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  • Average westoid logic. May your troops burn in hell 🔥

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  • If you're being pressured/manipulated/... the person doing so is responsible for that, so culpable as well - but not in place - if applicable.

    This would then also be valid for young people being brainwashed into blindly following orders. Nonetheless, I feel like they still are partly responsible. And all those soldiers abusing their power and committing atrocities are also responsible for that (although the structure they are in also enables and produces this abuse).

  • Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out

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  • Not sure if I understand you correctly. You mean this is the terfs' essentialism shining through, which sees "women" as inherently inferior to "men"? It is pretty weird that those "radical" ""feminists"" have such a patriarchal view on gender and sex.

  • Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out

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  • I really don't like that apparently "biological women" is being adopted to mean "cis women". I'm also biologically a woman, at least in part. My main sex hormone is estrogen and my testosterone is so low you cannot even measure it. So it would plainly be false to call me a "biological man". Just call me a trans woman and those that you call "biological women" cis women. Otherwise this feels like we are adopting terf terminology :(

  • communalism

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  • You're not dragging anyone down a rabbit hole, you're not even showing the rabbit hole, so far you've just talked about it. Doing a quick search, what "communalism" might be, these are some definitions I've found:

    The concept of ‘communalism’ is based on that of ‘community’ and has to be understood in relation to the concepts of ‘nation’ and ‘civil society.’ Communalism signifies a politics of belonging that does not emphasize the nation in all its diversity, but the homogenous, religious community. It should be clear that the term communalism comes up as an alternative to nationalism, both in theories that explain the failure of the nation-state to emerge in certain parts of the world and in theories that explain the demise of the nation-state under conditions of globalisation. Like the use of the concept of ‘tribalism’ in the study of African politics ‘communalism’ is primarily used in the analysis of Indian society and politics and is seldom encountered in theoretical arguments of a more general nature.

    Communalism refers to communities of belonging and especially to such communities in Indian society. More specifically, it refers to the articulation of religious communities into mutually antagonistic, social, political, and economic groups. It emerges within the context of the colonial modernization of Indian society, in which the Indian population was classified, counted, and measured in terms of community. Communalist ideologies emerged in India in the Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities. Today they are connected to forms of transnational community.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/communalism

    But that's probably not what you're talking about, right?

  • Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?

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  • Well, the point of the article is that the selling point of a framework laptop lies only in its ethical and political nature. Without it, it's just an overprized computer. So if framework loses its ethical selling point by associating itself with right-wing projects, why shouldn't people buy a Lenovo laptop with better specs for less money instead?

  • ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says

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  • You did not get what I was saying at all. Fundamentally, we agree on this and believe me, I'm just as frustrated as you with people blindly following these big tech companies. I'm just trying to say we should be more friendly to people who are not yet technically proficient. I experience it in my day to day life all the time that people choose comfort over their own freedom/their own rights. If I were just to call them stupid, this would just build up resentment and would only really benefit me to feel superior. Instead, I try to educate them about how big tech harms everyone and what alternatives there are. I've had years of practice being vegan and having to constantly maneuver situations where people would get mad at me for sticking to my principles. I feel like this is something similar, sticking to the principle of not giving in to the comfort of big tech.

  • ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says

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  • Of course everyone should try to be safe online and we should try to give anyone the ability to protect themselves. Shaming individuals will actively prevent people from being educated. The issue at hand is about the business practices and security standards of discord, not individual people. I get that in this bleak capitalist system, neither discord nor any other company has the incentive to care about people. But it's their responsibility nonetheless. Despite the economic system we live in constantly pressuring us to compete with each other, we should not give in but be empathetic with and help each other.

  • ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says

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  • It's not about the individual behavior though and shaming someone for this doesn't change anything. If you have a wildly popular social media network, thousands/millions of people will provide their ID if requested. This is all on Discord for not keeping the IDs safe and for asking for them in the first place.

