CanadaPlus

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Which is a library written in C, of course.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Alright, but you better be outside of a properly locked up and OSHA-compliant castle with the princess by the time I get back, or I'm not compiling"

And then you do that, but you miss a smoldering ember from one of the castles torches, and everything including the horse and princess catches fire. Next time, pick an escape plan that only requires unsafe for the drawbridge.

There's a totally safe way to do it too, I guess, but it involves building a series of replacement castles, and it's also totally ugly and sinfully slow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

There's a few ways Lemmy has learned good lessons from Reddit. The main thing missing is more users, so I can visit an ultra-niche community devoted to faucets that are bad.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Damn that's subtle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It seems somebody's trying to get lemmy.blahaj.zone shut down. This isn't the first garbage post from them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Everyone who's little-r rich claims to be middle/working class, and every private jet guy claims to have grown up middle/working class. I once had an expat from a poor country tell me average people back home have servants, which is mathematically impossible given servants are people too.

You see, they worked for and earned their money fair and square, unlike some other, slightly richer people. And then there's some that just straight up buy into "meritocracy", and think the African children are lazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They don't unless the board shakeup was bigger than I realise. OpenAI is a nonprofit, and could even shut down and destroy everything if they felt it advanced their mission. Microsoft could sue them, but would probably lose, because that's what the agreed to when they bought into the capped-profit subsidiary.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I've seen the design and I thought it made good sense mechanically, but I hadn't considered this issue. I wonder if stand designs are getting wider too, as a result.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not working well, if so. Lemmy's still pretty left-wing relative to the overall population, and my comments defending communism as not evil are upvoted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For a war historian, maybe. From an ethical culpability perspective I think it's fair. Hitler started that thing and dragged everyone else along kicking and screaming.

Maybe WWII would have happened "spontaneously" the same way WWI did eventually, but Europe was still getting over the first one, and so it was a couple decades away at least.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

So “eat the rich” is just edgy humor or what?

Yes. Most people don't want to eat other people. I would expect the explicit cannibalism to clue you in to a level of irony there.

Weird, because somehow, every time that every time communism has been tried, it involved massive genocide, though perhaps one could argue that the majority of it was the result of incompetency, because the majority of the victims starved to death as a result of disastrous agricultural policies.

Genocide has to be at least a bit deliberate, and generally they just fucked up their economy bad enough agriculture was negatively effected. In the USSR's case at least, the starvation affected the republics pretty equally, too. As Ukrainians were starving so were Khazaks. For political reasons, some parties have tried to make it sound like a targeted ethnic thing, but it just wasn't, and it certainly wasn't on purpose.

but you have to admit that even when taking to low estimates, communism’s death toll is far higher than that of the Nazis. OP is correct, they’re all evil ideologies.

This is the part where the communists come out with capitalism's death toll. Dumb ideology, maybe, evil ideology no, at least not on it's own.

Edit: Also, I take issue with not counting all of WWII as part of the Nazi death count, since they very deliberately made it happen. Consider this was in the space of just a few years, vs. an entire human lifetime for the Soviets.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, it's not a fair comparison. You can say it's a dumb ideology but at the end of the day it's close cousins with big-L Liberalism, and often has been first to the social ideas we hold dear today.

They got banned because lemmy.ml is also a communist-run instance. The mods could have taken the high road and just replied, I guess, but that would have been extraordinary patience. So, they banned the person calling them a Nazi, and I don't think that was an unreasonable choice on their part.

view more: ‹ prev next ›