I think you two are actually on the same page, in that capitalism strives on inequality and dependence

The original comment was not advocating for capitalism and the old ways, it was just saying that making us poor is essential to keep capitalism running.

Absolutely. Most people being low on money is essential to making the system work.

Otherwise, no one would take terrible low-paying jobs that pay for billionaires’ lavish lifestyles.

And so is the real estate market. Any excess of money you get sinks into having a place to live. Once population overall earns more, housing prices skyrocket. It’s an ingenious trap to keep us eternally broke and powerless, while feeding the rich.

There’s no market-based solution for this. We need a serious intervention. As long as we don’t put the working majority first, unsurprisingly, the world is gonna suck.

People born when you’ve created your YouTube account are now adults. Some are planning to have children.

Think about that.

Fair enough - but malicious or not, it does cause issues and builds barriers to inclusion.

Talking about subsections is not about competition. It’s about unhealthy arrangement that, again, can easily be used to exclude people. It just doesn’t make sense to divide it this way.

Intersectionality talks about many issues, and one of them, part of it, is sexism. So, putting it under umbrella of feminism is like putting animals under the umbrella of bees.

My experience interacting with men’s liberation is mostly just men going 100% into misandric narrative that men are to blame for anything and everything. As one person underscored it under one such post, “if a woman struggles - it’s society’s fault. If a man struggles - it’s a man’s fault”. There’s no room there for not blaming men for the discrimination they receive.

The label is important, though, because as long as we call it all feminism, any conversation that does not explicitly target women audience may be maliciously hijacked. I’ve seen this happening in the wild a lot - people arguing that we steal feminism when talking about issues from another perspective.

Also, speaking of intersectionality, isn’t it weird for it to be a subsection of feminism again? Intersectionality commonly includes issues of race, disabilities, transgender individuals, and so on, and as such, men along with nonbinaries who struggle on each of the axis may not get adequate attention and representation under the umbrella of feminism, as again, it’s “about women” (it kinda is).

To me, antisexism should cover feminism, masculism (a term recently hijacked by bad actors, but initially coming from the same place as feminism - equality for all, focus on instances of male discrimination), a movement of nonbinary people.

Intersectionality should go above feminism, and above antisexism for that matter. It is about all struggles of all groups of people, and ultimately stands to cover it all - antisexism, anti-racism, trans inclusion, inclusion of people with disabilities, etc. etc.

As a part self-employed, part regularly employed myself, it has its drawbacks.

You have little to no protections as a worker, and bear a lot of the risks. You may run out of orders or get sick and you’re the only person responsible for your safety net. Given that self-employment quite often pays less than regular one, this might be a big issue.

But on a bright side, there’s so much more freedom in this. You choose what to do, and unless you run a place or something, you choose when and sometimes even where you do it.

For me, I found a very welcoming space for self-employment, particularly research contracts. Projects take anything from 3 months to a few years, and you only have to check in once a few months to tell how it’s going and what’s next. I have full access to the laboratory resources I need, and half of the job is paperwork (compiling sources, devising methods, referencing against equipment, estimating bills, writing reports, writing articles for public projects, applying for new projects…) that can be done from home.

So, I can easily take a week off this part if I need time for personal projects, and can double down when I feel I can pull it off. This reduces mental strain dramatically, though requires some level of discipline. Pay is not overwhelming, but it keeps me afloat. So, overall, I’m happy with my choices.

I’d say “only post them if they themselves want to be posted and delete on request”

Moms forcing kids into taking a picture, or even worse, stealthily picturing them and then sharing it all over WhatsApp groups or Facebook or whatever is terrible.

Child sharing a cool or funny photo of themselves is fine

It shouldn’t be criminalized; it just shouldn’t exist as a concept it is today.

People should have a private place to live on, but shouldn’t own anything else to profit off it.

I wouldn’t read it that way.

Being instrumental doesn’t mean being the only important factor, and Truthout clearly mentions this is the third most popular reason, not the first.

Apple, actually. It’s a basis for most cheap juices, including the orange one - at least in Russia, where the picture is taken

The only big danger of a good password manager is the fact all your passwords are stored under one.

To mitigate the risk, follow these practices:

• Use a good trusted, much preferably open-source option (for example, Vaultwarden, KeePassXC);
• Use a strong password;
• Do not EVER use the same password you use for password manager elsewhere;
• Use 2FA on both your password manager itself and all the accounts you store passwords for;
• Backup your password database in an encrypted way.

Together, these measures should save you from any trouble.

Now, why they are good:

• They can generate and store very strong passwords you would never make up, much less remember;
• You can be sure you won’t forget your password;
• They are convenient and can auto-fill passwords for you.

Generally, using a password manager is considered a superior option in terms of security and availability compared to keeping your password elsewhere, including your head.

I would argue either RAID 5 or ZFS RAIDz1 are inherently unsafe, since recovery would take a lot of read-write operations, and you better pray every one of 4 remaining drives will hold up well even after one clearly failed.

I’ve witnessed many people losing their data this way, even among prominent tech folks (looking at you, LTT).

RAID6/ZFS RAIDz2 is the way. Yes, you’re gonna lose quite a bit more space (leaving 24TB vs 32TB), but added reliability and peace of mind are priceless.

(And, in any case, make backups for anything critical! RAID is not a backup!)

Lol

Earth the planet is totally alright with everything we do. It’s been through much tougher times.

We only endanger ourselves and other living creatures.

Non-portable gaming consoles

My induction hob can heat things up faster than gas

It’s a combination of high power and high efficiency

Yay!

Yay!

Can’t it automatically be renewed?

Right as we speak, the US assists Israel in its genocidal mission to destroy Palestine - one condemned by nearly the entire world. So much for “global benevolent police”.

Sure, there needs to be some updates to ensure UN has what it takes to establish an actually useful peacekeeping force. Guess who’s gonna veto it before anyone else, though, and for what reasons. It’s so so profitable to declare yourself a world police without asking anybody, and ravage any place on Earth on demand.

And this is one of the issues where I can’t reasonably agree to disagree. Covering up for mass murdering hegemon is not an option, whatever said hegemon is.

Cheers, though.