[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

I think you're just confused on what is the left, but many in the US are.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You will need medicine for this.
I have obesity issues and I recognize that like alcoholism,
you're unlikely to win a 24/7 battle of will power,
when the stuff is around at the place you will need to make a living.

Have you tried the Sinclair method?

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I'm hoping to found people that might say this of yellow or magenta.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I changed the picture because I don't think my previous one correctly represented the colors.

The fact that you say cyan was missing and instead you saw blue is I think interesting,
and wonder if people would agree wit you.

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If you must choose, then out of Yellow, Magenta and Cyan...

  1. Which one looks the most like an in between of two primary^1^ colors?
  2. Which one looks the least like an in between of two primary^1^ colors?
  3. Which one looks the most like one of the primary colors?
  4. Which one looks the most white?
  5. Which one looks the most black?

I'm asking, because I want to know if people see colors the same way as I do.
If my "red" is your "green" I expect different answers.

^1^ Primary colors are Red, Green and Blue.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Autism + male

It's like trying to find water deep in the desert.
You'll be lucky to find a mirage.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago

I hereby sign the executive order that the US shall have a "Good times threat act"
whereby any politician threatening it's majority voters with a good time if their candidate gets elected,
will face criminal charges if the politician in question does not follow through his or her threat.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 days ago

Someone should put in a law that if a politician is going to threaten to move somewhere if X happens,
and X happens, then by law s/he is exiled to that place.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You can’t suppose that ideologically and economically opposed nations won’t both editorialize (which seems here to be your concern, editorializing).

No, I am concerned about Ukraine that is fighting an unwinnable war for the US(/UK/EU) that set them up with unrealistic goals and demands, while their enemy had modest demands that are now being eroded as Ukraine has decided that these modest demands should be met with a fight to the death fueled by the outdated view of the world that you can't go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of the US.

And Ukraine is now fighting until there's nothing left, because while if it was a regional conflict,
this nation would have crumbled and surrendered, it is now sacrificing every life it has
as a constant stream of financial support from the EU, UK and US allows Zelensky to theoretically
go for a zero sum war until there's no Ukrainian citizen left.

You are portraying Russia, a global superpower, as the unilateral victim. I am saying there is more nuance, especially concerning superpowers.

Russia is a regional superpower.
The current power behind Russia, China is the global superpower.
Russia meanwhile is not a victim because it's winning and they came to the rescue of the Russian Ukrainians who had been suppressed since the coup of 2014.
The victims are the Russian Ukrainians and Ukrainian conscripts as both groups have been duped
into voting for a conman that is unfit to be president and lets his decisions be made by foreign powers
who have no stake in Ukraine and use Ukrainians as cannon fodder as the foreign themselves also have the outdated
view of the world that you can't go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of the US.

This entire war is currently the biggest example of the failure of liberal democracy.
The Soviet Union did not do anything remotely like this when it started losing power,
dissolved peacefully with geopolitical issues far more difficult to solve than the issues
the US is currently experiencing and yet the US is dropping the ball because it's a liberal democracy
and a bad one at that.

Ukraine has a card-carrying puppet president elected for the polar opposite for what he was elected for,
all the EU nations have shown themselves to be puppet leaders of the US,
and thrown their economies, which is about 25+ countries, into financial ruin to support this war,
which should have remained a regional conflict of a border and alliance dispute,
and it's even hurting the US financially as well,
because it is currently China, not the US,
where can't go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The US started it.
Just like it did with Venezuela (failed so far), Myanmar (failed), Hong Kong (failed), Belarus (failed), Kazachstan (failed), Georgia (failed), Afghanistan (ruined and failed), Pakistan (to a lesser extend) and Syria (ruined but success).
Not to mention the "Arab Spring" (success), so Lybia among a host of MENA nations as well.

If the US hadn't been involved with its subservient media, but some other country, like Russia, being involved then there would be questions like:

"How are these interim presidents like Ahmed al-Sharaa being selected?"
"So all of these interim presidents are all living in Russia and move from Russia into these countries as presidents?"
"And these people are recieving peace prizes in Russia/Belarus/North Korea?"
"So most of these people in Finland that's in civil war right now don't know at all who this interim president is, was never on the ballot, lived most of his life in Russia, but it's okay, because this is an interim president, selected 'internationally'?"

