fosforus

@fosforus@sopuli.xyz

politics: green/libertarian

geo: anti-r***ia, anti-religious extremism, anti-fascist, anti-trump

gaming since 1986

linuxing since 1996

psych: drinking too much coffee, wasting too much time and energy in here

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fosforus, (edited )

Plus the highest debt/GDP ratio in the world by far.

edit Oh wait, Venezuela topped them. Well done, socialism!

fosforus,

Isn’t it obvious? Linux turns people trans.

fosforus,

I’m sure you all hate him, but this is “Uplifting News”.

fosforus, (edited )

Also the peace.

fosforus,

I’m uplifted too when people I strongly dislike die, but I wouldn’t post such things here.

fosforus,

Two thousand GPUs

fosforus, (edited )

Dump all your data in a data lake, throw a thousand GPUs in there too, and you’ll have your answer in 2 hours max.

fosforus, (edited )

Another good one is Magnet. Its weakness is that the tiling is manual, but once you internalize the keybindings, it’s good enough. And because it’s manual, it doesn’t screw up your windows like all the others seem to (for me at least).

Sway on Linux beats all of them hands down, though.

fosforus, (edited )

M$ is it keeps trying to be more and more like Apple

Apple has adverts in macos somehow, but I’m not sure what it means since I’ve never seen ads in there. Perhaps they’re in app store or safari or something, but I don’t use either, so I don’t know.

Windows on the other hand pumps ads on you right at first boot on desktop. I’m sure it’s possible to turn them off somehow, but I usually choose to turn them off by installing Linux.

fosforus, (edited )

If you must use X11 for some reason, i3 is the OG. Sway is Wayland. But yeah, I think those two are pretty much perfection.

fosforus, (edited )

Yeah, that’s not a valid argument. Red fearing countries shouldn’t have been a problem if the ideology actually had been a good one. Communists were trying to spread the ideology just as much as others were trying to stop it.

The whole idea just sucks donkey balls and you’re having a weird nostalgia moment by proxy if you want to rewind the world back to it.

fosforus,

Didn’t that thing end pretty badly?

fosforus,

I think it’s fair that what happens in real world affects how one thinks about a political theory.

fosforus,

Do you think that people get richer when a group of people decide they have no rights of ownership and one person owns everything, or do you acknowledge that democracy and decentralization are good?

False dichotomy. Those are obviously not the actual two options.

fosforus, (edited )

Capitalism can’t outlast automation

That’s what they thought of factorization as well, but it outlasted it just fine. Same thing will happen with more advanced forms of automation, but there will be growing pains certainly.

fosforus,

Looking at current and previous implementations of communism, it’s not at all clear. They resemble Mad Max more than Star Trek.

fosforus, (edited )

What, genuinely, is unpleasant to imagine about a Stateless, Classless, Moneyless society?

That attempts to implement it invariably lead to shit, apparently.

fosforus, (edited )

Again, a lazy statement. You’re supposing that I don’t know a thing because I don’t agree with you. That is a wrong supposition altogether, certainly some sort of a logical fallacy, and also, most importantly, this is linuxmemes, sir.

fosforus, (edited )

You jest. But no, communism is horrible.

fosforus, (edited )

So which is capitalism? The world of Star Trek contains technology that has brought humanity (and other species) to a state of extreme abundance. They generate food from energy and they have almost infinite energy. The situation is so much better than the real world that probably any system would work just fine. One of the biggest reasons why we need to have economic systems is scarcity.

fosforus, (edited )

A new person comes to join the lazy statement club. Welcome! If you think I should take you folks seriously, however, perhaps you should try forming actual arguments.

fosforus, (edited )

As a system, it’s the best one so far.

fosforus, (edited )

That analogue is so off the mark that I don’t what you’re trying to say. Are you implying that communist countries were building their societies with absolute peace and non-communists started all the trouble?

fosforus, (edited )

The amount of people living in extreme poverty was 94% in 1820. In 1981, it was 44.3%. In 2015, 9.6%. This effect is entirely due to Capitalism. Perhaps wages in the West have stagnated because people in other countries deserve those better wages more? Just a hunch, no data to back that one up, except these statistics.

This incredible success in saving people from horrible conditions might not continue, but the recent history has been pretty great.

fosforus,

Oh come on, that is such a lazy argument. I suppose you’re an economics PhD then?

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