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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

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  • It was a bad thing.
    Not only because of the things REEEEvolution said. Child prostitution, bread lines (which came AFTER the fall), wars and a fall of life expectency, but I live in Western Europe and the dismantling of the Soviet Union also triggered the dismantling of social democracy and rise of both fascism and rainbow capitalism in my own country and I sometimes don't know which one to be more disgusted by.
    Well fascism of course, but like religious people I consider their ideas to be so outdated that I'm often more amused and amazed by their stupidity and backwardness than I am frustrated by them during an age where China currently is undeniably the largest superpower in the world.

  • Then a dictatorship spending 80% of GDP to prepare for war would be a socialist country.

    Even if all the money is spend on social issues, only utopian socialism equals this. It's what got Karl Marx so fussy about because he knew the capitalists/monarchs/oligarchs will never allow it to happen for as long as they live. So a next social revolution à la the French revolution he predicted.

    Since Marx, socialism is when the means of production is in the hands of the workers and one's income is comparable to one's contribution.

    And since Marx didn't have a good idea as to how a socialist government would function as his version did not get off the ground, we now have standard vanguard (SU) and capilliary vanguard (PRC '78) democracies as examples of socialist societies.

  • The USA had better fossil fuels and by better fossil fuels I mean more coal.
    The Soviet Union fell because it mostly had to rely on oil and had no solution against the US petrodollar scheme.. China is already doing better with just half as much coal.

    Even cultist theocracies could win against communism with enough energy/electricity sources packed in a small area that can't be easily transported.

    This coal advantage is quickly disappearing as solar power and to a lesser extend, wind power, is making inroads. By 2030, coal will be a curse like oil as it's easier to transport than solar and wind, which aren't transportable at all.

  • You have the twelve personalities.
    Dominant, submissive, pedantic, curious, mean, innocent, humorous, trusting, romantic, nurturer, charming and horny.
    Everyone is all of them bar the aro-ace people who lack the latter four.
    I am 3 6 12 8 7 4 11 1 2 10 5 in that order.
    Results of me in real life may vary due to having mild to moderate mental illnesses.
    To make your own list, remind yourself that what you look for in a life partner is likely what you can score yourself high on on the complement side, so 1 likes 2 and vice versa 3&4, 5&6 etc....
    Maybe I should put 11 much higher on this list.

  • True. But it tells of a power structure based on laws that is rotten, as the laws preventing the power structure turning into one of absolutism could easily be dismantled by a lesser appointed official and a secret army. If Jar Jar could get the job, imagine how many other idiots would have been representatives in the Galactic Senate, that were appointed by people from the galactic senate themselves. It's a classic case of nepotism.
    Star Trek on the other hand thought that utopian socialism was almost upon us, with a world war repeat in between, as social democracy was implemented in the US out of fear of a socialist uprising.

  • Cygnus X-1 is a star, not a black hole.
    Furthermore, space cannot bend; time cannot bend; spacetime is an irrational concept and even if the concept was rational it still cannot bend, because concepts do not have the properties of objects and therefore some verbs cannot be applied to them literally or you'd be making reification fallacies.

  • A romanticized repeat of world war II isn't remotely true of the current trajectory the US is heading into and that's not a fluke, unlike how the cold war ended through no solution to a petrodollar scheme until around 1996 when natural gas could mitigate the issue of fossil fuel flight in oil dependent nations.
    The US empire surely survived in Star Trek as "the easteners" were defeated, Cochrane became a hero, the names of the ships are all NASA names. Just take one look of the opening theme of Enterprise. It's 100% US-oriented.

    Images of "black holes" are artist conceptions, AI generated (the first "real" picture is this) from data to suit preconceived notions of what the object should look like or this

    The last one is an actual picture of a so-called black hole in X-ray light. That's not a hole with an accretion disc. That's a star that shines in X-ray light.

  • . No matter how intelligent a person is, they can still make the simplest mistakes for their entire lives, because they stick by of what they've learned and die on that hill.

    . Black holes will be proven to not exist. And in the list of cosmological errors, that's the most obvious one. [edit] What people are observing, at least for the "stellar sized black holes", are UV/X-ray/Gamma ray stars, much like there are red stars and blue stars. [/edit]

    . For what it implies, Star Trek is far more evil than Star Wars despite all the anti-war rhetoric and perpetual war of the latter, as the former implies "Marx was wrong, Fourier was right. We CAN have a socialist utopia quietly evolved from an empire that began as a group of slave owners on stolen land with the flag of an oligarchic spice and slave trade corporation, who decided that a small sales tax, where most countries have VAT, on a single good, one that turns hot water into a tasty drink, was theft and so they decided that "this means war" and called for independence. Then a few decades later they created a manifesto saying that half the continent and more is simply theirs because they're so exceptional. The empire with the two-party system to ensure the purest form of kleptocracy, an ingenious way to silence dissent and perpetual struggle, moreso than any dictatorship empire has tried in the past.
    The continuation of THIS empire, the empire of deception, is the one taking over the galaxy, destined to seize the entire universe because they're so enlightened as said by one of the gods in the Star Trek universe." And no, STD and Picard doesn't do it any justice. Star Trek doesn't tell why the Federation is or isn't progressive. At least Star Wars explained how the Republic collapsed as a queen appointed a harebrained mudskipper to be her representitive in case she was absent, who then got manipulated into giving a tyrant unchecked power.

  • And goodies. Lots and lots of goodies for people to get jealous of.

    And it doesn't matter how it's acquired, as long as they can reproduce it.
    A country selling goodies you could only dream of "can't be that bad" and they could also sell you better weapons to defend you.

    Actually, I would argue that goods trump truth, and the best economic system produces and supplies the most goods of all types in demand by the populace in the shortest amount of time sustainably.

  • Most of the time you'd be bacteria, but I don't think anyone would remember that. You'd probably need a brain of these past lives in order to remember those past lives.

    I don't think debt transfer will be possible. Anyone will just keep pretending they were wild animals in their previous lives or bacteria.

    There'd probably be a lot more understanding actually between some people, having been in their shoes and earlier recognition of illnesses.

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