disperazione pomeridiana, di stampo rigirante, accidentalmente universitario.
Oggi mi sentivo un po’ vecchia, un po’ marcita, un po’ persa, per quanto assolutamente mai meno magica (anche perché stavolta non ho dimenticato pezzi a casa per uscire, quindi bene)… e perché però? Boh, perché nonostante le nuove cose ci sono comunque sempre soltanto io e me, ed i momenti veramente epici sono limitati, […]
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disperazione pomeridiana, di stampo rigirante, accidentalmente universitario.
Oggi mi sentivo un po’ vecchia, un po’ marcita, un po’ persa, per quanto assolutamente mai meno magica (anche perché stavolta non ho dimenticato pezzi a casa per uscire, quindi bene)… e perché però? Boh, perché nonostante le nuove cose ci sono comunque sempre soltanto io e me, ed i momenti veramente epici sono limitati, se non nulli, al di fuori delle benedettissime distrazioni… e perché in appena due giorni di fare avanti e indietro fuori casa, per qualche motivo, due (2) unghie a caso delle mie importanti ditine si sono scassate… una particolarmente. Dovrei ritagliarle e rimettere lo smalto, ma ieri sera mi scordai, e stasera probabilmente i poteri forti troveranno un altro modo per impedirmelo… 🥴Ma, per una buona volta, ho nel possibile (cioè, nel così piccolo da richiedermi pensiero quasi nullo e solo pochi secondi di tempo) deciso di accettare la disperazione, e… ho cambiato la cover del telefono con questa qui di qualche tempo fa, a portafoglio, che dunque fa molto zia boomer… (Ma davvero eh, di solito non si trova gente sotto i 40 anni con queste, e in genere i telefoni su cui sono applicate sono pure pieni di malware.) Ok, in effetti il collegamento logico è fragile, ma il mio cervello ha deciso così, e così è; prossima volta, a pensarci meglio, prendo l’altra mia cover vecchia, quella viola, che è tutta consumata e scolorita in vari punti, con attaccato un laccetto di fortuna marcio, e forse quella sarebbe più appropriata. Comunque, visto che le distrazioni, alle 2 di pomeriggio, nel mezzo del letterale vuoto orario, non bastavano a farmi stare a posto, oggi sono pure andata alla macchinetta a prelevare la droga, e a quel punto si che sono stata nel mio… nella disperazione, certo, ma pur sempre la mia personalissima e inconfondibile disperazione! 🥰
Quindi, oggi il mood è questo. Contemporaneamente maledetto, ma a suo modo sacro ed inviolabile. E sono a dire il vero un po’ in dubbio sul se la foto di queste così immacolate vibe scattata non solo con la webcam del PC portatile, ma scattando una schermata del desktop del portatile con la fotocamera aperta, faccia più disperazione o più vecchiaia, ma quello che davvero conta è che è reale. Con Android Studio aperto sotto non per caso, ovviamente, ma perché a queste condizioni così pesanti è davvero meglio abbandonarsi alla sofferenza autoinflitta dello sviluppo Android, piuttosto che lasciarsi tirare in pasto da quel vuoto esistenziale che si nasconde sempre, costantemente, dietro ogni angolo, dentro ogni parete… (Forse anche per questo, dopo essermi piazzata col PC in aula studio, ho in modo parzialmente inconscio fatto la speedrun per andare alla macchinetta più lontana, che quella vicina aveva una fila interminabile, per acquistare il caffè, che oggi ha vinto sulla mia tirchiaggine senza nemmeno una gran lotta? E boh…) 🦴🦜 OctoVoLTE ~ RSS Vibes Season ("microblogoctt" aka "fritto misto di octospacc" e "diario di octt" o "diarioctt")
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Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market
For the first time, US residents can now invest in memecoins through traditional brokerages. Trading will only get stranger from here.
https://www.wired.com/story/memecoins-are-coming-to-the-stock-market/
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Latest Government Accountability Office report concludes that only 8% of ground combat vehicles, and only 20% of ground support vehicles are "mission capable."
https://news.usni.org/2025/09/25/gao-report-on-weapon-system-sustainment
In Cisgiordania i coloni stanno cercando di prendersi tutto
In Cisgiordania i coloni stanno cercando di prendersi tutto
Abbiamo assistito a una loro incursione in una casa palestinese: sono sempre più frequenti, producono un effetto storico, e le autorità israeliane stanno sempre dalla stessa parteIl Post
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military's access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal.Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military's elite spy agency, had violated the company's terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.
