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Cake day: September 1st, 2023
  • folaht@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do some people want to go back to the 1950’s?
    7·
    1 day ago

    The USSR existed back then and the USSR was doing very well at the time up until 1975,
    right after the petrodollar scheme was made and SWIFT was introduced.
    Because of that, the US had strong labour unions.
    Socialism was popular back then,
    although the US was also able to propagandize that it was explicitly not doing that in the slightest.

    Nowadays, the US will have to fight again against capitalism.
    And capitalists are warring to survive, not just abroad,
    but at home as well.
    Their ideology currently is that capitalism has won,
    communism has lost and therefore any concessions to the left
    will no longer have to be made.

    And US Social democracy isn’t coming from the top this time,
    when FDR decided to take a turn for the left and continued going left,
    up until Jimmy Carter was replaced by Ronald Reagen.

    This time it’s coming from Zohran Mamdani
    and this time it looks like it’s taking the form of democratic socialism,
    a step more to the left than social democracy.

    With better job availibility, your father would have had a much easier time
    maintaining a good income and thus a family.
    You however, would have a trade-off.
    Better job security, but little to no knowledge of your sexuality.
    Also terrible medical practises, barbaric in some fields.

  • folaht@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?
    81·
    5 days ago
    1. Vasectomies (+ birth control pills)
    2. animal testing for human research.
    3. I’m sure that anyone working in a hospital can cough up a few dozen more.

    RISUG has been invented in 1978,
    is reversable, cheaper, zero side effects,
    and with so far 0% failure rate when implemented properly,
    Vasalgel, an improvement on RISUG by having a longer shelf-life,
    has been invented around 2015.

    So this stuff has been invented in the same year as the first Star Wars movie,
    had gone through all trials multiple times with flying colors,
    and instead we use knives and pills with large side effects.

    If any invention could be been ubiquitous in use at a much earlier stage,
    then this would be it.
    It could and should have been widely used by the 1980’s.

    For animal testing we have 3D printed human tissue.
    So why test on animals if your question is “Does this stuff work on human tissue?”
    The answer you’ll be getting is whether or not it works on mice.
    Mice are not human.

  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•weighing BRICS
    23·
    5 days ago

    I’m going with @Sandouq_Dyatha here and say that you are not all international elite spies.
    And it’s not that “countries I don’t like manipulate their GDP”.
    It’s more that GDP measurements, including the PPP kind, are fundementally flawed and that’s by design.
    China is around 2.5 times the economy of the US at this moment by looking how much they are manufacturing
    and how much electricity they use, surpassing the EU per person.

  • folaht@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why does Arch seem to have a cult like following?
    34·
    5 days ago

    Arch is better because…

    • pacman, seriously, I don’t hear enough of how great pacman is.
      Being able to search easily for files within a package is a godsend when some app refuses to work giving you an error message “lib_obscure.so.1 cannot be found”.
      I haven’t had such issues in a long time, but when I do, I don’t have to worry about doing a ten hour search, if I’m lucky, for where this obscure library file is supposed to be located and in what package it should be part of.
    • rolling release. Non-rolling Ubuntu half-year releases have broken my OS in the past around 33% of the time. And lots of apps in the past had essential updates I needed, but required me to wait 5 months for the OS to catch up.
    • AUR. Some apps can’t be found anywhere but AUR.
    • Their wiki is the best of all Linuxes

    The “cult” is mostly gushing over AUR.

  • folaht@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why does Arch seem to have a cult like following?
    91·
    5 days ago

    Unity would be the first example, and although Unity was actually a good DE,
    it was too bloated and almost non-modifiable.

    People jumped ship to Linux Mint that had its priorities straight.

    Mir and Snap were bigger issues though
    as Wayland and Flatpak were great replacements for
    X11 and AppImage and did not need another competitor.

    But the privacy issues were the straw that broke the camel’s back.
    People left windows for linux so they wouldn’t have to deal with this kind of nonsense.

    I actually jumped when Ubuntu jumped to Gnome 3.
    Gnome 3 was too bloated for me and it looked ugly.

    I decided to see what Arch Linux was about
    and eventually settled for Manjaro Linux.
    Arch + Xfce for the win.

  • folaht@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Rutte: They are now producing three times as much ammunition in three months as the whole of NATO is doing in a year.
    81·
    7 days ago

    So dumb people who can’t do multiplications, but can count months, won’t panic.

    On a more serious not, most people skim the headline, read “three times” and think
    “Wow! There’s some work to do!” instead of
    “Twelve times!? Then Russia is winning. Wait, Russia is winning?
    Why is this newspaper not stating that Russia is winning?
    There’s no way Ukraine can win with one bullet versus twelve.
    Shouldn’t this be a giant issue?
    Why is there no giant debate on this?
    Why is my newspaper demanding a debate on this?
    Should Ukraine even continue to risk sending its soldiers to fight a war
    where the enemy has twelve times the amount of ammo?”