meanwhile the Romans called it "Sina" and the Spaniards call it "China" as in rhyming with "Pisa" but if you say it that way in Hong Kong people say that you're being offensive because that's what the Japanese called them in WW2
...okay fine "People's Refucking" was not exactly respectful either
Like, look, Sredni has on several occasions gotten irate with me for being overly negative on communism (or rather, the handful of communists I know IRL, but I guess it came off as negativity towards communism)
He's one of the further left people here. I'd advise you to be a bit more diplomatic because he's definitely not against you.
I don't even know if "Qing" is pinyin or what. fuck, man.
as far as I can tell through WP checks pinyin is the main transliteration that does the Q for that sound, and during the Qing dynasty itself it was called Tsing or Ching
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Man I remember in like 2003 my family got our first USB printer
And it was really impressive to me that the printer could turn itself on when you went to print something
As opposed to our old parallel-port printer where you'd click "Print", get an incomprehensible error message, then realize after 5 minutes of troubleshooting that you forgot to turn the damn printer on
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
USB is so much more convenient than the various standards it replaced
Like, if you want to set up a USB device, you plug it into your computer and it works pretty much right away
Whereas if you wanted to use a parallel port device, you had to turn off your computer, plug it in, turn it back on, install the driver software, tell the operating system which device is plugged into which port...
btw what's the name of that one port that's also got a trapezoidal frame but it's got like two rows of teeth? for some reason i remember the plastic between the metal teeth being blue
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Yeah, I'm very well aware of the times people tried to instate communism, but Capitalism is a failure of a economic system and the teachings of Karl Marx (the actual teachings, as in, not "interpretations") check out.
Fascism is very closely related to Capitalism too.
Marx had a kind of bizarre, overly general view of how poor people think and feel and how labour works. He and Engels also showed nothing but contempt for the extremely impoverished, who make up a pretty large proportion of our population...
Literally just "read the manifesto"
Marx hated poverty, he hated the conditions of workers
Communism is about eliminating poverty by each providing according to their ability to each according to their need
I have. Look up "Lumpenproletariat."
I'm all for free public education, universal public healthcare, the nationalisation and restructuring of key industries, severing the ties between work and survival, all that good stuff. I'm quite an ardent socialist, really. I just think that Marx is incredibly dated. Gramsci has aged far better.
I'm probably closer to Fourier in my own views, although some of his ideas are a bit problematic to the modern reader, particularly his weird anti-Semitic streak. That said, the concept of the phalanstère is very much up my alley.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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...okay fine "People's Refucking" was not exactly respectful either
He's one of the further left people here. I'd advise you to be a bit more diplomatic because he's definitely not against you.
and "china" will be "the big gloop in asia somewhere"
*tries on cute dress*
*realises dress won't fit around man shoulders*
*cries*
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i think our first printer used this on the printer side and a regular parallel port (25 pins) on the computer side
I'm all for free public education, universal public healthcare, the nationalisation and restructuring of key industries, severing the ties between work and survival, all that good stuff. I'm quite an ardent socialist, really. I just think that Marx is incredibly dated. Gramsci has aged far better.
I'm probably closer to Fourier in my own views, although some of his ideas are a bit problematic to the modern reader, particularly his weird anti-Semitic streak. That said, the concept of the phalanstère is very much up my alley.
And I like it.
A lot.