It's not illogical to be pro-Capitalism while not owning any "means of production" if it means you still have better outcomes.
There are no true Capitalist countries and no true Socialist countries. It's not even a spectrum; it's a giant mixed bag of policies. You can be for some basic capitalist principles (market economy, privately held capital) and for some socialist policies (safety nets, healthcare) and not be in contradiction with yourself. There's more to capitalism than the United States.
I think OP was seeing a lot of "burn the system down" talk. Revolutions aren't bloodless, instantaneous, or well directed. Innocent people will die and generations will suffer. It's stuff only the naive, the malicious, or the truly desperate will support. And if you're here posting it on the daily, I don't believe you're that desperate.
I was so sure your town was doing something unconstitutional because it sounded so blatantly wrong. Found the answer and man, your state needs to sort that shit out.
Fwiw, a few MA towns are going the other way: pushing the state to allow noncitizens to vote in TM.
Can you point to a socialist country where it has resulted in better outcomes than its peers? Cuba might be a contender but then there's also Venezuela next door...
I do not consider China to be a socialist country. It is a market economy where your average Foxconn employee no more controls the means of production than your average Detroit autoworker. My understanding is that China doctrine states socialism is one big long term TODO (with ever moving goalposts), requiring their economy and material wealth to have grown first. Well, you can't deny it's grown but I'm still hearing a lot about Chinese billionaires while there's also a huge swath of Chinese rural poor.
Should be easy to differentiate. 2016 was the Touchbar year, born from macOS' continued toxic relationship with keyboard shortcuts.
In my experience, 2016 also marked when MBP keyboards got extraordinarily painful as the key travel is like 0.5mm and it felt like typing on a glass plate.
I can't be the only one waiting to see more "real people" reviews of production units before plunking down money. I don't upgrade laptops frequently and I don't want to buy something buggy (i.e. Linux compatibility for wifi, ACPI, battery life, etc).
And while I'm waiting, I haven't looked into a good answer to the USB-C dock story for the AMD versions. I see a lot of ambiguous statements about USB4 "being Thunderbolt" but not a lot of concrete statements on compatibility and capability.
Not sure how you can idolize Nazi Germany without being a Nazi. As for the rest, any good faith attempt in debate will be met with skepticism at best. The Rights propaganda machine is too strong.
That link says nothing of the sort! It actually says that Matrix is a strong choice for privacy and the underlying protocol follows best practices for security.
What are these security concerns you're talking about?
Bridges (WhatsApp, Signal, Google Chat, etc) are extra servers that run next to the main server. Generally text only. Any Matrix client should be able to make use of a bridge. Bridges appear as "bots" in your Matrix contact list. Contacts from other services appear as "$name ($service)" and work as you would expect of a chat.
You should know that Bridging breaks end-to-end encryption as the Bridge has the decryption key and Bridges work by "impersonating" you on the other chat service. Don't use a Bridge you don't trust. Beeper is a paid/commercial hosted Matrix service with pre-configured bridges for you, including iMessage (which Apple makes painfully difficult to bridge because Apple).
At some point, people need to take responsibility for their government. DeSantis won by 19 points with >50% turnout. That's pretty convincing to me. Florida is no longer a swing state. GOPers moved their in droves because of DeSantis' politics.
That's maybe a little unkind. If you had been working to nurture a small community (vernacular definition), you too would be super concerned about a sudden influx from Reddit. Assimilation would be impossible.
None of this makes any sense. How are invisible gestures more intuitive than a button? And aren't gestures literally "hand gymnastics"? Gestures and any "hidden" input are decidedly user unfriendly precisely because they're invisible. I don't recall specifics but there have definitely been apps where a user gets stuck on a screen because the developer unexpectedly opted for a gesture instead of a visible widget.
Gestures are good for the screen real estate part but that's kinda it, IMO. I stopped fighting the current and (mostly) adapted.
That's an ignorant view of China's success. Anyway, the extraordinary regulations that were used are far more interesting than any lacking or deregulation:
Forbid foreign controlling ownership of domestic corporations, cultivating a solid and independent domestic leadership
Blocked many foreign services from operating, allowing domestic replacements to copy and grow to be quite capable competition
Prevented (slowed) capital from leaving the country
Very different cultural approach to intellectual property
Some call this theft but we could have the exact same discussion about Bit Torrent/piracy
Modern IP laws in the West also used to be controversial (Can you patent an algorithm? Copyright a number?)
The most extensive propaganda and censorship apparatus in the world
A patriotic citizenry is a highly motivated citizenry (eg. US in WW2)
The court of public opinion/shame is leveraged by the state (versus cultural personalities in the US)
It's not illogical to be pro-Capitalism while not owning any "means of production" if it means you still have better outcomes.
There are no true Capitalist countries and no true Socialist countries. It's not even a spectrum; it's a giant mixed bag of policies. You can be for some basic capitalist principles (market economy, privately held capital) and for some socialist policies (safety nets, healthcare) and not be in contradiction with yourself. There's more to capitalism than the United States.
I think OP was seeing a lot of "burn the system down" talk. Revolutions aren't bloodless, instantaneous, or well directed. Innocent people will die and generations will suffer. It's stuff only the naive, the malicious, or the truly desperate will support. And if you're here posting it on the daily, I don't believe you're that desperate.