History Youtube gets pretty whack about this because Google’s adsense algorithm freaks out when words like “Nazi” and “Stalin” appear. To name a few examples:

• “The Famine” in place of “Holodomor”
• Jo. [CENSORED] in place of “Stalin”, “The Patsies” in place of “The Nazis”

The second example is particularly amusing, being a video about how Shostakovich circumvented soviet censorship while self-censoring all instances of “Stalin” within the script.

(You’ve not been good)

Mayo, mayo, mayo, mayo. I’d eat mayo flavored icecream if only the frozen dairy industry weren’t so cowardly

I’ll go to bat for Roborock. All common “user serviceable” parts are available for direct order from them and remain the same between generations so even very old models can be easily maintained with first-party parts.

They still won’t sell you an internal part like a motor, but you can still find new first-party parts if you know where to look and it generally only takes removing ~10 screws to get at the insides (example).

FWIW: Marxists weren’t blind to this obvious omission. The International was what we’d call a “big tent” coalition, so contentious questions were frequently hand-waved away in this fashion. Individual Marxists – including those as foundational as Engels – absolutely had opinions on the subject and they were not afraid to do the 19th century equivalent of Twitter dunking on those who would fantasize over establishing stateless utopias. Quoting Engels circa 1872 (bolded emphasis is my own, italicised emphasis preserved from original translation):

While the great mass of the Social-Democratic workers hold our view that state power is nothing more than the organisation with which the ruling classes, landlords and capitalists have provided themselves in order to protect their social prerogatives, Bakunin maintains that it is the state which has created capital, that the capitalist has his capital only by favour of the state. As, therefore, the state is the chief evil, it is above all the state which must be done away with and then capitalism will go to hell of itself. We, on the contrary say: do away with capital, the appropriation of the whole means of production in the hands of the few, and the state will fall away of itself. The difference is an essential one. Without a previous social revolution the abolition of the state is nonsense; the abolition of capital is in itself the social revolution and involves a change in the whole method of production. Further, however, as for Bakunin the state is the main evil, nothing must be done which can maintain the existence of any state, whether it be a republic, a monarchy or whatever it may be. Hence therefore complete abstention from all politics. To perpetrate a political action, and especially to take part in an election, would be a betrayal of principle. The thing to do is to conduct propaganda, abuse the state, organise, and when all the workers are won over, i.e., the majority, depose the authorities, abolish the state and replace it by the organisation of the International. This great act, with which the millennium begins, is called social liquidation.

[…]

Now as, according to Bakunin, the International is not to be formed for political struggle but in order that it may at once replace the old state organisation as soon as social liquidation takes place, it follows that it must come as near as possible to the Bakunist ideal of the society of the future. In this society there will above all be no authority, for authority = state = an absolute evil. (How these people propose to run a factory, work a railway or steer a ship without having in the last resort one deciding will, without a unified direction, they do not indeed tell us.) The authority of the majority over the minority also ceases. Every individual and every community is autonomous, but as to how a society, even of only two people, is possible unless each gives up some of his autonomy, Bakunin again remains silent.

Few movements self-identify as “Socialist”, at best it’s a taxonomical label. Attempting to talk about the finer points of socialism is akin to debating the pros/cons of “Animals” – it’s an overly broad topic and doomed to spiral into bike-shedding over semantics as soon as the conversation starts to look interesting.

With that being said, let’s talk about some more concrete terms – apologies in advance for wielding only slightly less clumsy terminology in my bullets:

• Socialized Medicine: Healthcare is a human right. I am pro human rights.
• Unions: Mostly positive. Nothing’s perfect, but come on… you’d have to be blind not to see and feel for how exploited lower-class workers are without them
• Democratic Socialists of America: I’m a member – that means I like them. I think their platform represents the ideal incrementalist approach to improving the current status quo
• European Welfare States (e.g.: Denmark): Too fuzzy to have a solid opinion on, but certainly a battle-tested template. I like most of their ideas most of the time
• Marxism: A genius body of economic philosophy, but increasingly out of place as time marches onward. I’d be for a by-the-book implementation (insofar as that’s possible) in 1923, but not 2023
• Maoism/Leninism: Not exactly success stories. It’s easier to appreciate their noble ideas & intentions with the distance lent by history, but that’s altogether different from “liking”
• Communism: As a whole? I think the template holds promise and can be made to work in a modern context, but viability =/= realizability. The world would have to get turned upside-down first and it’s questionable exactly how many of us would live through that… but never say never.

Also worth noting that most companies prefer to treat any given firing as “without cause” because stating a reason is usually a net-loss in terms of legal exposure.

