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  • Western people in a nutshell

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  • I honestly don't personally know any real-life person who acts like that - they're either just not scared of cool infrastructure, or they're the occasional 'patriot' freak who's nationalist/racist enough to consider Japan a threat too.

    Leave the straw-man circlejerking to the rightoids, comrade.

  • Smedley Butler

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  • TIL one of the Unabomber's victims had a six-year correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.

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  • TIL that RestlessOS, fork of GrapheneOS, can run GOS on non-pixel phone - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

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  • Not remotely

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  • Stopped reading at "Do you want to work"

    (well, at least not for money)

  • Handy tip

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  • I find this shocking. 60% of Canadians say they feel forced to own a car

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  • Where I previously lived, I would have said 'agree', or at least it would be a serious quality-of-life determent to not drive, due to spending over an hour to make a trip that a car could in 20 minutes. It also helps that I don't want to hire drive-share or taxis constantly, but this also wasn't a reliable option.

  • What reasons do people have for disliking SELinux?

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  • Excessive for my threat model, one more thing which could break something (even if by no fault of its own).

    I like it as a concept, but many of my devices don't use it.

  • Why so many white Americans claim to be native?

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  • Why so many white Americans claim to be native?

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  • Blackness/Whiteness is an interesting concept - it's remarkably fluid, especially with changes in time and place. Race isn't the same as ethnicity or genetics, or a direct result of it, although racists often try to claim it is - a stark example of this in Western societies like the US and Australia would be how they categorize Italian and Greek peoples, Slavic peoples, or ethnically-Jewish peoples - the idea of whether or not each of these is White has largely shifted over time, often as a group stops being the current biggest immigration demographic. The USA even had a concept of "Black Irish", which originally meant a post-Famine Irish refugee. Human races are ultimately just social classes, not a biological concept.

    Another aspect, related to this thread, is hypodescent. In some societies (it's not a universal thing!), if a child has a Black parent and a White parent, is the child Black or White, or another label entirely? As mentioned in that article, some US states used to legally define someone as Black even if only 1 of their 16 great-great-grandparents were Black.

  • Just got this popup whilst trying to open a website using archive.is

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  • Send an email to their webmaster if you haven't already. The more of us, the better.

  • What are some fun liquids I can put in jars/bottles for decoration?

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  • Tempted to try the Traffic Light Reactuon, but I don't know how safe it is to store something that alkaline in a regular glass bottle long-term

  • What are some fun liquids I can put in jars/bottles for decoration?

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  • The proper stuff is expensive (~$1USD/ml), NileRed's recipe is 2chem4me, but the cheaper ferrous suspension methods might be workable...

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    What are some fun liquids I can put in jars/bottles for decoration?

  • Do you think people misunderstand what socialist democracies look like?

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  • Anything in the ballpark of "working class ownership of the means of production".

  • Centrists and Democratic Socialists

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  • Athenian democracies solve a lot of our current issues. It’s a bit like jury duty. You put your own name down and can be picked for roles in government.

    Sortition?

  • Centrists and Democratic Socialists

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  • I see a lot of people on Lemmy recently claiming to be left but also trying to tell me how democracies are bad. -_-

    Probably the case, although it's important not to dismiss people for criticizing liberal democracy - the system that has repeatedly put us in the mess we're in now. There are plenty of issues which are wildly popular regardless of political alignment but which liberal democracy fails to deliver, so to consider it a democracy at all, simply because most people get voting rights to pick representatives, is very debatable.

    There are plenty of other forms of democracy, many which have been successfully run in communities of hundreds of thousands of people (consider Zapatistas, Cheran, and more).

  • Do you think people misunderstand what socialist democracies look like?

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  • Any more examples of socialist democracies?

    Since you mentioned India, Kerala is does not currently have a socialist mode of production (that's a specific way of saying, their economy isn't socialism) but they have been led by socialist parties (parties which are trying to implement a socialist mode of production), and it shows.

  • Do you think people misunderstand what socialist democracies look like?

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  • Socialism is defined by “the ownership of the means of production by the working class, in a transition to communism”.

    This is a definition specific to certain communist ideologies. Valid, but not general.

  • Do you think people misunderstand what socialist democracies look like?

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  • Is there a way I can upload the entire steak scene in The Matrix in this reply?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    On a typical Linux distro, what information do WiFi access points get when you search for and use another AP?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are your favorite alternate rules for a sport or game?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are some things that can be done with [large number] million dollars?

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    To people who look at commercial ads; why do you look at ads?

  • Web Development @programming.dev
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    Looking for advice: adding a search feature able to match different phrasings of the same question

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    no politics

    You have been given the chance to make a short PSA broadcasted to your entire community, or region, or country. What problem will you fix?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Are there countries/territories where copyright law is truly unenforced?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are some useful things to create with a typical 3D printer?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What power do citizens have to hold Mamdani, and other recently-elected social politicians in the US, accountable? What is needed to build such power?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    How much do some mega-expensive things cost?

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    What are you doing about it?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Relatable

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    The rise of progressivism led corporations to misappropriate progressive values and language. How did this manifest before?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    There was a post yesterday havin a giggle about low resource usage Linux setups, shout-out to LOW←TECH magazine's solar-powered site (running Armbian Stretch)

    solar.lowtechmagazine.com /about/the-solar-website/
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Paris Mayor: I want a city with less cars. Perhaps it's controversial, but I think I'm on the right side of history. I had lobbyists from car companies threaten me in my own office.

    www.radiofrance.fr /franceinfo/podcasts/8h30-franceinfo/anne-hidalgo-dit-avoir-ete-menacee-dans-son-bureau-par-des-lobbies-automobiles-8338163
  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
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    Is China's government 'of the proletariat'?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What is something you don't (or didn't) know the name of?