Tomorrow_Farewell

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That would mean that there would not be higher profit margins, however, and there also needs to be an incentive to increase workers' wages/salaries (at a rate that would outpace inflation, to boot, if the aim is to improve workers' standards of living instead of to increase the GDP and similar statistics).
Furthermore, what reason would capitalists have to invest in the 'real' economy instead of just making bank deposits?

It would be better and easier to just return to planned economy.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

(For anyone here who does programming, the analogy I'm probably poorly trying to make is to Big O notation)

A small o notation would work somewhat better here, as big O just tells us about final boundedness of a function given a topological filter, and also doesn't tell us how the function behaves compared to previous 'n's.
With small o notation, you could order the tiers starting from the wealthiest/most influential/etc. This way, you could go for something like 'the way violence against people of tier n is considered/respected/recognised (on some relevant scale) is o(n) (with the topological filter n->inf'. o(n) given some topological filter F is a set of functions that can be represented as n multiplied by some other function that has the limit of 0 given the topological filter F, basically. The expression 'f(n) = o(n) [given topological filter F]' can be read as 'f is infinitely small relative to n [given topological filter F]'.

The leadership of the PRC doesn't seem to have any economic interest in doing so, ever since at least the privatisation of the economy, if not since allying with NATO, so I wouldn't bet on that at all.

This table from China’s Customs tells you everything you need to know about this “no-limits friendship” between Russia and China.

It was extremely silly when a few weeks ago I was being aggressively told that the PRC has been 'actively supporting' Russia by simply trading with Russia, with no special action being taken in that regard, and with no charity towards Russia.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What is it with math and delusional thinking?

People do not learn math beyond the most basic things -> people have no clue what mathematicians study -> people get things wrong about what mathematicians study.
This is something that people do basically in every community that is not math-heavy. This includes Hexbear.

I wouldn't say that people who make up nonsense like this choose math as their object of obsession any more frequently than other topics, though.

Complained of Hamas resisting genocide?

This is what you said previously:

We can not be held responsible any more than Palestine kids can be held responsible for Hamas.

There, you equated Hamas resisting a genocide with your empire kidnapping, torturing and killing people in Chile via the puppet state headed by Pinochet.

It is because party leaders tote the status quo, and that is why we have a gerontocracy.

'Tote the status quo'?
Also, it doesn't matter if you have old leaders or young. The problem is that they are malicious, and not that they are stupid. Them being stupid and hurting your empire's ability to conduct genocides and invasions actually helps the rest of the world.

promising politicians like AOC.

If you think that AOC is 'promising', then there has never been any hope for you. She is a supporter of the genocide.

Illogical is not a buzzword.

Yeah, it is. It is used solely by people who don't actually understand what logic is.

You're just deflecting from the fact that there are less shitty choices, although all choices are shitty.

Electoralism almost never works in general.
In this particular context, if we assume that the only viable choices are the two faces of your uniparty, then the least shitty option is the most senile, least competent one.

We are powerless to deal with it.

Then you have no ground to demand that the rest of the world waits for you to do anything and not fight your empire in the meantime. In particular, this applies to complaints about Hamas, but also to other parts of the world that are fighting you.

AIPAC funds corrupt congress members and allow procurement of way way more money in aid in return for that. They essentially buy our officials.

You are extremely naive if you actually think that it's AIPAC that controls your state, and not vice versa.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Every American I know makes fun of how stupud we all were to support the knee jerk reaction to invade Iraq over nonexistent WMDs.

That wasn't a knee-jerk reaction. That was a calculated move to further subjugate Iraq. Surely you don't think that your empire's leadership actually believed their own lies, do you?

I have no idea why more educated, older adults supported it other that they lied to everyone about the weapons.

Because robbing the rest of the world is how your lifestyles have been fueled so far, coupled with indoctrination into racism. That is also why so many of you complain about Hamas, by the way.

So yes, even die hard MAGAs are pissed about the genocide. I know a Trumper that is turning on Trump over it. It is happening everywhere.

That's actually more than can be said about die-hard dems, it seems: not-listening

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The dems are absolutely the lesser of the two evils

They aren't. Again, they are just as harmful to the vast majority of people on the planet as the other brand of your fascists.

This absolutist thinking is illogical and counterproductive.

Going to point out that the word 'illogical' is just a derogatory buzzword.

You might as well say every American vote since I was born was a vote for genocide.

Every vote for either of the faces of your uniparty has been a vote for colonialism and genocide since before you were born.

Nobody is getting around the AIPAC lobby. They will steal from us no matter what. It has been a given since way before I was born and probably since before my parents were born.

Okay, if you are, in fact, powerless to do anything, then you have even less ground to demand that the rest of the world resists you a certain way. Especially not when it comes to the Palestinian resistance to your genocide.

Israel owns this place.

This is an incredibly silly claim. Do you seriously think that the state with the most expensive military, espionage, and propaganda tools in the world is owned by a glorified USian province?

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They will just incarcerate everyone.

Ok, so your claim is that doing anything is pointless, then, and nothing that you will do will make any difference.
And you tried to spin this as an argument for voting for the blue fascists.

A guy shot a CEO, nothing happened

A bunch of people started getting their insurance claims approved, so that's significantly more than what you were aiming for with voting for genocidal fascists.

Americans have been complaining about Israel's aid since I can remember

That's obviously not true. Even you complained about Hamas resisting genocide here, if I am not misremembering.

and they still send taxpayers money there even as common people here struggle.

Also, just going to mention that USians saying 'taxpayers money' is funny.

It is basically theft and extortion at this point.

Always has been.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What do you want us to do? We have had decades of mass protests and racism is worse, human rights violations are worse, and income equality is worse.

Sounds like completely ignorable protests are not an effective tool in this regard, and you should instead do something less ignorable.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I am still not sure why that Pinochet guy was included in your commentary.

Pinochet was installed and supported by your empire.

We can not be held responsible any more than Palestine kids can be held responsible for Hamas.

Hamas hasn't done anything atrocious, though, unlike Pinochet.
If you support the rulers of your empire, you should absolutely be held responsible for things like Pinochet, Park, Pissrael, the countless invasions, coups, the kidnapping and torture, etc.

 

Basically the title.

Also, in case somebody could answer the question: is it possible to enable the Cube effect in a Virtualbox machine? I already have kdeplasma-addons, qt6-quick3d and qt6-quick3dphysics installed but I have no Cube effect option in window effects.

 

Working inside a VirtualBox virtual machine. Installed Arch Linux using the Archinstall method. Chose KDE as the DE and SDDM as the greeting screen.

Managed to log in once, but after adding a language and rebooting, I didn't seem to be able to change the keyboard layout, making entering the correct password impossible. I have tried looking up how to switch the keyboard layout, but am coming up with nothing. What is the key combination to change the keyboard layout in SDDM?

Setting up a different virtual machine now.

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