How expensive are these efforts for the taxpayers?

Shouldn't they just ask for Elon's engineering prowess, instead?

Their stupid experiments fail and society has to pay for it, yet again?

Questions shouldn't offend anyone. That's my opinion. /s

If the states of America were not united, the world would be a better place.

I needed to read this, thank you.

Brazilian communists online repeat a mantra along the lines "it looks like it's growing", to reference the libs response and fear against Marxist solid ideas.

It looks like it's growing, comrade.

I hope people will realise very soon that the only civilised places will be the ones that make a point of federatimg with lemmygrad, with heavy moderation.

Then, if lemmy.ml and/or lemmygrad fails (allegory to ussr, Moscow), we will have to learn from those experiences and try a few new ones (allegory to Cuba, dpkr, laos) to figure out how to build something nice.

And then maybe some big instance will emerge (allegory to China), carrying lemmy and lemmygrad ideals, slightly off, but possibly with a better understanding of the internets inherent characteristics. And they will be criticised for dishonoring the legacy by people that didn't bother to build their own instance.

That's my humble forecast (and a joke, explanation in parenthesis) slightly inspired by history. Good luck to us all.

They know that when the fade passes away, we will still be here, strong. :)

I wish cubicles were a thing. Hotdesking sucks balls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_traitor

Additionally, Friedrich Engels, partner and lifelong friend of Karl Marx, the revolutionary socialist, was himself a son of a wealthy factory owner. Such people sacrifice their ability to be part of the capitalist upper-class for the sake of who they see as the oppressed, even if it hurts their status in the process.

I think it's less about your specific status than about the ideas and the people your stand with.

Anything else is just sugar coating and taking the focus away of the class struggle, which is the one that fundamentally matters.

Its not about religion, gender, sexuality, or any oppressed minority. It's all about the capitalists, the rich minority that controls the means of production, artificially seeding dissent in the working class so that we fight between each other instead of against them.

It is all about the capitalists, and they use religion and stupidity to drive fascism into trying to crush intellectuals and revolutionaries that could actually create better conditions for everyone.

I understand your rage. Just please, try to push your knowledge a little deeper.

Not all white individuals are colonialists, and I'm not a white person, by the way.

Wome individuals, sure, white, I'd give it to you, did describe it. But those individual intellectuals were the counter-thinkers to white colonialists. Would you agree with me about it?

Scapegoats are always different. And the individuals directing the public opinion, the people you just called colonialists, we, here, at lemmygrad, call capitalists. They are the same. The rich minority, controlling the means of productions and the public opinion thought the media they control, creating escape goats, one at a time. That's one of the products of fascism. The capitalists are just above it, seeding and using fascism against the minorities your mention.

Fascism is stupidity and ignorance. The capitalists are the brains behind it, using it to their advantage.

We hate the same people, me and you, we just call them different names. But you don't have to, they have been the same for a good while, let's just agree with a precise definition and terminology to avoid raging at the abstract.

Rage at the specific! It's hard, that's why we write so much! And that's why we call them capitalists.

That's why FOSS software matters. FOSS software companies can't change policies like that, for what's already distributed.

One only look into politics if they need to.

When you have a comfortable life there's no objective reason to question the structure of power are oneself is immersed into.

Because programmers generally get a comfortable lifestyle from the compensation for their work, they can easily believe that wages generally correlates to skill and effort, becoming completely oblivious to the concept of surplus value. From that point on they are susceptible to reinforcing dominant ideology.

Speaking as a programmer trying to rally the class. It's hard! Too much anecdotal evidence that things are fine, apparently. But I want to believe tides are starting to change.

Definitely better than god, homeland, family. And freedom, more recently.

Most technology, programming languages and frameworks feel just the same, in a professional environment. Majority of web and apps is so simple that literally anything will do. Simple api consumption, simple database crud stuff. The tech stack doesn't matter that much.

I stand strongly with you, comrade.

But. Public words matter. And I agree with the other comrade that commented this. We should be able to control our tone to the forum we're in. There's place for easy words, there's place for kindness, there's place for anger.

Front pages in here should be overwhelmingly thoughtful, in my opinion. And then there's a place for trash talk somewhere less front facing, in here.

Plain angered reasoning won't convince many people to hear us.

Edit: actually, I'm wrong this is freechat, fuck them.

Active remote surveillance, no one?

I didn't expect to see The Economist dumping on European establishment interests. Fun!

Yes. "common sense" is the repetition of dominant ideology. They can bang on "common sense" and destroy things. We have to deconstruct common sense so. That we can build the future.

EU wouldn't let that happen in Europe.

I think everyone here agrees numerology is a scam with zero scientific evidence.

What does lemmygradians think of traditional Chinese medicine?

The scientific reasoning behind specifically acupuncture and cupping sound 100% like bullshit to me, but anecdotally it works for relieving chronic pain for my partner. Go figure.

Strong agree!

I didn't mean we open up our internal concerns to give random libs any ammo out there.

The mistakes are for us to learn from and build the next.