Didn’t even know there was one. Is it an exiled community, or just happens to be popular here just like everywhere else?

veterans, such as myself a former Navy Nuke Instructor

A bit off-topic, have you heard either of the Wake-ups episodes[1][2] from the Eyes Left podcast? And if so, do they resonate with your experiences in the force?

After looking around the demoscene, I know how enormous a few megabytes can be.

Like @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone said, that doesn’t mean much when most mainstream software is being made so inefficient and wasteful.

If this were about making more affordable options, I’d rather we focus on refurbishing older laptops than making new lower-end ones.

I’ve willingly learned Calc (LibreOffice’s open-source spreadsheet tool) because I’ve made spreadsheets for my own needs. But to “become employable”? No way.

Our cogs do not feel amplified.

If you don’t and just enjoy the thought of killing people you disagree with then you should be out celebrating alongside MAGA over the murder of Renee Good.

This is a bizarre comparison.

UnitedHealth, and therefore its leadership, are collectively responsible for the systemic social murder of many thousands. They (like the rest of the industry) are so ingrained into bipartisan government though lobbying and other forms of soft power that we have consistently seen no legal justice, and have no reason to expect it.

Renee Good, on the other hand, was not responsible for mass death and not an ongoing threat to millions of innocent citizens.

When one takes a step back, it’s obvious that our own societies have their own ingrained systemic biases. All our journalists and other writers will have biases that they and us might not even notice are biases, since we believe they’re just fact.

AI datasets have run into this problem plenty of times, for example when government regulation has told insurance companies not to use factors like ethnicity or races in certain calculations, but it turns out that some ended up indirectly doing it anyway since postal codes approximated race in many regions. There are layers to systemic biases.

Btw this is not an argument against Wikipedia in any way.

I think it’s perfectly valid to criticize it for accepting "blatantly false but “verifiable” " edits. I’m aware that the world is complex and perfection is idealistic, especially when it comes to topics where sources are inherently strongly biased, but publishing false information on a site with the format, style and reputation of Wikipedia is a real problem at a scale with far-reaching impact. To shift the onus of fact-checking onto the user is extremely inefficient and negligent.

I’m not even saying that there is a better solution, but it’s certainly an argument criticizing Wikipedia.

Just as an anecdotal side note, just this year I found a typo (92 instead of 82) contradicted by a quote attached to the cite reference later in the paragraph, and very easily noticed if one checks.

I only use VPNs so I can’t fix it.

In the past 5 years I’ve only ever had minor issues*, like a power button light not being on. But as a developer, I’m aware my hardware choices are more likely to be popular with other developers who would have already noticed and fixed issues.

* excluding on niche distros, like Puppy ones.

What are some things you preferred in KDE over Cinnamon? I haven’t explored KDE much.

I don’t think it’s helpful to pretend there’s a contradiction in the definition. I’m already sick of explaining to libs that a state governed by a vanguard party isn’t claiming to have established a socialist MoP the day after the revolution.

Honestly I don’t expect someone to read DasKap before voicing objections or discussing. Well, unless you’re preparing for a high-profile debate about Marxism, then maybe go beyond the Party Manifesto.

Even Marx didn’t read Capital vol. II or III.

Yep, was expecting to see the BBoC mentioned.

Emphasizing the part in that wiki page where they mention two of the co-authors disavowed the book as the main author was apparently ‘desperate’ to increase the number of counted victims in the ridiculous ways RiverRock mentioned.

Wait, did we all miss a memo?

Speak for yourself. Those who have been on the streets have been seeing police suppression for decades, over a century even. Protest laws have been encroaching all that time.

Never assume sincerity or consistency from politicians.

In fact, I’d go a step further and say Reagan, like most other liberalists, does not have a cohesive worldview based on material reality, but rather a syncretic, self-contradictory hodge-podge of ideals and ideas which sound good.

if he really said that

Ronald Reagan’s 1987 Speech on Project Economic Justice.

China has one leader, who is leader for life.

Are you saying that as a general statement about leadership in the PRC? If so, then you can easily disprove it with the previous leaders:

• Jiang Zemin (died 2022) - paramount leader until 2002, retired in the run-up to the 16th National Congress where Jintao had massive support to become the new party General Secretary
• Hu Jintao (alive) - paramount leader until 2012, when Xi was elected General Secretary by the 18th National Congress

To remain the party leader, you have to retain the support of the party. It’s not like a monarchy where there’s a right to be leader for life.

No, they are not ideologically communist. A ruling party is by definition not communist. They are diometrically opposed.

To clarify, ‘ideologically communist’ means being part of a movement aiming to build a ‘communist society’ (communist mode of production, classless, moneyless, etc.). It makes sense for someone to call themselves a communist despite owning money, being in a social class, living under a state. In fact, a member of the bourgeoisie can be a communist, so long as they are actually helping to build the communist movement - it just means they’re a class traitor. A communist who is part of the ruling class is a paradox, not a contradiction.

The communist movement does not imply prefiguration, where the movement has to immediately begin reflecting their ideal society - anarchist tendencies tend to prefer prefiguration as a transitional method, while Leninist tendencies tend to see overemphasis on it as utopian and reckless, favoring vanguardism, that ruling party you mentioned.

I see no reason why vanguardism contradicts the communist movement. The ideologically-driven ruling party aims to build a surrounding environment which will gradually abolish itself (‘withering away of the state’). This is a paradox, but not a contradiction. Their ruling party aims to be temporary, seen as a necessary step to make it possible to build that communist society.

I appreciate the irony of the third one.