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areyouevenreal , to 196 in Harm Reduction Rule

Yeah I've only actually been able to vote once. Missed one (forgot which day) and was out of the country for another. I wouldn't have left for as long if I actually knew there was an election, but that's hard to know when you don't watch the news. Plus moving around a bunch means I am rarely actually on an electoral register to vote.

areyouevenreal , to 196 in Harm Reduction Rule

I have read some theory and I do know those are the main two currents. Doesn't mean I know enough about them or politics in general to choose either them or something else. Most of the books people actually recommend are ancient and hard to understand even if they are relevant. We have actually spoken about politics before somewhere if I remember correctly.

areyouevenreal , to 196 in Harm Reduction Rule

Voting for someone who comite genocide is understandably something people don't want to do. Or have you forgotten the point of this conversation?

areyouevenreal , to 196 in Harm Reduction Rule

Okay what about the other things I just said?

areyouevenreal , to 196 in Harm Reduction Rule

I am not holding them up as a revolutionary party. All I was saying is they are becoming more popular than a current majority party. I am trying to make the point that voting for a traditionally minority party isn't always fruitless.

The fact of the matter is that we are never going to get a radical left government, regardless of the voting system. Unless you're spending time in an ivory tower of academia, you will know that the majority of people in this country are centrists of some flavour. Corbyn got massacred at the polls, and he was Labour leader. Going back you've got Foot.

My comment was aimed at Americans who don't want to vote for the democrats. Not at labour voters in the UK. I am not against voting for labour. If I am still here at the time of the general election I will probably be voting for them or for the Green party. I wasn't able to vote in the current election as I wasn't in the country and also wasn't on the electoral register for the area I would be living in if I was.

I don't think I qualify as an anarchist. Though I do like some anarchist ideas. I personally don't understand politics well enough to have an exact position with certainly like some people seem to. I am somewhat of a fan of socialist market economy, but I don't think you can truly know if something does or doesn't work until you actually try it.

areyouevenreal , to 196 in Harm Reduction Rule

There are things you can do outside of voting for one shit party. You could vote for a different party for example, push for voting reform, protest, bomb military installations and other guerrilla tactics, go and help people directly, make propaganda, etc. In my own country that just had a local election more seats were won by the lib dems (normally a minority party) than the conservatives who are the party currently in charge.

Revolutions don't happen because people like you don't want them to happen. That and because people fall for pro-government propaganda.

areyouevenreal , to Solarpunk technology in Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production

We've had the technology to replace automotive batteries with Lithium ones for a long time already.

areyouevenreal , to Solarpunk technology in Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production

They aren't rated for 50,000 cycles. The ones I have seen are rated between Lithium Cobalt Oxide and Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries. They don't even come close to Lithium Titanate in charge cycles.

areyouevenreal , to cats in Calico coon

He's right. You are just being really stubborn. The fact you think biological sex is simple is a big giveaway you don't know what you are talking about. XXY is not considered intersex and never has been.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300

This IS a Linux machine. Do you know what a CPU architecture is?

areyouevenreal , to Memes in It all makes sense now

You can't fly directly in a commercial aircraft. The airspace has routes and points you have to follow. Smaller planes don't always have to, but big planes almost always do. Altitude is one of the determining factors.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok

Okay now you are just being obtuse. You realize lots of kids these days don't have or use regular computers, right? Smartphones are now the only way to access some services as well, and are important in case you get lost. You can't call your parents or 999 on a laptop now can you?

areyouevenreal , to Technology in 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok

Yes in a thread about banning kids from having smartphones, which are the main way people access the internetwork nowadays.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok

Okay first who said eight hours? I am not saying there shouldn't be limits, just that banning the internet completely is a bad idea. Second communicating with technology is an essential social skill in itself, and being able to use technology and apply critical thinking to things you read is absolutely essential. Lots of people work from home using technology. Almost everyone will have to use technology to do research e.g. in college.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok

You don't need to run Android x86 to access a social media site on a computer. What are you talking about?

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