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fosforus, (edited ) to linuxmemes in Yeah, very sorry that this app is Windows only, would love to switch to Mac

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 ) to comicstrips in "Last Word" by J.L Westover

I was kinda worried for a while that since kids these days don’t really have music as a tool to rebel against their parents, and as for shocking via clothing or something like goth or satanism… they’re just recycling 80s and 90s all over again. So how are they gonna do it?

Not so worried anymore. They always find something. And not just from language. The ways to be fucking idiots are endless and as a really novel thing, kids these days go up to 30 year olds.

fosforus, to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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 ) to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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, to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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

fosforus, (edited ) to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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 ) to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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 ) to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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 ) to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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, to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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

fosforus, to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

Didn’t that thing end pretty badly?

fosforus, (edited ) to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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, to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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

fosforus, (edited ) to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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, (edited ) to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

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

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

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