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- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 3 hours ago:
Not the customer’s problem. Also, fraud.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
As for East Germany, would you mind stating how your thesis about the government taking an active role
If you read what I wrote, then you would know that I actually stated: a) the government didn’t do that and b) it prevented civil society from doing so.
(titles of your links)
West German Government Was Full of Ex-Nazis After World War II
So in the east.
The Purge of Lawyers after the Breakdown of the East German Communist Regime
…lawyers. Gregor Gysi is a lawyer, btw.
All in all you really don’t seem to be particularly knowledgeable about German history. You also don’t seem to be willing to investigate what I gave you, instead falling into a partisan “But SED good therefore they are right” (unironically) and “everything is the fault of the west”. Very predictable, very sad.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
One proletarian has the strength of two average proletarians.
That’s a relationship to a crate or to barbells, not to capital or the means of production.
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People claiming simply to have an “understanding of the cultural context” when speaking of the Palestinian Genocide often do so to avoid criticism for not condemning Israel.
Do those people also call out Israel’s annexations and settlements as illegal?
culturaly underdeveloped and are incapable of ruling themselves
Again: Your words.
I quite clearly pointed to the rooting out of Communists in the East and the regular fostering of Anti-Communists in the West leading to current conditions.
And I pointed you to actual literature. Read it if you don’t want to make a fool of yourself.
All this talk of “shutting off higher mammalian and human insticts” is more Idealism than anything else, it fronts the idea of “fear states” as a genuine mechanism when the fear comes with the fascism.
“Psychology is idealism” that’s a new one. The fear is used, imposed, as a control mechanism. Not just the obvious “do what I say or I hit you” but implicit “wouldn’t it be a shame if…” narratives making alternatives unthinkable. A teacher scolding, shaming a student for not answering quickly enough breeds a life-time of preferring ready-made answers over careful consideration – any ready-made answer: The preference is for answering quickly, not for agreeing or disagreeing with the authority figure. The affective layer of the mind is fine either way, all it wants is to not be shamed for saying “I’ll need a moment to consider”.
I’m being quite orthodox here, actually, what I’m talking about is nothing but the socio-psychological aspect of alienation.
Further, Communism isn’t to be grouped in with fascism and Capitalism, it’s diametrically opposed.
Granted. As far as “communism” means the real existing ML experiments it’s still the same fucking river, though.
and the approval of government in current Socialist states is high.
You know where else approval of the government was high? Nazi Germany. Poll numbers are a thought-terminating cliche, you can do better.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
but retaining the same labor relations to the Means of Production.
So you’re saying that there’s no difference in things like capital access. “Same relations” implying “no difference, nada, zilch”. I don’t find that assessment compatible with the material conditions we live under.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
Class instead is a social relation to ownership of the Means of Production.
And the managerial class doesn’t have that? Is it easier or harder for an MBA to get a loan to become a millionaire than it is for a worker coop? To furnish golden parachutes for themselves while leaving workers with not even the dole (heard of some nasty practices in the US, there, making people ‘quit without cause’ by bullying etc which would disqualify them from welfare).
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Though, “understanding the cultural context” is often a dogwhistle, so you may wish to drop that language.
Really. Dogwhistle.
This is about things like inflationary use of the term Nazi, just as an example not even Die Linke calls the AfD Nazis – the agreed-upon term is fascist. That’s because culturally we’re careful about not diluting that term.
So when someone goes over to say feddit.org and posts about how “German police is all Nazis”, that won’t fly. Not because the absolutely left-heavy and German demographics of feddit.org fail to recognise issues with the German police, but because you just trivialised Nazi rule.
That kind of cultural context.
“culturally developed enough”
Your words. You seem to be right-out seeking terms that pass judgement. I suggest finding language that seeks analysis, instead.
Fascism can only be truly beaten by advancing to Socialism.
The psychopolitics of fascism are anxiety: Shutting off higher mammalian and human instincts by induction of fear states. Socialism is an answer to that, yes, but the KGB surely doesn’t help with the anxiety. All that paranoia, all that distrust, and policies which do not alleviate it but only deepen it. Psychologically, capitalism, fascism, and tankiism are different sides of the same socio-psychological maladaptation to human nature.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
drag quite clearly has stated that “Marx was an Anarchist.” This is wrong.
Absolutely.
The insistence that managers make up a distinct class is more of an Anarchist thing than a Marxist one, as adopting such analysis would be similar to calling plumbers and elictricians their own classes in and of themselves, rather than substratums.
Plumbers are not in a power hierarchy relationship to electricians so that’s a strawman.
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despite robust democratic control.
