I don't even have a car, because I can't afford one, nor do I have a spare bedroom because I live in a small apartment, paying a chunk of my monthly earnings to a person whose only contribution is having a piece of paper that says they're allowed to charge for the fundament necessity of having a place to live.
My neighbour has a big house, three cars in their driveway and most of the time, at least two of them are standing around unused. He probably could afford to share. That's the meaning of "everyone, according to their needs" - that guy most likely doesn't need as much as he has, so it won't hurt him to give some away to people that do need it.
But the issue isn't him having something nice. He can have his house for all I care. I want him to have a nice house. I want Jimmy to have a nice house, and you too! I want all of us to have nice things, because a bit of luxury isn't the problem, and covering a symptom won't cure the disease. And the disease is the belief that property rights matter more than human welfare.
You wouldn't achieve anything by taking a little from those that have a little more than the rest. You'd have to take away the systems that constrain us.
There's an empty flat? Great, let's give it to Jimmy! What do you mean, if he can afford the rent? Man needs a place to live, for fuck's sake. Jimmy needs medical care? Get him to a doctor. The community carries the cost, because we all would want the same if we needed care.
How do we reach that? That's a tough one. Eventually, a concerted effort to uproot that system will have to take place. I'm not positive that'll succeed on ballots alone and as has become increasingly evident, peaceful protests tend to meet violence all the same.
But whether through coordinated civil action like protests and disobedience or through outright revolution, awareness is the first step. Informing people of the injustice done to us all, that it doesn't have to be this way, and that together, we're strong enough to change it.
The only people that don't profit from it are the ruthlessly selfish ones that think "I'd rather have a second car than let someone else have one" is a reasonable sentiment.
Because yes, if I had a car I didn't need, and Jimmy needed it, I'd let him use it. What good would it do standing around?
Do you mean the individual .git repository tracking changes in a given directory? Or the remote repository server that you push your changes to and can pull other's changes from? The first one is the fundamental requirement of using git at all, the second is where it gets less trivial.
It's not that the software isn't available. Off the top of my mind, Gitlab offers their community version for free to download and host yourself. I think they even have a Docker image. All you need is to figure out how you would like to do that.
It's the usual question of self-hosting - where would you host it? A server at home? The cloud? Should others be able to access it? How? What about security?
Remotes already hosted by others are just a lot more convenient. You don't worry about the infrastructure, you just push your code. People like me might get more excited about setting up than the actual coding. It's the bane of half my projects - gotta get that git workflow in place, think long-term, set up the "mandatory PR with tests before merge" and shit until eventually I have everything set up... and the spark of the original script I wanted to do is gone.
If you want to focus on coding, the benefit of having a ready setup are hard to dismiss.
On the other hand, setting up and configuring a server can be a one-time job, so if that's worth it to you, power to you!
No, the buckets would be communally owned, and those who were luckier - perhaps they got to the good houses earlier - would be made to give some of their surplus to Jimmy, who fell ill just that morning and couldn't go trick-or-treating to not infect others. They'd still have enough, but Jimmy wouldn't be left out just because he was unlucky.
What a generous rate! And a great way to ease them into the shock that the real rate is much, much worse
I asked for a rough description because I didn't wanna bother anyone to take the time for a full, detailed explanation...
...then you come along and write a whole article on it that's most certainly more informative and useful than anything Google would have spat out.
I love that. Thanks so much for taking the time. I also think I'll give Bazzite / Fedora Atomic a shot. The idea of simply rebasing onto a different option to try different things is definitely appealing.
Thanks for the explanation! I think I'll give that a try. I've got a spare disk, might slap some Bazzite on there, see if it works for me.
It's gotten a lot better, particularly for Steam games, but yeah, there's still some way to go.
What is atomic desktop, roughly? Google doesn't give me a concise answer and I prefer not opening news blogs that give me an entire article on my limited mobile data plan.
I've had good luck striking out on a new path with Nobara after years of only ever using Ubuntu. There was a bit of a learning curve (and I still haven't gotten everything I wanted to work the way it did before), but I mostly got it figured out.
But that may well be a Survivor case in the sense of Survivor Bias, no idea how many people tried and decided "wasn't worth it".
I did have a bone to pick with pipewire because my old pulseaudio config no longer worked and I had difficulties figuring out just how to redo it in pw, but that's probably not distro-specific.
