Not sure how stalinists can plausibly claim to be socialists.

You can’t have worker control without democracy, and the USSR certainly did not have democracy.

It had a new ruling class, based on party position rather than money.

That’s not socialism - socialism requires democracy by definition.

Stalinists and Maoists who claim otherwise are idiots.

You have to do something about it yourselves. Your military is way too big and you have nukes.

You, dear commenter, need to organise and fix your broken country. Only the common people can fix this.

Definitely, but we can’t let this crime against humanity happen in the first place.

TIL “get fucked” is more commonly used in Australia. I thought this was international.

We did just fine before these existed. They should just be outright banned, and the existing ones be phased out in some way where the owners aren’t completely screwed (though, if I were being vindictive I’d say tough shit, you shouldn’t have participated in this arms race)

Different wars, so not really related. Same date though

I still think it’s crazy that people aren’t calling for the abolition of presidential pardons.

Seems like a system that was just WAITING for abuse.

well the US has now totally gone rogue.

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

They’re just saying the quiet part out loud now

My biggest pet peeve is doctors referring to medication by brand name instead of active ingredient.

Should be illegal, in my view.

I’m a little shit and whenever “most dominant brand name for paracetamol”* and “most dominant brand name for Ibuprofen”* are mentioned by a doctor, I play dumb and ask if that’s paracetamol/Ibuprofen.

They’re literally advertising for companies who’s product is 5x more expensive for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

*I refuse to give them free advertising

Eh, it’s already fairly obvious using both systems side by side across the internet.

Though I suppose in actual work you’re correct. I use 3 decimal places for metres on drawings a lot, because I like it to be easy to read the mm.

It being 1,000 m or 1.000 m is of course a huge difference haha

A boy can dream 🥹

But commas and dots don’t form part of the metric system?

Ihr könnt gerne umwechseln wenn ihr wollt :3

My main argument for the English/Chinese/Indian system (I have no idea where this system originated), is that in many languages (including German), commas function as pauses and full stops (period, by the Americans) as a stronger separator between thoughts, so it makes more sense to seperate digits with commas (in my opinion)

It’s all ultimately arbitrary, and I don’t really care which we pick.

I don’t really care which, but if I’m not mistaken it’s the majority of the world population in this case not just the US.

I just hurts my soul that it’s inconsistent.

By population decimal point wins?

I don’t really care which, but my heart craves standardisation*

(*where it makes sense. I don’t think language based differences in how many digits between separators needs to be world-wide. Eg. In East Asia you separate in groups of 4 digits, not 3 because of language)

Indeed, lol is not the same as haha

It’s more of a sarcastic vibe. Which fits, because you are definitely not laughing out loud when you write lol

Uppercase LOL feels like a haha fuck them kind of schadenfreude laugh to me.

Perhaps LOL is a softer version of HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, which I use to the same effect.

I was gonna make this same comment.

Cold drip though? That’s some finicky shit. Not worth the effort in my opinion (but is fun!)

Apologies for that. Unless a mod asks me to remove I’m gonna leave it for now

Which government? Makes a big difference since some other better than others.

I’m not saying OOP definitely had no legitimate reason to change the sign, but without knowing, we can’t assume they did either.

The fact they made no mention of it, leads me to suspect it was mostly for their personal convenience.

Also, government = inefficient is some neo-lib propaganda I can’t tolerate. Any organisation can be inefficient (so, so, so many examples of this in the private sector), and governments can and must be set up to be well-run. The alternative is the privatised neo-lib hellscape we (countries in general) continue to not fix.

Difference here is that he was correctly a clear mistake. OOP here did it for their own selfish reasons

We have no idea why the sign was the way it was. They gave us no background. So I’m biased against the sign changer until given a good argument as to why it was acceptable.

This is how I feel about OOP and people thinking it’s hilarious how they messed with the sign.

I just see another entitled car brain who thinks they should be allowed to do whatever they like.