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  • North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager

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  • if they manage to do it between a rock and a hard place, the system itself is plenty stable enough to work under better conditions

    That's like saying that if fusion manages to happen in the middle of the sun, surely it can happen in my living room.

    if you somehow teleported it over it wouldn't regress politically -- what would be the reason for people to allow that?

    Why wouldn't they? If my family is about to starve and most import and export is blocked, sure I will work on a farm to sustain our community, because ultimately that also feeds my family and I don't have the option to seek better job somewhere in EU.

    If there is no ISIS on the border trying to murder me, why should I accept that the farm that belonged to my family for generations was collectivized and I'm working on it for a tiny share rather than benefiting from all it can produce?

  • North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager

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  • Thanks for detailed reply. I didn't mean it in a bad way. It certainly wasn't well written comment. Apologies.

    What I failed to convey is that IMO this is not best example as It's a community stuck between rock and a hard place. A lot of what it is right now seems to exist out of necessity. Which makes me wonder how well would it work if there were other realistic options that aren't absolutely horrible.

    Like if you lifted the entire land and dropped it in the middle of the EU with free market and mobility, would it still exist? I don't think it would. For the same reasons I mentioned earlier.

  • North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager

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  • Yeah that one is probably closest. Still pretty far from socialism and held together by military with child soldiers.

  • North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager

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  • Well at least they have the right to (down)vote then. That isn't that common in the socialist paradise last time I've checked. 🤣

  • North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager

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  • Right but as soon as you have hierarchy, you have classes. You can have hierarchy in family owned business and it can work with everyone doing their best for the good of the business/family. But these social structures fall apart as the hierarchy grows bigger. And very soon what's good for your family is not necessary good for the business - including non-monetary stuff like how much time you spend working or how hard your job is. Notice how there's not a single CEO or shareholder in the picture and the system is already falling apart.

    There is this famous saying from communist times: "If you're not stealing, you're stealing from your family" That pretty much sums it up.

    You can't have working socialism with humans, because the system is inhuman by its very nature. (and I don't mean it in bad way even if the consequences end up being really nasty for many human beings)

  • North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager

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  • Yes, exactly it always fails, because it just does not scale. It's an idea, that can't exist in reality on a country level. You can point to Freetown Christiania as an example - a small anarchist commune, that already shows some major cracks in its structure. I mean, just grow family business a bit and you can already see structures and hierarchy emerging.

  • North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager

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  • I was born in country where intellectuals were in jail and uneducated workers were put to management positions, because they should own the means of production or some bullshit like that. You can imagine the end result of that.

    And again, this is the same "that wasn't true socialism" argument. Obviously it wasn't. The socialism as per your definition can't exist on a country level. You can see it being implemented on a small company level (think family owned businesses) but the bigger it gets the more the cracks show and it just does not scale.

  • North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager

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  • This is the problem with people promoting socialism. They tend to compare idealized version of socialism with real version of capitalism. And such comparison inevitably leads to unrealistic conclusions.

    The problem is that real version of socialism is what you see in China or Cuba or former USSR. The argument with "we haven't done socialism right" is the same as "we haven't done capitalism right".

    I have been born in socialist country and to this day I can see negative consequences of that era. And the obvious reason why ideal socialism can't exist - people. Same reason why capitalism sucks.

    Edit: To people downvoting me: Your fake internet points have no meaning, but I love the irony of it. You can't even keep the illusion of classlessness and equality in an internet thread, yet you are somehow convinced you could run a country like that. You'd be locking people for life in your communist paradise just for having different opinion and you know it.

  • Openboard fork got rebranded into Heliboard

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  • Agree. And this is the first OSS keyboard I've found that can do multiple languages at the same time without switching the language/layout. (You can set secondary language) It requires a bit of setup (like downloading dictionaries) but I'd suggest to give it a try.

  • Irish unification referendum by 2030, Sinn Fein leader tells Sky News

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  • They are still part of a country that's not within the EU. Even living in Ireland it's sometimes a major pain to do anything in the UK. (Ordering stuff, returns, etc..) I can imagine it's turned up to 11 in NI.

  • Russia finds ‘errors’ in paperwork of candidate hoping to stand against Putin

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  • It wouldn't get as far as Belarus IMO. Belarusian people don't have such a slave mindset. They are not free, but they are also willing to fight somewhat for their rights.

    But still, popular candidate would be a problem in russia.

  • Russia finds ‘errors’ in paperwork of candidate hoping to stand against Putin

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  • Obviously Putin is going to get 105% of the votes. There's no winning if you're not Putin.

    But this is still quite a disaster for Putin as the collected votes are the closest thing to citizens expressing their real opinion on Putin.

    That's why they are trying to present the signatures as illegitimate. It's not that they are afraid of losing elections to the opposition. It's the fact that the opposition got such a support that is problem.

  • Ukraine levels up the fight with drone strikes deep into Russia

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  • IMO it will likely drive the price in countries that still directly buy cheap russian oil. So russia and India. There might be some price increase that will bubble up to the western countries, but it's probably not going to be huge.

  • US ‘disappointed’ Hungary taking so long to approve Sweden joining Nato

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  • Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what?

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  • Obtainium will check regularly for new versions and update automatically. So that's definitely a benefit if you'd like to keep the apps updated.

    As for Mull, you could add its f-droid link into Obtainium if you'd like to have all updates via a single app.

  • Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what?

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  • I feel so sorry for recommending a closed source app in this community, but Genius Scan from Grizzly Labs is the only non-oss app I still use. I think I paid around €30 for the enterprise version so it doesn't bother me with cloud nonsense.

    It's all local only (if you want) and the scanning quality is the best I've found. (I used OpenNoteScanner for a few months, sadly it's not even close both in terms of quality and convenience)

    I figured I'll mention it as an alternative to MS Lens app that likely sucks in every bit of information it can get its hands on.

  • Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what?

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  • That specific repository has no releases so it won't work AFAIK. You need a repository with releases, that have apk attached. (Typically the developer would set up a CI workflow to build and attach apk for every release)

    Edit: For example AuroraStore has releases with apks. So you can just enter gitlab repo for AuroraStore into Obtainium and it will install it and keep it updated.

  • Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy

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  • You always get a Result. On that result you can call result.unwrap() (give me the bool or crash) or result.unwrap_or_default() (give me bool or false if there was error) or any other way you can think of. The point is that Rust won't let you get value out of that Result until you somehow didn't handle possible failure. If function does not return Result and returns just value directly, you (as a function caller) are guaranteed to always get a value, you can rely on there not being a failure that the function didn't handle internally.

  • Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy

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  • Well in that sense Rust is even more predictable than Java. In Java you can always get back exception that bubbled up the stack. Rust function would in that case return Result that you need to handle somehow before getting the value.