BlameThePeacock
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- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 7 hours ago:
That noise pollution bullshit is quite literally the same scare tactics used against wind farms. It’s completely false.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 1 day ago:
How is it hypocritical? China HAS abandoned communism. What part their current policies is moving towards collective ownership?
China’s State Owned Enterprises are at less than 60% of the total production of the country, down from well over 80% during the peak in the 50s and 60s.
Hell, Xi has opened up SoE to a hybrid mix of government and private ownership in 2013.
How is that Communism in any of it’s definitions?
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 1 day ago:
The problem we’re arguing about here is “understood as communism”
I understand both of those to be Communism, because they are in fact types of Communism. That’s why they’re referred to as “Religious Communism” and “Primative Communism.”
You are trying to Pidgeon hole Communism as just Marxism, when the word frequently has far broader implications in common use.
Even the dictionaries have definitions that extend beyond Marxism. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communism www.dictionary.com/browse/communism en.wiktionary.org/wiki/communism
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 1 day ago:
I mean, both religious and primative communism both exist today, just not at a state level.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 1 day ago:
You clearly didn’t read the links either. There are actively practiced forms of communism listed in there. You’re the ones just being so narrowminded about it’s definition.
For most of historical practice, gay meant happy. We decided to use it for something else only recently in terms of language. That’s how language works.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 2 days ago:
You didn’t ready very far clearly.
There are variations in there that are not trying to “achieve” a communist society without classes. Religious communism for example often still has “classes” in the priesthood and worshippers, and they’re often far more about sharing resources or a lack of private ownership of land.
I’m not religious, but my views are very similar to that theory of communism, as well as sharing aspects of privative communism.
You seem to be set in your categorization of things, you realize that ideas are not an all or nothing type of situation most of the time?
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 2 days ago:
Are you saying that I made up an entire Wikipedia article with dozens of variations of Communism?
That page has existed for 2 years, not sure I’m playing that long of a game to win an argument on Lemmy.
It’s like you’re intentionally just ignoring everything I show you because it doesn’t conform to your world view.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 2 days ago:
You have a horrible understanding of reality.
If two people get together and put all of their earnings into a pot together, then each take out what they need. That’s a type of communism. It’s also usually called a family.
Marxism/Leninism are specific type of communism as well, that reach well into the political space as well as the economic.
What you’re trying to do right now, imposing your own singular view of what communism can be, is the same as saying Catholicism is the only type of Christianity just because it’s the most well known.
There’s a whole wikipedia article detailing dozens of variations of Communism, from Marxism to variations on Marxism, to variations independent of Marxism. Just because he did a lot of thinking on the whole thing doesn’t mean he’s the only one who gets to define the word.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 2 days ago:
It makes me someone who treats them as economic systems, usually referred to as an economist.
Have fun being morally outraged by my proposal, but at least it’s grounded in reality. Humans are not capable of making or maintaining a full Marxist communist state. Our desires are limitless, reality is finite.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 days ago:
I want Communism for Land, Socialism for Necessities, and Capitalism for Luxuries.
I don’t think that puts me into any of the existing labels to be quite honest.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 days ago:
You don’t need a ruling class to have a social welfare state. It’s possible to just have everyone not work in theory.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 days ago:
I mean, the current 3-tier standard for social classes directly disagrees with you. Middle class people do get a new tier just by being more productive(perceived or actual) than another.
The 3-tier system is archaic at best, and more likely intentional propaganda.
Either there should only be 2 classes of people(those who work to live, and those who profit off other people enough to not need to work) or there should be a dozen classes to encompass things like the homeless, welfare supported persons, retired people, people who make part of their income from profit and part of their income from employment, etc.
The definition of communism I’ve already mentioned is one of those theories, but you’re arguing it isn’t real. An economic system where there is no private ownership of the means of production. That’s it, no discussion about social classes or anything.
Other alternatives span a range from no private ownership of anything (normally it’s just the means of production) to group ownership rather than being some sort of universal system.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 days ago:
Canada
You’re stretching the realities here with your assertions. The vast majority of what the government does is in the interest of workers. It could be better, absolutely, but it’s a far cry from some dystopian corpo-state. The government could move towards more positive worker benefits, but a lot of those workers won’t actually vote for them if they did because people aren’t entirely rational. So we’re essentially getting what we deserve right now.
Profit-bound but still owned by the state would still be socialist. There’s no requirement that the means of production not generate profit to qualify as being owned by the workers.
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Yup, we always treat ourselves differently than others.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 days ago:
You clearly don’t understand how many countries operate. Or you’re somehow misunderstanding what “means of production” or “workers” means.
My local electricity provider, and all of it’s power production equipment, transmission lines, meters, etc. are owned by the government. So is every hospital in the country. Almost every road is public.
Means of production is any sort of capital used to build value, so things like infrastructure, buildings, factories, machinery, tools, etc.
Workers does not mean the people that work in a particular building or factory, it means the class of people as a whole.
It’s pretty obvious that if the government owns something, under a democracy that thing is is owned by the citizens of the region. Even Marx mentions that socialism would use the state for collective ownership.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 days ago:
You’re wrong.
Communism can be entirely defined as an economic system with no private ownership.
The classes concept is a symptom, not the cause. It’s true that without private ownership there wouldn’t be a working class vs upper class, but we would hardly be classless at that point. There would still be people working, and people not working under communism. Some people can’t work, they simply aren’t capable, and some will choose not to work because there will already be enough to go around from the people who choose to work just for something to do. If you don’t think that classes will form because of those difference, you don’t know human nature very well.
