Stay toxic, comrades
when “programmers think they are experts in everything that deals with computers”
The thing is, they usually aren't even experts in that. Your typical programmer seems to have no idea how computers actually work, and thinks they're magical self-sufficient machines that will someday be able to run entire economies with no actual production happening.
We shall post in our forum and laugh ourselves silly over it.
I should do that too. Yogthos is also a legend.
Unfortunately, I don't know lemmy all that well outside of the 'grad. What are some good instances to go on for that sweet, sweet lib cringe?
It's not even really a toxic atmosphere for liberals who happen to stray in here. Sure, they'll get dogpiled if they start acting rude, or are clearly arguing in bad faith -- and they quickly find that if you can't take it, you shouldn't dish it out. But generally, the community goes out of its way to explain things even to people who disagree.
People who said the computer would end up being one of the most useful scientific tools ever invented were (1) right, but (2) also didn't anticipate how whole sectors of western academia would devolve into just browsing social media and presenting it as "research."
People who said the computer would end up being one of the most useful scientific tools ever invented were (1) right, but (2) also didn't anticipate how whole sectors of western academia would end up just browsing social media, collecting some screenshots, and presenting the whole together with some lazy-ass graph as "research."
A certain Albanian (and a certain Wisconsonian) would probably agree.
"We are now moving at about three and a half times the typical speed of an Amtrak transcontinental, and about twice its occasionally-reached top speed."
The liberal dream is for a black man to be brutally beaten to death by cops, but on Martin Luther King Street, not Bedford Forrest Avenue.
Yep. Even just the atmosphere of certain places.
LA, for instance, has the strangest "feel" of any major city I've been in. Did even in the early 2000s when it wasn't quite so run down and a bigger percentage of the population wasn't homeless.
There's something so indescribably Reddit about everything the Economist puts out.
Here's one explanation I've heard, that I think makes a certain amount of sense. The United States can walk away from this war tomorrow, with its reputation as a great power intact; in fact, not having any more of its advanced weaponry blown up by the Russian orc Asiatic Hordes would go a long way toward preserving whatever international prestige the US military still has. Naturally, it would be a major geopolitical setback for Washington, and for the Democrats a political disaster. But it would not mean in any way the end of American global power. (The war itself actually undermines American power, and there may be a few people in the state apparatus who can see it -- one or two high-place individuals who aren't totally drunk on their own propaganda of the US as some unstoppable military and economic juggernaut).
The UK, on the other hand, wants to be seen as a great power, and this is a reputation they can very much lose. Defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan created demoralization at home, and a sense abroad that the UK was militarily and on the world stage basically inconsequential; which latter was especially galling, given that Americans already tend to view the UK as a colony (American talk of "our valued partners in London" has been for the past fifty years mostly a sop to British feelings). Nor did Brexit create some kind of prosperous, internationally significant "third bloc" distinct from both the US and the EU; the country has been going downhill economically, and its domestic politics have been even more overshadowed by Washington. Thus Ukraine becomes for the UK's government a kind of last-ditch military adventure meant to salvage their reputation on the world stage. It is a war against the old enemy, Russia; and it will, if successful, show the superiority of the neoliberal order over the controlled, neo-Soviet economy Russia is supposed to be. But the war is very much not succeeding, and the UK is thus compelled to throw more money and equipment -- and huge numbers of Ukrainians, not that they care about this -- into a bottomless pit.
I live there, and "weird" doesn't begin to describe it.
This smells like concessions to avoid larger inconveniences to me.
That's exactly what it is, and it's not new. It might seem paradoxical, but the very wealthiest capitalists -- the movers and shakers of the entire ruling class -- are often less concerned about day-to-day profits than maintaining the stability of the system. This is because their wealth is so bound up with the entire system, and if it collapses, they do too; hence they are often willing to countenance "progressive" reforms, especially if they can so swing it that other capitalists lower down the ladder of wealth are the ones footing the bill. This is sometimes referred to as capital taking on a "managerial" mindset. Examples of it are DuPont supporting the creation of the Federal Reserve, the Rockefellers supporting Roosevelt, and so on. This creates tensions, of course, within the ruling class, as less wealthy capitalists (whose business empires will often shrink) resent the restrictions which high-level capital is forcing on them, and seek to throw off the imposed restraints.
Glad I could help! It was sort of an epiphany that came to me yesterday, I don't know why, while I was reading a NYT editorial.
Yes, that is a more accurate way to put it. Liberals are not the subtlest of individuals, and their critiques have all the precision of a US airstrike. Thanks for the constructive criticism!
The other interpretation is that they're fascists who found out what Julius Evola thought of white Americans ("culturally N*gro") as opposed to Native Americans (noble "children of the Sun" whose influence would have greatly elevated US society).
I bet Marx would have loved huge walls of text. I read him as a lemmy man, while Engels would have been out manning twitter.