NateNate60 @ NateNate60 @lemmy.world

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That's true. Mullvad will even let you send cash by post to them which is definitely not something you can do with other services.

However, in terms of private payment options, you can always use BTC's Lightning Network with the other options if that concerns you.

The VPNs you characterise as "shitty" aren't necessarily a bad choice; they're cheaper than the legitimate privacy VPNs. Mullvad is famously 5€ per month, Proton is 4.49€ per month, but NordVPN is 3.09€, Surfshark is 2.19€, and PIA is 1.79€ per month.

If you're really just here to pretend you're in another country (rather than privatemaxing) or hide your torrenting activity from your ISP, the cheaper options can be a perfectly legitimate choice.

Pretty sure humans are not the most co-operative animals alive.

Bees and ants exist, you know

Uh oh. You should not have said that. Run for cover.

I know it's a copypasta, but I correctly differentiated GNU and Linux in my comment.

I cannot believe that actually worked.

Maybe so, but children don't always adopt the ideology of their parents. They usually do, but not always.

That doesn't make him a socialist. He doesn't espouse any of the core socialist beliefs there. He's just saying he's a "woke communist" (as described by the right), which could mean anything from a centre-left liberal to a Marxist.

Okay bud. Have a biscuit 🍪

"first and only Kanji".

If English had other logograms, I 🤔 what they'd be?

Doesn't that make you a communist?

I would say GNU is one that's openly socialist. If Linux's (or rather, Linus Torvald's) philosophy is socialist, they either do a very good job of hiding the fact or there is a lot I don't know about them.

When you assume anyone complaining about .ml and Hexbear must be a liberal

I think every time a big leftist instance gets defederated, its users leave and move towards more mainstream instances. I remember lemmy.ml used to be somewhat neutral a year or so ago (I got banned there so here I am now on lemmy.world).

At the risk of starting another argument, I have heard it described thusly—

Suppose you have some number of apples and some number of people who want the apples.

• Capitalism is where one person owns all the apples and everyone has to work for them to get an apple.
• Socialism is where the apples are distributed evenly to all the people who want them.
• Communism is where unlimited apples fall out of the sky and everyone can have as many as they need.

Now, this quote was originally used by capitalists to mock communism, but I think it's really not a bad analogy. Think about it: Star Trek, another beloved Lemmy staple, takes place in a communist society. Everyone works whatever job they want contributing to society and in return, everyone gets whatever they need provided for by the state. It's not truly post scarcity, since human greed always outstrips any finite amount of resources. But there is no distinction of rich or poor in Star Trek. People are judged by their intelligence, skill, and merit, and rewarded proportionally. At the same time, there is no concept of money, mostly (except when the plot needs it). What good is money when all your necessities are taken care of? All but your wildest desires can be conjured up at a snap of your fingers, and all the state asks in return is that you do what you can to contribute. It is a mutually beneficial relationship that most people have learned to be content with. That, my friends, is an ideal depiction of communism.

The socialists must flee what was formerly known as Twitter, now under the control of a totalitarian fascist regime ruled by a mad dictator, or face extermination, and are now refugees wherever they ended up on the Internet

I subscribe to nothing. I just browse the local and global feeds.

I want to seize the means of production as much as the next guy but it gets kinda boring after a while if that's the only content available

The term I used is an official term used by the Taiwanese government.

Believe it or not, socialists don't universally self-segregate onto the socialist instances.