Exactly.

Statistically, there might be somebody. And there’s a small crowd worth of people who possibly were, to within the minute.

It’s the bible verses on the side OP was focusing on.

The difference is whether there’s any room outside the system to exist in, right? Can you jailbreak your implant? Can you live in a shitty illegal slum, or are they all carefully dispersed before they can begin?

It’s all about technologies of control. Ironically, the places seeing democratic backsliding are not the only or even the main ones developing and implementing them.

Truly the new Coke of websites.

I’m still holding out hope for cyberpunk. At least it comes with skylines and cool back alley markets.

And the choice given is if you want your car deliberately crippled, or you want to cough up money.

Ah, the classics. Nothing like a weird dictatorship giving themselves medals.

Who didn’t even necessarily believe in a conventional god, just some kind of hands-off universe creator?

By that logic, grocery stores exploit hungry people. The letter thing doesn’t translate, I guess, but there’s other examples where it would.

I know everyone hates landlords here, but like, why?

Hmm, what exactly is your toilet situation right now? Cassette, tanks, composting, other? This is Lemmy, so I hope it’s not rude to ask.

I know you can get porcelain inserts for some cassette models, although if the flush doesn’t work well that’s not too useful.

I sure wouldn’t. If anything it sounds like these rentals will be worse than the free to look at ones. It’s only 5 bucks, but it’s 5 bucks.

The rental market is fairly competitive, but tips on everything has a similar feel and seems to be a continuing trend, so you never know.

Is anybody actually going to pay this? I’m limited in how mad I can get over someone deluding themselves.

What’s the biggest thing you miss? The idea certainly appeals to me; you have to pay to exist as a person but there’s free parking everywhere. And you can do a bit of nomadism.

Well, they kept a few of the design bureaus, I guess.

When their whole economic model was obviously failing, I think the West thought they’d give up on Marx, when in reality they just decided to become the bad guys from Marx.

Because it’s an incantation to you?

I’d be inclined to respond and explain further, but I don’t think learning and understanding is the point of this exchange anymore. Bye.

Yeah, and I was wondering if this was a “commie democrats” thing. Russia isn’t my first association, or even my second. He was even from Ukraine.

You’ll probably disagree with Putler being wanted by the ICC for warcrimes as well? Or at least make some excuse for how he’s not responsible or how the ICC or the UN are somehow the bad guys or smth?

No, Putin is shit and I hope he ends up in the Hague where he belongs.

Because you posted him with no context. It wasn’t clear you meant Russia.

but modern day Russia has inherited a lot of policies and values from them.

I’d disagree with that. They inherited autocracy, but it’s not even a vaguely similar model of it. In a lot of ways current Russia is a backlash to the USSR, although they shoehorn communist stuff together with Tsarist stuff and everything else from even earlier to pretend they have some kind of ideology.

They still see the West as enemies or at least competition, though, that’s true.

A change in architecture to accompany the change in form of government.

I really don’t think the funny shoe man from the 60’s is to blame for this.