Hey, Stalin (for all his many flaws and awful decisions) industrialized the country and lead the war to victory over nazism.

Trump is worse, he has literally zero redeeming achievements.

Most expensive military in the world, 50x military budget of your enemy

Advantageous position of a surprise backstabbing attack during negotiations

Kills enemy head of state on the first day in his own house

Commits uncountable war crimes

Still loses in just 3 weeks

It takes a special breed of a fucked up system to suck this bad, they can’t even do imperialist forever wars now.

The MIC is redirecting every cent it can toward profits, and so there’s nothing left for the actual military hardware. The pedophiles in charge can barely think anymore and are high on their own AI-generated propaganda. Truly the century of humiliation hallucination for the USA

I also dislike Iran’s political system, but overall the US has killed, maimed, tortured and ruined the lives of many more people then Iran’s government ever could. US is currently the most evil country on this planet, and has been in the running ever since its founding.

But even then, let’s suppose for a second that somehow Iran’s government is more evil. So what? Bombing Tehran city center, destroying mosques and museums, causing an immense ecological disaster by blowing up oil reservoirs, and double-tapping an all-girls school with tomahawks will not help the people of Iran in any way. It made their lives measurably, verifiably worse for generations.

Sorry if I’m being whooshed, but literally https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

US has been doing the exact same shit to leftists ever since the founding of USSR, this is not new. Sadly the tea party people have nothing to worry about.

The previous bush-era logic of “Dave slapped me because I was an asshole to everyone in the class, so now I’m going to torture and kill Rick who kinda looks like Dave to me” was not much better

This is a really naive take - this amendment (which requires message scanning to be targeted) passed with a slim majority and could well have failed. In that case the existing mass surveillance (“voluntary scanning”) would probably keep happening at least until 2028.

The council meanwhile is overwhelmingly pro-message-scanning, and they (together with the commission) are the ones who are pushing to break e2e encryption. There will now be talks between the three institutions to decide on how to proceed. Sadly I expect that some “compromise” will be reached eventually.

Poland, Lithuania and a few others became “the west” very recently, and didn’t get in on colonialism directly; hence “most” in my claim.

I get your point, but if you actually go out and speak with women who trust you, chances are they will all have multiple stories of harassment and/or SA that will make your skin crawl. It’s not just fearmongering, there are a lot of awful men out there (in absolute terms)

I’m surprised how many (well-meaning) men are clueless about this horrible aspect of life which is so universal for women.

By that logic it should be “peanut butter substitute” as well

Most “western” countries have been acting like this in the past century and are still to this moment reaping the benefits from colonial and imperialist plunder of the global south. It’s not just the USA, even though it is the most damaging.

Yes, but not because they have fun gimmicks on gas stations

I think there were some (plenty?) of NFTs that were backed by IPFS.

The fundamental problem with them is that the concept of “owning information” is ultimately absurd.

Russia has been trying to make a whitelisted internet for over a decade. It’s still easy to get around their blocks with obfuscated VPNs etc, even my parents can do it. It’s really really difficult to implement this kind of blocks without breaking everything. It’s possible to access the outside net even from China if you know what you’re doing. Worst-case scenario, your local mesh network nerds will hook more and more people up to the network, eventually the town-local movie sharing groups will come back like in the good old days. And even if they shut all that down, movie swapping groups will pop up in big cities - piracy existed long before the internet, after all.

As for the hardware, well, yes, that’s a concern on some level. But then again you can still play DVD-quality movies on 20 year old potatoes with Linux, and DVD-quality is quite watchable if you aren’t too snobby about it. There’s a lot of old computing hardware around, even if no new computers are produced starting now we will be fine for a while just with second-hand parts and dumpster diving. Perhaps the biggest concern for video content specifically is storage, which has a more limited lifetime and is also getting very difficult to find new, but if you’re only aiming at DVD-quality, a few dozen TBs will give you something to watch for the rest of your life.

Most streaming services are nothing like Steam. “Your” stuff can disappear with no notice and no ability to watch it even if you have it “downloaded” due to layers of DRM.

It’s hilarious when you neoliberals of lemmy, post on your communist-built platform, raging about communists on our communist instance… just move. I’ll send you the URL, reddit is dying for people to move there. You and SatansMaggotyCumFarts both.

Yeah, if you’ve ever tried to polish up wood (without any sort of coating), you know it’s almost impossible to make it completely smooth, it always has a certain texture to the touch. And here, where you have to pretty much cut it once and can’t polish it at all, it’s probably going to retain a lot of that texture in the groove. So I guess it is possible that it might “”“play”“”, but it would probably be mostly noise with some music coming through at times.

Good, let the nutjobs fight

Fuck I though this was a satirical shitpost but it’s real. This seems like the last stop before that patent about yelling the company name to get back to your content…

To add to another comment: they failed way too early for that. If you’re doing planned obsolescence, you must make sure it fails soon after the warranty period ends, not within weeks or months after the purchase.