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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 hours ago

flim flammage.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 hours ago

let's use your example of firefighters. the obvious subjugation is the government, when looking at its budget, diverting funds away to pet policies and luxuries (not to mention Robert Moses–style redlining), which is how you have volunteer firefighters that cease all activities at night when you needed them to handle a 4AM electrical backyard fire where i grew up.

the less obvious subjugation is capitalism itself. when the firefighters walk home under this "socialism", their problems of survival are not solved. they have to take their capital into the nearest grocer and be subject to the horrors of the market: the nearest walmart, the #1 shrink on communities today, replacing the mom-and-pop of memories and community gatherings with a well-oiled, prices machine that runs at a loss until it becomes the only shop (or only competing with similar price machines) in town, at which point it maximizes its profit margin and sells the same cheap items at a markup just enough to be purchasable under welfare assistance. firefighters, historically poorly compensated for their public service, are forced to limit themselves to walmart's stale options and other working class horrors. this sticks you with the difficult choice of either increasing regulation—risking further government discrimination and costs that burden firefighter funding—or maintaining the status quo. you've got every industry risking safety, health, and quality to do things cheaper, and the people relying on regulation and inspection that can never get through every nook and cranny to defend the consumer instead of eliminating the perverted incentive that is capitalism. the final alternative to combining firefighter socialism with capitalism here is to distribute food and other essentials instead of salary, which uh i don't think is a good idea if legends of government rations and their poor variety hold. maybe when the government is run by omniscient telepaths...

i agree with your last sentence, though. i support syndicalism, which needs to go further—into governance—than just membership. i'll admit that you could call a syndicalist society capitalist which isn't something i've thought of before

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 hours ago

the article mentions that they're close; it sounds like nathan told nick before getting involved in politics

 

“Just know that if you see someone that looks like me at a Republican event

appeared on opposing ends of an extremely public redistricting debate

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 20 points 1 day ago

new content farm strat just dropped

 

Generally, I like Scottish people (I remember that nice little lady in Dr Findlay's casebook) so I expect Anthony (for that is his name) has nice legs and looks very dashing in his kilt when throwing telegraph poles about, which seems to be one of their extraordinary national pastimes. (quite why one hesitates to imagine)

 

A random ballot or random dictatorship is a randomized electoral system where the election is decided on the basis of a single randomly selected ballot. [...] Random dictatorship was first described in 1977 by Allan Gibbard, who showed it to be the unique social choice rule that treats all voters equally while still being strategyproof in all situations. Its application to elections was first described in 1984 by Akhil Reed Amar. The rule is rarely, if ever, proposed as a genuine electoral system, as such a method (in Gibbard's words) "leaves too much to chance". However, the rule is often used as a tiebreaker to encourage voters to cast honest ballots, and is sometimes discussed as a thought experiment. ...

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

welfare capitalism is still capitalism as even firefighters are still subjugated by class and capital

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 day ago

I agree, but for these cases specifically I disagree. I agree that the toolbar LibreOffice defaults to is god-awful but View→User Interface... gives you options to select much better menus. Personally Contextual Groups has the most potential but Groupedbar is currently the best. I found GIMP 3.0 as straightforward as Photoshop, especially after I found the search actions tool.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I agree with you, but I think your example is lacking as the stabber purely intended to mug and not uncover cancer.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

it's more about which one is better for more situations, no? it is much harder for different situations in the same area to dynamically decide which economic system is better.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 19 points 4 days ago

well i say "sussy" derives from "fussy", not "bussy". it's even pronounced with a(n?) /ʌ/ instead of a(n?) /ʊ/!/hj

to ruin the joke, i think the "s" is just doubled like that so as to not incriminate poor susie baka–chan.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 4 days ago

I don't think it was supposed to be in the press/marketed/popularly known this early—I think it's reasonable that they need some years to get all the labor unions to agree. It's true that marketing places hype cycles (not sure if that's what they're called) at most about a year before release date, but to market something you'd need more years to develop the product first. So this article is probably more of a "Director {X} picked to direct new {FRANCHISE} movie" than "{FRANCHISE} MOVIE 4 IN THEATRES 2028"

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 5 days ago

community college is flexible

 

Crossposted from https://kbin.melroy.org/m/nyt/_gift/_articles@sopuli.xyz/t/1373324

Today, on Black Friday, many Gen Z shoppers won’t be scouring luxury stores or big-box aisles for their gifts. Instead, they are turning to thrift stores, consignment shops and resale apps. About 86 percent of Gen Z-ers say they’re more likely to purchase a secondhand holiday gift this year than they would have been, according to a report from eBay.

 

Today, on Black Friday, many Gen Z shoppers won’t be scouring luxury stores or big-box aisles for their gifts. Instead, they are turning to thrift stores, consignment shops and resale apps. About 86 percent of Gen Z-ers say they’re more likely to purchase a secondhand holiday gift this year than they would have been, according to a report from eBay.

 

We find that nearly one fifth of urban and suburban US car owners express a definite interest in living car-free (18 %), and an additional 40 % are open to the idea. This is in addition to the small share (10 %) of urban and suburban US residents currently living without a car.

 

The donor and his family were healthy, and not aware of any problem. He also did not inherit the mutation, but developed it spontaneously in some cells before he was born. [...] ‘Each sperm in an ejaculate is slightly different so screening these is also not simple – though if a child is born with a condition the screening sperm approach can be used to tell if a risk like this exists.

today i learned about fark and checked out their front page

 

A way to combat [chaos in discussions] is to imagine all the potential contributors are standing in a circle. The person who starts the debate (by nominating an article for deletion, say) throws a ball into the circle. The game is meant to be that you catch it, throw it to someone else, and then sit down. Games get so complicated though...

 

Local police stations are offering their facilities as a safe place to meet when buying and selling on craigslist.

i swear this ain't a spam post i found this and the advice mildly interesting i'm promise—

 

“Mr. Vance still enjoys wearing diapers,” she wrote of her client, who used the alias “Diaperjdv” on social media.

 

Opinion: What Hunger Looks Like

 

It’s rare for Italian lawmakers from across the political spectrum to agree on anything. But on Tuesday, the lower house of Parliament unanimously ratified a law introducing the crime of femicide into Italy’s criminal code, punishable by life in prison.

(title from entry in NYT's The Morning newsletter)

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