Geez, from a prominent Communist party member to a member of modern Russia's ruling United Russia party, what a fall.

It was also with a massive group of people. Which makes an entire world of difference.

Yes, migrating from Windows to Linux is a learning curve. I totally appreciate it's frustrating, but it just comes down to "you were raised with a different thing."

I just want a normal operating system where I double click an app to activate or install it, and it has full functionality no ifs and or buts

I say this as someone who has spent years as IT support for Windows, Mac and Linux computers respectively. There's no such thing.

cause I want to spend two hours googling how to install non-Linux compatible software on Linux

I mean this is your problem. If you don't want to mess about googling how to do stuff, then use software that's built for the OS you're using??? You'd have infinitely more issues trying to get Windows to run software not designed for it.

My assumption is you're just used to closed Windows software. Linux has its own software and/or native executables for any tasks you'd need to do, and even many (or most??) games nowadays, where you can install/run everything with a double click and don't need to type anything.

Otherwise, if you're reliant on Windows-specific software for some reason, then sorry but you have to live with your costly insecure proprietary invasive nonfunctional OS slop. Instead complain to the developers for taking closed garden single-OS approach when it's actually incredibly easy nowadays to be multiplatform.

then, like, isn’t basically every Western leader a “war criminal”

Honestly, I think the best approach one can take in response to hypocritical liberals is yeah, Putin's an asshole war criminal, but sadly the west and NATO are even asshole war criminaler.

I mean, that's pretty bad. Only being able to use the API severely restricts the kinds of apps you can install, making a user controlling their own device significantly harder and massively strengthening the hold of the Play Store.

Ah, the two fundamental biases as described by Marx, democrat and republican.

Couple points to add on to things there: I'm not aware of any Eurocountry where shop workers are allowed to forcefully detain you and/or check your bags, without directly seeing you shoplift, and so long as you don't agree. Even if laws permit it, it's exceedingly rare that workers are allowed to enforce it because of the huge liabilities.

If someone tries to stop you, inform them you won't be detained and that you're leaving, then just leave by any means you peacefully can, even calmly hopping barriers. This is what I do even though I'm not stealing stuff.

Be aware of your rights, any wannabe cop security guards who do actually detain you might be guilty of assault, depending on their actions and local laws, for which you might be able to sue the company, or even just threaten to sue if you're not released.

Reactionaries gonna reactionary. The good takeaway is that most people don't really seem to agree with the main parties anyway.

Blending chickpeas and little flour can be enough to get a soft 'patty'. Gram (chickpea) flour is a great alternative, which is just chickpeas milled so fine it holds together quite strongly, but can be pricey depending on area.

If you don't mind a little spillage, lightly mashed refried beans or (fried) chickpeas go hard in my sandwiches and are proteiny. Or just mash them all the way into bean/chickpea burger for extra togetherness.

Genuinely not a bad idea to reduce their power

I personally think it's mostly people who really have no consciousness about politics whatsoever.

I'm more baffled by the 25% of Tory voters preferring communism. I want to meet these people who support the conservatives but don't actively want fascism??

That is actually hecking cool. Despite our shitty electoral politics, there are already a good number of people actually caring about socialism.

??? Nobody gets blown up going to NK. And tourists frequently enter by land.

"..for poor people only", Ellison finishes. Let's put cameras on the bourgeois class and see what behaviour results.

Given the party is one step away from explicitly labelling themselves as fascist, it's not too much of a surprise.

TIL humanism is actually impossible because empathy isn't real

In my defence, juice can be quite slippy

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Hah, thanks, I'll consider it tagged so. Take care.

Dehumanising the enemy, literally talking about them as if they don't qualify as human, is an absurdly common approach. It's clearly an effective way of 'other'ing, but it leads to completely unrealistic attitudes like you describe. There's a line that gets crossed between bigging up your team/talking shit about the enemy, and simply losing grasp of reality.

I do think it's an inherently fascistic process, and it's something I still sadly see in the left, including Hexbears, when talking about terrible people and class enemies. Obviously some are speaking in metaphor, but not everyone.

Like you say, these are no-win situations. Sometimes, being void of money is better than going through a torturous hell 40+ hours a week, it's a shit choice, but it can absolutely be the right one.

You're absolutely right, stupid typos.

Fair enough, hard to verify anything ever, but it makes sense

Brexit was entirely the product of an internal conflict in the bourgeois class, nobody cared whatsoever until it was made into an issue, but a percentage of rich fucks figured they'd get more favourable profits that way, and a different percent wouldn't.

And whenever those bourgeois conflicts happen, the rules stop applying it seems.

I agree fundamentally, but what about the DPRK here is an "obvious lie"?

As always, this makes the faulty assumption that under capitalism, unemployed till workers will go do those things.

We already have vastly more than enough people to do those things, and people working tills is not the reason those things aren't done. So until we fix that reason, I'll take the extra 2 minutes opportunity to get to chat to a fellow human being thanks.

Yeah, that is cool. And I'm definitely not arguing Trek was perfect, just that it did good things in that regard.

I support this spreadsheet as a means of encouraging chuds to self-isolate themselves from treats and general culture until they realise how unhinged their ideology is.

Okay?

Yes, of course it does???

Putting minorities in media and showing them as respectable equals is not tokenism, and is doubly important to do when real life doesn't reflect that. Rodenberry did not have the power to fucking solve racial oppression, he incorporated all nationalities to showcase the importance and futurism of not being a racist fuck.

Like a reverse sisyphus, you never want to come down the hill.

These people always want the exact same .jpg of a woman's face and boobas, no individualism allowed. Any time even a fictional woman deviates slightly from the almighty hotwoman.jpg then they are deemed political and must be conformed.

letting private industry profit from government

Or as it's sensibly called in 99% of cases, embezzlement

Of those countries, only Argentina exceeds the US beef consumption.

Per capita, the US consumes the most poultry, the third most beef (second to Argentina and Zimbabwe), and the most Beef and Pork combined. Exclude fish and the US outstrips the next country by about 30kg/capita/year.

Depends a lot on how meat is prepared (and I can't find good sources on that), and your definition of steak. But given the enormous excess by which the US eats steak-y meats compared to others. The US is almost certainly either 1st or 2nd.

I mean I doubt any country could credibly lay claim to invention of "slab of meat". But I'd bet America is the biggest consumer of steaks.

I'm increasingly convinced this is significant. The ruling classes are increasingly forgetting that neoliberalism only works as a facade to oppress others, and that if you actually believe it you won't get very far as a country.