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mellowheat ,

I like how the pronoun suggests that the teacher is an actual cat.

mellowheat ,

My adult children will be ecstatic for my new ability to set their playtime limits and see reports.

mellowheat ,

I hope economists follow this up. The Chicago school theory states that this should help only minimally and at worst increases unemployment which leads to all kinds of bad things.

mellowheat ,

Articles like this is why I have an ad- and tracking blockers.

mellowheat ,

Yeah, Heusinger was Hitler’s chief of staff temporarily when the actual chief of staff got sick. This became a significant event, because Hitler’s assassination attempt happened during that time. Heusinger was suspected of being part of the plot, but no evidence was found. After that, he didn’t have a senior post in the Nazi German Army.

Also he was appointed chair of NATO in 1960s, so significantly later than WW2.

Also he was apparently never a member of the nazi party nor did he take part in nazi atrocities.

But hey, nice example of disinformation.

mellowheat ,

I don’t understand what you’re trying to imply here. He was a senior military leader prior to Hitler’s assassination attempt, of course he participated in planning military operations.

But hey, nice example of disinformation.

mellowheat ,

I think neither your quote nor the text under the link show that. Can you elaborate?

mellowheat ,

Perhaps looking at pictures like this has broken my brain, but the first image looks 100% staged to me.

mellowheat ,

Since when is it an insult to call people what they are?

It’s perhaps not helpful. I can also come up with reasons why Palestinians could be called nazis. Literally the only difference is that they’re not winning. So if Israel is 1939s nazis, Palestine is 1945s nazis.

But how does calling them nazis exactly help?

mellowheat ,

Republicans have never been for free market capitalism really. They just talk like they were, but in reality the only difference is that they’re corrupted by a different set of corporations.

Real free markets are too much for the voters to handle, apparently.

mellowheat ,

I don’t get why a slave owner would care about like 9/10 of the things on that list, though.

mellowheat , (edited )

Reversing that, is LQBTIA+ a communist plot to make western companies have less profit?

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mellowheat ,

Median waiter salary in USA seems to be $15/hr currently. Did you think it was significantly less? There are large differences in the median between states. Where did she work?

mellowheat ,

You may need to look up the meaning of the word “median”.

mellowheat ,

I don’t think tips are included in official salary figures? Are they?

mellowheat ,

Yeah, I agree. There are no clear figures on this.

mellowheat ,

Actual data is exactly what I was basing this on.

mellowheat ,

Sure. But was ~$3/hr a livable wage in 1976?

mellowheat ,

All talk about roughly $14-16 range. But then there are sources like www.payscale.com/research/US/…/Hourly_Rate that say it’s $8/hr.

mellowheat ,

Why do they bother with this show? Do Russians think they live in a democracy? Who is this for?

mellowheat ,

Practically everyone except Nicholas II succeeded in that.

mellowheat ,

I wore a full PPE and dove in there.

They seem to be thinking that this is just a phase, and once Putin is gone, everyone who voted for him or his party is going to start voting for communists and thus Soviet Union will be soon restored.

Also in another thread some person was being feeling deep cognitive dissonance (to the point of crying alone and feeling nobody understands them) when their history professor gently gave them facts about the atrocities Soviet Union committed.

I cannot be mad at these people, but I am very worried how their bubble is feeding into their delusions. That cannot be healthy. I’m willing to bet that there’s a shooter or two brewing in those circles.

mellowheat ,

Also, they’re talking of the vote counts as if they were real.

mellowheat ,

Lemmygrad / World News for instance.

mellowheat , (edited )

Undertale. I was blown away by the soundtrack and the cleverness of it all. The twist was good too, but I hated the total completion grind a bit. But it is optional.

Crypt of the Necrodancer. Again, blown away by the soundtrack and how confidently it pulled off the idea of a rogue-like rhythm game.

Insurgency: Sandstorm. This might be stretching the concept of “indie” a bit, but its predecessor was definitely an indie game. This is an excellent arcade/realistic FPS shooter.

mellowheat ,

The less you know about it going in, the better the experience.

This includes the knowledge that it’s good. You should forget that people praise it everywhere because that has a potential of ruining the experience. It did for me, somehow.

mellowheat OP , (edited )

We didn’t mass murder all Germans after WW2 either.

In Dresden fire bombings, about as many people died in a single bombing operation spanning about 2 days as have died in the Gaza war so far. Note that Gaza’s population density is roughly 10x Dresden’s current population density.

