Disclaimer: he was most likely not actually masturbating in his final moments. A more probable explanation is that the hot pyroclastic flow from Mt. Vesuvius forcefully contracted his muscles, leaving him in that state.

Propped up by the global hardware distribution of capitalists, Linux (capitalist companies have made major contributions to linux, and still do), and the internet (distributed under a capitalist model)

The creator’s ideology does not matter

Planned economies do work

They do, to a certain extent. Once an economy begins to grow more and more complex, the intensity of calculations needed increases proportionally (edit: proportional may not be the right word here).

A large part of the USSR’s workforce was dedicated to economic planning at the time of its collapse, and it was projected to reach 50% by the 2000s.

They intended to solve this with computers, but there’s reasons this wouldn’t have worked:

A: Economic calculation involves NP-Hard problems, where the complexity can increase out of nowhere.

If you needed to perform 1600 calculations one day, next week the number needed could jump to 36000. (NP-Hard problems are also common in route determination programs used by delivery apps to devise optimum routes. If you increase the number of locations from 10 to 11, the computations needed to calculate an optimum route increases staggeringly, and it keeps getting worse the more complex you make it.)

B: Making the economy more complex makes the calculations needed more-than-exponentially extra intensive and numerous. If you introduce computers into the mix, more people are free to do other things and make the economy even more complex. It’s a really fast vicious cycle that doesn’t end well.

And in all of this, I haven’t even mentioned the corruption involved in bureaucracy

I fully agree with the first part. Countries with already developed industry and trade got the boost, and that’s the major reason for the large difference in development between Underdeveloped and Developed nations.

If you remove socialist countries, poverty has gone up in the last century

I don’t get it. Remove in what way? Too vague to carry any meaning.

If you mean their political, economic, and ideological impact on surrounding nations then yeah, obviously. But the socialist countries themselves had to adopt some form of capitalism to continue to grow economically (see: china). The countries that didn’t move away from central planning eventually collapsed (eg. USSR*).

*I understand how the cause of the USSR’s collapse is not soley the inefficiency of central planning, but even if the country was allowed to continue unimpeded, it would have collapsed because of that one reason.

So no alternative explanation? You should at least point me to some resources that say otherwise.

I fully acknowledge the wild ecological harm and rising inequality that capitalism has brought with it. However, even Marx had written about the system’s capacity for the advancement of industrial technology and productivity.

Centrally planned economies like the ones of the USSR and similar 21st century socialist states do not work. They would never have enabled the vast distribution and rapid development of technology like we see today. Lemmy itself is a product of capitalism.

The technological advancements were in large part due to the large scale growth of industry under capitalism. Although lots of bloodshed and suffering was involved in the process, and without leftists fighting for reforms, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy its fruits today.

The mass availability of the internet, and many other pillars of infrastructure are a result of capitalism. And these developments definitely have increased living standards for the majority of humans, even ones in third world nations (The popular image of a destitute country with rampant poverty is extremely rare these days.)

There’s also a fried chicken stereotype for African Americans. I think it had some historic context too.

Racists are weird, never mind.

Life finds a way

What’s the movie/show?

Huh. I should check again

It doesn’t work for me on SwayWM, maybe KDE does something else under the hood?

Edit: lol Sorry, I mistook xrandr for brightnessctl. (I had aliased xrandr brightness change commands to “brightness” in my shell)

brightnessctl doesn’t work with Wayland

Damn, it’s been some years. I forgot.

The content is higher-quality, more like a TV production. But it’s still pretty solid. Good analogies and intuitive explanations.

Wait a minute, Goodsprings is a real place? 😮

Does it often get attacked by boomers irl too?

I don’t think there is anyone like that. Being normal is way too abnormal.

sigh *unzip*

There is always a TF2 SFM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqF1AiqyCQ

Holy shit, I can do that too. I noticed just now because of your comment.

Thank you for unlocking my new power.

That saves 100% money, but it’s like the least healthy way to live…