Nazis took inspiration for holocaust from manifest destiny, soo…

Actually, fuck yeah. My parents also have one of those bad boys:

It’s really nice to bathe in!

Please put an NSFW tag on that image, it can get you in trouble if you accidentally show it in public in many countries, for good reason.

Oh, yeah, that makes much more sense actually. Now I kinda want that setup, but I bet it’s expensive.

That’s still confusing to me. My parents had the water heater tank in the bathroom, between the shower/bath and the sink. The kitchen sink had a separate small water heater.

hot water circulation systems should be more common

That just sounds like a waste of energy. Why not have the water heater right next to your shower, so that there’s no wait? It’s how it was set up in my parents home. Really enjoyed that setup, never had to wait for hot water.

At the point of first contact IRL, I avoid mentioning anything even vaguely inflammatory: that I’m an immigrant (that one is hard to hide because my pronunciation of the local language is still quite terrible), vegan, atheist, hold anarchist, marxist, and generally anti-capitalist views. If the relationship lasts longer than just a single contact, as I build up trust and goodwill I slowly start seeping out that info, usually in the order that I listed it in.

That feels too easy for the requirements they’re announcing, no? It just adds like 12 taps to scammer’s instructions, 10 of which is the taps to show developer menu.

Ooh, cool! Might be my new phone when the current one cacks or Android becomes completely unusable.

My bet is that they will just remove the GUI settings for alternative APK installation sources, and require you to explicitly allow them via terminal (adb shell or similar). This will probably scare off 99% of regular users, while keeping devs relatively happy. The end result (making it harder to install FOSS and pirated software) will still be achieved.

That was the plan before this latest announcement. Presumably this will be something different, hopefully allowing F-Droid and friends to keep working on-device somehow.

Nothing wrong with it, if you just use it for music listening/youtube/light browsing/satnav/messaging, snapdragon845 is more than enough. Consumables like batteries and back glass can be bought new from AliExpress for like $10. The screen is OLED and so prone to burn-in, but will probably last at least a few more years before cacking it completely.

Probably not too good for modern gaming and stuff, but probably passable for most tasks.

Fairphones are probably not daily-able for now, sadly. E.g. on FP4 GPS doesn’t work at all and there are issues with charging/battery reporting AFAIR. OnePlus 6 is definitely more promising ATM, but there are camera issues and you need to do a weird reflashing dance to get GPS to work. Otherwise it’s… passable as a daily phone.

Oh wow, I was going off the percentage that the PSL was getting in various polls. But this is very reassuring. Now I have hopium that I’m wrong and a US revolution may be coming within my lifetime.

If Americans were too comfortable to radicalize, we wouldn’t have both Dems & GOP declaring anti-capitalism as extremism, we wouldn’t have both parties sending in the national guard to intimidate the electorate, we wouldn’t have both parties sending the cops to attack protestors, we wouldn’t have both parties fighting unions, we wouldn’t have both parties going after 2nd amendment rights, etc. We especially wouldn’t have the US government jailing and assassinating leftist leaders as a matter of policy.

Au contraire; if americans had class consciousness and were ready to radicalize, none of it would matter. If anything, those policies would speed up the radicalization. I guarantee you that if 60-70% of americans considered socialism to be a good idea (as was the case in Russia in 1917), both republicans and democrats would almost immediately be swept aside by a revolution.

As it stands, with support for socialism wavering steadily around 1-2%, all those policies are there precisely to stop any reform or radicalization and to funnel any existing working class anger & energy into either right-wing populism or “radical liberalism”.

To say Americans are too comfortable for revolution, when 18 million are food insecure, 37% cannot afford a $400 emergency, 40-60% of the homeless are employed, 41% of Americans are dealing with medical debt, the bottom 50% own 2% of the wealth while the top 1% own 70%, the average wage in this country is a poverty wage, corporations are buying up to a third of family homes on the market… it’s just an absolutely idiotic and ignorant statement.