And the Gaza war hasn’t ended yet.

mellowheat OP ,

A fact is that Hamas stopped elections after gaining power. They’re fascists and it’s absurd that the left defends them.

mellowheat ,

That was USA’s ally. They weren’t being supplied out of goodwill.

mellowheat ,

it is meant to make Biden look like he’s doing something other than merely prolonging the slaughter by sending arms to Israel.

How does sending arms to Israel prolong the war? It should rather speed up its resolution, I would think?

mellowheat ,

Non-credible biased source that has been known to habitually lie to further their narrative. Probably doing it again here.

Doesn’t that description match Hamas as well? “Gazan health ministry” is practically Hamas.

mellowheat , (edited )

In the grander scale of global politics, a fact is that Russia is waging an actual war against Ukraine and a covert war against Europe and the West. Another fact is that Palestine has chosen to side with Russia, so in the current situation I see no reason to side with Palestine. I think all resources to help Palestine should be diverted to help Ukraine. When Russia has been contained, we can start thinking about things like Gaza. But until that happens, every diversion just critically weakens us.

It’s like a hierarchy of needs, you know? If my neighbor is threatening to punch me in the face, I don’t have the luxury of being worried about a potentially worse thing happening on the other side of the city.

This doesn’t excuse genocide, if such a thing would be happening, but it sure does give a reason to support Israel over Palestine.

It wasn't just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now? (forward.com)

The most famous forms of Holocaust denial and revisionism tend to focus on Jews, casting doubt, for example, on how many were exterminated in the camps. But denying the impact the Nazis had on the other groups they targeted, including queer and trans people, disabled people and Romani people, is still Holocaust denial. Maybe...

mellowheat ,

JK Rowling is one of the many people who never should’ve gone to Twitter.

mellowheat ,

Once I found out that Harry Potter glorified the British class system by having it take place at an elite private school where people less privileged than them are looked down upon and even called names I was already turned off

Do the books glorify that, though? I seem to remember that only the blatantly evil characters thought like that.

Granted, the last 3 Harry Potter books I read were all Methods of Rationality, so perhaps my understanding of canon is too good.

mellowheat ,

The main character is “half-blood” and his main sidekick is “muggle” herself, so I’d wager not so glorified. Of course, there’s an undercurrent of racism there, because the bloodlines really really matter. But this is fantasy fiction so I don’t how much of a sin it is. Bloodlines mattered in Tolkien too.

I’m not sure if that last sentence is against or for my argument.

mellowheat ,

Yet if you look at the neighboring countries, it’s better in almost every way.

I say “almost” because there could be some minor ways that some neighbor surpasses them.

mellowheat OP , (edited )

Corporations aren’t run in a neoliberal way, though. They’re usually run pretty much as a sort of a communistic hierarchy: decision-making is hierarchical and centralized; resources of all kinds are pooled; uniformity in behavior and looks is encouraged; internal and external propaganda is strong; and internal competition is discouraged. And finally, most of the benefits of the work, i.e. money, goes to the top.

So yeah, countries definitely aren’t corporations, but the end result of that thought isn’t perhaps what you imply.

mellowheat OP ,

Countries don’t need to be profitable, but also they cannot be hundreds of millions in the negative.

They can ignore or change of course all the rules that have been made up, but nobody can ignore the principles of economics.

mellowheat OP ,

I’m talking about every instance when communism has been tried, instead of some fantasy theory that never seems to materialize.

mellowheat OP ,

Red scare has a different tone to it when you live right next to Soviet Union.

mellowheat OP ,

The allies did specifically bomb civilians in WW2 though. And Nazis weren’t usually using human shields.

mellowheat OP ,

In lemmy votes don’t seem to matter that much, unless you’re viewing comments with the “Top” or “Controversial” sorting. But perhaps that’s a symptom of having not so many users.

mellowheat ,

As a European libertarian, americans and people in some far eastern countries work at their jobs way too much. It’s harmful in every kind of way imaginable. I don’t understand why it’s done.

I get that some profession may benefit from it, but having standard office personnel sit at their desk 12 hours every day? What the fuck. I refuse to believe this improves company profits in 90% of the companies.

mellowheat ,

Yes, but the question is why the overlords choose to do this when it doesn’t benefit them in any way.

mellowheat ,

They should just checkout the code from 2005 and copy paste it in.

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