Iceblade02
@Iceblade02@lemmy.world
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 5 weeks ago:
Programmer asks: how many bits for the integer?
At 32 bits it’s “just” a Thanos snap
- Comment on Is Europe Turning Fascist? by Second Thought 2 months ago:
The core component of fascism is authoritarianism with totalitarian goals. Many nationalist movements throughout history have not been fascist in nature, and many non-fascists have embraced nationalist values without becoming fascists.
- Comment on Is Europe Turning Fascist? by Second Thought 2 months ago:
The core component of fascism is authoritarianism with totalitarian goals. Many, nationalist movements throughout history that have not been fascist in nature. Several European democracies have come into being because of nationalist movements.
- Comment on Is Europe Turning Fascist? by Second Thought 2 months ago:
Fascist? No.
There is certainly a popular reactionary swing away from social liberalism and towards national conservatism however.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
Minecraft for the fully breakable/buildable procedural open world.
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 2 months ago:
Helltaker - I got hooked on the awesome music and fantastic silliness. (It’s free btw)
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Well for the most part if we want to have a less context-dependent measure, with some caveats
The “left” vs “right” dichotomy is inherently context-dependent though. Objectively, it’s a terrible way to compare ideologies without context. Personally I find 8axis to be pretty decent instead. Unfortunately, the world on average is more authoritarian & conservative than the US, your scale may be an accurate representation of the lemmy overton window.
What’s fucked is most people think of prominent historical figures…
Because they think that the changes they achieved were good, and they see themselves as good, and they consider themselves american liberals.
Either way there is no chance that democratic socialists are as extremist as national conservatives.
In the global overton window? Yes way.
What pushes democratic socialists a full point towards the fringe compared to social democrats?
From wikipedia:
Democratic socialism is a left-wing set of political philosophies that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers’ self-management within a market socialist, decentralised planned, or democratic centrally planned socialist economy.
Unlike social democrats, democratic socialists want to do away with private ownership and market economies. For the record, the US democratic party are not social democrats.
I’ll finish off with my take on the infamous “what’s a liberal?”. In hindsight it was probably a poor choice of words as there is no such thing as a “pure” liberal. The basic liberal value is freedom. To me, that includes freedoms of thought, speech, press (i.e writing, possibly also digital), organization, bodily autonomy and lastly ownership. Everything else is a product of how to interpret those freedoms and how to implement them.
“Pure liberals” would most of all strive to uphold these individual freedoms, though their solutions when different peoples rights clash may be different. A “pure” liberal strives for a balance maximizing freedoms of individuals whilst simultaneously minimizing infringements from both government and private actors. To me, neither ancaps nor libertarians are liberal. Libertarians prioritize small government to the point where it is incapable of protecting individual rights from abuse by third parties whilst ancaps prioritize property rights over individual freedoms.
Soclibs and libcons both limit freedoms somewhat in favour of other values.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Oh for sure. You’ve got to look at the ideology under the hood.
Party names are really just names. In Sweden, vänsterpartiet (left party) are communists (former name vänsterpartiet kommunisterna during the soviet era). In Denmark there’s venstre (left) which are liberal conservatives.
Even our most economically right wing party (the moderates) are to the left of the US Democrats in that area.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
That has more to do with the fact that centre-right/right/far-right sources are seldom posted to lemmy.
Here are some examples:
mediabiasfactcheck.com/goteborgs-posten/
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
As an outsider, the Dem party is in a funky spot politically. Whilst it economically is to the right, many of its social policies it endorses are leftist. Their emphasis on equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity is a large part of that, regulation of expressions and policy of migration.
Where I live, most of our political parties are left of the dems economically (basic welfare is not even a debate), but many would clearly be right of them (though usually not even close to the republicans) in social policy.
- Comment on Are Tetra Paks actually recyclable? 4 months ago:
In Sweden, where I livr, 78.5% of paper packaging put into the market was recycled for materials (as opposed to recycled for energy a.k.a burning it in a power plant)
- Comment on Are Tetra Paks actually recyclable? 4 months ago:
At least where I live even the interior lining and lid are now made from cellulose fibers and as such the packaging is (a) fully renewable and (b) the materials can be reused for other paper-esque products.
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 5 months ago:
So you mean the Tories are also assholes? Tell me something I didn’t know
- Comment on Heiroglyphs 5 months ago:
Oh it’s a problem here to. You do not want to know how much information is passed on through rapidly scrawled sticky notes in our healthcare system - particularly in emergency situations.
- Comment on Underrepresentation 5 months ago:
Touché lol
- Comment on Underrepresentation 5 months ago:
To be fair - a whole month of anything is excessive
- Comment on Endangered Species 5 months ago:
The real protip is always in the comments 👍
- Comment on The world’s 8 richest billionaires have the same wealth as the poorest 50% of the global population of 3.8 billion people 5 months ago:
Not necessarily. Folks in developed countries have much greater opportunities to rack up debt and large negative equity. I would not be surprised if the bottom % are made up of students and gamblers that in practice have a far higher standard of living due to their access to money, relative to the developing world where people with a “net 0” balance are starving to death.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 6 months ago:
/u/SpontaneousH
Archived that shit - read it when I was a teen and it convinced me to stay far away from drugs and addiction.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 6 months ago:
On the one hand, I sympathize - on the other, it’d be awesome to find someone who shares my interests.
- Comment on Anon reaches a new level 6 months ago:
I just remind myself that I’d rather be lonely than together with certain people.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 6 months ago:
I literally own a bit of stock in the most nuclear-power-related company in my country - so yes.
- Comment on It's important to get a good interest rate 6 months ago:
Hi!
I’m the Swede with a CC, right here :)
Now you’ve heard of someone using one (mwahahaha)
In all fairness, it’s not exactly something people talk about - and for the record, I’ve never ended up paying any interest on the card. It’s just convenient, offering a layer of protection for charges, makes it easier for me to track spendings, and allows me to be earning interest on my paycheck by keeping it in a savings account until I need to balance the CC.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
Yep, doing that drive in that time would essentially require at least two people taking shifts driving - or one dangerous madman on some kind of drugs.
- Comment on Anon is in love 7 months ago:
“So how did they end up being defeated?”
“Well, we pacified them by giving them the love and affection that they refused to give each other.”
“Wait really?”
“Yes, the majority were so starved for an emotional connection that they preferred us.”
“Where are they now?”
“The majority are withering away in VR warehouses, living ‘happily ever after’.”
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 7 months ago:
Do you call camping in a campground a “family vacation” ?
I would…
Sure, we never had the latest and greatest, fixed stuff ourselves and such, but we lived in a home that my parents owned and never really wanted for anything. That, to me, feels like a middle-class upbringing, and is what I’d like to be able to provide my own kids when I have them. However, right now the prospect of owning my own home seems increasingly far-fetched.
- Comment on Chicago begins evicting migrants from shelters as residents decry a 'lack of respect' 8 months ago:
…and that, folks, is exactly how the EU ended up having a huge resurgence in nationalism and anti-immigration policies in the past ten years!
- Comment on How can a person be very sad, irritated or angry and still not show it on their face ? 8 months ago:
Had the same thing for a long time. Took me years to rehabilitate myself.
- Comment on Is my voice annoyingly high? 8 months ago:
Sounds fine to me.
I also dislike listening to my own voice, so you’re not alone in that :)
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 8 months ago:
I didn’t know that, sounds incredibly dystopian tbh. Guess I’ll have to keep my dinosaur of a car running as long as possible.