the capitalists have been purged

Ah yes, purging opposing political ideologies. What a healthy society that must be

freedom of the private press

I apologise but my media literacy is so bad I can’t find where press is even mentioned in the document. The closest I could find is freedom of speech but those are two different things.

As you admit, they focus on concepts like “separation of powers,” or “freedom of the private press,” or “political pluralism,” as well as “peaceful transition of power.” This fundamentally is meant to disqualify socialist concepts of democracy, focused on cooperation, cohesion, social unity, rule by the common people, and limiting of the powers of the wealthy over society.

How do those “fundamentally disqualify” democracies that focus on “cooperation, cohesion, social unity, rule by the common people and limiting the powers of the wealthy over society”?

I would have thought that separation of powers makes it easier to limit the power of the wealthy. Does that concept impede cohesion, cooperation, social unity or rule by the common people in any way? How can the common people have any chance to rule if you don’t have courts that make sure the law is upheld by the powerful?

In my very limited worldview political pluralism plays a pivotal role in establishing a functioning socialist democracy. Yes, having many differing opinions on any given topic slows the decision making process down. However, how can you expect the marginalized to be represented in any way if you don’t have a party representing them? But I guess if you educate your people properly then even in a population of 1.4 billion people everyone’s political opinions can be represented by a single party.

As for peaceful transition of power, how is that bad exactly?

Since we’re cherry picking questions here, how do “government transparency”, " freedom of speech" or “rule of law” prohibit the rule of the common people? I would think that they only help strengthen the common people? How are they at odds with any of the other socialist concepts you mentioned?

Please excuse my stupid questions, as you mentioned, my media literacy is terrible so I don’t even understand these really basic concepts.

And in this one by the European union they rank themselves lower or equal to western countries. As well as ranking low on things like freedom of speech and separation of power.

Perceived democracy survey by the EU 2025

One survey, be it from the EU or Harvard doesn’t really prove anything. If you want to convince people then you should find a meta analysis.

Much better since it doesn’t try to use one photo out of hundreds to try to downplay a major humanitarian crisis.

However, regardless of Mohammed’s illness and the nature of the photo, it is true that people are starving in Gaza, as repeatedly reported by reputable media outlets and humanitarian aid groups.

The boy’s mother, Hedaya al-Muta, has spoken to the media to confirm her son’s medical history, but also of their lack of access to medicine and food. She added that Mohammed’s weight has severely declined.

Tailwind sounds cooler than CSS, which, I presume, would be important when you’re applying at a startup.

That’s what they’re doing. That’s why they remove the headphone jack in favour for a slimmer, lighter phone. Their market research showed that’s more important to a bigger portion of their customers.

Missed that news in November, finally done good news from ESA. Let’s hope they’re not too far behind already

Again? Hasn’t changed for me since they started doing that in November. YouTube is quite annoying to use for me these days, the site takes forever to load and only starts loading when I switch to the tab. Best thing to do is adding everything to a queue, videos load normally then for some reason. As a result I’m using YouTube less though, so not necessarily a bad thing.

Ai generated list based on number of clicks on their website. What a waste of everyone’s time

1. Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
2. Samsung Galaxy A54
3. Samsung Galaxy S23
4. Samsung Galaxy A34
5. Samsung galaxy A14
6. Apple iPhone 15 pro max
7. Tecno spark 10 pro
8. Samsung galaxy A14 5G
9. Xiaomi Redmi 12
10. Xiaomi Poco X5 Pro
11. OnePlus 11
12. Xiaomi Poco F5
13. Samsung galaxy A24 4G
14. Realme C55
15. Samsung galaxy S23+
16. Infinitix Hot 30
17. Infinitix Hot 30i
18. Infinitix note 30
19. Vivo v27
20. Realme 11 pro

Meanwhile, my reaction when it starts to snow

Hell yeah! It’s about time we bust big atmosphere’s monopoly on cloud generation!

There is still a difference between basically nothing and literally nothing. Spotify is better than pirating and CDs/vinyl/digital directly from them is better than Spotify.

You’re not hurting the companies, you’re hurting the artists. I’m not saying don’t pirate at all, especially from artists like Taylor swift. But maybe if you’re listening to a small artist, especially if they’re independent, consider buying their cd.

It’s a free account, what’d be stopping you from just creating a new one?

I read this morning that return dislike no longer works, apparently YouTube changed something in the backend. Might want to verify that and potentially remove it from the list for now

They’re what? Literally 1984

No, it wouldn’t be the same. Doesn’t necessarily mean bad though, the format is still great. You’re right though, it would probably be some really young YouTubers so they can appeal to a young audience, as if they only watched people as old as them. I think you need at least one person with a lot of experience in SFX or a similar field

We really need the mythbusters back :(

I was curious so I did a little bit of research(as in duckduckgo was useless so I asked chatgpt). While stomach acid loses its acidity fairly quickly after death how quickly it happens depends on various environmental factors. Regardless, popcorn kernels apparently pop between 175-200°C(400F). But bodies are cremated between 760-982°C(1400-1800F). So depending on how quickly those temperatures are reached it’s probably more likely that any remaining kernels would just burn.

There’s a chance though. We need some practical experiments.

Ich war etwas überrascht als meine bei apacare bestellte Zahnbürste in einer Cumdente Verpackung kam. Dachte erst das G wurde nicht richtig gedruckt. Nope, die Firma heißt so.

Well, there’s your problem