The decision to cut off Unit 8200's ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian last month. It revealed how Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance programme.
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy projectHarry Davies (The Guardian)
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'Confusion and alarm' at Pentagon as Hegseth summons top brass to impromptu meeting
'Confusion and alarm' at Pentagon as Hegseth summons top brass to impromptu meeting
An unusual directive demanding all U.S. generals and admirals report to Washington, D.C. for a meeting is raising alarm, according to a report.Sarah K. Burris (Raw Story)
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UK will not give diplomatic protection to its citizens on Gaza flotilla
The British government has said it cannot offer diplomatic protection to its citizens onboard the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, as Italy and Spain send ships to accompany it following an Israeli attack on Wednesday morning.
Mathilda Mallinson, MEE's correspondent onboard one of the flotilla's boats, said the British Foreign Office told her mother it was "unable to offer" diplomatic protection.
Diplomatic protection is action the UK can take against another country for injury caused to a British national, or their property, in violation of international law.
One boat Israel apparently bombed in Tunis, Alma, is a British vessel and flies the British flag. At least 13 people on the flotilla are British citizens.
Spain and Italy have sent naval ships into the Mediterranean Sea. Italy dispatched a frigate on Wednesday after an Israeli drone attack on the flotilla in international waters.
I have to wonder. Never having tried to enter an active war zone.
Is it in any way normal for the UK to give protection to any citizens intentionally doing so. Especially in advance of the event.
ATM the boats are in international waters. Or Tunisas water for smee attacks. So diplomatic protection has little to do with it. Bombing foreign registered boats outside your own waters is an act of war. So the UK and Tunisia should have diplomats screaming at them. At the least. And clearly has a duty to aid them in international waters.
Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms
A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.
Iran calls restrictions on its diplomats attending UNGA session in New York a new low of US animosity
The US has prevented Iranian diplomats from going anywhere beyond the perimeters of UN headquarters and buying anything from the wholesale club stores in New York city, calling the measure a part of its unilateral sanctions regime.
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National strike in Ecuador met with heavy repression
The elimination of the diesel subsidy has sparked multiple protests across the country. President Noboa defends the decision and aims to change the country's entire legal framework.
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New document leak exposes US ordering diplomats to use pro-genocide script
Documents leaked to Ken Klippenstein show Trump team ordered US diplomats to dismiss any mention of Israel's genocide in Gaza as propaganda
Life is so much easier when you can ignore meanings.
Was that the thread someone was trying to argue dems weren't neoliberals???
What's a good private YT Music client for Android and Web (PWA)
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None protect your IP if not using a non self hosted frontend like invidio or piped, cause if self hosted then you're providing your IP any ways. So now a days actually private is kind of hard. But these applications for sure help a lot.
I tried it out on my laptop that's running Fedora and so far it's great. it's a shame that the development of it has ended.
I'm thinking of using Outertune when i get myself a pixel and install GrapheneOS on it.
Reporting Ban Evasions
Es war einmal 2050 – „Everything Will Change“ (2022)
Kein Dokumentarfilm, kein Science-Fiction, kein Spielfilm, kein Märchen. Was wir hier haben, ist ein Hybrid. Agitprop-Kino. Und die Mission dieses Films ist es nicht weniger als die Welt zu retten. Doch ist das nicht unweigerlich zum Scheitern verurteilt, wenn kein Mensch ihn sieht? Bitte sehen Sie sich das an, erzählen Sie anderen davon! (ARD, Wh)
Apple calls for changes to anti-monopoly laws and says it may stop shipping to the EU
Apple has called for the European Commission to repeal a swathe of technology legislation, warning that unless it is amended the company could stop shipping some products and services to the 27-country bloc.The Silicon Valley company hit out in a submission to the commission’s review of the three-year-old anti-monopoly legislation, which is intended to regulate the gatekeeper power of the largest digital companies including search engines, app providers and messaging services.
