Simon_Shitewood

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So you don't know how meat alternatives are made, you don't know how veganism works, and you can't even manage the automated SPaG your phone insists on. Why exactly do you think anyone would care about any of your opinions, never mind this one?

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 2 pts · 2d

Or Kim could give up power and reform the government to a more western style of democracy.

You mean like America, which invaded and destroyed 80% of Korean infrastructure and killed over 3 million civilians? That kind of western democracy? You are the exact same type of chauvinist that caused the Korean war in the first place.

"ah, it might not be Stalinist, but I don't care"

Maybe you don't understand what I mean by boogeyman; he's a mystical entity, a superstition, a spectre that haunts your thoughts - you associate the USSR with him far beyond his actual life or influence. Even once the government rejected him you still cling to his singular presence as the driving force, you buy into the Great Man Theory and lay all responsibility at his feet. You faux affability doesn't hide your lack of self reflection or your attempts try to deflect your perceptions onto me.

Stalinists are not communists.

If you don't see him as a boogeyman why are you still including such an irrelevant statement? The USSR had already begun de-Stalinisation under Khrushchev some 3 years earlier - The USSR is not synonymous with Stalin or Stalinism. Stalin and Stalinism had nothing to do with the Berlin Wall, but blaming him is knee jerk reaction for you.

on Reverse the roles · c/twitter · 3 pts · 5d

Ok, sure, not literally every single one, but the ones that emulate black stereotypes definitely aren't particularly of that tiny minority.

on Me_irl · c/me_irl · 1 pts · 6d

No, you definitely added that assumption yourself, it just talks about saving capital. You are assuming there is equal money to made in self expression as there is commercial execution.

As the article explains, non western names will be reordered or incorrectly shortened to fit western standards. As an example, the Telugu name "Venkata Satyanarayana Naidu" is ordered family name - personal name - caste suffix, so it might get rendered as "V. Satyanarayana Naidu", "V.S Naidu", "S. Venkata Naidu", or "S.V. Naidu", none of which are correct ways to shorten their name.

on Me_irl · c/me_irl · 1 pts · 6d

Yeah, if they're not doing some other form of labour. I really feel like you might need to spend more time thinking on the meaning of the quote if you're wasting time trying to find gotchas where things that can potentially be done just for pleasure are being turned into labour.

on Me_irl · c/me_irl · 1 pts · 6d

I mean you're just arguing that thinking is labour for a philosopher. The statement remains correct. The philosopher is encouraged to think about publishable things instead of just for the freedom of thinking.

on Me_irl · c/me_irl · 2 pts · 7d

...the actual labour? Philosophers aren't paid to just sit around thinking, it's only once they put the labour into publishing their thoughts that they get paid (possibly).

You misunderstand me - are the police actually using the desktop environment, clicking menus and launching programs, or is the OS just a vehicle for them to run one program that covers all their tasks and duties? Because the commenter's point was that people who are actually using the DE hate change, so your example will be irrelevant if the cops aren't actually using the DE.