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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

And at over one thousand pages long, one can also say it's infinite

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The fact that big companies collect and sell your data is common knowledge now, definitely not something esoteric that only people in privacy-conscious bubbles know of. However, "normal" people refuse to not follow every trend or get inconvenienced.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can you cash out the gold for real money? I doubt it, so it will not be the "poor guy trying to earn some cents" type of spam, it will be the classic redditors trying to farm awards circlejerk which has plagued reddit for a long time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

What's that, a cloud gaming service?

 

Do you play any games on your smartphone? I'm looking for single player ones to kill some time when waiting for the bus. Ideally they should work without an internet connection, so I can disable network access for that app and play without ads.

I'm currently playing Words of Wonder, but it gets repetitive after a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

If 95% of ford owners were satisfied with their black cars, vs 40% for another manufacturer that provides cars in multiple colors, then ford would be the better manufacturer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Enough for them to believe that they live in a democracy, it seems (and I don't say that sarcastically).

It's not like people in liberal democracies have more influence. We can't choose who runs, and each individual's vote is negligible. I don't know the specifics of China's government, but I suspect they value being able to influence local policy and higher official elections via the Communist Party more than a direct vote on its leader -- I would too, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'd say that it has confidence in that, but their elections and government are structured in a different way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

No, I meant conjugations but you can add declensions to the list too.

Now you'll say that English has a conjugation for the 3rd singular person but it's trivial, so it doesn't really count

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (11 children)

The CCP has higher approval rates than western governments and the vast majority of Chinese believe they are living in a democracy. This is confirmed by western studies; latest one I've seen was from Harvard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Honestly English is a solid language: no conjugations, no gendered nouns, minimal articles -- the only problem I (and most other people) have with it is that words are not written phonetically.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

The program itself is actually called paint.net

 

In The State and Revolution, Lenin (and Engels, whom he is quoting) disagrees with communists using "People's State" or "Free People's State" as a programme goal.

If I understand correctly, this is because a) it creates a misunderstanding on the final phase of communism, which is stateless and b) it goes against the Marxist understanding of states as forces of oppression. On the other hand, it seems logical to me that a state following the dictatorship of the proletariat principle would call itself "People's", since the proletariat is the majority.

So, I've been wondering if the existing socialist states have an official line about this, or if there's a consensus amongst M-Ls.

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