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by hkt 3y ago
10/10, laughed my head off Maybe this is like a logic bomb but for authoritarians. Try to convince Macron or random police officers that they too are _potential_ terrorists and watch them go cross eyed.
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by hkt 3y ago
Yes, fair point, imperialism's jobhas always been to protect and extend capitalism.
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by hkt 3y ago
The thing is, China isn't doing it now. American capitalism is. That's what's different - the opium wars required the exercise of force, today's opium crisis simply requires the wealthy to bribe the powerful.
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by hkt 3y ago
> They will also joke about how they secretly sell drugs to America to make them useless and make society unstable. This actually happened to China: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars Weird that we in the we
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by hkt 3y ago
Being absolutely serious, I think you may be having a mental health crisis. You describe burnout, feelings of unreality, deep seated anxiety about both the present and the future, as well as a lack of enjoyment in things which you imply you
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by hkt 3y ago
You are the general public!
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by hkt 3y ago
A very longwinded essay whose obvious conclusion - that values will change in response to circumstances - is entirely missed, presumably to make problematising educated women the tacit point instead. People learn and change: increasing numb
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by hkt 3y ago
Presumably because somebody else has already written it..
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by hkt 3y ago
Alas, you're incorrect. It is the whole point of capitalism.
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by hkt 3y ago
Some countries manage. Finland and Switzerland are personal favourite examples of successful reform. There are others, too. Plus it is impolite to call for a revolution, even if we're talking about France
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by hkt 3y ago
> But we can't sustain our current life-style with them today. Yes, indeed. We need to very substantially decrease our per-capita energy usage. It is going to be hard for some people.
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by hkt 3y ago
I kind of admire the gumption, personally. Like writing them off as fancy markov bots.
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by hkt 3y ago
It is absolutely related to the current conversation, though - fossil fuels as diplomatic leverage. Russia's economy couldn't support the war without trade in fossil fuels either.
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by hkt 3y ago
Here's a thought: if Russia didn't have a market for its oil and gas, would anyone be on the hook for war materiel in Ukraine?
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by hkt 3y ago
I don't really see the point of remembering this. More salient perhaps is the behaviour of the oil companies: their cover ups of climate science and pollution, their lobbying, their massive, massive subsidies and their (frankly cruel)
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by hkt 3y ago
These are all things the state used to do without AI - people did it perfectly well. Regrettably it isn't a matter of technology that prevents this sort of thing. It is the hollowing out of the public sphere, the shrinking of state wor
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by hkt 3y ago
"When bad men combine" - always worth noting he was referring to guilds, trade unions, and any association intended to bring about political change. This was the same era where taking an illegal oath would get you transported to A
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by hkt 3y ago
Hah. I'm not surprised that NewStatesman would be trying to rehabilitate the founder of philosophical conservatism. There was a time that would have been seen as crazy talk, but that time is long past.
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by hkt 3y ago
Enforcing property taxes is hardly a substantial change to that balance though, realistically.
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by hkt 3y ago
> Sadly the only way to curb this spending incontinence seems to starve the state of revenues. Or reform the broken democracy at the crux of it all.
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by hkt 3y ago
Working class and even middle class people in France (and most of the world) definitely don't have swimming pools. No doubt you're right about the general case, though.
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by hkt 3y ago
I switched from Debian to Manjaro a few years ago after about ten years of using a Debian desktop. I can tell you that actually the main draw isn't customisability or anything of that kind: it is up to date software. Manjaro is rarely
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by hkt 3y ago
This is kind of an old discussion. I'm perfectly happy eating meat but equally recognise that vegan diets are perfectly feasible for almost everyone. If not vegan, then vegetarian (preferably with a premium on animal products to reflec
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by hkt 3y ago
It is a federated piece of software with an instance whose admins clearly didn't realise they were going to get the HN hug of death and an exodus of reddit users today. The application's architecture, as I understand it, is largel
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by hkt 3y ago
>I am searching a Reddit alternative with no ability to delete anything. Good luck with that: between libel and illegal pornography whoever operated such a service would very quickly be inundated with legal woes. The fact is community st
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by hkt 3y ago
When people say "the Ukraine" it is taken to refer to Ukraine as a region rather than a country. I'm not 100% on why but the wording matters a lot.
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by hkt 3y ago
> A Lua binding is available. Bliss. Fantastic. I'm going to write something with this. I remain delighted every single time somebody rewrites a thing in C.
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by hkt 3y ago
> I only see it as a problem if cities (and citizens...) think and act as if cars would be perfect for everything once they are self-driving. No doubt that's how they'll be marketed though. I just hope segregated cycle lanes be
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by hkt 3y ago
As someone who lives in a largely Victorian town with narrow, double parked streets, I look forward to the carnage of self driving cars. Seeing how they've been coping on big, roomy grid systems has left me amused that anyone has any h
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by hkt 3y ago
Lemmy is pretty good, and is working towards full activitypub federation: https://join-lemmy.org/ As for the usage.. there's some, but it is niche. The average user just won't move unless something goes from so-so

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