uralsolo [he/him]

I occasionally see someone cite the term “minor attracted person” in the wild, which IIRC was invented in a 4chan thread some years back.

the ideology Stalin made

I would say Lenin was more instrumental in the creation of Marxism-Leninism, Stalin was just the guy who happened to be in charge when they named it. It’s also a tendency that has evolved a lot from what it was in the 40s.

I wonder if half the agita about this comes from not understanding how federation works. Federated lemmy instances behave almost like a single website, your posts are our posts and vice versa.

two words that are spelled exactly the same

Social and Socialism are not spelled the same, neither are Democracy and Democratic.

I simply said I supported democratic socialism

So you said that you support the regime of extreme global inequality against the third world in order to maintain treats in the first.

Which Communist regimes would say are the “real” communists? Because if you think (as many do) that every single mass movement that described itself as “communist” was bad, then I suspect you’re not a communist at all.

I forget the exact numbers on this, but net worth correlates pretty strongly with happiness until about $200k and then the correlation drops off. If we were a rational society, we would make bringing everyone up to that level of economic comfort the goal and take away everything above that.

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lotta suicide, lotta stochastic violence especially in the 90s.

It’d be lovely if you could just see the hexbear powerusers somewhere convenient and mass block.

If you go to our megathread, most of the people tagged in the first comment are our most active users.

idk if there’s a tool to mass block them, seems like it would be a pain to go through them all but you do you.

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I think individual blocking of entire lemmy instances is a planned feature, just got to wait for it.

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You misunderstand. When liberals violently overthrow the aristocracy, that’s a liberation movement. When socialists violently overthrow the capitalists, that’s authoritarian tankie red fascism.

Imagine if instead of VOIP we used TOIP (telegraph over IP)

B&W 1&2 were legendary games! Definitely worth downloading and playing even today.

I understand this conceptually, but there’s also a gremlin in my brain that wants me to make every line as short as possible.

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You may have resources available to you that you’re not even aware of.

How’s your credit? My credit card is basically my emergency fund - it’s not the best plan but it’s way better than getting surprised and having to take an emergency loan. If you’re currently spending about as much as you make, you can build your credit by putting things on the card and paying it back from your bank account and slowly extend that limit or eventually open up a second account - just don’t fall into the trap of spending more than you make, or you’ll wake up one day exactly where you are now but with debt.

Are you using social services? Only something like a third of people who qualify for food stamps in America actually use them, depending on the state/country you’re in you could be a couple government forms away from getting a few hundred for groceries every month, and if you put in the effort to use it that’s as good as money in your account. There’s also stuff like food banks - the one I volunteer at doesn’t do anything to verify the identities or qualifications of whoever comes by, you’ll just get handed a box or a couple bags with cereal and canned goods and shit.

Is it possible to upgrade your employment situation? Search for jobs even if you already have one - you’re not on the hook until you sign the piece of paper, and you don’t owe your current workplace a two weeks’ notice either so tell them your availability is “immediate”. A lot of technical jobs especially are willing to train and just want someone with a clean background who will show up on time, and depending on your already-existing education/certifications you might be able to do contract work using a site like field nation to get gigs.