vzq @ vzq @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Sure, be a dick about it. Why not.

Not spending money to help people in need often cost society more in the long run anyway.

I know for some reason school lunches are getting the partisan treatment, but they are one of the best dollar-per-graduate investments you can make in an education system once you have the basics covered.

“Survivors of the atomic bombs WE DROPPED ON THEM”

Are they the same people?

You are aware that different people can think different things, right?

Be that as it may, your ad hoc definition in your first comment was spurious and finds no basis in English language Marxist literature.

Are you the only person using that definition?

Because traditionally English speaking Marxists use them the other way around, as far as I remember, (work is useful, produces use value, labor is economic, produces economic value) if they make that distinction at all.

See for example:

https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/download/546/598#:~:text=In%20the%20Marxist%20tradition%2C%20the,(Fuchs%20and%20Sevignani%202013).

(Posted without endorsement)

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Apparently the English edition includes a footnote by Friedrich Engels:

As has been stated in a previous note, the English language has two different expressions for these two different aspects of labour: in the Simple Labour-process, the process of producing Use-Values, it is *Work; *in the process of creation of Value, it is *Labour, *taking the term in its strictly economic sense. — F. E.

Which reads very much like you are using them wrong.

Can you elaborate on the work vs labor dichotomy?

I’m not familiar with the concept, especially because in my language the two would be almost exact synonyms in this context (unless you are Hercules or what not). And Latin languages just get the one.

Software meant to enrich its creator often isn't

This is a prime example of what I alluded to in my comment. For-profit capitalism is the establishment politics, so it’s portraid as apolitical.

Also, the establishment politics of the public that must not be challenged in order to make money? Apolitical.

Politics is just another name for the way we decide how to run things. Everything that is not absolutely trivial is political to some degree.

“Apolitical” is just a dog whistle for establishment politics.

I’m known for running mostly human campaigns, but one of my favorite tricks is to run a seemingly human villain with personality traits usually associated with an evil monster, then as the adventure goes on the learn that the heraldry features the monster etc etc.

Of course they know me, so they all think it’s metaphor and inspiration.

But at the very last minute, when they think they have him cornered and taken care of all the lackeys…. SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKERS! He drops his magical disguise and it’s an old fashioned D&D lair boss battle!!!!!!!

Junk the laptop and buy one that uses USBC.

That shit should have stayed in the 2010s.

No quarrel there. The only interesting thing about evil races is when you subvert the trope, but as we’ve all been doing that since the 80s that’s just become another tired trope.

Personally I just run campaigns where 90% of the people are humans.

Store torrent files. The magnet links are just the hashes of the torrent files.

Yes, the magnet link points to a specific torrent file, but you will only be able to get them if anyone is still sharing it and currently online.

If you have the torrent file and the content, you can start a new swarm if the old one is dead. If you only have the magnet link and the content, you can’t.

Why?

That’s a rather absolutist claim when you don’t know the orgs threat model.

Considering the punishment he got last time, it would be silly not to try. There is zero cost.

There a reason the price for a failed coup is usually execution.

Are you Hoffman or Hayes?

Seriously though, your reading list is a bit one sided. I’m happy you found a hammer you like, but not every relationship is a nail.

Your coworker is a twat.

My recommendation would be to use a hard disk in a single computer, and to use a single operating system for a single computer.

Then you pick the most capable, fastest, native FS that fits your bill.

If you need to transmit data between computers, use the network. It’s that it’s there for.

I’m guessing he made a typo but doesn’t want to admit it, so now he’s locked in.

I’d love to see a TV series about Hadrian where he arrives in a new province every episode and fixes stuff.

Interspersed are scenes of young Hadrian with Trajan, who is constantly badgered by mail by provincial governors (including Pliny the Younger) about trivial matters, as he tries (and fails spectacularly) to instill into Hadrian the importance of decentralized leadership.