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“Communism doesn’t work”
  • Of course, there were good things which came out of the communist regime, but I wouldn't say that "it worked".

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    “Communism doesn’t work”
  • The people supported the economic system that had free healthcare and education, doubled life expectancies, dramatic improvements in science, made it to space, rapidly industrialized, and dramatically reduced inequality.

    Free healthcare still exists in all developed countries other than the US, life expectancies increased all over the world same with improvements in science, the space race was very close between the USSR and the US and the moon landing is very often brought up by US nationalists as well. I would say the industrialization was actually a bit too fast, people were, sometimes forcefully, relocated from rural areas to concrete boxes in cities. As for inequality, yes, there were no billionaires, and, while the quality of life for the poorest was maybe higher than it is today, I'd say the quality of life for average people was lower during communist time.

    Even prisoners were paid in the USSR for forced labor, this is ahistorical.

    While this may have been true at the beginning, later on, there were no wages. Still, conditions were very poor.

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    “Communism doesn’t work”
  • Furthermore, the vast majority of people voted to retain the USSR

    Wow, you're telling me the people who were brainwashed into believing their country is the best (not saying it doesn't happen nowadays (cough cough USA), voted to retain it?

    In my country (Romania) the only point I hear people praising the communist regime about is infrastructure. Why? Because, as it turns out, it's much easier to build infrastructure when you have slaves prisoners which you don't have to pay. Of course, the corruption in our post-communist government doesn't help either.

    I agree, capitalism is VERY far from ideal, but, please, stop glazing the USSR regime just because it was "communist".

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    “Communism doesn’t work”
  • Tell this to the people from the former USSR/Eastern Block. I'm not saying communism can't work in any way, but I am saying that, at least historically, it has not worked.

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    Organic Maps is the best open source Maps App I've ever tried
  • Doesn't support my city :(

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    Organic Maps is the best open source Maps App I've ever tried
  • Yup, where I'm currently living has a great public transport app, even works without Play Services!

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    Organic Maps is the best open source Maps App I've ever tried
  • Too bad OSM (and by extension this app) doesn't have public transport directions...

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    I don't know what to pick.
  • If NVIDIA is significantly better value over AMD in your use case, go team green. If not, I'd go team red and personally I wouldn't buy NVIDIA just because one day it might be better.

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    Question: What is Linux misinformation?
  • Yes, but still, it' something that may be commonly required, and Linux can't do it >!(according to the comment above, I never tried to do it so can't comment on how hard or easy it is)!<

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    Question: What is Linux misinformation?
  • How communism was implemented historically is similar to fascism

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    Question: What is Linux misinformation?
  • Yes, but "Wayland is trash and will never be better than X" is also misinformation.

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    Amun-Ra Be Praised
  • Damn the sphinx has cavities, better brush it's teeth /jk

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    It's possible for a woman with XY chromosomes to produce testosterone if she doesn't have testicles? or we are talking about a hermaphrodite?
  • Soo, they ask about it to help them better understand and maybe change their worldview. What's wrong with that?

    Edit: after reading some of OP's replies, yeah, they don't seem like a nice person

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    You're stuck on a desert island for five years. You can have three video games. What three games do you take?
    • Cities: Skylines (would have picked the sequel but doesn't have that much content yet)

    • Kerbal Space Program

    • Minecraft (I guess it's the ultimate creative game)

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    How paranoid are you?
  • I'm considering switching to LibreWolf after all the AI crap Mozilla is adding

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    This guy just keeps on givin'
  • Send your bank details for a refund

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    Racist Donald Trump Says Kamala Harris 'Happened to Turn Black'.
  • Yup honestly they're quite old and rather weird

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    Logitech CEO Wants to Sell You a Subscription-Based 'Forever Mouse'
  • Additionally I would like to propose that we don't sign up for apple or other fruit rentals or delivery subscriptions.

    Not yet

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  • I seriously don't get it. Why do people expect to be able to get the most powerful enchantment in the game with just a a villager, a lectern, a book and some emeralds? And it's not even that hard to get WITH the changes. Swamps aren't that rare (even if they were, IT'S THE MOST POWERFUL ENCHANTMENT IN THE GAME), and getting 2 villagers there shouldn't be too hard once you build a nether tunnel.

    But what gets me the most is people saying this new approach is too grindy. How is exploring your world to find a swamp biome grindy? How is leveling up A SINGLE villager to Master (I think) grindy? Probably the one part of this to be even close to "grindy" is getting the villagers to a swamp, but it's not that hard. It should require some effort to get the best enchantment.

    Yes, you'll need to ACTUALLY EXPLORE YOUR WORLD to get easy enchants. Yes you'll need to ACTUALLY TRADE WITH YOUR VILLAGERS to get easy enchants. This is actually ELIMINATING some RNG. You no longer have to spam Lecterns. You have to PUT THE FREAKING WORK IN and get the villager to Master level. But then it's GUARANTEED you get a Mending book.

    Please tell me if I'm missing something that would make this whole rant pointless.

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    A screenshot from Downtown

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    www.omglinux.com GNOME Devs May Replace 'Activities' Label with this Indicator - OMG! Linux

    GNOME developers are "rethinking" the Activities button that appears by default in GNOME Shell's Top Bar. Feedback shows that the "Activities" label as-is

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