That’s because the political compass is two-dimensional, but everyone insists on thinking of it as a one-dimensional thing.
You’ve got left wing and then you’ve got right wing, and then in the vertical direction you’ve got authoritarianism and libertarianism. When people say far right and far left what they really mean is that the extreme edges horizontally and right at the top vertically. Think Castro, and not Gandhi. Both were left wing but are nowhere near each other in political phasespace
Far [insert preferred political allegiance] simply means extremist, usually unwilling to compromise. Whether you think that’s a good thing or a bad thing depends on your personal political opinions, but generally speaking an inability to reach a compromise is not a desirable trait regardless of your political leanings.
As a saying goes, perfect is the enemy of good. We don’t want people refusing to embrace more libertarian policies simply because they don’t get everything that they want. Progress is achieved by steadily grinding away at the norm, not by having a big explosive change all at once. That’s what communists want.
What’s your point? =/= Isn’t the “not equals to” term, it’s !=
Just as ≥ isn’t available, so you have >= and ≈ is not on the keyboard, so we have ==
Formal logical operators require the you to press the alt key and enter a numerical sequence on the keypad. If I had to type the logical operators with alt codes it would slow me down.
No it’s because you can’t type the not equal symbol very easily. If you type it it won’t work because most compilers aren’t expecting it.
But you know your fact is nicer than the boring reality
To be honest you don’t need to either of them. You can just upload images to your own instance unless some instances have disabled image uploading?
That second paragraph might as well be written in Cyrillic for all the sense it made. Do I want to know what gone mild goblin girls look like, I feel like I don’t, but I’m also morbidly curious.
In a lot of countries it would be illegal.
In a lot of countries the unions became powerful enough to be governments, and implemented anti-union busting laws.
For some reason the United States seems to have skipped a bunch of the social development that went on in other countries. Unfortunately this is probably because of the American psyche and their obsession with the idea that rags to riches is possible, despite all the evidence. So nobody wants to limit their own potential wealth by giving away money to the workers, just in case one day they become the wealthy. The end result is that a bunch of people have to work for Amazon.
I know that this is what a lot of Americans think socialism is but it’s worth pointing out that socialism is not communism.
Communists want to take over with force and violence and overwhelming thought policing. Inevitably this pisses people off and ultimately doesn’t work. See literally every communist regime ever.
Socialists simply want to implement progressive policies and are generally happy to do that within the confines of current law (assuming the current law isn’t oppressive).
The US becoming socialist would simply be via a series of increasingly progressive policies over a period of several electoral cycles. It wouldn’t be violence in the streets.
What really works is when unions start being powerful enough to dictate governmental policy. That’s when things really improve. Of course the millionaires and billionaires will complain about interference, because it’s only good when they do it.
It costs you 700 now and it costs them an unknown amount in the future. They just don’t like it because they suspect it’ll be quite a lot more than the 700 that you’re paying to join. They’re right too.
But union dues are annoying in the moment, because when it happens all you see is a reduction in your pay and initially no change in working conditions. That’s why they have posters like that up, because even though intellectually people understand that being in a union will long-term result in better pay, in the short term it does effectively result in a temporary pay cut, which can be hard if you’re already not really very well paid.
If you’re joining an established union sometimes they will be smart and not charge members until they’ve renegotiated their salaries. But that only happens if you’re joining a already formed union.
Voyager didn’t always have the best wrighting. It tried to follow the writing style of The Next Generation, which didn’t work alongside the larger story arc of them trying to get home. So the quality of storytelling was all over the place and nothing that happened in a previous episode had any bearing on a subsequent episode unless it was a two-parter.
The original idea was Voyager was going to get more and more battered and ramshackle as things went on, but they decided that would be too expensive to model so they didn’t do it. The only remnant of this that we have is The Year Of Hell episode.
That’s a really high quality photo for 2003. Most photographs from that time were early digital cameras and tended to max out about 720p resolution. It also doesn’t look like a scanned photograph because there’s no grain.
That’s the tactic my goth girlfriend employees. It has its downsides.
Ah yes you are displaying the kind of intelligence the US military favours in its recruits. Non at all.
What if you’re not a 15-year-old girl and therefore don’t have TikTok and Instagram are they going to arrest you? What a truly stupid country.
So does the US just want to totally kill its tourist industry because that seems to be the objective.
Yeah that’s the issue really. A lot of Americans seem to think that I’d the Republicans loose the next election / they do badly at the primarys (assuming there is one, I have my doubts) everything will go back to normal. It won’t.
I suppose a 3rd party might rise to power due to public distrust of the big two.
I get the idea of wanting physical representations of media and not relying on streaming services but cassette tapes were terrible.
You always have to fiddle on with the magnetic tape because something would always happen to it. It would get twisted up or unspooled or something.
At least with vinyl you never have to put up with the player randomly breaking the medium.
The only good thing about cassette tapes was that recording onto them was trivial, whereas with CDs you needed relatively expensive hardware and it was slow.
I just have a parrot that’s been trained on pop songs.
Because otherwise someone might take fucking offence.
Actually I think the real reason it is people just do it automatically now, without thinking. This isn’t Reddit, no one cares (except lemmy.world, obviously).