone people just aren’t born with the courage to be free.
