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Not sure my Raspberry is powerful enough to handle docker or if there are suitable images for arm. Otherwise sure that would be even simpler.

That is a neat solution, thanks for the link!

I use Radicale for a self hosted shared calendar and todo lists and notes with my wife.

Radicale on raspberry pi

Android apps: Davx5 Jtx board Fossify calendar

From what I've read fixing world hunger would not be that expensive, in the grand scheme of things. Too bad that the poor just don't have a lobby.

Also, if everyone would get at most 2 children, humanity will shrink on average. Don't see why somebody should not have kids just because somebody else had "too many".

I absolutely agree that many people should not have kids, and nobody should feel pressured to do so, and everybody should think twice before they do if it really is what they want and they are ready for that.

But as "general advice"? Sorry, but this is ridiculous.

Saying this as a fucking exhausted parent of a baby. It is hard, but absolutely no regrets here.

Of course if you value your own free time and activities above everything else, then yes, definitely please do not have kids. There will be no time for anything but baby care and the bare minimum household maintenance for a long time.

Thanks for the nostalgia.

2010 - back then I was an insecure teenager, finding refuge and empowerment in technology, anxious that I will die alone. One year before finishing high school and two before meeting my future wife. I texted her also using Pidgin for ICQ and Google Talk (without the OTR, of course).

Now I'm a self-confident software developer, instead anxious that I will die in a fascist dictatorship, and absolutely sick of the modern shitnology, preferring to care for plants on the balcony after work, because they are something real and not annoying.

Tech is just not fun anymore. But maybe it's for the better, that made me go outside more.

But back on topic:

prohibiting encryption is like saying people should not be able to have private conversations without a microphone in the room which the government can always tune in to, if they see the need. Obviously completely ridiculous.

I guess just in case I'll keep my illegal encryption software somewhere hidden and encrypted. Will be fun when we will start sending crypto data hidden steganographically in a wall of text that reads like bad LLM output. Have fun scanning all the traffic looking for cues that are not there. Anything can be encoded in almost anything else. There is absolutely no way that a government, no matter how powerful, could enforce any such restriction in a bullet proof way against anyone who puts in the tiniest bit of effort.

Concerning making math illegal... Reminds me of DeCSS. Been there, done that. When people were wearing shirts with the illegal prime number. Fun times.

That's too harsh, unless you are a medical expert who is 100% confident this cannot be. I doubt that you are.

Skin has its own microbial flora and is the largest organ of our body. Imagine you take antibiotics. This can lead to all kinds of side effects, because good bacteria just as bad are killed and your gut needs to repopulate.

If you did not wash your skin for decades, I'm pretty certain that you will acquire a pretty unique and rich microbiome on your skin that co-exists with you in symbiosis if you are healthy. Now you just wash it away.

No worries. Yeah, you came off as somewhat hostile, or maybe I mixed you up with the other commenter.

What is annoying on Lemmy (this does not apply to you) are the cliche "tankies" who immediately accuse everyone who is not of their opinion to be a fascist or support fascism. That for sure won't help the cause of educating the proletariat.

Paradoxically, such people are pushing many just ignorant or centrist-minded people towards the right, and this does a great disservice to the left basically everywhere, rubbing people under their nose how they are supposedly wrong or bad (not saying that there are no people with truly horrible and wrong views, just saying you for sure won't convince them that way).

I think the left should not only study socialism/Marxism/etc, but also much more psychology. Being or feeling right is easy, convincing others - that's the hard part, and most left movements are really bad at their "marketing", while the fascists have nothing to offer, but are better at PR. It's a frustrating state of affairs.

Thanks for staying civil and constructive.

My very original statement was about the fact regulated markets makes sense as an instrument in an economy, and as long as they are ultimately controlled to work to the benefit for the people, they are a useful instrument. I am strongly against the idea that markets are the ultimate ordering principle for society. If by "capitalism" you mean this, then sure, I am against capitalism. But this extreme free market capitalism has a name - neoliberalism. I'm against neoliberalism, because it leads to inequality and fascism.

I don't see where we even disagree, except for how to call certain combinations and variations of features in an economy. Honestly, I don't believe how to call it is so important except for the fact we agree on the actual meaning behind the practical outcome.

China has always been a syncretic culture that is really good at incorporating various elements that make sense in a holistic way into their culture. They digested socialism just as they digested capitalism and just as they digested Buddhism when it was new.

In any case thanks for your links, I'm currently reading a survey about China (not focused on only the last century), so this can complement my reading.

Haha my family emigrated from Russia in the 90s, don't tell me about the real life in the Soviet Union.

The difference between wealthiest and poorest was surely much smaller, but the living standard overall was also much lower. My grandpa telling stories how he had to stay in line in the hope to get some sausage for the family, or about the underground black markets where people illegally were exchanging western goods that simply did not exist in the Soviet Union. The misplanned and falsely reported production, factory owners faking their numbers to appear like they satisfy quota. My grand-grandpa barely not being sent to a Gulag because we're an ethnic minority, even though he was a WWII war hero. Having to use connections and swaps to organize having an independent apartment for your adult children and their partners. Having to engage in everyday bribing of officials to get some paperwork ready not in months but weeks, because that's the only way to get things done there.

Is this more than vibe to you? You are not exactly quoting academic literature either.

I have heard enough stories to know that this is not a system I could see or want myself existing in and I'm happy I grew up in central Europe.

The PRC is doing its own thing. You can call it socialist market, but this term I have never heard before, the usual term is state capitalism. What we can agree on is that they are doing pretty well at the moment.