It said it had already delayed the launch of features such as live translation through AirPods and mirroring iPhone screens on to laptop because of the act’s demands for interoperability with non-Apple products and services.
“The DMA means the list of delayed features in the EU will probably get longer, and our EU users’ experience on Apple products will fall further behind,” it said. Apple added that Brussels was creating unfair competition as the rules were not applied to Samsung, the largest smartphone provider in the EU.
Apple calls for changes to anti-monopoly laws and says it may stop shipping to the EU
The iPhone-maker criticises Brussels’ Digital Markets Act and says delayed features are leading to a worse experience for usersRobert Booth (The Guardian)
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What If There’s No AGI?
The technological struggles are in some ways beside the point. The financial bet on artificial general intelligence is so big that failure could cause a depression.
Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books
Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books - Good e-Reader
Amazon has introduced a new e-book DRM system that is inaccessible to Kindle users.Michael Kozlowski (Good e-Reader)
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Due Lavoratori Silenziosi: La Loro Felicità Dipende da Te
Siamo i Tuoi Reni: I Tuoi Filtri Segreti e Sentinelle della Tua Vita!
Pensa a due colleghi di lavoro che svolgono la stessa funzione da sempre. Nati nello stesso giorno, assunti insieme, andranno in pensione al...Giuliano (Blogger)
Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem
Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem
Spotify announced new policies on impersonating music, AI slop, and AI use in music creation.Elissa Welle (The Verge)
Una vitamina dalle molteplici proprietà e invece usata solo per uno scopo
Vitamina A: Sfatare i Miti di una Rockstar Incompresa
Oggi parliamo di Vitamina A , conosciuta anche come Retinolo . Su questa vitamina si è generata una confusione epocale, un vero e proprio ...Giuliano (Blogger)
Pensi che esista solo il Viagra? Ecco chi potrebbe sostituirlo
Zafferano e Disfunzione Erettile: Una Nuova Speranza quando il Viagra non basta?
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The battle to stop Chat Control continues, act now!
The battle to stop Chat Control continues, act now!
Unfortunately, the battle against Chat Control continues this month. For human rights, for civil liberties, for safety, and for democracy, this privacy-wrecking proposal must be stopped. We need your help to fight with us!Em (Privacy Guides)
Google, Meta and Vodafone want help from smartphone-makers
Google, Meta and Vodafone want smartphone-makers to reduce their bandwidth bills
: By supporting efficient video codecs in hardware, which to be fair will also help puntersSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Cronache del Fediverso
📜 Cronache dalla Bolla Fediversiana 🫧
🌀 Nel Fediverso (anzi, nel mio caro Mastodon 💜) noto che sì, la gente è un po’ meno… ma l’atmosfera è migliorata di brutto!
Certo, ogni tanto spunta ancora quello che sale sul piedistallo per fare il discorso da oracolo ✨📢, ma in generale il clima è più leggero e piacevole.
Sì, siamo meno, probabilmente ci stiamo creando la nostra piccola bolla… ma sapete una cosa? Io qui sto meglio di prima. E non ho nessuna voglia di fare paragoni con i social commerciali.
Ormai è quasi una grande famiglia 🤗 dove ci si conosce tutti un po’.
La voglia di interagire? Di conoscere persone nuove? Sempre presente!
Ma a un ritmo finalmente… umano. 🚲🌱
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What Happened in 1625
Here’s our next instalment of things that happened in ..25 years of yore.
