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  • mstrk@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Portugal says no plans to pay colonial reparationsEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I don’t believe the children should pay for they fathers mistakes. I was replying to the OP comment that suggests that we should take into account slavery has something to do with poor conditions some of said descendant of slaves are atm.

    I came from a long line of poor people in the sense of money, and only one of my uncles was able to get a degree (from his pocket money and hard work, you have to pay even if it’s a public university), recently a cousin was also able to get a degree as well. And me and my brother pursuit more technical courses.

    I can have a decent income by working on projects from abroad but the Portuguese state takes ~70% of that in direct and indirect taxation.

    Meanwhile I don’t have a family doctor for 14 years now, and if I need something to be taken care of I need to get help in the private sector. Justice is slow, the streets and public buildings are decaying to a point of rupture, public administration is a complete disgrace in general…

    I’m basically a slave to this corrupt politicians. They take my hard work in the form of taxation and provide nothing/almost nothing in return.

  • mstrk@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•New language
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    3 months ago

    Doesn’t Kotlin has interoperability with Java? I didn’t used it much yet but I’m about to in a few months. Is it that difficult to just refactor things to Kotlin when you need to change something in the project? I’m asking because I just can’t work with verbose languages and would prefer Kotlin to Java everyday.

  • mstrk@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•What’s in a name?
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    5 months ago

    A friend of mine named his dog Byte. The dog is very playful, and has the habit of running in the direction of other people he meets.

    When the dog does that my friend tries to call him back shouting: “BYTE!! BYTE!!”. People get really scared when this happens 😂

    Okay, not so funny if you are the one being approached by the dog.

  • mstrk@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•How I tell my friends I'm on Lemmy
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    8 months ago

    Hey, sorry if I pushed any buttons. I agree, a pure form of any of mentioned ideologies is bound to fail. In my POV and experience btw, we are better off with a free market, competition, and some kind of socialism net in order to not get “game overs”. I don’t know if I’m making sense to you, but again, just my 2cents.

  • mstrk@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•How I tell my friends I'm on Lemmy
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    8 months ago

    I feel the OP. Communists are more active around the fedi I think. Nothing wrong about it. It’s just a fact. Everyone should be heard in my opinion. Even thought the majority is still stuck in an ideology with almost 200 years that failed miserably every time it was implemented. Socialism is a bit more evolved. A mix of capitalism and socialism seems to be the sweet spot. My 2cents.

    edit: typo

  • mstrk@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Reddit users lost?
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    1 year ago

    Hey, I’m a lurker and I used the official app (un-installed it the day I created an account on fedi, it was shit anyway). There’s still a moral ground attached to this. I don’t browse reddit anymore, and I did a final post in a niche community that I really like, a couple of weeks or so, in an attempt to lead them here, because I do miss that community and I contributed more there. There’s a bunch of good reasons people could stop using reddit, but imho what matters is that we build our communities in fedi and just forget about what happens to reddit.