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Yet more whataboutism. This thread is about tankies not capitalist slavery.

It’s extremely unconvincing to say “Sure it was horrible last time, but next time it’ll be different.” Trotskyists and ultraleftists compensate by prettying up their picture of socialism and picking more obscure (usually short-lived) experiments to uphold as the real deal. But this just gives ammunition to those who say “Socialism doesn’t work” or “Socialism is a utopian fantasy.” And lurking behind the whole conversation is Stalin, who for the average Westerner represents the unadvisability of trying to radically change the world at all. No matter how much you insist that your thing isn’t Stalinist, the specter of Stalin is still going to affect how people think about (any form of) socialism — tankies have decided that there is no getting around the problem of addressing Stalin’s legacy. That legacy, as it stands, at least in Western public opinion (they feel differently about him in other parts of the world), is largely the product of Cold War propaganda.

That's the gist. Then he goes on with another paragraph of whataboutism but of course not a single mention of the tens of millions of dead both, Stalin and Mao, were responsible for.

Of course he's also an western armchair socialist. People that actually lived in the Sowjet Union (and not in today's Russia) draw quite a different picture.

Not sure how this is a crime... breach of TOS, sure, but a crime?

What law is being broken here?

Not curious enough to actually read the article, eh?

Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud

One may argue about money laundering but it's pretty clearly fraud.

It's pretty good though.

Eating out isn't exactly cheap though. Hardly sustainable for most people doing that every lunch.

I'd say you have to learn to trust your nose (it really is that simple) but you seem to have a condition worth to see a therapist over.

it sometimes comes from crippling or barely functional depression.

For sure but here on Lemmy it seems to be the case in like 80% of posts. If that many people were actually depressed across the whole population, civilization would long have collapsed.

Could be a microphone...

My wife is T1 too and I wholeheartedly agree. The development in that area is outrageously slow and locked down (and then there's healthcare providers with whom you have to fight tooth and nails to get your ancient pump upgraded - another story and country-specific).

What about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

But now we have AI! Both and many more problems will be solved any time now...

I have pihole for DNS blocking. Unfortunately, many apps fall back to advertising their premium plans which is just as annoying and far more repetitive (looking at you, Duolingo).

Also whole degrees. edit: no, that's wrong, there are thermostats that allow 1/10th of degrees (I only have old manual ones). Still, you probably are not able to tell the difference between 20 and 20.1 °C. Humidity is far more relevant.

A difference of 2 °F is 1.1 °C...

Aren't Pringle's even made of corn flour primarily? But yeah, that's another good example.

Edit: got me curious, looked it up myself. Short: no, almost [sic!] half of them is potatos and it's wheat starch, not corn.

There are different degrees of processing. The "meat" mentioned here is ultra-processed garbage. Cutting out and grilling a steak is similar to digging out, peeling and cooking a potato.

Always? That's my first reply. Bug of what? A flaired character has a different code than a standard one, so your files would be incompatible with any established tools like find or grep.

For traffic Celsius is more intuitive since temps approaching zero means slippery roads.

You're long passed that with Fahrenheit. And on a scale from 0 very cold to 100 very hot, 32 doesn't seem that cold. Until you see the snow outside.

They didn't say a difference of 1K isn't significant but the difference of 0.1K isn't.

And since the supposed advantage of Fahrenheit is that it better reflects typical ambient temperatures, we have to consider relevance for average people. Hardly anyone will feel a difference of 0.1K.

That's why European weather reports usually show full degrees. And also our fridges show full degrees.

I don't like that approach. Text search won't find all the different possible Unicode representations.