It’s not that they are comfortable in the absolute sense, it’s more that they can feel and understand, even if subconsciously, the immediate benefits provided to them by imperialism and unsustainable capitalism. It is undeniable that almost all americans have it better than citizens of global south. Any serious socialist movement would have to denounce imperialism, and by extension the colonial plunder that brings in so many resources into the country; and it would have to switch to a sustainable mode of production, reducing the total commodities available. This is a scary thought for most, even a lot of “progressives”. Revolution would mean an immediate (but temporary) decline in the perceived standard of living for an average american; they wouldn’t be able to afford even a dream of a mcmansion and F250 anymore.

I wanted to vote for the socialist last election. democrats sued her off the ballot in my state. Now why would they need to do that, if Americans don’t want to vote for socialists?

“Intimidation” election manipulation are much easier to pull off than serious election manipulation. What it does in this case is prevent a “count” for the left, and deprives you of any feeling of community, not change the result of the election. If there was serious support for a socialist among the populace, as there was in new york, no amount of billionaire money, political games or voter fraud would change the end result. Proletariat has the power, it just needs to realize it. American proletariat has its head stuck in the sand, hiding from both its power and its responsibility, and a lot of work (education, agitation and organizing) will have to go into changing that before a revolution is even on the table.

There is very little revolutionary potential in today’s USamericans. They are so accustomed to creature comforts afforded to them by imperialism that most of them can’t even get their asses out to the polling stations, and those that do vote for fascist republicans or limp-liberal democrats. For comparison, results of the 1917 elections in Russia were:

• SR (socialist revolutionaries): 38%
• Bolsheviks: 23%
• Ukranian Socialist Revolutionaries: 12%
• RSDRP (Mensheviks + Internationalists): 3%

Russian people in 1917 wanted socialism and wanted revolution, and voted for socialist revolutionaries and bolsheviks. Then they overthrew the temporary (anti-bolshevik) government and installed soviets, because that is what they wanted and that is what they voted for.

USians of today want berger, amazon, and racism, and vote for parties that support those things. It’s clear the two situations are not comparable.

As the revolutionary potential rises, we will see it in the polls. Mamdani - a self-proclaimed socialist - being elected in today’s political climate could be one of the first signs.

A lot of things break on cars that old, so any buyer has to be a bit stupid to pay that price…

laughs in a 30 year old van, that gained about 40% of value since I bought it 3 years ago

If it was built well, and is simple enough, it’s not too much of a hassle and you can maintain a lot of it yourself. Most new cars are complicated garbage that breaks constantly straight out of the factory, and you have to take it to a mechanic to do anything because of their complexity and proprietary software. Compare that to my van, where I can read the OBD2 error codes on my phone over bluetooth with a $10 dongle, and can do most basic maintenance (oil, ATF, spark plugs, belts) with basic hand tools and a car pit.

Revolution is definitionally not immediate. It is radical, but it does take work - and a lot of it - to get there. Read Lenin and the history of Russian revolution to see just how much work it takes. That work is much easier to do when your mayor is a self-professed socialist compared to when they are a capitalist themselves, if nothing else than by dispersing the fear of socialism instilled into many by capitalist propaganda.

And the people going hungry and rationing their insulin need immediate change.

In the context of the US, this particular change will come sooner from reformists then from revolutionaries. Revolutionaries have a lot of work ahead of them, while reformists are gaining ground right now. That is not to say that revolution is not necessary; it is, but on a longer time scale. Getting insulin to diabetics is easy compared to getting the means of production to all workers, but the latter has much greater benefits for all society of course.

I think Mamdani is what I’d call a center-left. He does suggest some moderate forms of wealth redistribution (via higher and more proportional taxes, which can then be used for food, transit, etc) and some very mild redistribution of means of production (city-owned grocery stores etc), all while keeping the wider capitalist framework. While not a radical leftist, I think it is an amazing step forward for the US, and pretty much the best new yorkers can hope for outside of a socialist revolution.

Nah they were. Being a nazi makes you a bad person, categorically. It doesn’t mean there’s no possibility for change or reform, but it does mean that while someone holds nazi believes they are a vile piece of shit.