Are you going to memorize the carry, transport, and self-defense laws of every state on your route?

Are you going to be paying the attorney’s fees on behalf of your trucking company and your client and both of their insurance whom all will be sued by any survivors or their families when you shoot someone?

This will be controversial given the “that’s not true communism according to my 170 year old theory book” crowd that sometimes permeates western leftists like a disgusting plague; but Xi Jinping. He’s released 6 or so books, he has a literal Doctorate in Marxism, and has documented China’s success and failures in its strive towards communism, including very good answers for every single criticism western Do-Nothing marxists have towards China’s Dengist reforms and their incredible economic success.

Why did communism?

The actual definition of capital. By the people that invented the term. A resource that is rented to another in exchange for part or all of the value generated by that resource. The Linux Foundation, being a non-profit, does not own any capital whatsoever, otherwise they would lose their non-profit status.

Linux, in fact, does not exist under capitalism. The Linux Foundation does not own capital. It does not pay taxes. Value is neither rented nor extracted from the workers who fully retain all ownership of the labor value of the product of Linux. The same way a commune can exist despite capitalism also existing, it does not mean that commune exists under capitalism.

FOSS cannot exist under capitalism, as it is quite literally the definition of Marxist Praxis. Linux is quite literally the single most wide spread and successful example of communist production in world history. It is, by its very existence, a “social warrior” project.

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The guy that essentially added lasers to Japanese movies and somehow became a multi-billionaire is a fan of stealing other’s work with minimal effort and reusing it without permission?

I’m shocked. Shocked I say.

Teflon, or PTFE, is a type of PFAS, and is the most famous and most numerous contaminant in that family and the most likely contaminant to cause PFAS-related cancers in the developed world.

since we can’t really absorb molecules that long and it’s already literally everywhere.

I’m curious how you came to this conclusion. PFAS and PFOS stay in your body for an incredibly long time and can accumulate quickly. We have no easy way of processing them out, and yes we absorb them into our longer term cells like muscles and fat.

It’s an incredibly important health problem the world is facing, as every variant of PFAS and PFOS causes cancer. and there is no medical way to remove PFAS once its in your body. The absolute best you can do is lower (you can’t eliminate) your exposure over time and hope the build up isn’t enough to trigger cancer growth before you get cancer or die from another source of industrial pollution.

Defence scientists say the technology could threaten low Earth orbit satellite networks such as Starlink at an extremely low cost.

Low Cost? It’s 100 Gigawatts. And the inverse square law is still a thing. In fact it’s the thing, the reason most sci-fi weapons can’t exist until we get infinite exponential power sources.

This will be amazing at missile defense and anti-air, however, thoroughly eliminating any reasonably distanced threat.

Free trials are explicitly designed to be just long enough that the average user forgets they’ve signed up for it and it can auto charge after the trial ends. There’s a ridiculous amount of dark pattern psychology research on this exact topic, paid for by companies like Amazon and Netflix.

That’s great and all but the current linux phone offerings are… not suitable for general public use. The iPad generation will simply not be able to use them in their current state.

Each MQ-9 Reaper costs around $14.5 million USD¹. This includes parts currently under 100% economic sanctions that are only sourced in China, so the real cost to replace is almost definitely higher at this point. Rare Earth Metals ain’t the expensive or rare part.

As a fun experiment why don’t we see what took down these drones that cost as much as a brand new elementary school and all teacher salaries for a year;

Each Shahed drone costs $15,000-$50,000 depending on the model these killed at least two.

Each S-400 9M96E Missile costs around $300,000. These are the short range missiles that would be used by Iran’s air defense for the low flying Reapers.

Misgah recoilless rifle ($150,000-$1,000,000) (This is confirmed at least 1 reaper down.

The Russian Verba system (~$200k per missile)

So basically the max cost on Iran’s side is $30 million USD, though realistically this is likely closer to $10-15 million USD.

The max cost on the US side is approximately 45 elementary schools or around $450 million USD.

Or in other words, this is why Americans are so much more poor on average than Iranians and other “third world” or “developing nation” citizens. Did you know fewer than 2/3ds of Americans own their own home? That’s fucking unheard of in Iran. There’d be actual riots and not US led ones overnight if it ever got that bad.

¹There are no official numbers except bundled (staff, weapons resupply, support cost, actual cost of vehicle) fact sheet propaganda numbers.

Edward Snowden? No. This borders on the “oh the Reptilian satanists have to disclose their evil deeds to clear their karma before their deaths” level of conspiracy thinking in order to make sense.

Jeffery Epstein objectively is a Mossad agent, which does mean he worked with the CIA, who have a history of similar activity.

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Don’t worry, I too remember being 13 and discovering atheism for the first time.

If you want to eliminate religion then you need to improve the material conditions of the proletariat. If you want to improve the material conditions of the proletariat you must first resist and overthrow imperialist control.

Without revolution religion flourishes as a release valve for the proletariat, and those in power will seek to control that release valve as an alternative.

This does not mean religion is the enemy, the same way a gun is not an enemy.

I have to disagree there:

1. The Ordinary World,

Baby born to poor people in a manger

2. Call to Adventure

Three wise men show up and proclaim him the messiah and help guide him

3. Refusal of the Call

A literal 18 year time skip between age 12 and 30

4. Meeting the Mentor

Assumed why he returned from this time skip as a rabbi

5. Crossing the Threshold

Gaining his first disciples and preaching

6. Tests, Allies, and Enemies

Judas

7. Approach to the Inmost Cave

Acceptance of Judas’ betrayal

8. Ordeal

Obvious

9. Reward 10) The Road Back 11) Resurrection

I mean 9 10 and 11 are the same here. Dude came back from the dead.

12. Return with the Elixir.

He was said to grant boons to his former disciples before he left the second time.

The human right abuses in Xinjiang are a fact.

Not really, no. Even Trump and the CIA disagrees with you.

It’s responding to the persistent propaganda narrative that modernizing poverty-stricken rural areas of China like Tibet and Xinjiang is somehow a “cultural genocide.” By providing education, modern technology, and resources to these areas, it’s been argued that the people in these areas are somehow lesser for joining the 21st century.

Also the criticism of China daring to increase its electricity consumption as it raises 800 million people out of extreme poverty, instead of cutting back on energy usage like Europe is (ignoring that China still uses less than 1/10th the energy usage per capita, 1/2 per capita in rich areas.)