[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Every cell phone in the US is a "bug" at the behest of our corporate advertisers and data brokers.

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

So then why is Taiwan bending over backwards to cater to Zionists from a lunatic blood-thirsty genocidal child-killer state-terrorism country? Going so far as offer free vacations to zionists and expanding ties in the wake of Oct 7?

https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/bj611yqjqxe

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-taiwan-forging-closer-relationship

“It was Mao Zedong who said, ‘Israel and Taiwan are bases of operation for imperialism in Asia. They created Israel for the Arabs and Taiwan for us. They both have the same objective’. So almost automatically, if China supports a side, then Taiwan will support the other,” Arnaud Bertrand, an expert on China, told Middle East Eye.

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~By worshipping the musings of the 20 something, slaveowning, landowning, white men who set out to create a nation built on the wholesale genocide of Native Americans.~~

~~By continuously degrading wages, prohibiting public transport, withholding healthcare, perpetual wars, diminished education, disenfranchising voters, and the bipartisan effort to concentrate power to the executive? Fascism is not a new phenomenon. The reasons for its proliferation are well-documented, and even as leftists have accurately pointed these out, they've been laughed away by liberals. The liberal framework cannot explain how fascism takes rise.~~

Ruzzian propaganda!

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Some estimates say there are as many as 12 vacant homes per homeless person ~~this country~~ in the United States.

Edit: millionaire in OP is from Canada

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

The argument is right there in the article.

But Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez never indict capitalism as a system or call for a struggle against it. And they supported and hailed the Biden administration even as it was presiding over the greatest-ever accumulation of wealth on the part of the financial aristocracy.

For all their fulminations against the oligarchy, they carefully avoid advancing any demand that would deprive the billionaires of their ill-gotten riches. They pretend that society can be changed without a drastic redistribution of wealth, which requires the expropriation of the billionaires.

Tldr: critiquing the system only insofar as to not question capitalism.

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Fascists are not empowered by political apathy. If that were the case, you'd be able to provide evidence that states or nations with low voter turnout always turn fascist. 80% of voters turned out in 1932 when the Nazis became the most powerful party. Political apathy can be a result of burgeoning fascism - among other things. How do you think fascism arose in Germany? People being lazy?

Chalking up fascism to poltical apathy is what happens when you fail to look at fascism as a function of class dynamics and class conflict - and furthermore, fail to see the generations-old pattern of regulatory agencies being captured, special interests dominating political commentary, rampant lobbying, decaying education, wages being suppressed, healthcare being denied, transportation services rendered useless, etc...

If, at the end of this devolution into fascism, your only takeaway is "Damn lazy tankies and russian spies destroyed America!", then you haven't learned your lesson, and you've fallen in perfect lockstep with your liberal forerunners who made the exact same mistakes.

It's telling that you folks never engage when leftists point out that when the democrats had a choice between slowing fascism and committing genocide on Palestinians, they chose to do genocide all for sweet AIPAC dollars.

The simple fact is that Biden's and Kamala's constituents wanted an end to genocide. Biden and Kamala ignored these constituents. Biden and Kamala lost. That couldn't be a more democratic outcome; it's more American than Apple pie. If you say "fuck you" to your constituents, it's a safe bet you'll lose them, and if this is a calculus that some dumb ass like me can make, you know that higher levels of democratic leadership were aware of the risks and chose to take them anyway. The democrats are controlled opposition.

If you are a liberal reading this thread and are starting to see holes pop up in the logic and reasoning of your colleagues, or have correctly identified that the liberals are ill-equipped to deal with this devolution, I'd encourage you to learn what Marxism really is - beyond the spark notes you got from your conservative history teacher in high school.

https://socialistra.org/edu/

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Why were people lazy?

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Why do you simultaneously need analog video AND performance equal to a modern GPU? All of the old games in analog won't demand modern GPU power.

If you had an open pcie slot (hell, even PCI might work) why not just throw in a second antique GPU with analog - which would run in parallel with your existing modern card.

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Agreed. Start stocking cans and shotgun shells.

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

You're out of your depth here... Those reasons for affordable solar cells on earth in no way directly translate to applications in completely different environments (planets or moons)

… why tho

Just ask NASA or ESA

https://www.ans.org/news/article-5894/nations-envision-nuclear-reactors-on-the-moon/

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Space_for_Earth/Energy/Helium-3_mining_on_the_lunar_surface

This idea of "well earth has solar, so solar must work just as well on the moon!" doesn't take into account natural lunar resources (solar needs rare earth metals) , atmospheric conditions, thermal conditions, material transport, etc... Sure, a well-functioning moon settlement would probably have a combination of thermo, solar, and nuclear power, but it is strange how you're writing off one of the most promising forms of energy that excites and interests space scientists most.

These issues you're having just sound like cope due to the fact that the US is now lagging in space science.

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
  1. sustained elevated heartbeat is what gets you into shape. Aim for long slow runs over erratic runs with walking mixed in.

  2. if you are doing this as a lifestyle thing, I commend you. If you are an early riser, 5am runs are the way to go. However, find a running schedule that is sustainable. If you find yourself struggling to keep at the morning runs, adjust your schedule into one that allows you to be routine.

Best of luck

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You can body shame fascists until the cows come home. Still won't do jack shit. The only winning strategy is violence.

Would you call a fascist the R word? How about the N word? If you found a fascist in a wheelchair, would you start talking up low blows? Leftist ought to see no utility in body shaming, we are above that. It doesn't work anyway.

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