What state? Because it cannot be any european state. It can’t be any state in the Americas. It can’t be most asian countries. It absolutely cannot be Australia.

There is no state that is both already uncaptured by capital and palatable enough to avoid sanctions in the west. Since that’s the actual only reason sanctions exist, to punish those not currently fully captured by capital holders.

So it cannot be state backed.

Can it be insured without a state? Maybe, but then whoever insures it sets the rules for it. This is the problem with the Federal Reserve owning USD versus the US government. Can it be physically backed without a state? No.

If this magically came into existence in a state and was even slightly effective, that state would magically be developing nuclear weapons the next day and invaded. Just a reminder Gaddafi was doing what you’re proposing… and global capital was so mad he was allegedly anally penetrated by machetes while the entirety of the country was effectively destroyed.

Any solution that gains traction developed by a state would get that state eliminated.

And any solution not made by a state will either be a scam, be monopolized by capital as its an asset and someone will be willing to sell it, or will simply not catch on since businesses would find no incentive to use it in large enough numbers to function. You’d need half of a country’s economy, at minimum, to switch to that new currency for people to effectively circulate it. Which is why bitcoin never took off as a currency. Which is why no crypto will ever really be used as a currency outside spot transactions. Your employees need to be able to pay their taxes with it. Which in any country means the government approves of it, which means its not a threat to them, which for 150 countries means it is not in any way a threat to capital and can be fully controlled by it.

It’s a good solution for global socialism. And socialist countries wanting to make that transition away from the last vestiges of capitalism might find utility in a state-issued digital currency… as long as capitalism does not exist anywhere at any point at that time. Because it just takes one economy where you can buy this digital currency like any other commodity in exchange for USD or other currency that can buy goods; just one to ruin everything.

Unfortunately what you’re suggesting is crypto. Which as we’ve seen isn’t really compatible with any world where capitalism still exists; as capitalists will just monopolize it.

The alternative to corporatism isn’t fascism, in fact they’re the same thing at different stages. Accepting the fascists because they are an ‘alternative’ to corporations is like accepting castration because it is an alternative dentistry.

Got any source on that? The EV lines are nearly 100% automated.

The foundation of capitalism is Profit is King.

The free market, aka competition, is the least profitable method of production for a company. It’s terrible for your bottom line. Profit is the only thing that matters, and specifically Profit by the Metric evaluated by those with the purse-strings; i.e. in the US this is profit per quarter.

‘Free Market’ economics is not only not limited to capitalism, capitalism is inherently antithetical to competition and the free market and will always seek to eliminate it entirely.

Back when deeply ingrained societal ideas were first being forced into the genome it took a wide-range of life experience to survive to an old age. Sure most people that lived to 5 made it to 50 for most of human history, barring pandemics and society-changing genocideswars, but most people don’t even gray or wrinkle by then in any significant way. But we all know to treat old-looking people with more respect than others; specifically because to make it from 50-whatever before a time of antibiotics and nutritional science required an incredible amount of experience dealing with a lot of people (you could just be left to float out on an iceberg or chucked off a cliff or left in a forest if people don’t like you after all) and an incredible amount of folk wisdom on how to get a varied diet in the location you were in so that the common stuff doesn’t kill you even when you’re vulnerable.

We’ve abandoned that part of the human and animal experience, but we still hold the genetic memory of the time when that was common, since it was less than a century ago for most of humanity. The old people alive today statistically rarely struggled, they never really had to grow up, and they inadvertently developed a society perfectly focused at keeping old people alive for as long as possible to drain them of all their financial resources. So they have no more wisdom than a 20-something that doomscrolls on the fairly educational side of the internet.

Because distros don’t do it differently. Different DEs sometimes deviate from the established standards and practices. It’s not a distro change, it’s whatever weird little DE you use that decided to do something stupid.

That being said .desktop is a unified standard with unified documentation implemented in a fairly unified way across various DEs, with the only difference is some DEs support finding desktop files in some extra folder locations.

Every distro could maintain a complete list of popular DEs and a link to the documentation, or people could just look it up for the DEs they use and target. I agree there should, at this point in time, be some standard service to just call and handle desktop files that all DEs use that way application level developers can just call that same service and everything gets put everywhere it needs to be, but given the controversy of systemd, there’s not going to be a universal solution for that since this is absolutely not a kernel-level service that needs to happen.

Like everyone during their evangelical/liberal phase, he has a massive ego and believes he must be the most morally correct and ethical person and everyone that disagrees with him on absolutely anything must know that he is correct and is just trying to bring him and others back down to the tar pits because they can’t stand seeing such a shining beacon of light and morality.

This is always exacerbated by people specifically on crusades, like someone that hatefucked an entire fucking piece of software into existence because he hated the idea people were more progressive than him because they were more well-read and informed than he was capable of making himself, and certainly more than he was himself when he formed his political opinions.

Or just use local alternatives that are less harsh on their local ecosystem? No one needs olive oil, especially if you’re in the Americas where there’s a thousand plants able to produce more oil per acre, most of which are pretty tasty. Avocados are an anomaly in the plant world given they are a fatty fruit, but their water requirements make growing them outside the literal rainforests they were domesticated in a nightmare – there are no large scale avocado farms that are in their native climate, they should be eliminated from all international diets.

And while bananas are neat, there are significantly better sources of potassium, and there’s a native tuber producing more potassium than any banana in every single continent if not every single country.

The reason a lot of vegetables have become just so bland and samey is because we are importing non-native plants to places and just ignoring local, native alternatives that have been growing there, statistically in a domesticated way, for the last 10,000 years.

Native plants are awesome, usually a lot more tasty than the bland super spread counterparts, and are easier to farm with less fertilizer and less maintenance like pest spray – since they’ve been fighting off local bugs and competitors since before humans touched the ground.

Well he could just go to the US or Israel like the rest of the world’s war criminals to avoid any accountability.

aka you asked an llm and it gave you a biased answer?

Nothing, the American populace is incapable of rebellion without bourgeois leadership telling them to rebel. Until the ruling class is splintered enough that a rebellious faction is willing to take the risk in recruiting the working class while somehow avoiding class consciousness, the US populace would never dare to go against its owners

The liberal west being fascist despite being the only type of country in history to become fascist?

I’m shocked. Shocked I say. Well not that shocked.

Keir Starmer is a pedophile.

Yeah Opera GX exists I guess, if you want to call that an existence.

I’m not sure Ukrainian authorities know what money laundering is if they think a commodity business could be doing money laundering.

This would lower tax revenue as an average, as demand would be lowered massively for the product (why risk being in a raid even in a ‘legit’ shop you can’t know is actually legit; also price naturally increases with both taxes and the seizure of product reducing supply) and the resources spent investigating pointless things like this are resources that can’t be spent on, you know, murder and looting which is common in war-torn countries. Even white ones.

Given both operational losses and total cost, one would think they would spend their extremely limited resources enforcing things other than minor laws that are effectively victimless.

I’m not saying the entire country should have a war time economy and focus on winning their dispute, but I am saying their opponent is doing that and I’d rather not suffer the effects of Russia winning because Ukraine is spending what would be massive resources investigating and enforcing victimless crimes across most regions in the country.

One would think this is the absolute lowest possible priority.

“More than 50 per cent of survey respondents said they had heard claims the October 7, 2023 attack on Israelis was “justified” or did not occur.”

This isn’t antisemitic. Israel deserved 10/7. Hamas wouldn’t exist if Israel didn’t have a stated and explicit policy to kill children as often as possible; Hamas is exclusively made up of survivors of Israeli violence.

At least your name checks out.