Software developer by day, insomniac by night.
I’m not arguing that the attempts haven’t been made, I’m saying that the end result, or status quo if you’d prefer, doesn’t align with intent. Intent isn’t irrelevant, but I don’t think it holds as much water as results.
Like @[email protected] said, communes have and do exist, and some form of communism has existed throughout history, and likely before it. The states we have today though don’t hold up to scrutiny.
These are hardly good examples of communism, just like how modern day U.S. is a pretty poor example of capitalism. A capitalistic society shouldn’t prop up failing businesses using money taken from the workers. A failing business should just fail, yet they’ve been “rescued” time and time again, at the detriment of the people who don’t see those funds and keep being exploited for their labour.
True communism hasn’t ever been implemented, and I wouldn’t look to dictators as examples for how to do it. Dictatorships are incompatible with the fundamental ideas behind communism.
This is a fair point I hadn’t considered!
Boggles the mind how one can be a convicted felon and still be in the race, but if you’re in prison you can’t vote.
He doesn’t control much of anything, actually!
The king of Sweden has a similar exemption from the law, but he also doesn’t hold any political power. I also don’t know how waterproof his status is if he did something heinous enough.
Trump already has done heinous stuff.
Which will work great until corporations implement systems that force it onto us. Microsoft building it into the operating system. Mozilla acquiring advertising companies and implementing AI bullshit. Google edging closer to having a monopoly on browsers.
I’ve learned nothing since I got my first phone and that bad boi didn’t even have a clock.
Yes, you’re reading it right, even if you pay, it doesn’t get rid of ads, they just stop tracking you.
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I hate what the internet has become.
I’m so excited for us to have two simultaneous pandemics.
I believe you’re allowed to run ads on free tiers and offer to remove them by paying. You’re not however allowed to track people without their consent, thus you can’t force personalised ads on users, and say that the only way to get rid of the privacy invasion is to pony up.
What does Iran have to do with things?
Dangerous. Don’t insert things without a flared base or some other appendage for easy removal. That thing looks less like a sex toy and more like a paperweight.
I feel this. It is satisfying, but it’s not really productive.
Well they do charge particularly hard for SSDs as well. They’ve found a way to eat the cake twice.
Companies primarily make decisions to maximise the profitability of someone and it’s never the consumer.
Likely born from frustration. It sucks knowing that the future you’re working towards is likely one you’ll never get to experience.
A small step in the right direction is still a step.
I mean they promise violence if they get their shit through so the only option is to challenge them.