Nah, it’s in there, you can see the indentations where the floor plate meets the grip. Floor plate looks like a Taurus but idk what they made with the browning muzzle profile.
Black and white cartoon. Left panel: a group blocks a road with a banner reading “No new oil | so there’s a liveable planet for our children.” Right panel: A boardroom, with members of the board raising their hands. In front of them is a chart showing planned oil extraction going well above a dashed line marked "Level...
just to maybe say what that other person said in a different way:
carbon isn’t emitted at the point of consumption, it’s emitted at the point of production. if you don’t buy a new phone or a plastic toy the carbon from its production doesn’t go away it’s already been released.
and before i say this next part i want to stress that boycotts don’t work except when paired with other more militant movements.
if you and everyone else stops buying a new phone or a plastic toy then the factory doesn’t close down and get rehabilitated, it changes hands and the new owners make something with less environmental exposure, like plastic pipes or mine detonator circuit boards.
the way to stop our emissions is at the point of production globally, not at the point of consumption individually.
if you want the tldr: there are divisions within classes and they need to be analyzed and understood. just going by someone’s relationship to wages in the value form is bound to mess you up.
especially in the essay format, you can keep your own attention by reading the conclusion first and then reading the rest with that in mind.
if we’re talking about the input requirements of some engine to drive its load and those don’t match then “yells in thermodynamics” is an incredibly useful criticism.
if we’re talking about a project that relies on one person then discussing their mortality is an incredibly useful criticism.
in this case, the thing we’re talking about is markets and the comment youre accusing of being a pointless complaint is
I, a socialist, hate markets. They are simplistic and functional artifacts of the available way to pass information.
which is an absolutely useful criticism. relying on markets to pass information is a holdover from before we had better methods to do so. the most profitable companies now use data outside the marketplace to make decisions to the point of developing enormous networks to collect, store, parse, interpret and disseminate that information. Cybersyn, the socialist version of this technology, allowed such powerful subversion of american plots against Chile that the only alternative was a fascist military coup.
so it’s not a pointless complaint, but an accurate distillation of criticism most recently offered up to the american public eye as the book The Peoples Republic of Walmart.
With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can’t understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don’t have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still...
Consider getting a full size spare. Especially for older cars you can just pay a junkyard $30 for a wheel off a wreck (make sure it’s the same diameter as your four) and have the tire shop swap the best leftover onto it next time you get new fronts, old fronts swapped into the back and the old backs recycled…
That’s what made me think it was across the whole Soviet Union. The cia was usually pretty specific about what particular soviet they meant because their data would be used in operations against those particular states.
So two from checks notes 80 years ago in regions that experienced famine every 10 years and never experienced famine again, one literally caused by a us blockade and one caused by a us blockade and a catastrophic flood that hit 30% of the country.
When I get back to the computer we can compare that to the famines experienced by capitalist countries during the same period.
Regardless, the suggestion that communism is somehow fundamentally bound to malnutrition is ahistorical.
Africa alone has enough capitalist countries (imperial holdings) with famines over the same time period to disprove that. then we can start talking about bengal and ireland.
communist countries don’t have more famines than capitalist ones.
the british made malawi pay for food aid for a famine british administrators created through mismanagement
famine in karamoja, uganda brought on by instability in the region (wonder what made it unstable… oh well, resuming patrol)
The tigray famine in ethiopia and then the 83-85 one with live aid as the cherry on top showing that not only does capitalism create and exacerbate the conditions for famine but also can’t respond to one when it’s ostensibly trying.
somalia 92’ came from conditions directly created by global capital
and if those few, i know i’m leaving so much information out, aren’t enough it is the explicit policy of the IMF and world bank to make countries dependent on food imports.
and that’s just a brief summary from the broadest overview (often minimized with language that suggests these are somehow the fault of the victims) page on shitty ol’ wikipedia. imagine what a real survey of the history from primary sources would turn up!
What country is this person from? (lemmy.world)
Climate extremists (davewalker.com)
Black and white cartoon. Left panel: a group blocks a road with a banner reading “No new oil | so there’s a liveable planet for our children.” Right panel: A boardroom, with members of the board raising their hands. In front of them is a chart showing planned oil extraction going well above a dashed line marked "Level...
Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left (lemm.ee)
Do you still write notes with pen and paper?
With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can’t understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don’t have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still...
Some far-right activists and conspiracy theories are advocating against card-payments and for cash, and it's pissing me off
It’s discrediting valid concerns against card-payments. It’s invalidating how great cash is....
Why is this instance federated with HexBear.net?
Some communities there are literally calling for the annihilation of Ukraine...
True story (lemmy.ml)
What is Tom Bombadil?
He is not a hobbit, neither a man, but what is he? Is he a dwarf? A wizard? A god? Something else entirely?
Without using pronouns (me, he, she, it, etc) or articles (a, an, the), how did you come up with your user name?
Essentially, I want us to sound like cavemen....
What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular....
*smiles politely* (i.imgur.com)
Protestation (mujico.org)