dwayne johnson and chris rock do not look happy to be there. Chris rock has a total “wtf is going on” look and Dwayne has the slightly more subtle “dude, wtf” look

Wouldn’t it be funny if Musk and Trump were actually purposefully playing the most extreme idiotic parody of an evil capitalist to actually spread class consciousness?

i think pickles predate capitalism. Just an obvious idea, because it is delicious! Also, there is an area in germany close to Berlin called Spreewald, which is famous for its pickles and it is part of the former GDR!

slightly off topic:

as a german and a software dev, i have to say QWERTZ sucks. Everyone should just adopt the english international layout.

i seriously don’t understand the strong emotional reaction some people have against posts by “tankies”. Everything i have read here and in other .ml communities usually comes from an honest place as far as i can tell. Most if not all communists/marxists identify as such because they’ve identified issues with the prevailing system and try to find alternatives to improve the material conditions for everyone.

Even if every tankie is completely wrong about the history regarding e.g. the soviet union and what is happening in china right now, why the strong emotional reaction to it? Every single person reacting that way is not impacted by it in any way or form no matter what is true. So they could just as much react by saying “if what you are saying is true, that would be pretty cool, but i don’t see the evidence for it” or even “the good doesn’t outweigh the bad in my opinion”.

Instead, every single time it is “china propaganda!!!” or “ah so you like that stalin killed all those people and let even more starve to death”. No honest discussion can ever happen that way and i seriously don’t understand it. Can’t we just discuss what might be good for society and what might be bad and talk about the validity of different kinds of sources and evidence without a strong emotional attachment to anything either way?

Imagine unironically thinking that women would rather stay at home, clean, cook and raise the kids instead of wanting to pursue a career in STEM is a good thing.

what about “restructure the police”or “reform the police”?

that is who is usually referred to as tech bros imo. It’s the elon musks, the people that are in charge and seem to have a superficial understanding of the technology (more than what tou can say about most CEOs unfortunately) but are actually only interested in money. The people that actually innovate and work on the technologies are often smarter than that.

Unfortunately someone needs to pay the bills and those people are passionate enough about the technology that they end up working for the tech bros and ultimately contribute to the problems

i was confused for a second why there are three hands but then i remembered that there are two persons in the picture… it is really hot today…

In a ship of theseus kind of way i guess you can turn almost anything into anything else :p

Are you bored? Did you just build a strawman version of your own community to argue about something that is trivially easy to answer for everyone in this community? I am seriously confused. I have never ever heard anyone say that you could turn any distro into any other. That is just obviously not true. And every single question on your bullet point list is equally easy to answer.

When people say that it doesn’t matter which distro you use what they obviously mean is that the desktop environment has the way more immediate and tangible impact on the user experience. So as long as the newcomer choses one of the many distros that have an intuitive installer (so obviously not Arch), are reasonably up to date, have a broad software package repository, and come with one of the major environments pre installed, it really does not matter that much.

guys seriously … Science literacy is important. That especially goes for the incompetent editors at the guardian. This is NOT a study. This is a blog post describing that the particular UCL research group got a research grant accepted. In other words, they got grant money, so they can produce research on this topic IN THE FUTURE. Notice, that everything in that post is written in future tense except for the paragraph called “Research to date” and there is NO RESULTS.

Yes of course, this correlation is obvious. That is why there has been an abundance of research done on this topic already. But of course, as is the case with pretty much every field in science, this topic remains incredibly important and doing more research there will always remain important. Research is an ongoing process and most scientific publications are minute incremental improvements in understanding. So everyone who is saying “hurr durr this is obvious, so much money wasted on such nonsense”, please shut the fuck up and LEARN TO READ

Sorry for the profanity. Having worked in research, i am quite disillusioned by the common misunderstanding of the scientific process.

well not that shocked

not really working here in germany, no. Even though things like, e.g. health care and public transport aren’t as completely broken as in the US, they are still pretty broken and there is no incentive to fix it thanks precisely to the interests of capitalism.

turns out the term “late-stage capitalism” is over a hundred years old . It is difficult to argue that it has been working before that.

Honestly a bit of bait is good. I have enjoyed reading the discussions that emerged in some of those threads. I see this post for what it is: bait. You could make less provocative posts but even then some people just want to read it as tankie propaganda.

Maybe we should create a community called “tankie memes” for when you do want to go all out and trigger people

this whole community is pure liberal rage bait isn’t it? I am not complaining but you guys really do like to trigger

Piker, a liberal political commentator

Yes the famously very liberal commentator …

awesome photo! The horizontal and vertical lines form such a strong grid that i hat to zoom in to realize that they were in fact part of the scene.

What gear did you use?

my goto is “muss ja”