And headlines like:

"Russia installs another Puppet President into Finland under the pretense of democracy and soveirignity."
"Russia calls to implement another slave shield zone above the nation of Greece, dubbed 'no-fly zone' in Russian language"

The only thing Ukraine stands out of the list is that Zelensky actually had been elected by the people and started out as an internal project for an oligarch, unlike CIA puppets Ahmed al-Sharaa, Hamid Karzai, Juan Guaidó, Reza Pahlavi, Fethullah Gülen, Aung San Suu Kyi, Joshua Wong, Ursula von der Leyen and others.
Zelensky however was about as thruthful in his campaign being an anti-war president as Trump has been and so his pro-Russian voters got completely betrayed, because he decided that he wanted to join the EU at all cost, thinking that this would turn his country into an economic miracle following the same economic trend as neighbouring Poland, repeating history with truisms as the economic landscape of the world has changed dramatically between the days Poland started to recieve EU subsidies and US investments and when Zelensky became president, with Russia in a much better position where it was back then and so Ukrainian people with growing economic ties to Russia only further entrenched themselves towards support for Russia.

Russia invaded Ukraine because it violated the Minsk 3 agreements time and time again and because of mistrust of the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement that included military cooperation with NATO countries, which aroused suspicions of Ukraine trying to join NATO, an anti-Russia organisation, with Ukraine being an artificially created nation by the Soviet Union that contains mostly parts of Russia and Poland.
The US supporting Ukrainian nazis thing was just the most emotionally infuriating part, but not the most worrying as suppression of the Russian people in the Donbass was, who tried to vote themselves out of the country, but were violently suppressed.

The invasion was a warning to Ukraine that if it did not sign the agreement that it would refrain itself from joining NATO,
it could expect a devestating war, which it now does.

If anyone has footage of this by the way, please direct me to it.
I did not save the footage of people going to polling stations and being shot at by Ukrainian troops.
The footage I saw had loud sweeping music/commentary added to it,
which did a giant disservice in my opinion to spread the atrocity that happened that day.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Arch is better because...

  • pacman, seriously, I don't hear enough of how great pacman is.
    Being able to search easily for files within a package is a godsend when some app refuses to work giving you an error message "lib_obscure.so.1 cannot be found".
    I haven't had such issues in a long time, but when I do, I don't have to worry about doing a ten hour search, if I'm lucky, for where this obscure library file is supposed to be located and in what package it should be part of.
  • rolling release. Non-rolling Ubuntu half-year releases have broken my OS in the past around 33% of the time. And lots of apps in the past had essential updates I needed, but required me to wait 5 months for the OS to catch up.
  • AUR. Some apps can't be found anywhere but AUR.
  • Their wiki is the best of all Linuxes

The "cult" is mostly gushing over AUR.

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Now I know a country is not the same as a city, but my country, the Netherlands, is small and densily populated, so maybe they're somewhat comparable?

I hear Mandami is considered from extreme-left to what he professes himself as democratic socialist, which to me would mean left-wing. I however keep pushing every US politician one or two positions to the right, but that's just vibes. So I would like to compare his stances to at least five political parties from my country, but where do I start?

Should I post an ask Lemmy on each topic how they compare to Mandami starting with housing? Because I would imagine the stances of each party on just one topic would already make quite a long post.

[edit]

I'll try and make several posts on this subject.

Part 1 - My vibes list of American youtubers & politicians

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Are they living too far away? Too poor to go there? Bots? Laziness? Are they not interested in military parades despite liking to denounce protesters?

What's the big reason?

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To answer Pete Buttigeg:

That's the point! We're not Benjamin Netanyahu who enjoys targeting everyone but soldiers and police officers.

You know those Russian soldiers dropped their weapons during the October revolution.
If American soldoers are wise, they'd do the same.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 122 points 2 months ago

I had no idea I was hosting Vibecon, but I registered regardless.

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Title buzzwords OFTEN IN CAPS.

  • The real reason
  • You won't believe
  • Bizarre
  • Dramatic
  • Insane
  • Never seen before
  • Shouldn't exist
  • The truth behind
  • Panicking
  • You won't beleive what

And what's also extremely annoying is whenever questions are being asked in the title, when it's them who should have the expertise..

Content creator title: "Did the president of Zimbabwe just imposed a ban on bananas from Guatamala?"
Me: "Don't ask me. You're supposed to know that."

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