SevenSkalls

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[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

100%. I wonder if they were too loose with which states could join? And also the goal was too vague. They need member states ideologically committed to an alternate economic framework from the get go, instead of just a vague framework for trade deals. I'd like to think Russia could probably spearhead something new with the most tariffed countries or the ones who have pissed off the US the most recently, so like Iran, Yemen, North Korea, South Africa since they started that ICJ case, Cuba, those 3 AES in Africa, Vietnam, Venezuela, uh... Maybe Mexico since they seem pretty based recently.

I know they're poorer and less of the population than current BRICS, but that doesn't seem to have been super helpful for getting anything done and avoiding the financial domination of the US. Instead, maybe if they go into it with that goal from the get-go, work on it immediately with more ideological and committed anti-imperialist states, they could. China and Brazil joining would be great goals but only if they seemed interested in a move away from SWIFT and the dollar and could commit to through Presidential elections and such.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 5 points 2 hours ago

I could totally see that. Especially if she joined while she was doing that pivot to the right, talking about his immigration policies were too weak and he'd be too easy on Iran or whatever lol.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago

I think they originally just wanted to make an economic alliance, like just a vehicle for some trade deals. But it should be pretty obvious by now that the US won't abide even that. If you want something like that to work, you need to go into it with the plan to work on a full alternative system to the US finance-dominated world economic order. You need an alternative to the swift and to the dollar, and you need member states ideologically committed to this goal and opposed to imperialism. Otherwise, at least to me, it seems too vulnerable.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 6 points 8 hours ago

No idea but when you find out, let me know!

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago

There's no fate worse than Reddit lol

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 4 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

I wonder if a BRICS 2 will work better with lessons learned form the first one. Like League of Nations to UN, or Articles of Confederation to Constitution.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 18 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder what the rest of her takes were...

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 10 points 22 hours ago

I'm going to say polo or dressage as most reactionary.

I'd say running, or other track and field, as most proletarian.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I hope your friend is on the pro-boycott side!

How did the Zionist people get someone voted in but not the pro-boycott side? It's insane to me Israel still has support.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 24 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"Now the meetings have been overtaken by divisive politics. And now [the pro-BDS members] don't care that many members of the co-op feel unwelcome and unsafe by their actions," she said.

It's always the same basic line about how they "feel unsafe" just for even hearing someone discuss the genocide. How do you think people in Palestine feel? Hell, how do they think people in the US or UK feel when they are getting arrested for even discussing it?

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's also how cults maintain control, once all your friends and family are in them.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Look, if we're going to survive the impending onslaught by the Asiatic hordes, you're all going to need to sacrifice your Healthcare to the almighty military.

 

It feels like 10 years ago, /r/cscareerquestions was full of people falling over each other to worship FAANG and their super high salaries. The tech field in general has always felt very full of chuds to me, or at the very best libertarians.

Maybe things are changing. This question was if the Big Beautiful bill would be good for software engineers.

Will Trumps big beautiful bill benefit software engineers?

Was reading up on the bill and came across this:

The bill would suspend the current amortization requirement for domestic R&D expenses and allow companies to fully deduct domestic research costs in the year incurred for tax years beginning January 1, 2025 and ending December 31, 2029.

That sounds fantastic for U.S based software engineers, am I reading that right?

Almost all of the answers are negative, with some even using a class analysis. One or two bad answers or course but still, if tech could gain some sort of class consciousness, and identify themselves with the working class instead of the petite bourgeois or labor aristocracy, there may be hope for them yet.

All the top answers I've seen so far:
mpaes98 says:

It will benefit software engineers ^at ^Palantir

Then all of the replies to this are insulting Palantir lol.

jarena009 says:

Well...US Corporate profits are currently up to $4T, and white collar/business professional jobs, especially in tech, are still down since 2023.

Meanwhile many of the major tech players are doing layoffs.

Do you think increased corporate profits, say to $4.4T or $4.6T, are going to result in more tech jobs?

Do you still believe in trickle down economics?

SenorSplashdamage says:

. And even if our wages went up as engineers, most of us still have family that will end up being impoverished by all the other effects, especially health care. The overall losses will exceed any gains in personal salaries.

randomuser194 says:

In theory will be beneficial in that way, you just have to ignore all of the negative factors to the overall economy because of the bill

Wallstreet says:

Wild to see the difference in this sub from just ~5 years ago to now.

