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  • Im curious what they will come up with

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  • Whenever they take on real world stuff, they're incredibly smug and sanctimonious about it. This has been the case since the start, and I can't say I've ever been able to get past that.

  • Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate

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  • I'm getting strong rest of the owl vibes from a lot of what you say.

    So for example, you say you need strong allies. Well, list some candidates! China? They have a policy of non-intervention, so don't count on it. Cuba? Not very strong. The US, or some other nation that's captured by the owning class (Netherlands, France, Germany, etc)? Fat chance.

    Same with the focus having folks join unions more. I think it's a great outcome to strive for, but how do we achieve that goal? On a systemic level we see union membership dropping, and that's no coincidence, because more and more anti-union legislation is enacted across the board in Europe and America. And that in turn is no coincidence because the people who really don't want us to unionize have enough money to lobby this legislation into existence, and they happen to own the media, so they're also doing a good job of convincing us that it is against our interests to join a union. Voting a pro-union candidate into power is incredibly difficult for the simple fact that campaign funds are a pretty decent predictor of electoral success, and guess who has the money to contribute significant amounts to those funds? Not me.

    The education thing too is pretty great, but it assumes that some worker-friendly entity already has control over the education system. How do you get there? And education only goes so far of course. At some point folks leave the educational system, and their main source of information becomes the media. I've seen well-educated folks be completely convinced that there is no genocide in Gaza, and I could not blame them, because for the first year no major outlet would even utter the word. How do you prevent the media from being captured by the owning class?

    Ultimately the problem is that the opponent has the means and willingness to use violence to quell your movement. And they've shown time and again that they will use these means, and history shows it works (Allende, the Spanish anarchist revolution, the Paris commune, Indonesia's takeover by Suharto, Lumumba, etc). How do you defend yourself effectively against a violent aggressor without resorting to illiberal means yourself?

  • This has happened so many times

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  • Hahaha you're literally doing the thing. Good stuff

  • Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate

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  • Yeah! And we need to do it in a way where the incredibly rich and powerful who have a vested interest and desparate need for us to fail won't kill our movement! In the past and present, any socialist movement was met with

    • death squads
    • propaganda
    • military invasions
    • assasinations of heads of state
    • funding, arming, and training the opposition
    • economic sanctions
    • so, so much propaganda

    all funded by the absurdly wealthy to make nations fail and make them more amenable to re-exploitation by the owning class.

    Any ideas on how to defend ourselves against this phenomenon which occurs over and over again?

  • Early access

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  • They did fail to demonstrate knowledge of lexicographical order, which this exercise seems to be aiming for with the inclusion of pond and pumpkin, so I think it's a bit cynical to consider failing the student on this a means of opression or subjugation.

  • No one is illegal

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  • Ok, let's indulge in your racist rhetoric a little bit. What you're essentially claiming is that violent crime will go up if there are more immigrants. However, if you look at actual data, you'll see that the number of violent crimes per capita for undocumented immigrants is much, much lower than for citizens. Reality just doesn't line up with your BS. Facts don't care about your feelings.

  • No one is illegal

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  • Fearmongerers be like...

    Trafficked women and children be like… HELP

    Drug couriers be like… THANKS

    Terrorists be like…EASY

  • YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

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  • So how did the general strike go?

  • France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

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  • Yes this is correct, we're in complete agreement there. The comment I was responding to worded it vaguely though, which made it sound like you cannot get a divorce because you have a sexless marriage. It made it sound like people were being forcibly kept married, which is false. You can get divorced because it's Tuesday, or because the moon is in retroflux. Holding your spouse responsible for those things is a different story, however.

    For reference here's the part of the comment I replied to:

    Should a person not be allowed to divorce if they fell out of love with their partner, ergo they turned out to have less or no more sex?

    Emphasis mine.

  • France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

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  • Should a person not be allowed to divorce if they fell out of love with their partner, ergo they turned out to have less or no more sex?

    They absolutely should, and they will still be able to, nothing's changed there.

  • Senior devs...

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  • Quickest way to get a test suite so tightly coupled to structure rather than behavior that even just looking at the tests wrong makes them fail. But technically you do get test coverage I guess. Goodhart's law in action.

  • Sanders says ‘not another penny’ for ICE until Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller are gone

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  • The moderate wing of fascism in action.

  • YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

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  • since they can use things like sick/vacation days conveniently timed right

    American workers live in such a different world. Not once in my 34 years on earth would it have occurred to me to go on sick leave or spend one of my holidays on strike. Absolutely insane.

  • Beautiful But Deadly

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  • Every big change is ultimately just a series of small changes. It takes skill and engineering chops to be able to break up big ideas into small steps with quick feedback loops, but it can be done. Usually worth the effort too.

  • Beautiful But Deadly

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  • Unfortunately, often that’s a complex idea so it can be somewhere on the order of an hour before they stop coding and try compiling.

    Maybe I've been lucky with the people I got to work with so far (and I definitely am), but I know of no professional software engineer that would voluntarily subject themselves to such a long feedback loop. I guess some of the juniors try to work this way sometimes, but they learn fairly quickly not to. The best ones I know work incrementally. Small change, run, small change run, and so on.

  • Amsterdam prepares to ‘ban the fatbikes’ amid rise in serious accidents [The Netherlands]

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  • People still do that?

  • Amsterdam prepares to ‘ban the fatbikes’ amid rise in serious accidents [The Netherlands]

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  • This is such a dumb argument to make. "Worse problems exist, so let's not do anything about this one". Who did you think you'd convince by writing all this out? What a waste of time.

  • But think of the landlords!

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  • So, I'm not interested in being a Debbie Debater here, and I'm absolutely not claiming that you're wrong, but I think two of the three sources you give don't really pass my standard for reliable.

    The first one doesn't quite pass the vibe check for me. When I go to the home page, the top articles are about "the five greatest russian erotic films" and "7 budding russian models". It just doesn't scream "impartial scientific article" to me.

    The Christian Science Monitor one is from a researcher from radio liberty research. What I read is that this place was founded and funded by the CIA with the explicit purpose of broadcasting propaganda into the east bloc. To me, I'm about as likely to trust an article from this source as I am to trust an article about homelessness in South Korea coming from a think tank funded by North Korea, called the "Proletarian Empowerment Institute" or whatever.

    One thing I can find plenty of impartial sources on is that it's hard to find reliable data on homelessness from the USSR. But to go and trust some less than credible sources for a lack of alternatives is pure lamp post bias.

    I don't have a dog in this fight, and I'm not saying you're wrong. All I'm saying is that the sources you cite don't pass my personal smell test, and I still feel agnostic on whether or not homelessness rates in the USSR were better or worse than in the US in the 80s.

    As an aside, it's really embarrassing, but I don't know where I got the 0.01% figure from. A second google search seems to suggest a range of 600,000 to 2,000,000 out of 247,000,000 so something closer to 0.0025%--0.08%. These figures I am more likely to trust, because the research climate for social sciences in the US was a bit freeer than in the USSR. For me personally, it doesn't really affect whether or not I believe that the homelessness rate in the USSR was higher or lower than in the US because I still feel like I'm pretty much in the dark on the former. But maybe for you these figures help you sharpen your beliefs, so I figured I'd share them.

  • But think of the landlords!

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  • What was their homelessness rate in the 1980s? I've looked for 5 minutes and have not been able to find anything. In the US it was 0.01%.