Krita is nice. IDK how it compares to commercial products, but ctrl-c + ctrl-v works like you’d expect it to

The article draws the line from increased policing in the 90’s and 00’s to today. I think you can also extend that line further back as a response to the great migration. This isn’t a criticism of the article, just adding more to it. And I think the great migration just needs to get talked about more often. We’ve never really dealt with the fact that many Black communities in the north were formed by refugees fleeing terrorism in the south. They weren’t welcomed with open arms in the north, but were rather ghettoized and used as a source of cheaper labor

Of course, the line always goes back further. America’s descent into authoritarianism isn’t really a “descent” as much as an expansion of who the targets are

Has any other national leader gone so hard on turtle necks?

What I’ve read/heard is that the main reason for the famines came down to over-reporting yields. The local level would inflate their numbers a few percent, then the regional level would inflate their numbers a few percent, and then at the national level they’d use those numbers to make decisions. Based on the numbers received, they were like, “great. we can move X amount of food into the urban areas.” That left the rural populations with not enough food.

The main victims of the famine were the peasants, who made up Mao’s main base of support. So the idea that it was intentionally engineered is ridiculous. It was a combination of the misreporting, bad sweeping policy changes like the sparrows, and the general tumult of recovering from decades of decline, occupation and war

With ring cameras, it’s every municipality

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to search man pages was a gamechanger

That website seems entirely dedicated to demonizing muslims, and promoting the BJP and their allies. They also publish zionist propaganda

you’ve been duped. He’s the executive chairman and largest shareholder. He’s not the CEO, which means he’s not involved in the day to day operations, but he’s still the de facto head of the company

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is not in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

Yes, fiat is a better ledger system for currency. Proof-of-work crypto has gotta be the most energy inefficient design in the history of humanity.

what would you call that?

I call it capitalism. As long as the bourgeois controls money - whether that’s gold, fiat or crypto curriencies - then it’s going to drive a system based on infinite growth and consumption

*FBI

Trump is gonna radicalize Appalachia

It’s an environmental disaster where the worst people in the world use vast resources to power and cool entropy machines

This is both believable, and actually makes me feel safer about world security

I’m not saying that discouraging reproduction is eugenics. I’m saying that @Aitherios@lemmy.ml’s attempt at defining Eugenics is wrong. Saying it’s about producing the best “GENES” possible is just post-hoc reasoning to make it sounds more scientific.

Eugenics is based on 19th century racial science. If someone is advocating for any sort of population control that uses that framework (of bettering the “race”), they’re doing eugenics.

A good example of what’s not eugenics is China’s one-child policy. It wasn’t aimed at creating a “better” race of any kind, and It actually provided exemptions for ethnic minorities. The goal wasn’t to create a better type of human race, it was to prevent the population from growing faster that what the economy could support. IMO it was probably unnecessary, but definitely wasn’t eugenics.

However, if there was an alternate reality where china instituted the one-child policy only for ethnic minorities in an effort to make the nation a pure Han state, that would be eugenics. If they did it based on IQ, that would be eugenics. And if they exempted minorities from the policy out of a belief that the Han were inferior, that would also be genetics

These threads always attract a variety of reactionary opinions

[edit] whoops, didn’t mean to reply. Yours were not the reactionary opinions lol. after the revolution, all tetrapods will rightly be understood to be fish

Eugenics is about producing the best GENES possible

“Eugenics” was a term decades before “genes”

Even if the etymology was different, you’d still be very wrong [about what “eugenics” is]

dude loves being hospitalized

Maybe he’s made some comments that could be interpreted that way. But he hasn’t officially changed anything. The catechism is clear. Homosexual acts (including desire) are unnatural, and a sin. But you should also love the sinner, and only God can judge

is like saying I love lgbt people but think they’re sinning…

This is literally pope Francis’ position LOL