These mid-half money breaks are truly terrible. But they are so very American.

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.

Bushnell, Manning, or no recent examples

Not all will be high-profile. For example, some of the hosts and guests of Eyes Left are ex-military turned anarchists, and there’s the infamous " 'sup bootlickers" guy. Those aren’t exactly recent either, but my point is that one can redeem themselves without being imprisoned or in some other newsworthy situation

Caveat: Even post-conscription, there are still people who get into the military out of ignorance[1]. If you’re a vet who has become an anti-war activist out of disgust, you can gain my respect. But any proud or indifferent veteran post-WWII? Atrocious, as in ‘atrocity’.

[1] - https://soundcloud.com/eyesleft/wakeups1

Reminder, for those who aren’t familiar with Butler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Off-topic but related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Epstein (born 1915)

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Stopped reading at “Do you want to work”

(well, at least not for money)

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.

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.

Linking to a reply I posted in this thread because it talks about a relevant aspect, which other (correct) comments haven’t named: hypodescent.

https://lemmy.ml/post/47987898/25930253

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.

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

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

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

Anything in the ballpark of “working class ownership of the means of production”.

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?

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).

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.