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DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media
The future is self-hosted digital media. I've got no qualms with pirating media. But I am an advocate for buying digital media from artists directly.
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DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media
The future is self-hosted digital media. I've got no qualms with pirating media. But I am an advocate for buying digital media from artists directly.
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FBI Readies New War on Trans People
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But apparently he was dating a trans girl.... So y'know, that's convenient enough of an excuse for these morons. Ignore the fact that the dude who pulled the trigger was a while Republican male...
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Charlie Kirk in his own words. Half of the United States is paying tribute to this man.
Good riddance.
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When both say “I love privacy”
Proton has become a problem for privacy
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Australia said to grant US access to Australians’ biometric data
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Because we'll always be too scared to say no to the US. We're their bitch at this point. We're a little less loud than they are, but we're just as fucked up where it counts.
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another world is possible
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I dunno, I've met some pretty fucking stupid people. Idiocy and ignorance go hand in hand.
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I just halted a job interview process - due to self respect.
You did the right thing, and you did it gracefully. I would have told them to fuck the fuck off, and probably would have reported them to the department of consumer affairs and to the fair work commission (aus)
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The side of Nepal the media won't show you 🇳🇵
While these scenes are outrageous, they're encouraging. The solidarity of the Nepalese people is incredible.
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Who the (heck) put ads in my proton pass
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Or for those not interested in the fine grained control of keepassxc, bitwarden is free and has a great app and browser extensions
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Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog
The UK is really battling to knock the US of the top of the fuckedest country list ain't it
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BREAKING: U.S. and Israel Bomb Iran Amid Peace Talks
That's fucked up. Now release the rest of the Trump files!
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Very basically: communism is not “everyone gets paid the same” and it is not “no hierarchy ever.” You can still have inequality in income, status, or lifestyle. The core difference is where that inequality comes from.
Under communism, the means of production are collectively owned, so no one gets rich purely by owning things other people have to use to survive. You do not get passive power over others just because your parents did well or you happened to own capital first.
The baseline is that no one is excluded from basic human needs, food, housing, healthcare, education, safety. That removes the permanent underclass capitalism reliably produces. From there, differences in pay or quality of life can exist based on contribution, skill, responsibility, or scarcity, but they are not allowed to snowball into dynastic wealth and structural domination.
So yes, different jobs can lead to different standards of living. That alone is not capitalism. Capitalism specifically requires private ownership of productive assets and wage dependence. If everyone has equal access to opportunity and no one can hoard power across generations, you do not end up with the same class system we have now.
The honest answer is also the boring one: real-world implementations vary, some badly, and no system guarantees fairness automatically. Communism is about reducing structural exploitation, not pretending humans stop being human.
People saying “everyone will just do awful jobs out of pure love” are overselling it and hurting the argument. Incentives still exist. The difference is that survival is not used as the incentive.
TLDR: Capitalism uses deprivation as motivation. Communism tries to remove deprivation first, then argue about incentives afterward. Whether that succeeds is the real debate.
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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable
Grayjay, feetube, Smartube, Newpipe etc etc...
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another world is possible
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Yeah, it's nice in theory, but a bit idealistic. The majority of people are always going to prioritise self interest over all else
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Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.
Grayjay still works
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meredith brooks
I'd also argue that "Slut" is also shaming a woman for her right to say NO because, generally, the person calling any woman a slut is probably an incel type who is not getting any. I imagine that men who have regular sex will rarely use the term.
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The Bat-Woman - Albert Joseph Pénot (1890)
Would
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How many open source apps do you have on your phone?
It's not very accurate. Says a bunch of my Foss apps are proprietary.
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Turning Gaming Handhelds into Digital Audio Players: An Interview with Riley
You got me with the NOFX track... I'm here for it
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SmartTube — an Open-Source Alternative to the Official YouTube App on Android TV (Security Update Included)
Smart tube is great, but can we please just get Grayjay on smart TVs plz