I like pictures with bright colors in them.
To me that’s a sign towards a bright present and future.

All those war, hunger and oppression photos just depress me.

No, they do not.

They are two economic systems predicted by Karl Marx to be superseding capitalism,
with communism superseding socialism.

Socialism is what China currently is.

Communism is thought to be like star trek.
No one needs to use currency for their survival.
There’s no large gap between the rich and the poor.
Government plays a small to non-existent role.

Fleur, Jasmijn, Sanne

The USian way of viewing socialism is “centre-right liberalism + religious democratics + social liberalism + social democracy + democratic socialism + marxist leninism” = socialism

Welcome to Lemmy, where ‘socialist countries’ means nations that follow Marxist-Leninism and not a form of modern utopian socialism better known as social democracy that took bits and pieces of Marxist-Leninism under a capitalist umbrella.

So not like Denmark, but like China or Vietnam.

Welcome to capitalism, where stuff like this is only illegal in socialist countries.

Seemed like there was always some stand out video or event ranging from chocolate rain video, nyan cat, amazing horse, I like turtles, why does the Internet seem so stale lately?

Youtube algorithms preferring to show you legacy news sites and paid influencers instead of promoting regular users.

If Netflix, KFC and MacDonalds is “culture”, then yes.

Reunion Islands as well. Not sure if it’s the same person, but he was/is a programmer.

Not as rare as some woman I helped teach my local language in Europe and she told me
that she was born on Eastern Island.

Depends on how your time travel works.

Real time travel would require to set everything back in place except your brain/body,
so you haven’t technically traveled back in time, but everyone around you effectively thinks you have
as they’d never accept themselves as being part of a universe that’s been ahead for 30 years and then reversed in place.

Ah yes.
The infamous “they” who control everything.
But what “they” who control “they”, who are really in control of the lights in your room and the lights you’re trying to check?
What if there’s an infinite amount of “theys” all the way down that by mathematical logic leads to myself?
What if the interview being held and the question being asked wasn’t meant to test me, but to test you?
What then?

No no no, you’re not coming here.
My European country hits all points, but it’s on shaky ground,
with issues getting worse soon.

NATO is going to ruin us all.

I am critical of the scientific method itself.
It’s missing a fallacy checklist and a proper glossary.
See my 7 point proposal to prole.

The issue here is whether or not you are talking about something concrete or abstract and in current physics there’s a lot of concepts that are being treated as if they are objects.

It’s as if you were reading a scientific paper where meteors are losing materials due to rocks breathing or birds flying into certain directions due to winds howling.
Winds don’t howl, rocks don’t breathe.
Poetry does not help one understand the fundamentals of how physics work.
And I argue that this kind of fallacy is rampant throughout the physics community.

I (and some others similarly) suggest that there should be a systemic rules to prevent that from happening.

Here’s my proposal:

1. Every sentence in the entire paper needs to be checked for fallacies and if they contain them, then they need to be crossed out with a red pen.
2. This checklist of fallacies should be universal, thus not be part of a blind peer review where the peer could uphold his or her own logic.
3. Every fundamental concrete word can be drawn with a shape.
4. Every fundamental relational abstract word can be drawn with shapes and arrows.
5. Every fundamental dynamic abstract word can be drawn with multiple frames.
6. Other fundamental words are names.
7. Words that are abstract cannot use verbs or properties that belong to concrete words, just like non-organism cannot use verbs or properties that belong to organisms.

Cope?

The state of socialism around the world hasn’t had a better year than this one and it’s only going to get better, unless AI will make communism possible and popular.

What about trying to figure out first what the other two buttons do? Maybe they turn on the light of the room you’re in. And I can see light without entering a room right? Just open the door, no need to enter it. If not allowed, look at the foot of the door or try to see if the room has a window.

No need to buy fancy equipment or even go into the room at all.

Computers.
Not even computer games, although that would have added bonus points as a target for bullying, but using a computer in general.

Then again, bullying was more of an attitude thing during my youth, so you didn’t get bullied for your hobbies, but for your behavior.
Ugly geeky kids were left alone if they hung out with other geeky kids. They got bullied as soon as they tried to associate themselves with the cool kids.

That took me a while to think about.

Incarceration.
The US is a living and breathing dystopian military police state yes.

The thing is, it makes people think pineapples originate from Hawaii.

A tie between Japanese and French.