Back then: People’s complaints about this sub was that a lot of people would post the 5 massive offers they received then they would just say: don’t compare yourself to these posts, you don’t have to grind leetcode for hours, 80k offer for a no name company is good enough

Vs now: this sub is just a bunch of posts about people struggling to find a job and now grinding leetcode is the norm, and if you’re not doing it, you’re the problem

mau5tron says:

No. Every major tech CEO sweet talked trump and threw a bunch of money at Trump's campaign with the promise to keep AI deregulated. Those tech companies are then going to keep dumping money into an unprofitable technology and call it an "R&D" expense, then lay off a bunch of engineers and still get their tax cut. And like clockwork, they'll buyback a bunch of stock to keep stock price at a steady level while the economy goes to shit. Trickle down economics has never worked bro. People are just hoarding at the top.

LeadVitamin13 says:

When companies and the rich save money they don't pass it on they hoard it. Its like thinking tax cuts will increase hiring when they don't. Maybe for a struggling company that need extra help but couldn't afford it not tech giants. If they can do a job with X amount of people why would you hire anymore just cause you got more money.

LeftcellInfiltrator says:

Yeah, it'll free up trillions for the booj to invest with. But you'll be programming robot jailers with the soul of Peter Tiel to whip Amazon indentured servants into being more productive instead of solving any real problems. This is already happening in research.

 

I watched the Andor Season 1 Recap in anticipation of my season 2 watch (I'm only on episode 3 so no spoilers yet) and I've felt more hope than I have in a bit. Maybe it makes me a lib, but the lines from the manifesto especially felt poignant at this point in time.

The combination of those lines about thousands are joining battalions without realizing it, and the protests and LA fight back against ICE, idk, it's helped offset some doomer I've felt lately. I can't wait to finish this show.

 

I don't know if they're scared of Zionist counter protestors, or the state cracking down and arresting people, me losing my job, or what. Tbh, those are all fair reasons to be nervous, but I can't just keep reading about stuff without doing something. I know protests don't do a lot, but I feel like I should do something to start coalition building, organizing, and doing stuff on the streets with actual real life people. And I feel like I have to for all the people who can't for other reasons (social anxiety, disabilities, work schedules, etc).

On the other hand, we have a lot of debt, and I have a job that relies on government funds, plus I'm not the biggest guy, so I understand why she's scared. But I doubt anything will happen and I'll take precautions (leave phone in car, maybe wear a mask). Anyone got advice on how to navigate a relationship situation like this?

 

Ben Cohen was one of seven people who were arrested at the hearing held by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the spokesperson said.

...

Moments later, Cohen rose to his feet and accused Congress of playing a role in the deaths of children in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Nice. Someone get Ben to join PSL.

 

Tried to cross-Post from Hexbear. Doesn't work well with Jerboa.

I don't really have a specific question, I'm just wondering how Laos is. Do people have any thoughts, interesting facts, or information about it?

So the context is that I've been doing a re-watch of King of the Hill, where Hank's neighbor is Laotian, at the same time I've been listening to the latest season of Blowback, which is about the area formerly known as French Indochina, but more specifically Cambodia and Vietnam. They don't really talk about Laos much, which makes sense.

In King of the Hill though, there's a couple references to a communist dictatorship in Laos. I just finished an episode where a former guerilla veteran is trying to recruit Laotians in the US to go back and fight this government. One of the funny parts to me, is that whether that government is bad or good but poor as a result of historical conditions, I see Kahn as the kind of person who would be wooed away to the USA with Hollywood images of the American Dream. He seems to work hard, but is obsessed with status, success, and commodities. Anyway, it's not a political show, so combined with that Blowback season, it's just enough information to get me curious lol.

I could review Wikipedia but it tends to be biased against communist nations, and I'd rather supplement boring scrolling of articles with interesting conversations. Especially since it's in the same general area as one of the most based communist parties I've studied so far (in Vietnam) and probably the worst one I've studied so far (the Khmer Rouge).

 

I don't really have a specific question, I'm just wondering how Laos is. Do people have any thoughts, interesting facts, or information about it?

So the context is that I've been doing a re-watch of King of the Hill, where Hank's neighbor is Laotian, at the same time I've been listening to the latest season of Blowback, which is about the area formerly known as French Indochina, but more specifically Cambodia and Vietnam. They don't really talk about Laos much, which makes sense.

