Netflix did encounter issues. I couldn’t access it yesterday at noon EST. And I wasn’t alone, judging by Downdetector.ca

They’re at that level for a reason. The problem is that most people are ignorant or give little consideration to human life.

Concerning peasants, some (serfs) didn’t own any land, while others (freemen) did. Serfs could be better off than freemen though.

As a man, I’m happy to know that about Lemmy.

You can influence yourself, or nudge yourself.

The cap needsto be way, way lower. You don’t need to to have more money than a government to buy a politician or buy media. And I think that small steps is all it takes for a class of the society to progressively take more and more power as they work to influence people and remove regulation.

I know that it doesn’t answer your original question (the thing about countries doing better than another country - I personally didn’t any claim here), but I’d like to answer that one question.

North Korea is an authoritarian state with a planned economy with a highly unequal society, in part based on slavery. Its official ideology is juche. Supernatural phenomena is attributed to their leaders. It is in many parts similar to kingdoms of old.

Its miserable state could be taken as an indication of the failing of socialism, as socialism is also based on a planned economy.

There’s a few nuances though.

First, socialism means that workers own the means of production. I’m not aware of any democracy, even local, in North Korea. Authoritarian states are famously wasteful and inefficient. Perhaps one should look to socialist states where democracy and rule of law were in effect for a real indication.

I’m not aware of workers having control of the means of production in any notable auto-ptoclaimed socialist states, apart from USSR for a very short period of time. It seems like socialist revolutions ending in authoritarianism and centralization is a common story, almost inevitable.

Second, there’s some remarkable successes even in those authoritarian planned economy states. Cuba has spend extremly little in healthcare and manages to give its population a good life expectency. There were also good social indicators under USSR, and which went down under capitalist Russia.

Third, North Korea spends an enormous amount on the military. No country not in an active war in the world spends as much as North Korea does on its military as a percentage of its GDP. It’s around 20-25% if I remember correctly.

Anyway, just wanted to chime on this.

Knowing you felt happy at least for a moment makes me happy.

Take care.

“Video game enthusiast”

Just be mindful of replacing it with another source of protein. Just removing meat and leaving your diet as is might not do. Depending on your diet, it might not be an issue. If you’re from Latin America for example, you probably already eat a lot of beans. But you are less likely to regularly eat a vegetarian source of protein if you live in a more northern region of the world.

I think being somewhat transparent is the point. You want them agreeing untilnthey get to the end and say “oh”, and feel angry/annoyed by the satire, but deep down you’re sowing doubts that maybe this does all make sense and that you should investigate it more and get educated.

Vanilla beans are cheaper than synthetic vanilline??

This cracks me up, why is there a bunch separated from the rest?

I don’t really understand where the very specific idea of kiwi farming comes from, but I can confirm old 4chan users are here. I’m one of them. I’ve never been misogynistic or racist however. I was more into the freedom, randomness, otaku culture and activism for civic liberties. There’s a preconceived notion of what a 4chan user is, and I understand where it comes from.

“Butter made from carbon”

Isn’t that what we had for thousands of years?

everyone should be free to decide for themselves who they are attracted to.

I can decide that?! How can I do that?

Yea I thought that was funny.

In reality, I guess it’s some bigoted view on homosexuality. Like “it can be OK if they are monogamous, secretive, don’t flount it, respect gender norms, stay far from children, and tried to not be gay for long time before giving in”. Probably.

I think pornography is an “art” the same way gastronomy is an “art”. Both serve a simple function: one to arouse you, the other to be enjoyable food to eat.

I think the more general definition of art is something that generates more complex emotions and thoughts.

Is there really a game that allows you to do all that??!!

They’re only thinking of the eventual harm done to actors, or, victims, in the case of child porn.