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As a black person, the switch from master to main, is the most condescendingly racist thing that has been widely adopted in tech. It says "black people are too stupid to understand context. We (small group of white people) must protect them against words."

Another thing it does, is that it promotes the identification of blacks as slaves when all races have been enslaved (and continue to this day).

In which universe, is that an insult? You are assuming malice.

I am a responsible user for more than ten years.

You speak as if marijuana is highly addictive when in fact it is less addictive than coffee and easier to quit.

Why do you donate money when you have acknowledged that the CEO is wasting it?

If you live in the EU, you could do a GDPR request to delete all your data. https://meta.stackexchange.com/legal/gdpr/request

The mods in /r/anarchism are selected by voting.

I will have to point out that different people have made different comments in this thread. No one mentioned Communism before, user b59831. Furthermore the OP, just pointed out that Capitalism leads to surveillance. Which is necessary in a system where the few rule over the many.

Alternatively, in a system with more democracy, like Socialism. Where there isn't vast amounts of inequality, the surveillance state would have a hard time to exists.

My response was not irrelevant as your question contained a contradiction which I pointed out.

Another thing I would like to point out, is that you are committing the "no true Scotsman"-fallacy-fallacy. The "no true Scotsman" fallacy occurs, if and only if, the other person never defines what is a true Scotsman. I can give you concrete definitions with no logical contradictions, whether or not you accept them, that's on you.

>I am aware of the difference between socialism and communism. I am aware of the many countries that have successfully organised themselves along broadly socialist lines (and I applaud them). But I think that still doesn't align with the original author's dismissive attitude as the presence, extent, and regulation of government surveillance is a topic that must still be addressed in those successful socialist countries. They still have a state that has the power to secretly surveil its citizens.

It seems like you are going by the definition of Socialism that is common in the United States. The definition that says Socialism is when the government does stuff and you probably think Scandinavian countries are Socialists. Those countries are not Socialists, they are Capitalists. There are no currently existing Socialists countries. Here the definition so you don't accuse me of being Scottish, Socialism is when the workers (not the government) own the means of production. The so-called democracy of the workplace.

>There is no real-world example of a communist country under that definition. It is purely hypothetical and never been successfully applied.

Communism is understood to be an ideal state (in the platonic sense of the word), it isn't meant to be achieved, more of a thought experiment or something to strive for.

>We can speculate about literally anything. What's realistic?

Socialism. Socialism is different from Communism, it isn't an utopia or an ideal.

Where do you aim to take this conversation?

He just explained to you that there's no state in a comune. Therefore there can't be no such thing as a communist government. A communist country has no government.

You probably mean Marxist-Leninist "Communist" states. Those are centralised capitalist states, China, NK, etc. There a lot of explanations regarding why Marxist-Leninism only leads to a more centralised form of capitalism.

We can't trust CEOs or the goverment to guide big tech to work for the common good. In my experience, the workers (not management) are collectively the most ethical entity within a company. It is too bad we have decided that workers should not have a say in how the company is run.

I disagree and I think there's enough information available that explains why Boris Johnson, proroguing parliament in the way that he did was unconstitutional and extremist.

However, even if you are right and it is not extremism. That doesn't support the idea that monarchies prevent extremism. If the argument is, there has never been extremism in the UK because of the monarchy and therefore I cannot give examples of extremism then that's a specious argument.

Can you provide examples of how it curbs extremism? The Tories have been doing extreme stuff and I don't see any intervention from the monarch.

Ratemyprofessors was literally responsible for improving my college experience tenthfold.

Economic circumstances can keep people hostage.

I think you are correct. It seems to me to be a power struggle disguised as something that should be done for the good of the FOSS movement.

I think the ones you are referring to are still capitalist as companies are owned by an elite "capitalist" and the workers have no say in their workplace.

Europeans are more aware of class struggle than people from the United States. They didn't have a McCarthyism red scare. Since this news is about an European country, it is no so strange that people complain about the system that brought this into being.

Alcohol can literally kill you.

Cannabis on the other hand will not.

>I honestly do not understand why evolution gave us this harsh treatment.

I think in the past we didn't use to sleep 8 hours straight. Perhaps it was fine, we just changed and forgot to send babies the memo.

>Co-ops have never been a successful software business model. Not even once that I can think of

Igalia is a co-op of software developers. Seems to work well for them.

That's not been my experience at all. What union of IT workers does this? Where are you getting this?

I've been in unionized workplaces (Europe). There's been a minimum but never a maximum and the sliding scale is not driven by seniority with the or union as you say.

I'm afraid you might extrapolating from things you've heard about factory type unions.

Being in a union doesn't mean that you can't negotiate your salary.

That's the first time I ever heard of that. Maybe you just went to a bad place.

Communism doesn't reject democracy. It necessitates democracy at its core. Otherwise you can't make decisions within your local commune.

Most of the time I just lurk without commenting, but since you were so alarmed. I wasted time looking at the bit you were referring to. You are exaggerating quite a bit.

You are free to make your own judgements, but if this is what you consider appalling, then bar is pretty low.

What would you do instead?

Two wrongs make it right? Shouldn't workers get a pay rise?

How is Germany falling apart?

I disagree but I don't think a discussion with you would be productive. The sarcasm tells me you are not going to engage honestly. If you wish to learn more about the negative psychological effects of being watched all the time, there's plenty of material online for you to read. Particularly, Foucault and the panopticon.