[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

NFT but for penis.

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Neither Deng nor Mao are part of a dynasty, which would be a (feudal or republican) family who holds power.

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Hereby you are awarded the order-of-lenin for exceptional posting capabilities.

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

My millionaire friend from school did buy those new things, used them, lost, or destroyed them within a couple of month and had like 1-2 phones per year or more (newest models of course).

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No worries, Junefall rather than Bro. At least if you use "Bro" as gendered term (or you want to be friendly, then use the name or "you" instead).

Also before I write more: I read that you commented and read what others wrote and answered, so I want to iterate that you are welcome here. You seem to be good faithed.

I dislike labeling myself as handicapped (well in my first language), as while my body and head work different to most of my friends and the people I meet outside there is no "norm", no default to which to conform to. Our bodies just are, they are shaped by evolution and such, but each body is unique and individual, there is no idealist perfected version of me. So while I can do some things and can't do other things are well or better than others mostly I am handicapped by society.

Society demands a ton of stuff which is not possible for me and stuff that is easy for me they act as if it is a hard incomprehensible thing to do. A friend of mine uses a wheelchair and society builds doors which in old buildings are often too small to get in, this is discrimination (handicap) by society, she does also bring her own chair to events (the wheelchair) which sometimes is troublesome when the tables or chairs in the room are bolted down to the ground and it also means that society does accommodate for people who need chairs (though not for me who can't properly sit on most chairs).

Basically my body is as it is and got its problems which could be better, but that is just life. I use tools and medication to improve how it works, but what I can and can't do is often mediated by society and society is which does actively handicap me. It is a concept I didn't come up with, but which re-framed how I think, so I just took it for me. Some aspects of it are covered under the so called: Social model of disability, but it isn't a 100% fit for me.

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Lets try for 50 years more!

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ondimba

Is/was the prime minister of Gabon for the last 15 years or so (even after a stroke in 2018). Before that he was part of his father's political circle and had positions assigned to him on the level of ministers. His father Omar Bongo (who you might know better) was "ruling" Gabon since 1967. The power of the family is significant.

The ruling party after his father's demise was a centrist right party with many elements of neoliberalism and some verbal alignment to pan africanism. During the last election and also this election quite a few people are angry about possible election interference, this the military uses as justification (along with a couple of other things, like breaking the power of the ruling family etc.).

Fun tidbit:

Allein der Präsidialetat Bongos verbraucht jährlich 8,5 % des gesamten Staatshaushalts (Stand 2009), wofür Bongo US-Ermittlern zufolge mindestens seit dem Jahr 2000 ein Geheimkonto bei der deutschen Citibank nutzt.

Just the presidential budget amounts to 8.5% of the whole state household in 2009. US investigators claim that he uses secret accounts for that, at least since 2000 an account of the German Citibank.

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"people in your country/political entity" / "stakeholder in within the territory controlled by the state's monopoly on violence" do roll really easy from the tongue.

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It gets even better, look at that dudes profile: https://lemmy.ca/u/MapleEngineer

@MapleEngineer

25 years in the federal government in guns and badges, 22 of those in Corrections, then 10 years in hacker hunting and breach detection, now an information security sales engineer. Homestead farmer, amateur welder, equipment operator, electronic designer, 40 years soldering, husband and father.

142 Posts 529 Comments, Joined: June 14th, 2023

Also got a youtube channel

With a fun quote:

garbage cheap chinese breadboard for $1 I use as solder fixture

my good breadboard is $10 it is much better.

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I remember when Chomsky was young plekhanov-bewildered

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