Simply because a weak US is an advantage for any rising autocracy out here. China and Russia mainly. Any ressources focussed on the middle east is a ressource that cannot go to the Pacific ocean to counter China influence, or to Eastern Europe to counter Russia imperialism.

There is a local relay that allows to basically use ProtonMail with whatever client you want to. It’s a bit more work, for sure, but it allows to use their encryption without having to install any addon on your client.

Nice to see I wasn’t the only one 😆

ProtonMail, maybe Tuta Mail.

Disposable vapes are already forbidden, at least in France, idk if it is union wide.

But yeah, those things make no sense. The only thing with a battery that should be disposable would be fire alarm. Not because of the battery, but because the main sensor has a 10 years lifespan due to its natural deterioration.

Ads and influencers pushing them.

I honestly hope this will play better on the Deck than GW2.

As usual, what a intelligent observation from a talking vegetable.

I prefer “IPS”, In Physical Space, and “IVS”, In Virtual Space

May I introduce you to kelvins?

Which comes back to my main argument: both have failed, so either both are bad, or we have a people problem instead of a system problem.

• 1921-1922 (Povolzhye, or Volga famine), 5-10 millions dreath
• 1932-1933 (Holodomor), 3.5 to 7 millions death in Ukraine alone
• 1930-1933 (Asharshylyk), 1.5 million deaths (seem small, but that was 40% of then Kazakhstan population)
• 1932-1933 (at the same time than the Holodomor, but in Russia) : 1 to 2 millions deaths
• 1946-1947: 1 to 1.5 millions deaths

And that’s only those who were big enough to be impossible to hide completely.

All of them have something in common: the central government minimised them, and tried to hide them. Some weren’t even acknowledged until after the USSR fall. All of them are a combination of bad luck (war, drought) combined with hasty decisions which made what could have been a hard year a generational disaster.

Both having a form of free market doesn’t make it suddenly good for one side and bad for the other.

Some sort of free market is good, so new idea can brew, some of them being one day attempted, other won’t because it ends up either not getting traction, or would very obviously fail after some research.

Problem is with too much planning is that it doesn’t give as much place for innovation, as well as put too much weight on a single point of failure. That played a good part in the USSR famines, like the holodomor, which was then further aggravated by their unwillingness to admit they fucked up, blaming it on other factors. But if they had learned from their mistakes, it would have improved, but unfortunately those very same error were repeated multiple time (see the multiple famines the USSR faced while strangely their western counterparts did not).

And I’ll pass on the other similar failures (Chernobyl, among other), that follow the very same pattern.

Of course, the USSR had some very clear wins, like the first part of the race to space, and others.

The USSR could have been a success if their leader weren’t selfish idiots, which os a shame since I’d rather live in a good cummunism regime than a good capitalism regime.

I always worked toward such ideals, I contributed to some open-source project (Gnome, KDE, mostly translation, bug report, but also some packaging for OpenSUSE and Fedora.

I’m a bit tired of those who blindly follow ideologies without having the intellectual honesty to recognize where said ideology fucked up and where it was great. Do I have to be called a social-traitor for every reflection on communism or socialism? I doubt Marx would be happy to see those he tried to enlighten sheepishly follow whoever yell the loudest… Even if they yell parta of what he tried to teach them.

That was part of my philosophy class, the book is probably still at my father house.

Already done, lot a good ideas, some ideas I don’t agree with, but an enlightening read nonetheless.

The part I disagree the most about are free competition.

Communism by itself isn’t bad, nor is capitalism, but both assume that their proponents are immune to greed, and that their opponent are full of it.

There are good things in both, bad things in both. The problem is to find people that are truly altruistic, and that have the moral fortitude to stay altruistic.

Edit: y’all can downvote all you want, I’ll stand by my opinion unless someone has the honesty to argue on that.

Good ol’ cache.

As a personal example of Samsung reliability, my 11 years old samsung SSD is still kicking, despite being used as a cache for my Truenas homelab for half of it. This thing will outlive me 😆

Welcome Frenchfrynoob.

Funnily, my american friends do call me French Fry too, but because I’m French myself 😆. I call them freedom fries (a joke that dates back to France refusal to follow the US in Irak)

What do you dislike about the new one?