Number one rule of Christian Narcissism: That rule was written for the others. It doesn't apply to me. I'm not doing anything wrong.
As someone on the outskirts of Data Science, probably something along the lines of "Just what the fuck does my customer actually need?"
You can't throw buzzwords and a poorly labeled spreadsheet at me and expect me to go deep diving into a trashheap of data to magically pull a reasonable answer. "Average" has no meaning if you don't give me anything to average over. I can't tell you what nobody has ever recorded anywhere, because we don't have any telepathic interfaces (and probably would get in trouble with the worker's council if we tried to get one).
I'm sure there are many interesting questions to be debated in this field, but on the practical side, humans remain the greatest mystery.
If I'm reading it right, the OP meant something like this:
The US block Palestinian membership on the condition of negotiations with Israel, but don't impose the same restriction (negotiations eith Palestine) on Israel's membership. Why does Israel get to be a member without negotiation, but Palestine doesn't?
(Not taking a stance here, argue with the OP if you want to. I'm just contributing my understanding.)
If I was that rich, yet so addicted to junk food, I'd at least get higher quality junk food. My patties would be made from organic beef, in buns that don't fall apart, with vegan cheese from that one brand that I found exactly once, can't remember the name of but really loved (I fucking love cheese, but that one kocked out any real cheese from the cowmpetition)...
The food would come in reusable containers with non-porous surfaces that are easy and efficient to clean, delivered fresh and hot, made to order and delivered by students (cheap labour) on bikes (saves gas money), generously tipped for their express service (to incentivise continued quality service).
It'd still be cheaper than a decent meal, still be a pig move, still just as greasy and unhealthy, but at least it wouldn't be so embarrassing. And if it really had to be McD's, I'd pay to have it packaged into those generic foam containers that don't make it super obvious and delivered by unbranded delivery drivers (like generic DoorDash, Uber Eats or something).
I think of them frequently. They have my thoughts and prayers.
Not my help, of course. They should have to work for their success just as hard as the rest of us. But I hope that they'll be able to carve out a living with their labour!
If you struggle with reading etween the lines
The implication is that they should be stripped of their capital and the power it gives them. I hope they'll turn out decent, hard-working people (because good people are worth more than vindication), but even if they aren't, them being able to live on little work implies a world where we don't have to worry about slaving away for survival. That's worth hoping for.
I'd be surprised if opponents of genocide would vote Republican instead, given how some GOP reps seem to be opposing even the half-measure of delaying arms shipments.
A two party state where you choose between "fucked up" and "less fucked up, but constantly ceding ground" just does a poor job of accurately representing the opinions of people favouring actual progress, so they're doing what they can to pull the Overton Window their way.
Thank you for putting the meme in text too. I wish it was more commonplace, not just for screenreaders but also for people like me whose internet loads pictures slowly. Saves me a click and is just as funny.
Also, yeah, fuck their hypocrisy. They'd gladly push both buttons and see no issue.
A piece of literature intended to produce amusement by building a premise and expectations, then subverting them, for example through wordplay, logical dissonance, double meaning or irony. It is often not meant to be taken at face value.
Careful what you wish for - you never know if it'll be granted by a Monkey's Paw
Given the inertia of moving social platforms and the spoiler effect of fragmentation, I assume ex-Twitter will remain the leading platform for a while still unless Musk manages to run it into the ground at record speed.
I don't have any hard numbers on the rest, unfortunately. I personally favour Mastodon, and I believe some national governments have officially adopted it and are running their own instances, which might tip the scales a little if people see that as endorsement.
Bluesky overall seems to have the advantage in terms of marketing (probably because they have the advantage of money too). I have no idea about Threads, but being from the same company as Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp may give them an advantage in terms of existing users for those services. I would expect they try to intermesh these services at one point or another.
It's hard to predict, given that many people might just follow whatever their favourite personalities choose, and once enough users have gone there, other popular people may choose that platform too for its larger userbase, drawing more people in... It can snowball either way.
There's also the ongoing debate about interfacing the other options with Mastodon. I'm not going to take a stance on that here, but it might be a solution to the split "some of my favourite people have gone here, the others there, but I want to keep up with both in a single app". I think there would have to be a user-level option in Mastodon to block entire instances to allow people to choose not to get shown content from those services.
As an aside, I think that would be a good idea anyway, for Lemmy too. If I want to be able to browse All without seeing specific instances, I don't want to have to look for an instance with that exact list of defeds.