I don’t think exterminating 50 families is worth it even if 50 other unrelated families get uplifted. At least, I don’t think you can call it good or better. And I don’t think any one specific theory or ideology is necessary for women’s liberation. Women have historically liberated themselves using a myraid of different ideologies.

I don’t think you can count theory alone as a “verifiable fact.” The verifiable facts are the historically accurate first-person accounts of history which have been measured against corroborating witnesses and physical evidence. Marx wrote a book about his own thoughts and predictions. Some of these thoughts can be measured against reality and some of them cannot. Anybody can write down their thoughts, and the more intelligent you are, the more you can twist your words to make them sound good. Material reality and the lived experiences of real people matter more to me than what an intelligent person can make up or predict.

I find it hard to believe that every single person who died in a gulag was a Nazi collaborator, because not all of them were. Although we can’t do it on Lemmy, it is possible to verify familial histories and first-person accounts. You’re right about the fact that a lot of people lie on the internet so this whole discussion is kind of silly.

I’m sorry, this is too silly. Have a nice day.

This is difficult to respond to, but I’m going to try anyway.

I don’t think your family’s limited prosperity was worth the extermination of the other guy’s family. Killing the Nazis is a very low bar for goodness. Americans also killed Nazis, and now look what’s happening in the US.

If you have a bad situation, seeing someone else in a bad situation doesn’t make your bad situation better, it just means that there are now two bad situations.

This is a wildly false comparison, social science theories can’t be compared to physics. Now you’re just being very silly on purpose.

I cannot have a lived experience with gravity which is contrary to the existence of gravity. It is literally impossible. Why am I wasting my time explaining this? You know how silly this is.

I’d argue that lived experience (material reality) is the only thing that actually matters, and that theory can be confabulated by anyone. edit: again assuming that this person is a real person, not saying that their history is the only one that matters, just that real world lived experience is more important than theory

This person seems to be speaking from personal lived experience, which, to me, is more valuable than theory alone. Assuming they’re telling the truth, of course.

DEI is what companies use to pacify wronged employees who belong to minority groups. “We’re not discriminating against you because we have this corporate slop to point at” kind of deal. In my experience anyway. The backlash against DEI just makes it look more legitimate as an anti-discrimination effort.

The company is going to fuck people over whether said people are pro or anti DEI. They just want your labor and your money.

Setting up SearXNG is on my to-do list

What type of Linux phone? I am thinking of switching too, but I’ve heard Graphene OS is a pain to set up and it makes you seem like a drug dealer.

So they’ll be like iPhones?

50TB isn’t even that expensive on a HDD! Couple hundred to a thousand bucks! How much were they paying for that much storage?

They needed research for that?

Looks like a scene from Backrooms, except not scary!

This is a cool design, do you mind if I steal it and draw it or make it in photoshop?