Dr. Jenkem

Mass surveillance is bad, but I’m not sure there’s a crime worse than genocide.

Gamers rise up (against genocide)

It’s one of the only platforms that doesn’t actively suppress left wing views with its algorithm.

I’d be fine with EU style regulations on social media, or depending on how it’s written, a more broader ban of social media in general. But banning tiktok only will do nothing to address the concerns you raised. Instead it just funnels people into social media ecosystems that greatly favor right wing sentiment and allow easy access for the 3 letter agencies.

It’s about maintaining the ability to manufacturer consent. Tiktok presents a hurdle to that.

And it’s my view that we are free to dunk on people with bad views.

Yeah voting is largely useless. But the gallows don’t happen without a revolution, which doesn’t happen without people getting in the streets (protest).

Least brain damaged Arch user

Hamas is a direct result of Israel’s actions. If Israel hadn’t carried out an apartheid for the last 70 years Hamas wouldn’t even exist. It doesn’t help that Israel directly funded Hamas in favor of secular liberation groups.

If you go the full Linux desktop route, I recommend installing a hypervisor like proxmox to make it easy to spin up and manage VM’s and containers off the bare metal.

A lot more work to setup than a NAS like Synology, but having some more control over the setup and tailoring it to your needs makes it worth it imo.

You good dude?

Fair enough, I’m certainly not about to disagree on the profitability of gambling (for the house specifically).

Lootboxes are legalized gambling for minors. So yeah, no shit it works. Just because a thing is profitable doesn’t make it good. The opioid epidemic proved very profitable, but just like gambling for kids, doesn’t make it a thing we should accept or want for our society.

Yes, that is how it works under capitalism.

Under socialism however, the state funds labor based on needs and/or desires for the output of that labor (the commodity). In this case, the money isn’t used for the goal of making more money, therefore, this isn’t capital at all. And yet, the labor happens and the commodity created. Therefore, the production is independent of the capital.

Lol, there’s plenty of opportunity to make money under socialism. You just have to do the labor. Under capitalism, however, there exists opportunity to derive money from other people’s surplus labor value, for example, I can pay a worker $4 to make a thing that requires $1 in supplies and sell that for $10. That difference of $5 is stolen surplus value from the laborer. Socialists seek to abolish this parasitic relationship.

While certainly capitalist, Denmark and Sweden use the nordic model which tends to lean pretty social-democrat/welfare-state.

Not to mention, much of bribery under capitalist states is legalized and codified. For example, I’m guessing their study didn’t consider Super-PACs as a form of corruption or bribery. Even though that’s clearly what they are.

Given the context of the meme being a picture of Karl Marx, I was using the Marxist definition of capital. Marxists.org provides a pretty digestible definition: https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/a.htm

And I’d like to thank you for your hard work. Voyager has been my main client since before it was called Voyager!

Even if we suppose that’s true, you’re still failing to illustrate how capital is necessary for production under socialism.

Within the confines of capitalism I would probably agree. But under socialism, production happens independently of capital accumulation.

No, games require labor to develop.

Voyager: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager

Or if you like the old Reddit style: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

There’s more listed here: https://lemmy.world/post/465785