Woke up a 1, then remembered i live in a genocidal regime collapsing at the end of history, and I still have to show up to work for several hours of meetings. So I'm at about a 7 now, as my day truly starts.
I think I have to concede this one. I have found numerous attributions of the quote but no mention of the source. Ultimately, i think it's probably a misquote or a cross-wiring of Lenin's essay: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. I think people are just freely substituting "fascism" for "imperialism". Obviously, leftists would see them as related but shouldn't conflate the two as being equivalent.
Well, to address the meme in particular then, it's a fairly common saying that fascism is either capitalism in decline/crisis or is the end-game/final-form of capitalism. The first form is a direct quote from Vladimir Lenin: "Fascism is capitalism in decay." The latter arises from statements by Mussolini, though it does seem the commonly cited "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism" may be a misquote or misinterpretation of his meaning.
I would actually lean into your rebuke somewhat, fascism is a form of authoritarianism and can make use of capitalism as a tool, but ultimately the totalitarian has as much interest in truly free markets as they do in truly free societies. I would say the inevitability is after allowing the market to centralize through unregulated monopolizing, the fascist would then nationalize the industry or otherwise bring it under their own personal control.
Fascism is fundamentally a cult devoted to power: they'll ally with whichever power currently holds non-government sway, be that capitalists, feudal lords, or gang leaders. What fascists are deeply against is any form of distributed power: be that a truly free and well-regulated market, a trade union, or anarchism of any stripe.
I feel like its a mixed bag. Certainly there's an infinitely higher chance of someone randomly noticing a backdoor in OSS than in closed source simply because any OSS project in use has someone looking at it. Many closed systems have dusty corners that haven't had programmer eyes on them in years.
But also, modern dev requires either more vigilance than most of us have to give or more trust than most of us would ideally be comfortable offering. Forget leftpad, I've had npm dependencies run a full python script to compile and build sub dependencies. Every time I run npm update, it could be mining a couple of bitcoins for all I know in addition to installing gigs and gigs of other people's code.
The whole industry had deep talks after leftpadgate about what needed to be done and ultimately, not much changed. NPM changed policy so that people couldn't just dissapear their packages. But we didn't come up with some better way.
Pretty much every language has its own NPM now, the problem is more widespread than ever. With Rust, it can run arbitrary macros and rust code in the build files, it can embed C dependencies. I'm not saying it would be super easy to hide something in cargo, i haven't tried so I don't know, but i do think the build system is incredibly vulnerable to supply chain attacks. A dependency chain could easily pull in some backdoor native code, embed it deep into your app, and you might never realize it's even there.
A timeless classic on any system! Even though the remake is.... 20 years(!!!) old, its still an excellent way to play the game. They updated the graphic and interface, but kept all the core gameplay the same. There's never been a pirate rpg\sim as comprehensive as Pirates!
What is with these lame-o fuckers and chainsaws? They're actively making Doom less cool by association. The next time I see a ghoul and a chainsaw in the same photo, the saw better be facing the opposite direction!
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Reminds me a bit of the old default Gtk look. Or maybe early Java Swing... The flat look, primary colors, and some other elements to me; it's very nostalgic. Not sure of any themes that fit it though, sorry, haha
Someone on another mission trip is Acolyte Paul! I assign the names, otherwise we'd have a bunch of Jews dead from an argument over who gets to be Acolyte John. So, you are Acolyte Pink!
Obviously the pope's protective glass box is permanent, and must be slotted into the truck. The moment they decide you're pope, into the safety box you go.
(Theres a 40K\golden-throne joke in there somewhere but I'm feeling lazy today.)
Can you make a movie out of pure lore? Maybe a prequel, like The Fall of Hoarah Loux or Ranni's Rebellion? Will the audience be required to parry things?
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Fercris-Hart-1/Boss-Made-a-Dollar-I-Made-a-Dime
Boss made a dollar, I made a dime
That was a rhyme from a simpler time
Now boss makes a thousand and gives me a cent
When I′m an employee who can't pay my rent
When the boss makes a million and us workers make jack
That′s when I protest and take my life back
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime
That's why I shit on company time
Boss makes a billion, my prospects are grim
Next company party, I'm gonna eat him
When the boss makes a million and us workers make jack
That′s when we riot and take our lives back
We make a penny, the boss makes fifteen
Guess who′s in line for the guillotine
Boss made a dollar, we made a dime
Til' we went to his mansion and burned him alive