Exceptions to the rule include, but are not limited to:

• States which make it expensive/slow to fire without cause (because money)
• Union jobs (because union)
• Retaliative firings (because worker’s rights)
• Prejudiced firings (because civil rights)

How does one tell if they’re on the road to a with-cause termination? Simple: documentation. If you’re suddenly being put under a microscope it might indicate that a premeditated f-bomb is hiding around the corner.

I doubt anyone would list this as a reason, per se, but a common justification for the coffee/tea crowd is that these drinks are rich in antioxidants. The theory goes that stimulants cause oxidative stress, so you want all of the extra antioxidants that you can get.

Honestly at that point it might be worth mortgaging the home all over again just to get rid of that debt. Even at that admirable pace and taking today’s higher mortgage interest rates you’d probably end up saving $2000

Well, the second problem would be figuring out who curates the system. If you’ve ever voted on a referendum you’ll probably know what I’m talking about. You can make any proposal sound awesome/horrible if you leave out the right details.

If you’ve ever organized to resist a referendum you’ve probably also experienced the “we’ll just rephrase this and try again later” effect, wherein special interests just need to stubbornly keep pushing until the opposition voters get sick of participating in the polls.

I don’t think these are unsolvable problems, but they do inherently require setting up a representative beaurocracy of unelected technocrats – an apparent oxymoron. It’s gotta be someone’s job to run the machine and ideally you want them to be looking out for the people above all else.

So, how to play kingmaker? Well, if we take literal kings & elected representatives off the table, what remains is a model akin to academia, wherein credentials & seniority are prioritized above most else. It’s not a bulletproof system (none are), but if you squint hard enough the EU sort of exemplifies what this model could look like – just replace the delegates with smartphones, essentially.

I don’t know what platform you’re on, but from the web frontend my link works as-is. Here’s what the escaped version you sent looks like:

If you’re using a mobile app, I would suggest that you report the link rendering issue as a bug

I spend a lot of time trying to figure out obscure undocumented data formats and cyberchef is absolutely incredible for that. Here’s a fun little preview of what that looks like

Another reason is that “CP” got jokingly coopted by abusers in the form of various dogwhistles (e.g.: “cheese pizza”). It made more sense to adopt a new acronym rather than try to uphold any sense of decorum while sharing ownership of the term w/ edgelords & predators.

“It’s like knuckle sammich day at the buffet and we’re all out of bread!”

To be fair, if emotion isn’t involved, that’s basically just a sign of indifference. You owe it to yourself and your “opponent” to actually care about whatever it is you’re discussing. What truly matters is understanding and prioritizing the why behind your feelings and honoring that, regardless of whatever random impulse those feelings are currently bringing about.

For anyone interested, here’s the Lemmy markdown configuration. As you can see, Lemmy’s website UI supports the full commonmark spec (tutorial / official spec), plus a bunch of extensions. I don’t think anyone’s fully documented these yet, so I’ll try doing so below. Apologies in advance to mobile users, this is probably gonna get ugly (see included image links for how it should look):

• URL autolinking (plaintext URLs automatically turn into links)
• Lemmy autolinking:
  • NOTE: No link will be inserted if the viewer is browsing an instance where the resource is not yet known/blocked
  • Communities: !fediverse@lemmy.ml→[email protected] (link ref: /c/fediverse@lemmy.ml)
    • Kbin-style is also supported: /m/fediverse@lemmy.ml→/m/[email protected]
  • Users: /u/chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org→ /u/[email protected] (link ref: /u/chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org)
• Typography substitutions:
  • (c)→©
  • (tm)→™
  • (r)→®
  • +-→±
  • ...→…
  • ---→—
  • --→–
  • ???? (>= 4x)→???
  • !!!! (>= 4x)→!!!
• Github-flavor Markdown extensions:
  • Tables
  • Strikethrough: ~~example~~→example (image)
• Subscript/Superscript:
  • Sub: example~sub~→example_sub (image)
  • Super: example^super^→example^super (image)
• Footnotes:
  • Inline part: example[^notename]→example^[1] (image)
  • Bottom part: [^notename]: Note text→(see bottom of post) (image)
    • Important: the bottom part must be at the very end of the post, otherwise both halves of the footnote will break!
• Ruby Text: {example base text|example ruby text}→example base textexample ruby text (image)
  • “Ruby” is an html-ism for special pronunciation aids which frequently appear within young person’s media where the language includes non-phonetic characters (e.g.: Chinese characters)
  • Japanese Furigana example: {凄|すご}い！→凄すごい！(image)
• Spoilers:

  ::: spoiler visible part example
  hidden part example
  :::
  

  • See below ⤵️ (collapsed image) (expanded image)
    visible part example

    hidden part example

• Image/Video embedding: ![accessibility alt-text example](https://i.imgur.com/9nVMRqa.jpeg) => (image)