Some Notable Events in 1625
3 February. Francesca Caccini`s opera La liberaziune di Ruggiero has its premiere in Florence.
11 February. Dutch-Portuguese War: One of the largest naval battles ever fought in the Persian Gulf takes place in the Straits of Hormuz as fleets of the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company defend Persia against an attack by ships from the colony of Portuguese India.
7 March. Died. Johann Bayer, German lawyer and uranographer (b.1572).
21 March. James Ussher is appointed Archblshop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) and Primate of All Ireland.
27 March. Died. King James VI & I (b.1566). He is succeeded by Charles I.
18 April. Born. Sir John Baber, English physician to Charles II (d.1704).
9 May. Born. George Pitt, English politician (d.1694).
5 June. Died. Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist (b.1583).
13 June. King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.
18 June. The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.
23 June. Born. John Fell, English churchman and influential academic (d.1686).
July. The Barbary pirates attack south-western EngIand and in August they enslave about 60 people from Mount’s Bay in Cornwall.
27 July. Born. Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (d.1672).
18 August. Died. Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, English diplomat (b.1556).
6 September. Died. Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b.1579).
8 September. The Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic, against Spain.
2 October. Born. Vere Essex Cromwell, 4th Earl of Ardglass, English noble (d.1687).
1-7 November. Cádiz Expedition: English forces commanded by Admiral George Villiers are decisively defeated by the Spanish at Cádiz.
12 November. Born. Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet, Irish politician (d.1684).
9 December. Thirty Years’ War: The Netherlands and England sign the Treaty of The Hague, a military peace treaty for providing economic aid to King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway, during his military campaigns in Germany.
Unknown Date. The Dutch settle Manhattan, founding the town of New Amsterdam. The town will transform into a piece of New York City.
Unknown Date. In England, a very high tide occurs, the highest ever known in the Thames, and the sea walls in Kent, Essex, and Lincolnshire are breached, causing great desolation.
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Baywatch, in arrivo il reboot: la serie cult anni ’90 torna nel 2026
Il ritorno di una leggenda televisiva è ormai realtà: Baywatch sta per rinascere con un reboot ufficiale in arrivo nel 2026, prodotto da Fremantle e FOX Entertainment. La nuova versione del celebre show, che negli anni ’90 ha lanciato star come Pamela Anderson e David Hasselhoff, sarà composta da 12 episodi e arriverà sugli schermi nella stagione 2026/2027.
Per milioni di spettatori, quel celebre tema musicale — I’m Always Here — e i costumi rossi dei bagnini di Malibu sono diventati un simbolo indelebile. Ora, il mito di Baywatch torna a vivere con un progetto che punta a conquistare nuove generazioni senza dimenticare i fan storici.
TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Baywatch, in arrivo il reboot: la serie cult anni ’90 torna nel 2026
Baywatch reboot: la serie cult anni ’90 torna nel 2026 su FOX
Baywatch torna con un reboot ufficiale: 12 episodi prodotti da FOX e Fremantle in arrivo nella stagione 2026/2027. Cast ancora top secret.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Whizzing up some Centennial Incognito
Incognito | HAAS®
Incognito is a 100% all-natural hop product crafted to deliver highly concentrated flavor while maximizing brewing efficiency and reducing process loss.Haas
It’s intriguing to me. For professionals (even or especially small ones) the loss of product to vegetable matter is a significant concern especially in jurisdictions that are taxed on the wort rather than the product. I’ve heard of 20% or more loss, but that’s got something to do with being a tiny 3hL system and brewing triple IPAs. Still, it is expensive to throw away so much product.
One of the problems, I think, with nonalcoholic beer is that some of the compounds we like best in hops are not water soluble and depend on the alcohol to pull them out of the dry hopping. I wonder if this product changes that calculus.
some of the compounds we like best in hops are not water soluble and depend on the alcohol to pull them out of the dry hopping. I wonder if this product changes that calculus
Even if they are extracted into this fluid (for example, with polyalcohols, maybe just sugars), they still might crash on "fermentation" of nonalcoholic beer, whatever process is used. Maybe if these are strictly nonfermentable polyalcohols and at the same time highly soluble in various conditions (maybe even at 0C fermentation, as one of possible production ways), this might work indeed.
