Linus did have emotion control issues and was not always completely rational, but he’s gone a long way towards being incredibly responsible to his child that powers the world.

Also, he long understands that Linux ain’t a hobby project, which some programmers still get to think.

Guess they meant “Spain and Portugal themselves”

Essentially every country settled primarily by Europeans or their descendants, except somehow Latin America, Russia and Belarus, and, debatable, a few other European countries :D And potentially including Israel

The core issue is that it actually is impossible to maintain full democracy under capitalism. Even under perfect direct democracy with no lobbies and full representation those with the means to promote their voice louder will do so.

And if you have big money (which some will, because the more money you already have, the easier it becomes to hoard even more), you can fund projects that will have to promote you in return, skewing the voting process.

In reality though, political lobbying, corruption, etc. are omnipresent, and extremely hard to combat, because it’s in the logic of capitalism to accumulate wealth at all costs, legal or otherwise.

Now, I’m not saying socialist societies are totally devoid of corruption and self-interest, but they at least have mechanisms in place to curb it.

Capitalism is not aimed at increasing people’s wellbeing, it’s aimed at pursuing profit, and people’s wellbeing is fundamentally secondary. If putting people in worse conditions increases profits, this will eventually be done. Socialism, on the other hand, declares people’s equality and wellbeing as the core priorities. Resources should be spent in a way that benefits most people.

No, though brain physiology does respond to hormonal shifts.

This doesn’t invalidate trans folks. No one says they are physically completely equal to cis people. It just doesn’t matter.

I must assume this was said in bad faith, if so, stop.

In Russia, certain groups of kids (children of low-income parents, of families with 3+ kids, orphans) receive a special ticket, one per day, allowing them to have a school lunch for free.

Sometimes they share unused ones (tickets don’t have names on them), which practically guarantees there’s a bunch of kids on their side - everyone wants free lunch.

And generally it was more of a thing to flash, not something to be shamed for.

I’d feel perfectly safe locked in a room with Pavel Durov

(potentially local joke, idk if it’s actually known outside Russia)

Some people go as far as to use a tool similar to the one mounted on the front cart to extract their money and still not return the cart they took.

Ignoring or shrugging off shit people say about you may actually not be a viable long-term strategy.

Contrary to what many of us have been taught, this actually allows others to reinforce their views about you inside their echo chambers.

That’s not to mention it’s simply not great to hear that stuff said about you or the group you care about, and the longer this drags on, the more toxicity, alienation, and spite inevitably accumulates. None of us are immune to this, and it’s not insane to be hostile to those who are hostile to you.

Time zones,

No, you can’t just have them!

Heh

Not a Hexbear member, though. Generally, Lemmy is heavily left-leaning.

Yes! The latter part of what you say explains exactly to me why liberals cannot be the center.

Being “for the people” is more of a show here, while they are funded and act in the interest of businesses. When people do demand change that goes against capitalists, they will play everything to keep the spectacle while clearly not choosing people’s side. Often times, they don’t even give concessions - just pretend internal struggles stopped them from implementing the changes. And at the same time, this doesn’t break the logic of liberalism.

My apologies. I previously didn’t see you in civil conversations, while meeting you in your rainy ways twice before, and I could be too quick to conclude. Lemmy is flooded with that kind of stuff lately, which turns brain into a razor mode as a way of protecting against an artificial hate wave.

If you’d like to politely discuss anything, I’m all for it.

Generally, it is the fact that right-wing entails focus on businesses and private property owners, and left-wing entails direct focus on the economic wellbeing of everyone and a more egalitarian society. Liberals do not strike a meaningful balance here, and commonly see business freedoms as paramount to building a prosperous society, generally pursuing business-friendly policies.

In more extreme cases of the political spectrum (which I agree for in terms of clarity and fairness, but which are not really a consensus) left-wing is seen as actual socialism (i.e. collectively/socially owned enterprises) and right-wing is capitalism (i.e. private property and its operation for profit). This makes a useful and clear distinction in relation to economic policy and is not dictated by the hegemony of one option. It also makes centrism virtually impossible, which is good, because the meaning of “center” drifts radically between cultures, and most people tend to just associate with whatever is predominant in their culture while calling themselves such.

Here is how voters of neighboring Canada have put themselves on a political compass, on average, in relation to their party of choice during the 2019 election. Note that liberals are very much not in the center, and more right-wing, while conservatives as well as People’s party (don’t look at the name, it’s seen as far right even by American metrics), predictably, are extremely authoritarian-right.

P.S. Sorry for being a bit rash :)

Which I would certainly engage in if I wouldn’t remember you personally as a troll who cares little of civility.

If someone else is up for debating it, I’m always here.

Also, one thing you genuinely caught me on is a bit of an emotional outburst, while I generally am the one picking civility card. Good job! I do apologize for that part.

The coordinates are heavily skewed and likely to either be formed in a right-wing society or intentionally made as to confuse people.

The point is that it skews the understanding of “left” and “right” to favor the latter.

Essentially serving as a tool to claim socialist policies extreme and liberal ones perfectly balanced.

Liberalism in the center? Gosh, this is the most American political coordinates there could be

It’s almost physically triggering how off-base that is

The reason I moved to lemmy.today is that admins don’t decide for you what you’re allowed to see.

Everything is open, and if you don’t like it - you defederate personally. No one stops you.

“HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point”

Without taking any sides, saying some group is insane and then saying that them lashing back “proves your point” is beyond stupid.

Like, of course they will, what else do you expect them to do? Sit and politely agree?

We should stop with this kind of BS in any sort of debate. Groups will protect themselves, and will not get polite to those who throw slurs at them; that’s natural, normal and speaks nothing about their average behavior.

This never proves any point and is nothing but a dirty rhetorical device aimed to shut your opposition up and make them seem irrelevant. This is not part of any possible healthy conversation.

Also, post is not a genuine question.

Oh, and now you make a great deal of change by putting slurs all over.

Wanna change someone’s mind? Go civil. Wanna vent your anger? Don’t vent it on other people.

I 100% want all copyright to be eliminated, but what you do is counterproductive and rude at best.