Stop subsidising air travel and people are gonna prefer trains and boats real fast.
Stop subsidising air travel and people are gonna prefer trains and boats real fast.
It depends on a lot of things. Something self-hosted would just cost the power and Internet you are already paying for but if you’re renting the hosting and maybe even get development for your site it could cost a ton.
Yea, no, elections were a joke in the soviet union. Pretty much everyone knew your vote counted for nothing and they started offering people food so they would show up to vote to give it some legitimacy. Unlike current Russia the soviet propaganda was mostly a laughing stock at the time.
Also the party members were basically picked by nepotism alone. Sure, you could have internal elections but the winner was always the one with most friends in the party. That’s kinda like saying north Korea is democratic because there are some internal elections while in practise it’s pretty much a monarchy.
Ancaps pretty much only exist in the US so elsewhere libertarian still means the original definition.
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I’m not even talking about the famines soviet incompetence caused and deliberately worsened. Their death camps killed 1-8 million people, nobody knows exactly how many because, unlike the nazies, soviet records were absolute garbage and all accounts come from guards and prisoners. They also tried to destroy the culture and language of the occupied areas and replace the local population with Russians.
Not a meme considering exactly that happened, they agreed to divide Europe between themselves and not attack each other. Stalin absolutely wanted an alliance with Hitler and nothing indicates he was interested in fighting Hitler until he invaded. He got rid of Jewish diplomats to make Hitler happy. When Hitler invaded he refused to act since he did not want to believe that his ally betrayed him. I don’t doubt Hitler intended to break their alliance. Also are you saying if no one else wants to ally with you then allying with nazies is a good idea?
Instead the soviet union genocide it’s neighbours while allying with the nazies so that was not an improvement.
Also yea, the US is like the #1 killer of socialist governments, that’s not really news. And I don’t doubt that if it was between anarchists and authoritarians, the authoritarians would shoot the anarchist without hesitation to rule over the working class with an iron fist like it has happened every time so the choice is meaningless, actual socialists die in either case.
Considering the first thing Lenin did when getting to power was kill actual socialists that wanted democracy, I’ll never side with MLs(or more like stalinists since that ideology has little to do with Marx or Lenin). And my family got to experience the soviet regime first hand, loosing many friends and family to their death camp thinly veiled as work camps. MLs are as useful as nazies when it comes to finding solutions to humanity’s problems.
Authoritarians that like soviet iconography ain’t going to fix that or even help.
Currently watching Dollhouse which I’m not sure if qualifies as scifi. Planning on watching Altered Carbon after this though.
I have always loved Stergate. I grew up watching this and I rewatch the whole thing every few years and I have been itching to rewatch it soon. Also just recently finished The Expanse. It was hands down the best scifi show in recent history, my favourite will always be Firefly though.
I my experience the people running large companies are idiots who got their position by brown nosing the right people so it doesn’t really surprise me. Google is pretty well known too for coming up with stupid ideas they scrap in a few years
None, like the porn posts need to be clicked on to show the picture so it’s not really an issue and even if it was visible by default I wouldn’t mind, it’s just porn. I would block gore but I haven’t come across that yet.
That toaster looks older than the one I got during the soviet occupation and everything from then looks 30 years older.