Wolverine protagonista allo State of Play settembre 2025: tutti gli annunci PlayStation
Lo State of Play di settembre 2025 è stato uno degli eventi PlayStation più ricchi degli ultimi anni. Per oltre 35 minuti Sony ha mostrato trailer inediti, date di uscita attesissime e nuove IP che faranno discutere a lungo la community. Marvel’s Wolverine domina lo State of Play 2025, con un nuovo gameplay che ha confermato la finestra di lancio per l’autunno 2026. Ma non sono mancate altre sorprese: dal ritorno di Final Fantasy Tactics alle novità su Saros, passando per Crimson Desert, Nioh 3 e persino un annuncio hardware con le Pulse Elevate Speakers.
TUTTI GLI ANNUNCI: Wolverine protagonista allo State of Play settembre 2025: tutti gli annunci PlayStation
Wolverine e tutte le novità dello State of Play 2025 su PlayStation
Wolverine protagonista allo State of Play 2025: trailer, gameplay e date di uscita per Saros, Final Fantasy Tactics, Nioh 3, Crimson Desert e altri titoli.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
China Sets First Absolute Emissions Cut Target for 2035, Falling Short of Paris Path
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China has pledged for the first time to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in absolute terms, committing to reduce economy-wide net emissions by 7–10% from peak levels by 2035, “striving to do better.” President Xi Jinping announced the target in a video address to a high-level climate summit in New York convened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres during the General Assembly.
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Experts welcomed the structural shift to an absolute cut but judged the ambition insufficient for a 1.5°C pathway. “Anything less than 30% is not aligned with 1.5 degrees,” said Lauri Myllyvirta of the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). Greenpeace East Asia’s Yao Zhe said the plan “still falls short,” even for tempered expectations. Belinda Schäpe, a China policy analyst at CREA, framed the pledge as politically cautious and argued China’s clean-energy boom could still deliver reductions of 30% or more by 2035 if current trends hold. In her words, today’s announcement should be viewed as the floor, not the ceiling.
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World Economic Forum 2026
Event Title: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026Dates: January 19–23, 2026Location: Davos-Klosters, SwitzerlandOrganizer: World Economic Forum (WEF) The 2026 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will convene over 2,500 global leaders...\nESG News
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"Name in use" error when trying to make a 3dprinting comm
Yep, sorry, we have piefed.social/f/3dprinting and that clashes with it for deeply technical reasons.
There is a solution but it is not straightforward and involves changes to the way PieFed federates. It's high on the agenda, though.
Australian Under 16 media ban is censorship by stealth and data harvesting by law
The comments around the under 16 media ban seem to be missing a salient point.
In order to determine if a user is under 16, you need to determine that for every single user .. including you!
This means that your personal data will be harvested in order to determine if you are over 16 or not.
Ummm, they already harvest your personal data to that extent. I guess some of the really paranoid might be caught in the wider net but honestly if you're that paranoid then you're probably not using social media directly anyway. The media too is bringing up this point in that it's a privacy concern but the internet is far less private than 99% of people think anyway, it's a data security concern but not a privacy concern.
Now, the recent age-checking for porn introduced by the e-Karen without any parliamentary or even media debate, that's something to be concerned about.
::: spoiler truly some people are a lost cause
at first I thought this post was ironic but then realized OP is a Western chauvinist
May you be cursed with the government you accuse others of having
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How could I order a package without my parents finding it?
Hey!
There's some things I am planning on ordering, and I'd like to get them delivered without my parents knowing.
The things in question are some 23w CFL bulbs, e27 sockets, PC fans and a power strip.
I was originally planning on just buying them in person, but literally no shops near me have them.
I can't actually find them anywhere but the american version of amazon -- my country's (Ireland) version of amazon doesn't have them.
I asked a few friends if I could send the things to their house, and get it through them, but all of them said no.
