ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 days ago:
No doubt, but at least we’re acknowledging 'Nam.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 days ago:
born in 1949 Don’t have to fight in a war
Hmmm
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 5 days ago:
So in that regard just be aware that serfdom is a really broad category that embodies the labor system that existed under fuedal societies. For example, one of the longest lasting systems of serfdom existed in the Russian Empire until the 1860s. The serfs of England revolted in the Elizabethan era and a system of tenant rent was implemented. So there are centuries long gaps in what serfdom was like depending on where you’re looking. Material conditions for the 14th century peasant and the 19th century vary widely, but do have common structure and function.
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky wrote extensive literature of Russian serfdom, and worth a read. Although, well, its Tolstoy ans Dostoevsky. I have barely read either, for context.
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 5 days ago:
Places? At risk of sounding glib, your local library. It’s such a wide and broad topic you can read up on pretty much any country or regions history and get a picture of how it developed.
Now for the specific topic of economic and labor systems? Honestly I think I would venture to say start with critiques of F.A. Hayek since what I was referring to was the development of the centrally planned nation state.
Hayek’s influential work is definitely geared towards a Cold War era audience which is why I suggest critiques. Disentangling central planning from political ideology can be a valuable tool.
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 5 days ago:
That’s accurate to what serfdom was but it was an evolution of pre-medival slavery. Instead of being the personal property of a king working the fields on the kings owned land, it was about being the personal property of the crown, the state, the system (owned by the king.)
A slave could earn their freedom, be set free, or even kill their master and be free. A lot of slaves in antiquity had a tendency to overthrow kingdoms.
A serf though, was never meant to be free. Except, maybe, by another, foreign nation state. And now you know the basis of most European medieval war history.
- Comment on I have no idea what's going on. 1 week ago:
Gotta respect the cern.
- Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is this real life? 1 week ago:
Sadly this fake Toilet Paper USA type stuff tends to provide cover for the heinous shit they actually say, while simultaneously obscuring the crazy things they do with the absurdity.
- Comment on Screw MS 1 week ago:
Twenty years or so ago I’d give MS credit for helping spawn a global PC hardware industry by standardizing an OS platform. I figured not just the Nvidias and Intels but the Dells, the EVGAs, and the MSIs all were a net positive and supported by there being a windows.
This was because I always compared them to Apple.
So much more now I understand the folly of being limited to comparing the bad choices and ignoring the good options.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Yeah with veggies only and no noodle it stays solidly salad until 50%. The 80/20 veggie-water split is what separates dry salad from salad.
The noodle content just pushes a salad into a soup with less water content than the soup/broth interface does with salad. So clay of noodle.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
It doesn’t mean most soups have noodles, it just means noodle content has a fairly overriding influence on how the, uh, soup is defined.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Think tuna salad, or chicken, or potato.
Keep adding water. The consistency then divides between broth and soup.
Roll it in your hand. If you can form a ball with tge leftover material you’re likely soup territory. If there’s nothing left over or there’s not enough consistency to form a ball it’s a broth.
…If you can form a ribbon with the ball it’s got some noodle content, I guess.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 2 weeks ago:
Humans before the Ice Age were fishing for tuna in the deep sea and were coastal hopping everywhere there are coasts to hop.
- Comment on WHO DID THIS? 3 weeks ago:
The mod.
- Comment on The PP Police 5 weeks ago:
It kinda looks like Hot Fuzz? It’s been a while to remember.
- Comment on Anon hates dark fantasy 5 weeks ago:
You can keep Moore (say you don’t know) and Freyja (don’t give her the scroll) alive in the DLC, and Hewg and Rodericka ‘survive’ the base game.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
Bazzite is a vehicle for Steam. If your basis for using it isn’t ‘gaming through Steam’, you’re already intentionally venturing into un-average lands.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 month ago:
It is a perfect baseline OS. It gets people connected to Steam faster and easier to Windows, which is the main access to most games.
Biggest obstacles to venturing out in Linux is the documentation for everything is not built or assuming normie users. The default assumption of competancy does not exist in Windows manuals.
But even so using Homebrew in Bazzite is no more complex than in Windows.
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 1 month ago:
There are some streets in Palestine that have/(had) nets but those were to block the trash being thrown down on top of them.
- Comment on Discuss 1 month ago:
There was an episode I remember where they explored Mexican cuisine and a contestant said ‘Gacky-molo’ for ‘Guacamole’ and that has stuck with me since.
- Comment on gain 2 months ago:
.:|::. - Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 2 months ago:
Agh they just need to pick a fuckin’ name and get on with it.
- Comment on negativity 2 months ago:
So you hate the world then, I see.
- Comment on Slightly Unfair 2 months ago:
He went with the military into opiod overdose route.
- Comment on Update 2 months ago:
“Gun4anArm” also fits, incidentally.
- Comment on Update 2 months ago:
Naming Robo R66-Y was funny though for the scene.
“R66-Y? That’s no good for a name! How about… R66-Y!”
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 2 months ago:
In all likelihood they’d promptly revere their spattered articles of clothing as holy relics.
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 2 months ago:
There’s a high likelihood they sent themselves that message so they could screenshot it and go ‘Look what the Linux users do!’ It’s what OP appears to do, mostly given it’s what users like them often do.
- Comment on Poor salmon 2 months ago:
silver lining
Again with the word choice!
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 2 months ago:
Is the British Museum the final boss?