You might want to calibrate your democracy-o-meter. At the very least, not conflate a disagreement about degrees of democracy in some specific state with a disagreement on principles.
administrators of public property do not constitute a distinct class,
Ah. So not revisionist enough to acknowledge the professional-manegerial class, I see. I mean it’s not like the concept would break with Marxian analysis, it just re-analyses things with a more complete set of data points. So in this case you can choose between being a revisionist and giving up on materialism, I suggest the former.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
Did you just call me a fascist Zionist. As far as opposing the genocide is concerned I haven’t been cracked down on – maybe because I understand the cultural context. The government itself, btw, has always considered Israel’s annexations and settlements outside of the 1967 borders to be illegal.
and looks down upon the people of East Germany as “stupid” and “compliant.”
They’re neither. What’s lacking is a cultural habit of self-rule. Complaining “why don’t the people on top do things properly”, that’s not compliant, that’s not stupid, but it’s also quite ineffective when you could run for office and do it better yourself.
The west’s denazification didn’t happen after the war, true – it happened '68, when kids started to ask their parents inconvenient questions. That never happened in the east. It could never happen in the east because the party insisted on its monopoly on politics.
Also it’s plenty well-documented of how the SED just didn’t bother to crack down on Nazi structures. Roughly 25% of SED members had a Nazi past, Plenty of boneheads starting in the 80s, later on they infiltrated the FDJ, in 1990 about 14% of GDR youth agreed with the statement “there were positive things about nationalist-socialist rule”. Have a wikipedia article to kick off your further research into the topic. Why is there only a German version? Because apparently noone outside of Germany actually gives a fuck about these things.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
Well it certainly is capitalist if it’s not democratic. You can have public ownership and worker control, or you can have public ownership and a dictatorship of people who are not workers. Like, bureaucrats, apparatchik, the nomenclatura, etc. Or the army. Or whoever who’s not workers.
As such drag might operate under the Anarchist definition of state (which I, as an Anarchist, can’t stand, because in <currentyear> it just causes pointless misunderstandings), which more or less bogs down to “hierarchical control”, not “organisational structure of society”. The latter definition is something perfectly neutral, the former is the face of evil itself.
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Gee that worked well in Germany didn’t it have a look at the polling results for the AfD.
Trouble being that in the east, antifascism was considered state matter, therefore, ordinary people did not get involved. In the west, it was a civil society issue. The SED de-politicised the population, “join the party and read the script or don’t get involved”, and now the east is severely lacking in civil society capacity to oppose fascism. Capacity to engage in politics in the first place, the east is run by West German politicians because East Germans just don’t bother to become politicians, they rather elect West Germans instead. And then they’re complaining that they’re not getting heard.
Nothing about what the Soviets did in the GDR was “taking fascism seriously”, unless with “take seriously” you mean “fertilise the ground”.
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Nazi collaborators
…like Ukrainian Red Army veterans who fought the Nazis, but didn’t like Moscow calling the shots afterwards. I see you’ve drunken that age-old propaganda wholesale.
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Marxist-Leninist
but I’m not a “State Capitalist”So you’re a revisionist.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 1 week ago:
You know what also doesn’t make sense? Not boiling chicken in milk. I can guarantee you that’s not the milk of the chicken’s mother. The “don’t boil a young goat in the milk of its mother” at least has a proper interpretation in the sense of “there were some people who did that and God came and God said ‘yo that’s nasty, stop it’”. Something about not using sacrifice as an opportunity to practice transgression.
In the end I think the Torah is just a tool for Jews to have something to argue about endlessly.
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 1 week ago:
A crawler is a data processing machine, nothing more. therefor you are disrupting dataprocessing through data. If you think its not thats ok too.
Nah it’s definitely disrupting data processing, even though at a very low-key level – you’re not causing any data to become invalid or such. It’s the intent to harm the operator that’s the linchpin: “Jemandem einen Nachteil zufügen”. “Jemand” needs to be a person, natural or legal. And by stopping a crawler you don’t want to inflict a disadvantage on the operator you want to, at most, stop them from gaining an advantage. “Inflict disadvantage” and “prevent advantage” are two different things.
I would still advise to contact your lawyer in germany if you are thinking about hosting a zipbomb
Good idea, but as already said before: First, you should contact a sysadmin. Who will tell you it’s a stupid idea.
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 1 week ago:
The intent is to get rid of crawlers which are disrupting the operation of your servers. That’s not intent of doing harm to the crawler’s operator, or their business. It’s analogous to telling a hawker to fuck off: Polite, no, but them being able to profit off you is not your responsibly, you do not have to accede to that. And intent to harm the ISP is even less reasonable to assume.
cant find the primary source anymore netzpolitik.org/…/berec-studie-dpi-bei-vielen-pro…
That’s out of date anyway. How about this one. DPI is limited to OSI level 5 and only allowed to resolve network issues – and a crawler crashing is not a network issue.
