lucian1900

Being reasonable is often not effective. It’s like asking workers to communicate in a way that works for the capitalists’ police, as they get shot. Most Americans will choose fascism anyway, the only point is to get the rest to see it. Aggression is far more effective at that.

It’s not surprising you’d side with the empire, your material interests align with it. Y combinator is after all part of the export of capital at usury rates. It’s ok, when our turn comes we will make no excuses either.

Doesn’t really matter what you call it, the end result is about the same: polite thoughtful conversation on whether Chinese Americans should be interned or whether Eastern Europe should be invaded by NATO or even just whether exploiting workers is acceptable. It used to be about whether my Serbian neighbours should be bombed, but on previous forums.

Swipes at Americans are useful, it can make them wonder why their country is so hated across the world. It can also be useful as part of a wider polemic to re-focus on the real contradiction: imperialists versus the rest of us.

Your rules as enforced absolutely reinforce imperialism, regardless of your intentions. Again, it’s your website. I’m not going to convince you, just trying to explain to you what you’re doing.

Liberalism is the root of this obsession with civility, while our countries get bombed and pillaged. If you ban polemics, you side with the dominant ideology.

As before, you compare similar handling of centre-left and far right politics. Good luck with that.

Others are free to make inflammatory ideological and political points, as long as they conform to liberalism.

It’s your website, but history will not judge you kindly.

Sanders, maybe AOC. There are no US Democrats further left than that.

You do have far-left organisations in the US, though. There's the CPUSA and the PSL, for example.

Just because electoral politics in a particular country lack one end of the spectrum doesn't mean the spectrum doesn't exist.

Capitalists, otherwise known as the bourgeoisie, make money from owning capital.

Workers, otherwise known as the proletariat, make money from their own labour.

Workers are by definition not capitalists.

Yes, quite literally Bonapartist compromise between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

That’s what centrists tend to say, yes. Compromise between capitalists and workers.

Someone on the left might speak about trade unions, collectivising industry, arming workers, etc.

Warren and Sanders are centrists. Centre-right and centre-left respectively.

You're conflating the ideology capitalism uses to justify and maintain itself with its actual material reality. It's not a surprise, considering this ideology (liberalism) is fundamentally idealist and not materialist.

Have you actually read Marx or Engels? You'll find a holistic understanding of capitalism and its roots, its upsides and its downsides.

You're just describing class struggle and industry, not capitalism specifically.

Capitalism was once revolutionary against feudalism, as the bourgeoisie replaced the nobility as the ruling class. But that hasn't been the case for centuries.

Our industry developed due to the labour put in by so many and central planning and funding by several governments, not due to free markets.

It's a literal idealist position to insist that free markets cause development, when the vast majority of material evidence across the world points to the contrary.

Another option is a smartwatch. The screen isn't big enough to read much and notifications can be turned off. It's always with you and even has bluetooth, so no more wires.

Adding a playground for the foreign rich won’t reduce poverty caused by the foreign rich.

Or even better, proper sum types. They're a superset of enums anyway.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype is great, but a bit unwieldy. Language support would be much better.

If a network is not usable by anyone with a smartphone, it's strictly less usable than WhatsApp. That means in practice, it's unusable.

If it's optional, then there is more than one way to identify users. For a non-technical user, that means they have to make a choice and understand that choice, as opposed to just always using a phone number.

And everyone with a phone has a phone number.

The phone number requirement is the only thing making Signal remotely close to usable for the wider public. Similarly, non-phone messaging is niche in the extreme. Unusable software is not an ally of user freedom.

The actual problem with Signal is that they took US State Department funding. That doesn't mean it's an op necessarily, but suspicious nonetheless.

China has very strong privacy laws, though. In fact, Grindr recently stopped operating there because their business model was made very difficult by the new PIPL law.

Mine work fine on Apple laptops. I’ve tried with several and even a Mac mini.

Bluetooth has failed in some device combinations for me, though. Seems like luck is required.

It can be disabled, so it just beeps instead.

It’s “personal data” in GDPR. PII is the US concept and much narrower.

Capitalism is a mode of production in which production is motivated by profit derived from the private ownership of the means of production. Those that own the means of production (factories, companies, etc.) perform no labour, but get paid from the difference between the value produced by those that do work and the value generated by that labour. This difference is called profit.

I own no significant means of production. The vast majority of my income comes from selling my labour power for a fraction of the value it generates. Thus I am working class, generating profits for capitalists.

Wealth and progress is generated by labour. I wouldn't have a good job and a computer if the forces of production hadn't been advanced so far. This advancement does happen under capitalism, but not exclusively. Worse, the mode of production can inhibit further advancement, like feudalism was inhibiting industrial advancement.

Capitalism fails all the time, it does it so often it's called the business cycle. Sometimes is fails catastrophically, like the Great Depression or 2008. It's being kept just barely functional by those that benefit from it; most of us don't.

Class struggle is the engine of history. Whether that fact is healthy for myself personally or not has no bearing on its truth.

The company I work for keeps more of the value I create than they pay me. Whether I like it or not, I'm working class and in direct opposition to capitalists.

You mean countries that started off much poorer than the US, yet the standard of living drastically improved during the socialist period? Then drastically dropped after 89, when the imperialists won the Cold War?

Just because poor countries become socialist doesn't mean socialism makes them poor. Consider that they were kept poor and socialism is the way out.

McCarthyism was about class struggle. Persecuting all communists, socialists and trade unionists made it less likely the working class would rise up against the capitalist ruling class. It worked for the Nazis, after all.

You seem to have internalised this logic, since you're assuming all communists are spies for another nation.

Lips are also an erogenous zone.

It does depend on ears, for sure. Most in-ear headphones are painful for me, including the "dot" ones. Stem ones tend to be far more comfortable, with the Apple ones the most comfortable. I've also never had AirPods fall out of my hears even when exercising. They seem to be made for my ears.

You can pull the power button to switch between devices the headphones are paired to.

I've instead found it useful to disable the voice prompts. The connects/disconnects become a short beep that doesn't drown out anything else.

That's mostly because tsc's parser is used by the JS implementations.

Writing a parser for the purpose would achieve performance closer to the other implementations.