[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

Would you mind expanding on what you mean by material conditions and fascism in relation to old privileges (don't know what you mean by the latter)?

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, obviously they are the laughing stock here... You should pay more mind to content than affiliations. Even though dbzer0 is a cool admin with a cool community, your comment does not portray you as such.

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

That is understandable if you think only within the paradigm of some select countries dominating the rest, but that is perhaps the biggest obstacle to our gay space communist Star Trek future.

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 64 points 1 month ago

Just going to leave this one here:

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 61 points 2 months ago

The only reason costs of houses are so high in the first place is because they are lucrative investment objects, along with the fact that the most important part of city (and rural) planning, building homes, is largely left to private companies. You are assuming houses would be just as inaffordable without landlords, which is a problem of the current paradigm and not the one proposed.

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 103 points 5 months ago

You install Hannah Montana Linux on their cars and their spouses.

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 48 points 7 months ago

Representation is not anti-democratic

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The bourgeoisie in my country have pushed the euphemism of "working capital" as something that needs protection from wealth tax. By inseparably connecting capital with jobs, they push the narrative that you cannot tax wealth without removing jobs and consequently hurting the working class. They paid for research groups to prove this connection, but what their research actually showed was that wealth tax creates jobs due to incentivizing keeping profits within the companies they own. The audacity to think owning the means of production is a privilege they should enjoy special treatment to keep is beyond me, but even so, this type of rhetoric keeps gaining ground.

What is the propaganda they are pushing on you, and how can socialist policies prevail if reason loses to made up words changing the narrative?

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 75 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Queue any discussion of Wayland/Xorg, Systemd, flatpacks, snaps, distro choice, ~~Pipewire/Pulseaudio~~ (last one is easy, Pipewire ftw), Vim/Emacs, GPL/MIT, immutability, etc..

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It is sexism to make it out to be a "he said she said" situation when a man says it was okay for him to kiss a woman and she says it was something she did not want. You disregard her personal autonomy when you say that him claiming she wanted it is as valid as her stating she did not.

If I hit you in the face with my fist claiming you wanted it, should I get off the hook since as you deem "no one can tell whether you wanted me to do it or not"?

For anyone wondering the "soccer incident" refers to his bad take on Luis Rubiales kissing Jenni Hermoso without permission.

EDIT: Fix a typo

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 73 points 9 months ago

There is about 8.1 billion people in the world. Assuming romantic cliches to be true and that we all have exactly one soulmate out there, we would have a very hard time sifting them out. If you were to use exactly one second at meeting a person it would take you 257 years to meet everyone alive on earth at this moment, which due to human life span being significantly shorter and the influx of new people makes the task essentially impossible without a spoonful of luck. Moral of the story: If you believe you have found your soul mate, be extra kind to them today.

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

From Wikipedia on bones:

Bone matrix is 90 to 95% composed of elastic collagen fibers, also known as ossein,[5] and the remainder is ground substance.[6] The elasticity of collagen improves fracture resistance.[7] The matrix is hardened by the binding of inorganic mineral salt, calcium phosphate, in a chemical arrangement known as bone mineral, a form of calcium apatite.[9]

So the statement is a bit faulty, not only because of the relative low amount of calcium in our bones, but also because it appears as a mineral. We distinguish between salts and metals because of their chemical properties being quite different (solubility, reflectiveness, electrical conductivity, maleability and so on).

Edit: I do realize the point of the comment was not to be entirely factual, so if I am allowed as well I would say science is pretty metal.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Urist@lemmy.ml to c/dwarffortress@lemmy.ml

Great Toady of course wrote this with the "hopefully" caveat, but here is to hoping.

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