The people complaining about that are mostly the same as the ones who complained that the masks were “suffocating” them during covid.

No, I just have very different ideas what progress is.

Progress in my eyes is made when a society becomes more democratic, and when we solve conflicts without bloodshed.

In that sense, sure, the GDR was a step in the right direction, but nazi germany didn’t exactly set the bar very high.

The idea of socialism is nice, but you hardly have any progress if the system (be it built on free markets or planned economies) doesn’t work to improve ordinary citizens’ lives, but only to keep the powerful in power.

Personaly, I don’t care much about free markets or planned economies. I think the best approach, as so often, is a kind of blend, a social market economy that allows independent companies in a framework that protects workers, consumers and the environment.

Thing is, the specifics of the economic system aren’t important. What matters is that the people are the ones who decide them.

There is nothing wrong with pursuing a utopian society, but ultimatly you have no control over what happens in the far future (neither should you, future societies need to be ruled by future people).

The only thing you can control is the present and the near future, so what really matters aren’t the ends you strive for, but the means you employ while doing so.

Ah yes, my grandparents, the landlords. Wait hol’ up, they were working people, not landlords. GDR fucked them regardless.

“bUt tHAT wASn’T rEaL ComMunIsM” If neither the USSR nor China could achieve true Communism, then maybe it isn’t so much a realistic goal as a utopian ideal, a convenient justification for all kinds of crimes against humanity that occur in its pursuit.

I’d say an ally is someone you have an alliance with, so someone with who you have agreed to pursue a common goal. So yeah, I’d say if you are someone’s ally, they are also yours.

That differs somewhat from how it’s used in the LGBT+ community, where it refers to non-LGBT+ supporters of LGBT+ rights.

Exactly this. One major reason I’m on here is that SDF lets me choose for myself what I wanna see and what I don’t.

I know that the industry commonly uses malt extract, sugar beet syrup, caramel syrup, or roasted malt

I am sorry about your experiences, and I agree that your condition puts you at a disadvantage.

But I disagree that neurotypical students have a privilege in this regard. What you are describing is an issue you will be facing everywhere, not just at university. Being able to socialize is a valuable skill in almost every setting, because humans are social animals, and many things in society revolve around personal relationships. Much of your later career will depend on who you know, and how much your (potential) bosses like you.

We should try to make things more accessible, but ultimately what puts you at a disadvantage isn’t so much a rigged system, as your condition itself.

To draw a parallel: Blind people are at an extreme disadvantage, and we should try to make things as accessible to them as we can. But in the end humans are visual beings, many things in society will naturally revolve around sight. A society in which blind people are at no disadvantage whatsoever is just not feasable, because in the end they just have one ability less than everyone else.

Or another, more personal one: I suffer from migraines. Each month I spend 2-4 days in bed in pain and vomitting. It would be nice if that didn’t put me at a disadvantage, but I don’t see how that would work. I too believe that I “deserved a better experience”, but the fault lies with my condition, not people not accomodating for it enough.

That’s an advantage, not a privilege. Being good at something isn’t the same as having special rights. For any given skill there will always be people who are good at it and others who aren’t.

There are also fields where people with an ASD seem to have an advantage over neurotypicals. For example, the STEM major rate for young adults with an ASD is significantly higher than that of the general population, as this paper found: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-012-1700-z

->go to sleep

->mobilization is announced

->wake up

->too late, go to prison

I really enjoyed Watch_Dogs, despite the shit it got at the time.

Not exactly like the ones you oncluded, but I really like this one: Challenger - Lemmino

I don’t think that’s a Christian thing. I live in Germany, a mostly Christian country, my parents are Christians, yet the only circumcised people I know are Jews and one guy that needed to get a circumcision for medical reasons.

I have heard its common in the US tho, to prevent masturbation or something like that.

Another ressource that might be useful: https://distrochooser.de/

If you want to get rid of spam bots, ban them on your own instance and defederate any instance that doesn’t do the same.

But if you mean whether these posts are also deleted for people viewing your instance through another, federated instance, then yes, that is the case.

no, think about what that would imply. Anyone could practicaly delete any other profile by creating an instance and banning that profile on that instance. That would be insane.