Koarnine

Right, but Capitalism incentivises this behaviour, thus making the checks and balances required both more robust and needing to be applied for regularly - while the powerful are capable of preventing this.

On the other hand, Socialism has incentives that are completely different - managing the abusers would be a much simpler task.

Kicking the can down the road implies you have a better solution?

Like what?

Everything goes poorly, always. Not shifting for the left means horrible things done poorly. Shifting to the left means at least good things done poorly, that’s not a meaningless difference.

Just be realistic with the goals of your movement and you won’t disappoint anyone - see Mamdani.

As tmyakal said echoed, and I said originally, the better comparison is suboxone/methadone, its about weaning off the harmful food into healthier ones with medical help.

I wasn’t trying to snark, and I understood the point, I was primarily trying to point out how harmful it is to ‘stop cold turkey’ with drugs, and how the relationship with addiction is still similar.

You can wean off of Xanax onto Valium and then reduce dose/dosing frequency until cessation.

You can wean off Heroin onto suboxone/methadone in the same way.

You can wean down from 20mg nicotine to 12, 6 and 3, before switching consumption methods and then finally quitting.

In the same way you can wean down from mcdonalds and taco bell, to home made meals with controlled portions, you can try foods that have high volume. You can stop drinking your calories and consuming sugar. Over time those meals that make you fat will become disgusting and your habit and addiction will falter.

Obviously you can’t stop eating completely, and just like alcohol addiction the triggers are ever present in society. But the idea that you can’t approach it in the same way is faulty.

Except you are ignoring the concept of tapering.

If you cold turkey alcohol or benzos you will have seizures and do permanent damage to your body. You’re supposed to be weaned off.

In a similar way, you can wean yourself off of excess calories by reducing portion size.

Obviously the end result isn’t a complete stop but it could be a complete cessation of certain foods. Just like how heroin addicts are given suboxone/methadone for their cravings.

Lemmy.world users being delusional as usual

Aye fair

I’d agree to disagree about the camera though, while my S7 took great photos at the time, my Pixel 7 takes much much better photos, I wouldn’t want to switch back, the S7 wouldn’t keep up today.

Same with, and especially with video, after taking videos on my sisters iPhone on a recent Canada trip, the difference is unmistakable, almost enough to consider a purchase (although I bought a DJI Pocket 3 instead for videos now)…

I find if you’re looking to capture the moment well, ‘good enough from ten years ago’ doesn’t cut it. If you only need your camera for scanning qr codes then that’s one thing, but if you want great pictures or videos of a holiday or event the camera upgrades really make a difference. Not year on year mind you, but between upgrades its significant.

The jam in another useless camera gimmick was annoying but that fad is mostly over now.

Honestly thicker phones with silicon carbide batteries could have tablet levels of capacity, that would be amazing, they seem to use it for unnecessary thinness at the moment though.

I agree with you but just wanted to give you some up to date info:

• iPhones aren’t the most expensive, folding phones are, though iPhones charge the most per feature/upgrade
• all phones have different gimmicks, iPhones are the best at video, Pixels the best at still shots, while the xiaomi 17 ultra is the best all-around camera (seriously amazing)
• cutting edge phones also have silicon carbon batteries with 7k+mah (Xiaomi 17 Ultra)
• top of the line phones for the past few years can play full steam games natively today using Game Native or Game Hub (thanks to Valve funding Fex), they are far more powerful than ‘simple games’, insanely so

Agree on all repairability things and your general sentiment, I just felt you had some outdated info 😁

Lmao this is foolish, what about Bazzite and other immutable distributions, wouldn’t they then be more ready for mainstream than windows and mac os?

Since it’s impossible to modify (and therefore break) the underlying system…

You didn’t explain anything anywhere though?

Downplaying the genocide carried out by the nazis is actually sickening, and i’m sick of people whitewashing them.

Oh shit a new season, so hype

Please do. Fuck big tech

Nah legit, the anti-tankie brigade puts out their delusion before the tankies even show… every time

Do explain how China has been worse than Nazi Germany, sounds like delusion.

I first used linux with Ubuntu Hardy Heron, I was 8 or 9 years old…
the ‘macs are cool’ to ‘modifying windows to look like mac’ to ‘try linux’ pipeline was real

I did move back to windows with the windows 7 ‘black’ beta I found on kickasstorrents tho.

Ah… 2008 was a much simpler time (on the internet)

Nobody owns anything in communism?

Your tools would be destroyed pronto?

Whats with the sneaky nonsense in an otherwise reasonable comment…

Big fan of

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth”

• Garry Kasparov (2015)

That is to say, don’t let them shut you up.

There is a longer, more historical version of this but it escapes me at the moment.

I can only find the Hannah Arendt quote (1974)

“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And [to] such a people… you can do whatever you want.”

But i swear there was one that finished “When the truth is silent, liars can move onto action”

Sick is still used by gen z, fallen off a little but still part of my vocab (26, UK)

Too bad your nation has embassies in every other nation making our resistance easily dismantled.