RubberDuck @ Badeendje @lemmy.world

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And nuclear programs and aircraft carriers and belt and road initiatives and.. the list is pretty long for India and china.

They need to be alive in order to be able to step on mines though.

And if Russia where to win they are also safe because they will be deported to a nice childless family in Siberia for reeducation.

I fear it is the latter. Nuance seems to get lost over time. It's maybe the opposite of black people in the US using the N word amongst themselves in an attempt to take it back.. I don't think that this was successful by any measure as it just caused the racist to point at it and say.. see they even say it about themselves because only hoodlums (what a word) use it...

Could the first point on anecdotal evidence be that you see very specific instances. And/or confirmation bias? I'm not saying your observations are invalid... Just maybe not representative for the bulk of use cases.. pepe is in reaction emojis on discord.. in gifs on keyboards.. and he is just silly. Does that mean all people that use them are aware of what the dogwistle to some might be.. I'd argue .. they are not.

And I think that in regards to calling people racist for doing innocuous things does have the potential to alienate people from your stance and that void is something the alt right gladly fills. And I think that is a danger that should be acknowledged. And I don't mean be kind to open Nazis.. I more mean "don't ascribe to malice what can easily be explained by incompetence".

I kinda agree. But I see the government has a role in the zoning and deciding where and what. Like building bridges and roads, define, assign, possible finance and have commercial parties execute in a well regulated environment

As I said before I reject your premise about pepe and it's use. And the swatsticka is a false equivalence.

I have seen zero substantiation of this overly broad statement except for some ADL fundametalists making claims and the alt-right whacos making claims. I consider both camps equally fringe.

Also keep telling all these people they are racist loonatics.. at some point they might start to believe you are make it a self fulfilling prophecy. The alt right does the same.. we co-opt the meme and tell people they are one of us.. because we meme the same we must be the same.. or something..

That's why these conversations are so cool. It helps all of us give words to some of the things we cannot express properly. Why I also enjoy reading co tributuins by others.. especially if they challenge my preconceptions.

Cost of housing seem to be the primary issue plaguing the world. Even in china the real estate market is fucked.. but they have too much in locations people are not.

It's almost as if a lot of societal rules (that are mostly needed) create an unfree Market causing shortages.. and governments refusing to acknowledge that they should be organising it and not leaving it to "the market" are the cause of the issue.

Organizing means organizing, not building all houses themselves.

Pepe to me seems like the opposite of the Confederate flag.

Pepe is an internet meme that is in some cases used by racist and hateful people to carry their message, but the primary function is internet nonsense.

The Confederate flag is a symbol or hate and oppression that in some situations is used to express country & westerns ideals of freedom and roaming the country with not a care in the world.. without the racist subtext... however you cannot deny the basis of its use and thus should not use it.

If you follow the links, they refer to copy pasta's of hatefull stuff including swastikas but no breakdown of what is counted, the use of the happy merchant (a meme with an antisemitic origin used to convey greed) and the use of pepe the frog in profile pics (pepe is a symbol of hate according to the ADL).

The issue I have with the whole here is that I don't subscribe to the premise on which the analysis is based.

IF you assume pepe is a hate symbol, then each case it is used is an expression of hate and furtherance of that hate. I however reject the premise that pepe is a symbol of hate.

The use of the happy merchant is a bit more of a problem, because I see the antisemitic message it has. However I also see a lot of stupid people that don't.. and have seen the image used (probably in antisemitic context referring to greed) but people associate it with greed primarily.. so this one is an issue, I think I refuse part of the premise, namely that the antisemitism part is a dominant factor when the image is used.

These are the 2 main examples, a lot more in the report that have similar caveats.

Yeah, it's an interesting list.

Well the companies reliant on chromium can fund the non profit that maintains it as a stand alone org instead of Google deciding. Hell you could even argue they should fund a non profit that finances several browsers.

That's fair. I'm from a small country with a very high charge station density.. so for anything local it's a no brainer. Plus I have a driveway to change on.

No we don't have a free market and we should not want one. A market completely devoid of regulations ignores reality.

Nope, here a lot of people are wising up too. And he is constantly fighting with unions. His company will be oblitherated by the Chinese EV companies.

And Cybertrucks won't pass certification here.

A friend who works and lives in Thailand told us that ladyboy is a fairly common naming used there.

Alternatively Europe levies a security tax worth 2pct of Switzerland GDP.

And that is not surprising if you look at the absolutely eye watering lineup they have. Chine heavily invested in these companies silently and gave them the competitive edge. Now they pulled up the curtain and they can provide cara with 200km range for under 15k and cars with 700km range for under 30k they have super high performance models, mpvs, vans, trucks, busses.. everything.

And next up.. wind turbines.

That's the second addition this week: Suspicious deaths of notable Russians

Wealth accumulates sure, that's why at a certain point taxes should put a brake on that and above an even higher point it should be predominantly taxed. Inheritance tax should allow for some generational transfer but capped at a sane point. And fuckery using foundations etc etc should result in all of it being forfeit.