There should be an Australian guy who is still just hating on China in the 2nd panel anyway.

I think it is more that Americans are so used to extractive austerity and warfunding/fighting that we’ve completely forgot that economies can build civil society.

Plug and play, except you have to provide instructions and chastisement first.

It got him celebrity. That opens doors in ways money doesn’t.

Nearly ten years of my life essentially reduced to “Keep poop in ground, not on ground.”

The lab work v field work divide transcends both politics and history.

Yes, but the beauty of it is that it plugs in Steam immediately. If you’re installing it on a machine that uses Steam and sometimes browses it is a one-stop shop.

I offloaded Windows 10 entirely, installed bazzite, and played Hollow Knight and the entire Dark Souls trilogy from the same installation on the same harddrive I’d had them on Windows. Didnt even need to reinstall.

To me that’s impressive. I only had a few crashes overall too.

He asks if they serve Celsius drinks.

This has been internet community stuff since internet, honestly. Small websites run by a dozen school friends can wind up with this. Reddit, from my understanding, was always rife with it.

The decentralized nature of Lemmy means a lot of people curating their own communities. Walled gardens are a feature, not a bug. As long as the federation aspects are held together the ecosystem can self correct by letting those communities isolate, either internally or externally.

Just try not to take the walls personally, even when they are. We all run into them sometimes.

You fantasize about Hitler winning the war in enough detail enough times…

The beef jerky never complains.

Ah, the brush and scraper are flipped. That’s a warding circle… shape.

It works though because compared to XP, I’d pick XP every time.

keep telling yourself anarchists hate stalin because of his virtues and not because of his other characteristics.

To be clear, those weren’t the folks I was referring to in my comment. But:

if I may ask you a question - if marxism and anarchism are fundamentally enemies, as stalin himself argued, why would any anarchist support the modern day ML penchant for rehabilitating stalin’s reputation?

Absolutely welcome to ask, and I’ll give it a shot nonetheless.

I would ask the anarchist (and the modern day ML too) if they agree with this part of Stalin’s theory.

I don’t, and would venture to say a modern day ML may also disagree with Stalin in this but even also have a penchant for his rehabilitation, for other reasons.

More tangentally I think anarchism and marxism are not fundamentally enemies, (so, in disagreement with Stalin here), and would suggest they primarily diverge on the role a state plays in mediating conflicts of private and public interests.

But if I were to try and find common ground with the bit from Stalin you’re citing, just for argument’s sake, it would be that this divergence is a fundamental relationship between the two, but I’d still maintain the differences are not incompatible or irreconcileable.

But again, for the record, I was being more snarky about people who pivot from talking about how Hitler could’ve won to how Stalin could’ve lost.

Regardless I don’t think they’re lamenting Germany’s defeat.

I suspect for some folks Stalin is bad because anyone else would have let the USSR capitulate to the wehrmacht invasion.

Or like the Memorial to Victims of Communism in Canada that was mostly Nazis and collaborators on it.

Hot butter rum.

He could be entirely cropped out and I’d know it was him from the feet and camera alone.

Yep, they’re right here. Happily married.

We were roommates. And then just kept being roommates. Even became good friends.