While I agree that the ANC has deserved to lose an election for a while, one must be very careful here. Without any viable opposition party ( the DA is not considered a viable opposition party by the majority of South Africans, as seen by them failing to grow their voter base this election), the "big tent" ANC is splitting along racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious lines, in a reactionary manner. Jacob Zuma's MK party is the most obvious example of this, their manifesto calls for scrapping the constitution.
They will lose their majority. Votes are 99% counted and the ANC is barely above 40% of the vote. The ANC have screwed themselves with rampant corruption and a failure to deliver government services reliably, the most obvious example being the rolling electricity blackouts (loadshedding) that South Africans regularly experience. Having no electricity for 8+ hours a day at worst due to government incompetence, corruption, and austerity is not workable.
The .opus audio format. People need to stop ripping everything to MP3, it's inefficient and a flawed compression format. Opus is better than it and AAC.
Are you just going to pretend that there is no racism anywhere else? It was the Europeans that colonised half the planet and invented the concept of "whiteness", and proceeded to divide and carve Africa up. Are you just going to pretend that this action has had no influence on modern European ideas around race and class? And I haven't even mentioned the Roma people. Or the ongoing genocide in Palestine, which has a racial component. Or the rise of Hinduistic fascism in India. Or the issues around race in my own country in South Africa. Racism is a global issue.
Personally I see most of these prejudicial issues being an exclusively American problem that has been exported abroad
Have you forgotten who colonised most of the world, including America? This is in no way an American centric issue. Racism exists in most countries on earth.
While the piracy community being among the biggest arguably doesn't make for great optics
I'd argue otherwise. It is great optics to have a thriving piracy community. It keeps the corporate boot lickers out, and attracts the kind of crowd that we should want on Lemmy.
At home I have a set DML panel speakers set up in a 2.1 channel system with a subwoofer. The panels themselves are made of EPS polystyrene that has been sanded down and coated in wood glue, are about 1 meter tall, 30 centimetres wide and 2 centimetres thick (3 foot 3 inches tall, 1 foot wide and 4/5 inches thick) and have rounded edges and corners. Each panel has a Dayton Audio 10 watt exciter mounted to it on the location recommend on their website. The subwoofer is a ported down firing unit, which I have placed in the corner of the room for corner loading.
Wow, when are you going to realize that you work for your users?
Do you pay their salary and have an employment contract with the developers of Lemmy? If not, they do not work for you.
And 2000€ per month is a ton of money. Most open source devs get nothing. Stop being so ungrateful and disrespectful to the community that you work for.
This is not a typical open source side project. The developers work full time on it, it's basically their job. That 2000 Euros is their monthly gross salary. Average monthly salary in France is 2340 euros net as of 2022. The developers of Lemmy are earning well below average.
How lazy must the song writing be for the Eurovision people to think it's too political? You can absolutely hide political messages in the lyrics, in a song about love, sex partying, etc, and the vast majority of people will not notice. Quite a few bands have made careers out of doing exactly that. I mean just from the song title, you know that they are going to be very heavy handed with it.
Not dangerous, just corrupt and wildly idealistic. The EFF manifesto makes for a wild read with all the crazy promises and policies proposed, many of which have very little to do with Marxism. Nationalisation might be one of their few good proposed policies along with land reform.
Already the first few pages of the document listing their accomplishments are full of contradictions and exaggerations:
The EFF got former President Mr Jacob Zuma to pay back money spent on non-security-related upgrades at his homestead in Nkandla.
Is that why the EFF tried to court Zuma and get him to join the EFF as a partymember?
The EFF held a successful national shutdown on the 20th of March 2023 to demand a stable supply of electricity and the resignation of Cyril Ramaphosa.
Lmao! I don't think I saw a single EFF member engaged in this "shutdown" outside of the city centres of South Africa's capitals.
The EFF has gained credibility at institutions of higher
learning by constantly winning SRC elections.
The EFF has built the confidence of black people and confronted racism everywhere where it encounters it.
Ok this is at least true and one of the things that the EFF is good at. Very good at making racists scared.
Onto addressing unemployment:
The EFF will establish State-Owned Housing and Roads
Companies that will deal with the social housing and roads
infrastructure backlog. In the short to medium term, this will
result in nearly 4 million jobs.
A good idea, but idealistic as I fail to see how this will generate four million jobs in five years. The construction industry in South Africa only employs 1.2 million people currently.
The EFF will establish a state-owned security company that
will insource all security personnel working in government
facilities. This will immediately create 1.2 million sustainable
and quality jobs without departing from the existing
government budget expenditure.
1.2 million people working for a security company to protect government property? How is that going to ever happen? I guess they plan to hire some of the 2.7 million registered security guards, of which only 600 000 are currently active/employed. I still don't see how this is even possible. To create a security company with double the amount of employees as the entire security sector within 5 years. Just because someone is registered to do a job, it doesn't mean that they will do it.
The EFF government will hire all military reservists permanently.
The EFF government shall mandate that each person
undergo compulsory military training for a year or six months after matriculation, offering life skills and discipline.
Bringing back mlitary conscription? For what? I don't see South Africa facing any current threat that requires that. Or hiring all reservists.
Holy crap that first slam is absolutely brutal. Broken neck probably.
Also how much steroids are these fighters on? Men and women don't look like that naturally. Drug testing in the UFC seems to somehow be even more of a joke than most other sports.
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While I agree that the ANC has deserved to lose an election for a while, one must be very careful here. Without any viable opposition party ( the DA is not considered a viable opposition party by the majority of South Africans, as seen by them failing to grow their voter base this election), the "big tent" ANC is splitting along racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious lines, in a reactionary manner. Jacob Zuma's MK party is the most obvious example of this, their manifesto calls for scrapping the constitution.