The channel Technology Connections had a great video on dishwashers. It depends on how you run your washer. Powder detergent in both the pre-wash and main wash compartments is the recommended option. If you skip the pre-wash (such as by using an "Eco" or Energy/Water-saving setting), then it makes no difference between putting the detergent in the compartments vs. the bottom of the dishwasher as long as your compartment is working correctly. If it isn't, then indeed putting it on the bottom of the dishwasher is better.
Blocking imports of Chinese EVs while American manufacturers keep their EVs as luxury products and prioritize CE vehicles is not only blatant protectionism, but another way to kill the planet for the sole purpose of enriching a small minority of very wealthy people.
Marxists and Fascists are both opposed to Liberalism, so we sometimes arrive at similar positions but because of our opposition to Liberalism from opposite directions. Mostly, these would be positions/traits favored by a fringe group over the mainstream.
For example:
Both Marxists and Reactionaries are sometimes censored by media (incl. social media), so both are sometimes anti-censorship (though usually not for any speech other than their own).
Both Marxists and Reactionaries oppose big tech conglomerates for spreading Liberal propaganda.
Both Marxists and Reactionaries believe in gun rights, to oppose an unjust (Liberal) government.
Both Marxists and Libertarians are (at least on paper; I think most Libertarians are more cynical) anti-war. Marxists because we should always oppose Bourgeois wars, and Libertarians because at least the principled ones believe in non-interventionism.
One additional suggestion I might make is to allow you to report the post to your own instance admins but not the host admins. This would be useful for when you want a post to be hidden or an instance defederated and you don't want to also send your identity to the instance you're reporting.
This might be used for:
Reporting spam coming from an instance that is unlikely to delete it.
Reporting CSAM on an instance that supports it.
Reporting hate speech on instances that believe hate speech is covered by free speech.
Putin is not good, but he also isn't Hitler. He is not an absolute evil. And regardless of the unknowable legitimacy of Russia's elections, he's more popular in Russia than most American Presidents are in the U.S. And at least to me, popularity is a better metric for Democracy than anything else.
Navalny is worse than Putin. Regardless of anything else, Putin believes in Multiculturalism and Ethnopluralism (his nationalism is a Civic nationalism, not an Ethnic nationalism). Navalny has significantly less support in Russia than Putin; him being put in charge would be inherently undemocratic. Navalny would also be a Dictator; he would just be a Pro-Democracy Dictator.
And this isn't even touching on Geopolitics. Navalny is an opportunist who seeks to sell out Russia to the West. Putin is aligned with other anti-Imperialist global forces, such as China and Iran.
No, because the Taiwanese Nationalists are ethnically Chinese and want Taiwan to be an ethnically Chinese country.
You can compare it to how more Native American groups supported the British than the Americans in the Revolutionary War: they understood that they would have more autonomy as a minority in a large, multi-ethnic state than a smaller ethnostate.
Using words like "Abnormal", "Weird", or "An Aberration" don't really have the same connotations as "From another planet." It's not a negative thing. More often I've seen it used in a positive way, like when someone does something good that most people wouldn't.
The United States of America is a bourgeois dictatorship, not a democracy. The only important election of our lives will be the first one after the Workers take control.
I plan on voting Claudia and Karina 2024 and I recommend that others do the same.
I know this is a bit account (nothing against you btw I think the bit is great) but honestly this is 100% correct.
Lemmy was nice when it was just FOSS enthusiasts trying to build a better social media. Now new people have joined who are using it for its intended purpose, instead of just trying to roll a snowball.
All of those FOSS enthusiasts have the same horrible opinions and attitudes that everyone else does, once you get them talking about something actually important and contentious rather than their treats and toys.
I think it's just a growing pain of the contradictions of Federation resolving themselves, mostly in the political sphere.
You have left-wing instances (lemmygrad.ml), center-right instances (lemmy.world), and right-wing instances (sh.itjust.works). Even if different instances defederate with each other, there will always be overlap instances (lemmy.ml being the biggest, but also lemm.ee, startrek.website, mander.xyz, programming.dev, etc.). And while individual users can block specific instances, this doesn't prevent them from seeing and responding to their posts. Communists and Liberals and Libertarians, who each believe the others are literally as bad as the Nazis (and I'm not making a value judgement here - maybe some of them are right), are forced to interact with each other on occasionally political topics.
The hard right, unlike in Reddit, isn't really a figure here - and moderators on Lemmy don't know how to handle political disagreements where both sides are within the sphere of acceptable discourse.
So long as the West does not intervene, this is the beginning of Afghanistan's slow transition into a functioning industrial state.
Industrialism is the first step towards Socialism, and is vastly preferable to medievalism. This is good for both the people and government of Afghanistan and it's good for both the people and government of China. The only people who lose are the West.
This is very sad - the DPRK and it's government have made every good-faith attempt to pursue reunification and reconciliation but the occupation government, controlled by Capitalist interests, has never stopped its aggression towards the North or considered reunification through any means but subjugation seriously.
The "No Fly Zone is a declaration of war" truism only works when you're declaring one over another nation's sovereign territory. Oman has every right to determine what military aircraft can enter their airspace, and if another country's military violates that airspace, they will have declared war, not Oman.
There's a word for this, the promotion of leaders based on merit instead of popularity - Technocracy. And it's not a distinct ideology but a syncretic one that has been adopted by many groups with differing politics. The most prominent example would be the Technocratic faction of the People's Republic of China, which was opposed to the Maoists back in the 50s and 60s; they argued for society to be led by experts instead of Democratically with a strong emphasis on Peasant participation (the standpoint of the Maoists). China today follows a moderate path taking from both factions.
In the West, however, Technocracy is mostly associated with Liberals; however, I would argue that the modern Liberal view of Technocracy is fundamentally flawed, since it relies on Capitalism distributing wealth meritocratically (which Socialists understand is not the case).
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The channel Technology Connections had a great video on dishwashers. It depends on how you run your washer. Powder detergent in both the pre-wash and main wash compartments is the recommended option. If you skip the pre-wash (such as by using an "Eco" or Energy/Water-saving setting), then it makes no difference between putting the detergent in the compartments vs. the bottom of the dishwasher as long as your compartment is working correctly. If it isn't, then indeed putting it on the bottom of the dishwasher is better.