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dogsoahC

@ dogsoahC @lemm.ee

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  • If someone gave you 5 billion dollars to improve the world in any way you see fit, what would you do?

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  • Kick them in the nuts (or the stomach, in case they don't have nuts), because relying on individuals with money to solve our problems is one of our fucking problems.

  • GitHub - ading2210/linuxpdf: Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator

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  • Nice. Can I print it, though?

  • "SO proof" distro

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  • Semi-serious suggestion: Guix or NixOS. They're not break-safe per se, but if they do break something, you can use the OS' previous generations to go back to an operational state. Just... don't let them use the commands that delete older generations.

    (Semi-serious because they're both not exactly mainstream and not eactly conventional in their setup.)

  • What can an individual do to fight against tech billionaires?

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  • On your own? Not much. You can stop using certain products, save money, and so on. But that's mostly going to help make your individual existence a bit better/less bad. The CEO's aren't gonna give a flying fuck.

    But our strength is in our numbers. Get organized. Maybe in a political party, maybe "just" in some sort of collective that helps in an area you care about. Help others in whatever capacity fits your abilities and your situation. And don't expect it to be a quick victory. That will only result in disappointment. As a wise man (?) once so succinctly put it: "Apes together strong."

  • What've you got for * ?

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  • Class collaborationists and reformists.

  • "Nah I don't want to go. You have fun though" rule

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  • At the risk of whooshing, what does this have to do with being black or not?

  • Don’t get me wrong…

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  • laughs in Emacs

  • Parasites

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  • I think the point is that insurances might not pay for the better options as willingly as they do now if there's a cheaper option. But I understand too little of the US healthcare system to be completely sure.

  • Parasites

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  • Shhh, now come and sweep yourself under that nice little carpet.

  • Parasites

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  • I didn't have a paywall for some reason, so here's the gist of it:

    Insulin is only the first choice for type 1 diabetes. For type 2, there are alternatives (not just variants of insulin, but actually different drugs) with fewer side effects, and which are more effective against the serious dangers like heart attacks. But when insulin gets much cheaper, those patients (i.e. the majority of diabetes patients) could end up using insulin and run a higher risk of those more deadly symptoms. Towards the end, the article even says: "In place of capping the out-of-pocket cost of just insulin, lawmakers should cap the out-of-pocket cost of all diabetes medications."

  • Parasites

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  • Have you read the article? It's about how type 2 patients, for whom insulin isn't the best option and who make up the majority of diabetes patients could end up having to use insulin because it's cheaper.

    "In place of capping the out-of-pocket cost of just insulin, lawmakers should cap the out-of-pocket cost of all diabetes medications."

  • Just stop having kids

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  • Oh, just fuck right off. If you don't want children, just don't have children and shut up about it instead of making yourself feel superior by making it a moral thing. And if you're actually just concerned about them ending up in the meat grinder of exploitation, get organized to rid the world of the capitalists and save all the children from that fate. Stop whining about how terrible the world is and start making it better.

  • Justice should be equal

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  • So... in Finland "democracy" and "violence" are the same thing? xD

  • Now that's a good song.

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  • Frenchmen! Let's not be slaves any longer!

    (It's tge opening line of the Marseillaise de la Commune, the "anthem" of the Paris Commune.)

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    dogsoahC @lemm.ee

    Now that's a good song.

  • Double Standards

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    1. It's a big difference whether you live in an unjust system and individual terrorism is the only recourse you feel you have left, or whether you are the leader of a massive bureaucratic state that has other options.
    2. There are numerous reasons to be mad at Stalin, and offing capitalists is not one of the top ones.
    • Betraying everything Lenin and Marx stood for by bolstering the bureaucracy instead of abolishing it (admittedly partly also the fault of the German social democrats).
    • Abandoning the idea of world revolution in favor of his brain dead socialism in one (technologically and culturally backward) state that didn't have the material conditions for socialism in any way, shape, or form.
    • Collaborating with the Nazis at the beginning of WW2.
    • Smothering nascent revolutions like the Chinese one, sending many of them on a one-way track back to capitalism, and constructing undemocratic bureaucracies like itself.
    • Killing soviet democracy.
    • Rolling back on the social accomplishments of the October Revolution (e.g. abortion).

    This is by no means an exhaustive list.

  • ethnonationalism bad

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  • Cool motive, still murder.

  • ethnonationalism bad

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  • Or, like, Palestinians.

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    dogsoahC @lemm.ee

    ethnonationalism bad

  • An inherent incompatibility

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  • I don't see a problem. Just gotta shave off part of your ethics.

  • It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

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  • In a lot of languages the word for apple used to refer to all kinds of fruits, particularly new ones from more or less exotic lands. Pineapples also don't look much like apples, do they?

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    dogsoahC @lemm.ee

    B-but muh free market!

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    dogsoahC @lemm.ee

    music to my ears

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    dogsoahC @lemm.ee

    I don't have a problem.

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    dogsoahC @lemm.ee

    I've grown.

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    dogsoahC @lemm.ee

    To be fair, a serial killer is no danger to their Google.

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    dogsoahC @lemm.ee

    They always make it sound like a bad thing.

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    dogsoahC @lemm.ee

    It's about time anyway.

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