Hansae
in reply to Spectre • • •Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to Hansae • • •Blemgo
in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •I am not so sure if the dissolution was really avoidable. I like to use the DDR as a comparison, as it does resemble the USSR post-war pretty well, due to the USSR pretty much dismantling factories in their occupation zone to compensate their own losses only to stop that as they realized the other occupation forces were strengthening their own zones and so reverting their course, leaving the then formed DDR in a similar state as the government that spawned in.
During the time of its existence, the DDR suffered from supply shortages to the point where the Trabant, the most driven car in the DDR had a chassis made out cotton-based thermoset. Yet at the same time government paranoia was at it's peak, where the MfS (the East German equivalent of the KGB) coerced and blackmailed citizen to aid in the espionage and recruit them as informants against their neighbours, just to collect as much information on their citizen as possible in case they are suspected to be traitors as more and more people tried to flee the extreme poverty they had to live with. Yet the party was riddled with corruption, as the last generation of DDR politicians realized as the old ones resigned and allowed a new wave to take the lead, seeing the actual numbers of the debt of the government and the state of the country had to face with, even though the older generation of politicians were initially against Gorbachev's Perestroika plan.
I think this level of hidden debt, corruption and paranoia/secrecy was the reason why Gorbachev claimed that the Chernobyl disaster caused the downfall of USSR, as it was the epitome of what plagued the whole nation ever since the war. Nobody wanted to speak out the truth for their fear of their status or even their lives, as they either get painted as a saboteur or gets silenced by those who would be targeted as well if the truth came out. Getting rid of that issue would be nothing less of a government dissolution, because no one could be really trusted.
Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to Blemgo • • •It definitely could have been avoided, anti-corruption campaigns could have been had, and even without them most people still supported socialism. The economy was slowing, but not crashing. Perestroika was terrible, no doubt, though. Further, you do exaggerate the level of corruption, the USSR had less wealth disparity than capitalist countries while maintaining positive and rapod economic growth.
The dissolution happened for a number of reasons, but it didn't collapse under that weight, it was killed off while under it.
Blemgo
in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •It might be that my comparison wasn't the most accurate, since my main insight in the USSR is through the DDR, which was mainly a pawn in the face off between the superpowers at that time, and thus was a hotspot for tensions around that time. And I do believe that the wealth disparity wasn't as extreme as in capitalist countries, yet it says little about what the actual average living conditions were compared to other countries. Also, corruption doesn't always have a wealth disparity as a result. After all, people can also get corrupt due to self-preservation, which I think is most evident under Stalin's later rule, after his wife committed suicide.
Yet I can't really agree that it was "killed off" during its downfall, as I have my doubts that it would have survived much longer than it did without its subnations separating from it. The only way I could imagine it surviving would have been if they "licked their own wounds" after the war, so to speak, recuperate from their losses instead of its rapid militarisation that it gone through to keep up with the USA in order to win a dick measuring contest.
Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to Blemgo • • •Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work?
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Yes, after the reign of Stalin, where Khrushchev took over, the USSR deescalated the Cold War, yet it was the actions taken by Stalin's regime that let the conflict start to begin with, with the USSR not retreating from Iran as the other Allied Forces did, the threat of force in the Turkish Straits crisis, comparing Churchill to Adolf Hitler and breaking the Yalta Agreement by meddling with the 1947 Polish elections.
Also, the article seems to be paywalled, so I have to see when I get around to reading it.
Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to Blemgo • • •Here's a non-paywalled version. Either way, no, you're entitely off. The USSR began its life has heavily invaded and sanctioned by countries like the US. The USSR would have rather had time for peaceful development, but the US Empire could not allow an alternative. Additionally, Churchill was similar to Hitler, the two admired each other and Churchill was responsible for mass famine in India. He had this to say about it:
If anything, it was the west that wanted the Cold War from the beginning.
Harry Truman, in 1941 in front of the Senate, stated:
Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work?
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •The Red Army invaded many countries, like Poland, Finland, Ukraine, Baltica, etc.
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