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • Well yes, the article is saying exactly that: that individual actions and consumer activism don't do shit and structural changes are needed. It even gives some examples for structural changes that could be helpful in the short-term.

    I completely empathize with your frustration and I feel like individual actions are used as a way to give people some feeling of power that they don't have and that stays ineffective. It takes the pressure off of companies to change while giving people the feeling like the achieved something. And politicians in most countries don't have an incentive to change the system either because they live off of lobbying and may get a job at those companies later.

    I added the anecdote in my original comment just because I was surprised at the scale that Amazon had an impact on the economy. And yes, it obviously didn't do much when I took individual action and boycotted them (apart from giving me a feeling of some integrity).

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • Well yeah, because the author of this article has invented the term and has given insightful explanations like in this article ;)

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • Really good article and worthwhile a read!

    Let the implications of most-favoured nation settle in. If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store.

    I haven't shopped at Amazon for well over a decade now, but apparently even I am affected by their business model...

  • The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era

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  • Did you read the article though? It is actually about minimalism

  • Have you changed you youtube pfp to clippy ?

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  • Sure, I don't use the youtube algorithm. You could just use any alternative fronted like grayjay (unfortunately made by this guy above) or newpipe. Then you don't fall prey to the algorithm but rather have a feed based on your own subscriptions.

  • Have you changed you youtube pfp to clippy ?

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  • Maybe just delete your youtube account? I've never even had a youtube account at all and I'm a heavy youtube consumer...

  • death cap(italism)

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  • Yeah, I agree with what you say, but my point is that this just doesn't apply to the relationship of trees and fungi. It isn't wholesome as such, it's just beneficial to both until it isn't and then they turn on each other. I wouldn't want a human society that is only based on mutual aid as long as it benefits everyone and where you turn on your neighbor the moment they are weak enough to be exploited.

  • death cap(italism)

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  • Are you sure you understand the relationship of plants and fungi well enough that you can make such a meme of it? Like there is a clear profit incentive for both of them. And if a tree gets too weak, the fungal symbiont might just turn against it and slowly eat it from the insight. Is this also what you want us to do? Why don't we just say what is shitty about our human society? Projecting it onto nature doesn't help us and just makes us feel like some things are "natural" and "unnatural". But this is really a bad way to view the world and causes harm to yourself or others.

  • China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network

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  • I doubt it would be hard to actually have better train infrastructure in Europe (and some countries do). For example, as a German, my perspective on this is that our government just doesn't care to invest in most infrastructure because it isn't seen as prestigious enough. The only projects that do get build are some shiny new additions that no one needs, like a new train station in Stuttgart that has been in planning for over 3 decades, will cost many billions and has seen huge protests against it from the start till today. But any project that is just basic maintenance, be it for cars or trains, just gets ignored and postponed. The German Autobahn is just as defunct and on the brink of collapse in many parts of Germany as its train network. And our infrastructure ministers have been corrupt and utterly incompetent for many decades now.

  • Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign

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  • Apple's whole business model is creating hype around their products. And if this hype is preemptively damaged by leaking secrets that would otherwise feed the hype, they clearly are negatively affected by this. I don't say any of this is good, that's just their business model. And capitalism of course...

    However, in this case here the youtuber imo didn't really reveal the product itself, but only a mockup version. Shouldn't that be even beneficial to Apple? I'd think creating all this buzz around the "leak" is just one way to try to get more hype going for them.

  • Clothing expresses gender not defines it

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  • Why would you bring up binary gender with fixed binary genitalia in a post about something being genderless? Clothing is really arbitrarily gendered anyways, so of course it doesn't make much sense who is supposed to wear something and who not...

  • Anyone else feel they underachieved?

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  • Well, there is someone around with a checklist constantly reminding me of what I should be able to accomplish and they actually do compare my every step with my peak performance. It is the part of me that was made to believe that I only have any worth if I'm achieving the best. Anything less and I'm worthless...

    I'm glad you made it out of there. Hope I'll get to this point one day, too!

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