Marx gave a single definition of communism, there are plenty of others.
- Comment on RPGs focused on crafting items/equipment 5 days ago:
You can always try out the OG Tier 1 Crafting System, Star Wars Galaxies. There are a handful of independent servers still running and actively adding content.
SWG Restoration has a few hundred people online most of the time. swgr.org/home/
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 6 days ago:
It’s important to consider the fact that an economy does not have to be entirely Capitalist, Socialist, or Communist.
Most countries already have Socialist and Capitalist components at this point.
What I’d personally like to see is Land be a communist system. Necessities be Socialist. Luxuries be Capitalist.
Ever citizen of a country should own and share in the land of the country equally. It should not be possible to privately own land. If land is leased or rented from this pool for individual or corporate use, that money should be given to everyone equally. Likely that would be handled by a government in reality, but it should be fairly hands off other than facilitating the transfer of value.
Necessities like Housing, Food, Transportation, Medical Care, Parks, Rec Centers, Schools, Police, Courts, etc. should be all handled with socialism. Where the government collects taxes from the land value and capitalist markets, and operates these systems itself for the benefit of everyone who needs them.
If you want more than necessities, capitalism should stick around to handle those desires. Want a bigger fancier house, some fancy oranges from another country, a suit made of silk, go ahead and buy it on a capitalist market either with the money you receive from your portion of land ownership value, or through participating in the capitalist market yourself.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 6 days ago:
You can gloss over that goal if you don’t consider Marxism the only form of communism.
There are other types of communism possible, some that even already exist in smaller groupings of humans than at the state level.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 6 days ago:
I think I know exactly what stupid means.
If you had to remove a screw to access a battery compartment, and reached for a hammer. I’d call that stupid.
If you need to know what temperature to cook a steak to for it to be healthy and called the police to ask. I’d call that stupid.
There are ways to get things done that are generally accepted as “reasonable” and asking Social media users to answer a question that 30 seconds of reading Wikipedia would answer is clearly the wrong tool for the job.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 6 days ago:
I disagree, people should use the correct tools to achieve the outcome they are looking for. If you want a basic answer to a common question, you should search for material that has already answered that. Asking it in Lemmy or another social media site is wasting the time of people who could use that time to answer questions that aren’t already answered or have nuance to them that current discussion would help.
The question itself isn’t stupid, it’s a very good question, but asking other people instead of looking it up is stupid.
- Comment on If a space Alien landed in the states. And hooked up with one of his or her fellow travelers and had a kid in the US would that kid be a US citizen? Or do we have something in place for it? 6 days ago:
Technically they apply to Persons, Persons hasn’t been tested against an extra-terrestrial Alien in court yet. I would suspect that it would apply if they are intelligent enough to travel to earth to be quite honest.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 6 days ago:
The simple answer is that you should have searched for an answer to this. It’s not a question for Lemmy, it’s been answered a billion times at this point.
- Comment on Was there ever a solid or scientific answers to which came first chicken or the egg? 1 week ago:
The first chicken Egg was laid by a non-chicken. However, that’s more theoretical than realistic. The mutational difference between generations of offspring isn’t enough for us to call the offspring a different species, it’s not a hard line. It’s only on a much broader scale across a population and large timeframe that they can differentiate enough to be considered a different species.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 1 week ago:
A) That datacenter is breaking the law, and the government isn’t enforcing it. The government absolutely should shut them down.
B) That’s only a single datacenter, we’re discussing Global usage and trends, not individual situations. As far as I know that’s the only datacenter doing that. There’s individual idiots who burn tires in their backyard too.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 1 week ago:
It’s fine, I’m just going to take advantage of you using AI. You’re clearly going to fall for that given that logic doesn’t matter to you at all.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 1 week ago:
You are trying to pinch a penny (reduce the power usage for something absolutely tiny) while ignoring your own choices that cause much larger wastes (large detached houses, car culture, meat heavy diets)
If you can’t understand how that’s a problem, your education has failed you.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 1 week ago:
Care to explain your logic that would make those things similar?
I’m pretty sure AI running in a datacenter isn’t causing someone to have an asthma attack, or forcing them to close their windows to avoid a horrific smell.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 1 week ago:
Again, while you’re right that the industry tried to hide it and use PR to obscure it. The fact that plastics weren’t being recycled wasn’t hidden information, it was publicly visible to anyone who read up on it. This is an education and propaganda issue.
2009 Study saying the same thing. royalsocietypublishing.org/…/Plastics-recycling-c…
2001 OECD Guidance that also identified that a lot of stuff didn’t get recycled, including plastics. www.oecd.org/content/dam/…/9789264189867-en.pdf
Which itself refences studies done in the 90s and 80s about this same topic.
1993 one.oecd.org/document/OCDE/GD(93)194/en/pdf Table 1 in that document shows that less than 5% of plastics are being recycled.
However, you’ve sidetracked the conversation. The plastics industry DID lie, as have many other industries before it (Tobacco, Pesticides, Meat production, etc) however, I don’t see how that immediately makes AI bad. If every industry is bad, then why are we going after such a small industry instead of the existing giant ones?
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 1 week ago:
You talk about plastics recycling, then link stuff about PFAS. You’re so confused you hurt yourself.