He is narrowly defining the two terms specifically when it suits his argument, but none of these are socialist systems. Of course, he is ignoring the connection between socialist philosophy and these systems and the groups that fought for these systems and their ideology.
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Why do you think I put quotations on those terms?
You should look into the Pinkerton’s and a lot of the horsecrap that was going on in the 1800s in a more purely capitalist system. There are systems that mix “socialism” with “capitalism” that work out pretty well. Socialist systems brought the broken capitalist systems out of the destitute poverty people were in, systems like Unions, New Deal policies and so many others. Regulation saved children’s lives in the early 20th century.
I agree that socialism has never worked, but neither has capitalism. It has ALWAYS been a mixed system that flourishes.
You’re correct. For example, me or my wife get “pre-annoyed” at the other. We are always in the wrong when we do it and it takes a couple of grown ups to understand that. I don’t agree with the childish mentality that you are in the right for being an asshole. Like, just treat people with respect and don’t take your ish out on other people. When you find yourself aggressive towards someone before they say anything, you are in the wrong and should reexamine your life.
denshirenji@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight?4·1 month agoFixed. Even a horrible writer that rips off ancient Sumerian myth needs an editor.
denshirenji@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight?15·1 month agoAt some point the bear would be killed and, seeing that his own end would come, the gorilla would go into an existential crisis and would go on a long quest to find out how to avoid death. This quest would, eventually, lead the gorilla to finding an old lab from the time of the humans. In this lab there would live an old chimpanzee that has survived countless ages. When asked how he long survived, the chimpanzee would explain that the humans discovered the secret to immortality.
Alas, when asked for directions on how to achieve the same, the chimp would tell the gorilla that the process was lost to the span of time. The secret, however, could be found by making a journey to the lowest depths of a sunken part of urban jungle, wherein an old lab sits. After acquiring the gear to survive, the gorilla would dive deep into the abyss, and would make it to the lab. In the lab, the secret would be discovered and he would make his way to the surface, victorious.
Alas, as the ape ascended, he would be beset upon by a large mutant fish. A monster so terrifying that even the non-descriptions of the human writer H.P. Lovecraft wouldn’t be able to do it justice. The gorilla would fight the monster and emerge victorious, but at a cost. The secret that he had spent so long pursuing would be destroyed. Lost to time.
The gorilla would go back to the urban jungle and marvel at the world that he and the bear had built. Resigned to his inevitable death, this urban jungle would stand the test of time as a symbol to all that came after, of the might of the bear and the gorilla.
As someone who lives in the Southeast US that works for a European company with children with their amazing mother who happens to be black, it is absolutely terrifying. The ignorance of people is absolutely astounding and terrifying. I have conversations with people I work closely with and even the ones who don’t support the insanity are very reticent to call a spade a spade. If we ever get out of this, the cleanup is going to take decades. How long is it going to take to repair our relationship with our former allies? Are my kids going to be safe? Do I pick up and move and hope for the best? I had someone wearing a don’t tread on me flag hat stare me down with disgust the other day while sitting with my family eating. How can this be happening in the open now? /endrant
denshirenji@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Can I create/spin LXC with virt-manager or something similar?English2·2 months agoForgot about that. Think there are a few. Here is an example. https://github.com/osamuaoki/incus-ui-canonical
Edit: Here’s another. https://github.com/PenningLabs/lxconsole
denshirenji@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Can I create/spin LXC with virt-manager or something similar?English2·2 months agoI’m not sure about virt-manager, but there is Incus. I have a server coming soon that I am going to test it out on. https://github.com/lxc/incus.
denshirenji@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weaponEnglish32·3 months agoThe article’s title isn’t a title, it’s hyperbole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole?wprov=sfla1
denshirenji@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Landing page for all my servicesEnglish5·3 months agoThis is what I use. I tried other ones, but this one is simple to set up and edit. It’s very clean and has a ton of widgets for services. I would like it to have a login option, but that isn’t a deal breaker.
denshirenji@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Any people who speak Urdu/Hindi on Lemmy?5·4 months agoUrdu is spoken in Pakistan and is a sister language of Hindi. They are very similar and there is a high degree of mutual intelligibility. It has some Arabic and Persian influence as I understand it.
Perhaps you might be thinking of the Ugaritic language. It was spoken in the Syria/Lebanon area.
Your point is well taken and I appreciate expanding my knowledge on this a bit, but I don’t think that it is that cut and dry. Mach, the kernel from which both is not Unix. Mach is basis for XNU (X is not Unix, sound familiar). From the screenshots from Wikipedia, pretending that BSD is not embedded within MacOS is just trying to obfuscate things. The Mach virtual memory manager for instance is in FreeBSD, so it goes the other way around as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)?wprov=sfla1
Same!
denshirenji@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your culture's outlook towards authority figures? What seems to have influenced it?2·11 months ago-
Britishcolonialism bad. -
This goes far before the British. Before the British, there were the Mughals. This part of the indian culture is old and predates either of these two. The caste system has been around forever.
Edit: Bit of clarity.
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denshirenji@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?2·11 months agoI do think we may be over-prescribing these to a certain degree, but I know people whose lives are impacted for the better due to medication for ADHD, for example. Its easy to understand when you see someone with severe symptoms one day, then calmer and more focused the next.
I mean there are restaurants and a hotel, though.
denshirenji@lemmy.worldto Memes@lemmy.ml•The "one bad apple" claims always ignore the many many many bad apples that exist2·1 year agoWholeheartedly agree!
I have had some time to think about it, and I should have included the word systemic instead of serious. I still stand by my overall point with regard to what the idiom actually means. I don’t believe that its a good thing to misrepresent something just to prove a point.
denshirenji@lemmy.worldto Memes@lemmy.ml•The "one bad apple" claims always ignore the many many many bad apples that exist51·1 year agoI kind of think this is also a bit misleading. Isn’t the point of the phrase that you should remove the bad apple lest it affect the rest. As in, “If you leave the bad apple in the barrel it will spoil the bunch. So remove it before it does.” I don’t quite think that its really being misappropriated.
From your link a translated original proverb:
“Well better is a rotten apple out of the store
Than that it rot all the remnant."
So, by that logic, if you get those bad apples put before they spoil the bunch then they were “just bad apples”.
To be clear I’m not saying the phrase isn’t being used to minimize serious issues. But the point of the phrase wasn’t that one bad apple means the entire bunch is already rotten, but that you need to remove the bad elements before the rot spreads.
Do you have one? How well does it work? I’m interested in getting a Linux phone, but am worried it will be a waste of money.