Animal Farm wasn't a critique of communism, it was a critique of the way the Soviet leadership sold communism down the river to enrich themselves.

Lemmy doesn't have opinions, it's a collection of forums made up of completely different people with completely different opinions. What possible reason could you have for expecting everyone to think the same thing as each other?

It was an option, but the fact there's an article about it suggests he got caught, and I imagine the consequences will be worse than having to attend a work party.

Other options (with consequences of varying severities) include: jumping out of a window; never quiting the job until you die so they can't throw you any parties; not showing up for the last day of work; telling your colleagues you don't want a leaving party.

Correct. Patriotism is a form of xenophobia.

A bunch of very rich people really wanted Brexit, that's why what was touted as a 'non-binding' referendum ("just to see what the people want") was treated as very much binding once the Leave campaign won it (by a couple of percent).

Coincidentally, the original date they wanted to have it all finalised for just so happened to be the same day as new EU regulations about declaring off-shore bank deposits came into power.

Richard Dawkins once said children shouldn't read fairy stories because they encourage magical thinking, the man is a tool.

This is the real problem. The payment processors wouldn't give a shit if it wasn't for a very vocal minority of batshit religious busy-bodies.

Race isn't a real thing, scientifically speaking, it is a social construct (like 'justice', or the 'Easter Bunny'). 'Racism' is actually a shorthand for ethnocentrism.

Their laws don't allow online advertising (or something, I'm not clear on the actual details).

No ads on YouTube, Spotify can still play ads for premium (but they don't make any money from them), and you can play mobile games without having to deal with ads too.

Really? Why is that any stranger than Christians trading with non-Christians, or republics trading with monarchies?

I'm pretty sure those are his principles, the man is a fucking ghoul.

A goose loose aboot the hoose?

Call them out for what, disagreeing with a previous post? Life's too short to be arguing with total strangers on the internet.

Don Hertzfeld actually just released an upscaled HD version of 'Rejected' (which is where that came from) :)

My thoughts exactly. Oxygen Not Included too.

The Vatican claims to have more gold in its vaults than has ever officially been mined out of the earth, and considering how much they stole from the Aztecs, it's possible they aren't even lying.

What? I grew up atheist, but that sounds absolutely mental to me. Protestantism is an off-shoot of Catholicism, so if Catholics aren't Christian then surely neither was Martin Luther?

This is called existentialism.

The glass is always full, it's just that some of what it's filled with is air.