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 week ago:
Countering Animator with Blender, that’s brutal. For at least some stuff Blender is also the better Illustrator.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 1 week ago:
Casting concrete requires building formwork to cast the concrete into. For any standardised shape constructing the formwork is easy: Just assemble it from the parts you have. Straight sections? The most common case. Rounded corners? As long as you’re fine with “should be round” and don’t require some very specific radius, those are probably also at hand. A gargoyle? Well that’s not an easy form to produce but once you have it, you can cast 1000 gargoyles.
Where 3d printing comes in is places where you have a shape that’s literally or nearly unique, where building the formwork would be a PITA. In all other cases, the traditional method is quicker and cheaper.
Also interesting is stuff like solar sintering plain sand.
- Comment on Resistance from the tech sector 1 week ago:
It also needs crowd sourced legal assistance
Basically any union in Germany has access to an army of lawyers, your dues double as legal insurance covering anything related to work and welfare.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, in reality, the EU funds lemmy’s development.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 1 week ago:
One refers to an indefinite and generic group, and it’s not a “they/them” in the sense that one does not exclude oneself from that group (it’s generic, after all). I guess universal quantification is close in meaning.
It’s a thing specific to English, or I guess Indo-European languages in general. All languages have first, second, and third person anything beyond that is non-standard. E.g. Finnish has a 0th person, “Infer who is meant from context”.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 1 week ago:
because it’s arguably a fourth person pronoun.
Even if you consider it a pronoun, which you’d then also have to do with “class” in “Class, please open the book to page 14”, it’s still second person plural.
Fourth person would be “One does not simply walk into Mordor”. “One does not address the fourth person”. I guess people got it mixed up with the 4th wall that’s why the confusion exists.
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 2 weeks ago:
Severely disrupting other people’s data processing of significant import to them. By submitting malicious data requires intent to cause harm, physical destruction, deletion, etc, doesn’t.
Why the hell would an ISP have a look at this. And ever if, they’re professional enough to detect zip bombs. Which btw is why this whole thing is pointless anyway: If you class requests as malicious, just don’t serve them. Much more sensible to go the anubis route and demand proof of work as that catches crawlers which come from a gazillion IPs with different user agents etc.
- Comment on So true 2 weeks ago:
French fries is the standard German pool food. Like, nowhere else do you see stands selling nothing but fries (with ketchup and/or mayo, of course). And they just don’t taste as good anywhere else, I guess it’s the chlorine in the air making the salt taste extra special without actually tasting more salty.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 2 weeks ago:
I don’t even know whether I understand I just hear MacOS users griping about fullscreen, and a quick google gave quite recent results. Especially with fullscreen being incompatible with other windows on top (each fullscreen window necessary is on its own workspace) which would be highly annoying in Blender. You can configure blender to have file open dialogues, render results etc. in its main window, but certain stuff like preferences always open a second one.
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 2 weeks ago:
They don’t (usually) display the temperature but they definitely sense it, and react to it. When the sensed temperature is at or higher than the set temperature, the valve will be closed, if it’s lower it will be opened. Mere valves can’t do that.
That’s what a thermostat is: A negative feedback control system regulating sensed temperature towards a setpoint, and keeping it there. They’re simple, inexpensive, reliable. Yes having the temperature sensor right next to the radiator isn’t ideal but unless the room is quite large that’s not an issue. Also with large rooms you probably have more than one heater and thus thermostat. And you could, in principle, put the thermostat far from the heater but I’ve never seen that done.
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 2 weeks ago:
Those “valves” are, in fact, thermostats. They use thermal expansion of wax to open/close the valve to get to their set temperature. Settings 1-5 are 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 Celsius.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 2 weeks ago:
Can you fullscreen windows under MacOS yet?
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 weeks ago:
IIRC, that used to be a much more significant problem;
Yep systems that could automatically dose the fertiliser were not yet in widespread use. Farmers don’t want to over-fertilise for the simple reason that fertiliser costs money but before those systems were available it was all too easy to say “fuck it I’ll drown the field so that there’s enough everywhere”.
Not rotating crops seems to be a US thing, farmers over here never stopped doing that. There’s also EU-wide laws about having to either let land fall fallow, or plant cover crops or nitrogen fixers. You can, in principle, plant your nitrogen fixers year after year on one field and your cash crops on another, but only if you’re a complete idiot.