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  • Too vague to agree on this.
    All conflicts are more complicated than this, even where there's a clearcut culprit.
    I've seen it misused too many times.

    Just by seeing iii's comments one can see the confusion. Where he thought the one holding the missile is what the author thinks is clearly the one chilling and vibing, I thought of another conflict entirely that this doesn't apply to, but seen the argument used at least three times.

    I hereby end my post stating that the US, Canada, Australia, Aotearoa and France's New Caledonia should give back its land to its indigenous people. Thank you.

  • China has become a superpower surpassing the US and sells Russia an abundance of inexpensive high-quality goods and exchanges high-quality military technology. This allows Russia to fight with higher tech weapons in greater quantaties on their doorstep. The EU thought it was going to be another Iraq/Afghanistan where the US would do the heavy lifting, waltz in and then the EU would chime in by patrolling areas.

  • Purpose? Point? You make it sound like it's something inherently positive. Can you give me an example where it could be inherently positive? Because the purposes I can think of are all negative to me since I have goals of my own and any purpose in life would stand in the way of that. I don't want to be like a spoon (so humans can eat more easily) or a cat (To be human pets), so I'm really glad to have no point or purpose in life, as that means I am the master of my own destiny.

    I have goals in life I want to achieve. That's why I want to live longer. And if people can help me achieve my goals, that's all the better.

    If you want to find purpose in life, then I'm sure you can find another person in life that can give you one.

  • The USSR existed back then and the USSR was doing very well at the time up until 1975,
    right after the petrodollar scheme was made and SWIFT was introduced.
    Because of that, the US had strong labour unions.
    Socialism was popular back then,
    although the US was also able to propagandize that it was explicitly not doing that in the slightest.

    Nowadays, the US will have to fight again against capitalism.
    And capitalists are warring to survive, not just abroad,
    but at home as well.
    Their ideology currently is that capitalism has won,
    communism has lost and therefore any concessions to the left
    will no longer have to be made.

    And US Social democracy isn't coming from the top this time,
    when FDR decided to take a turn for the left and continued going left,
    up until Jimmy Carter was replaced by Ronald Reagen.

    This time it's coming from Zohran Mamdani
    and this time it looks like it's taking the form of democratic socialism,
    a step more to the left than social democracy.

    With better job availibility, your father would have had a much easier time
    maintaining a good income and thus a family.
    You however, would have a trade-off.
    Better job security, but little to no knowledge of your sexuality.
    Also terrible medical practises, barbaric in some fields.

  • It's amazing how many times I saw this knowledge being spread, together with thousands of umbrellas and hard hats during the Hong Kong riots from day one with "Hong Kong, add oil" as their first slogan combined with very mild mannered arguments (we don't know if it could lead to more serious things) against the extradition law which was supposed to affect maybe half a dozen people per decade, all serious criminals. A law almost every country has on earth that the US used against the daughter of the owner of one of the largest companies in the world, for the flimsiest of reasons, in contrast to the walled-off-to-arrest-one-particular-teen-girl-axe-murderer-to-be-shipped-to-Taiwan-law Hong Kong tried to implement.

    How many people have been affected by the Alien Enemies Act again?

    And how did the The protests were call "No kings" remember that? Remember that it was called NO KINGS "Unbiased. Straight. Facts" SAN? Do you remember that? No? Okay, well... "anti-ICE" it is protests go?

    Because apart from the shocker that you were being surveilled, I think the protests needed a little bit less "Zero demands, not one more" chants and a little more 'We demand and protest until we win and get what we want' kind of thing.

    1. Vasectomies (+ birth control pills)
    2. animal testing for human research.
    3. I'm sure that anyone working in a hospital can cough up a few dozen more.

    RISUG has been invented in 1978,
    is reversable, cheaper, zero side effects,
    and with so far 0% failure rate when implemented properly,
    Vasalgel, an improvement on RISUG by having a longer shelf-life,
    has been invented around 2015.

    So this stuff has been invented in the same year as the first Star Wars movie,
    had gone through all trials multiple times with flying colors,
    and instead we use knives and pills with large side effects.

    If any invention could be been ubiquitous in use at a much earlier stage,
    then this would be it.
    It could and should have been widely used by the 1980's.

    For animal testing we have 3D printed human tissue.
    So why test on animals if your question is "Does this stuff work on human tissue?"
    The answer you'll be getting is whether or not it works on mice.
    Mice are not human.

  • I'm going with @Sandouq_Dyatha here and say that you are not all international elite spies.
    And it's not that "countries I don't like manipulate their GDP".
    It's more that GDP measurements, including the PPP kind, are fundementally flawed and that's by design.
    China is around 2.5 times the economy of the US at this moment by looking how much they are manufacturing
    and how much electricity they use, surpassing the EU per person.

  • Arch is better because...

    • pacman, seriously, I don't hear enough of how great pacman is.
      Being able to search easily for files within a package is a godsend when some app refuses to work giving you an error message "lib_obscure.so.1 cannot be found".
      I haven't had such issues in a long time, but when I do, I don't have to worry about doing a ten hour search, if I'm lucky, for where this obscure library file is supposed to be located and in what package it should be part of.
    • rolling release. Non-rolling Ubuntu half-year releases have broken my OS in the past around 33% of the time. And lots of apps in the past had essential updates I needed, but required me to wait 5 months for the OS to catch up.
    • AUR. Some apps can't be found anywhere but AUR.
    • Their wiki is the best of all Linuxes

    The "cult" is mostly gushing over AUR.

  • the wiki and forums are the best of any distro

    If you don't participate in it that is.
    If you veer only a little off of their strict rules,
    then Arch forum will ban you and they won't allow you to even read the forum.

  • Unity would be the first example, and although Unity was actually a good DE,
    it was too bloated and almost non-modifiable.

    People jumped ship to Linux Mint that had its priorities straight.

    Mir and Snap were bigger issues though
    as Wayland and Flatpak were great replacements for
    X11 and AppImage and did not need another competitor.

    But the privacy issues were the straw that broke the camel's back.
    People left windows for linux so they wouldn't have to deal with this kind of nonsense.

    I actually jumped when Ubuntu jumped to Gnome 3.
    Gnome 3 was too bloated for me and it looked ugly.

    I decided to see what Arch Linux was about
    and eventually settled for Manjaro Linux.
    Arch + Xfce for the win.

  • So dumb people who can't do multiplications, but can count months, won't panic.

    On a more serious not, most people skim the headline, read "three times" and think
    "Wow! There's some work to do!" instead of
    "Twelve times!? Then Russia is winning. Wait, Russia is winning?
    Why is this newspaper not stating that Russia is winning?
    There's no way Ukraine can win with one bullet versus twelve.
    Shouldn't this be a giant issue?
    Why is there no giant debate on this?
    Why is my newspaper demanding a debate on this?
    Should Ukraine even continue to risk sending its soldiers to fight a war
    where the enemy has twelve times the amount of ammo?"

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    I want to know where Mandami fits compared to my own nation's political left-right spectrum, going through his stances and theirs, how do I go about it?

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    Why are there so many people on youtube cheering on Trump's national garde and denouncing the protesters, but so few showing up on his military parade?

    Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    VHP video title BUZZWORDS