In King of the Hill though, there's a couple references to a communist dictatorship in Laos. I just finished an episode where a former guerilla veteran is trying to recruit Laotians in the US to go back and fight this government. One of the funny parts to me, is that whether that government is bad, or good but poor as a result of historical conditions, I see Kahn as the kind of person who would be wooed away to the USA with Hollywood images of the American Dream. He seems to work hard, but is obsessed with status, success, and commodities. Anyway, it's not a political show, so combined with that Blowback season, it's just enough information to get me curious lol.

I could review Wikipedia but it tends to be biased against communist nations, and I'd rather supplement boring scrolling of articles with interesting conversations. Especially since it's in the same general area as one of the most based communist parties I've studied so far (in Vietnam) and probably the worst one I've studied so far (the Khmer Rouge).

 

I got to the part of the Revolutions podcast where the royal family died. He said the consensus is that Moscow ordered the death of the whole family. Is that pretty much agreed on by serious historians nowadays or is that Cold War historiagraphy?

It seemed kind of split when I looked in some Ask Historians thread on Reddit from years ago, but I also might just be seeing what I want to see. What do historians think? What do you think? If Lenin and company in Moscow ordered it, why?

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Looking for a way to get into Lynch's work. I know, a little late, but I feel like I'm missing out on something with all the condolences going out today. I've heard good things about Twin Peaks? Does it still hold up?

What about his movies? I've heard great things about Mulholland Drive, although I was very confused when I got halfway through.

Are there other works that are better to start with or just that people generally recommend as being good?

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North Korea wants to ban corn dogs because of western decadence or something?! That's horrible!

Let's check out the sources.

According to reports, Kim has banned North Koreans from eating hotdogs as part of a crackdown on Western culture slowly oozing its way into the hermit nation.

"Reports". Well, not super convincing so far...

According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), North Korea has also banned steamed rice cakes tteokbokki which is a popular street food in South Korea.

Oh hey, there we go, Radio Free Asia! What a great unbiased source/CIA front propaganda operation. Aren't they the same people who said something like everyone in NK has to have their leader's haircut? Or was forbidden to have his haircut? I think they said leather jackets were banned there once? Or that someone was executed for smuggling in Squid Game?

Food isn’t the only thing the hermit nation is cracking down on. Reports emerged in December that claim people who get divorced in North Korea are facing one to six months in labour camps for their “crimes”.

More "Reports".

According to RFA, a divorced woman claimed she served three months of labour and said that women receive harsher sentences than the men.

So ya, it's basically just RFA.

Beautiful.

 

I know it's a little late this holiday season to ask this question but as a lover of the holidays, I'm curious what others think. I usually watch the schmaltsy, cutesie ones I watched as a kid, like The Muppet Christmas Carol or Mickey's Christmas Carol.

But it means I haven't watched the other dramatic (or possibly horror, considering the ghostly subject matter) retellings of the story as much.

Which adaptations of A Christmas Carol is your favorite?

 

Someone in Lemmy.world is constantly posting pro-Milei propaganda, but I find it hard to believe this is the one time in the world Libertarian policies actually work after we've tried it before and it's backfired every time. Not sure if this is the right community, but I could use some counter propaganda help.

Can anyone explain what's happening in Argentina? Are things improving? Is he actually a secret genius? If not, why? If so, is it because of their economic policies or something else?

Some excerpts from the comments (seems to be two guys who love him in there) that sound convincing as someone who doesn't know enough about their economy:

After a 49% poverty left by the previous government. So a tick of 4% after that is almost nothing

People voted him for a reason

Argentina only has 32% inflation, what a success! Indeed, from 211% annual inflation to 107%? Astonishing success

It's 2.7% a month, which puts the inflation at 32%. And that's still the lowest it's been since 2021.

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What's some books with an interesting vision of the future? I don't just mean more advanced technology, I mean the way it's organized.

I find often people can't envision past the society we have now. There's that quote, "It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", and it seems more and more true, but sci-fi authors seem best equipped to actually imagine beyond that.

I've heard some sci-fi authors mentioned in this category before, like Heinlen, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

I haven't read any of them lol. Would have no idea where to start within them that fits this category, or what other choices there are that people would suggest.

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