Hakeem Jeffries wants whatever the Mossad handler that implanted him in his seat wants him to want. And yes that’s for democrats to lose in 2028, because Israel knows there is no world where a pro-israel democrat wins.

It definitely doesn’t happen on the ISS. In very short, the physics don’t work. Even if you could find the straps to have some stable position, a position away from the cameras that cover every inch of the station besides the bathrooms that barely fit one person, if you’re a man you’re simply not getting an erection, or you’re getting an erection that is too painful to use, and pretty much no in between; and that mostly depends on how healthy your heart was before you went up. The longer you spend in space, the less capable your cardiovascular system becomes.

On top of this, if, say, you didn’t need penetration or a male partner to get off, you’d still run into pretty intense headaches. People tend to strain and move and increase blood pressure, which is already higher in space. Best case scenario you get a bad headache from the extra strain, worst case you pop a blood vessel somewhere.

Also, you’re in space, under intense physical, emotional, and psychological stress, working 16 hour days, getting 1 day off a week, and acutely aware, more so than any other being at the time, how close you constantly come to dying painfully. Now Astronauts are currently chosen specifically to resist the effects of stress on the human body and mind; but that doesn’t mean they’re invincible™. We need only look at the astronaut that drove cross country while shitting in her diapers to confront her ex for getting a new girlfriend to see the line between ‘toughest brightest mind on earth,’ and ‘batshit insane psychotic break,’ is far thinner than we’d like to believe.

They’re the only useful thing AI has done so far, so can we keep that but ban AI image and video generation instead?

…The physics that enable electric motors to generate more torque with less energy than all other forms of locomotion combined, making electric heavy vehicles the actually wisest implementation of electric vehicles?

Most people that do legitimate emergency preparedness programs tend to only go two weeks out, because unless you have specific geographic restrictions, any emergency that lasts longer than two weeks is essentially going to end the world.

Cool. And this happened with John Fetterman too, right?

Oh.

You’re entitled to your opinion, but to anyone else reading, everything he has said is easily disproven drivel. I won’t be replying again.

Good, better luck next time spreading your propaganda.

You’re seriously defending the Great Leap Forward where peasants were made to live in communes

While this is true, this isn’t inherently a bad thing. The problem was creating an environment where ‘Dirt Emperor’s’ could form without any infrastructure for oversight; as well as the overall lack of education, as mentioned previously. This has been shown and China admits this was a mistake, and communes were used as a part of Deng’s argument for capitalist reform, showing that agrarian society cannot jump to socialism or communism.

However this laid infrastructure that wouldn’t otherwise have been laid, allowing for the reforms and later top-down management from the government to be effective in modernization of regions at a pace that has never been rivaled in human history. Source 1

melt down their metal tools in backyard furnaces to make worthless pig iron

You act like this was a plan from the government, it wasn’t. Again this is down to local corruption, and the reason China now has a strong centralized government. The Steel production quota was based on Soviet successes, but was incorrectly included in all regions as an expectation Cadres could be rewarded for; leading to severe local corruption without oversight. The expectation from the central government was that mines that were shut down due to the war and invasion would be reopened, and newer mines would be prospected.

Instead these regional bosses wanted to cook the numbers to look good, primarily believing they would be rewarded heavily, secondarily believing the new government was ‘just another dynasty,’ and thus would punish them if they failed to meet quotas or had issues or concerns. This was a false belief that lead to tragedy, but was not a consequence of the great leap forward as much as expecting corruption to not be so deeply entrenched in those that had management experience. Source 2

As a fun fact, this is why the current Chinese government system is set up the way that it is, with literally dozen of competing people reviewing any accomplishment of their peers.

incompetent agricultural practices being enforced on them by the dictatorship

This was more of a problem of individuals with the knowledge being essentially too worthless to keep in government. And that sounds odd given the results, but you fail to understand just how corrupt the previous government was. Any possible criticism you have of the Mao-led party, you can say was 10,000 times worse before the revolution, hence the revolution. There is a reason the KMT was a fascist dictatorship until the 1980s when they held their first ever elections for any office.

farmers, just plant all your seed in a giant pit and it will grow thick enough to stand on!

This wasn’t a policy, but what was a policy, and what the tragedy actually was, was eliminating sparrows without understanding their greater effect on keeping pests under control. With more limited seed stock the solution they came to was to eliminate pests that would eat seeds, without any concern or understanding as to what other things those pests might eat that would cause more damage. Otherwise most planting was allowed to continue as it had been.

My older Chinese born coworker who grew up in one of these communes didn’t know who his parents were, didn’t know his birthday, all because of that tyrannical shit. And it certainly wasn’t necessary to “mature the economy” or whatever your joke of an explanation is.

This would be a lie that he told you. The communes existed for exactly 3 years. The broader organization (sectioning the population into 26,500 sections for management) continued until the 1980s, but local communes were dissolved during and post famine. Additionally to this, there is no confidently documented cases of separating children from their parents or eliminating birthdays. There are some anecdotes on far-right websites, but there is no actual documentation of this happening or ever being ordered.

To your broader point with this third-party anecdote, no, it wasn’t tyrannical to try to eliminate local lords and return control to the people. It wasn’t tyrannical to try to implement a communal environment that was largely successful in its wider goal of national unity. It was too much, too soon, based on idealism over the hard reality of what living in a feudal agrarian society does to the human psyche.

Communist dictatorship is an oxymoron, and China’s governance system tends to rank highest among international poling for satisfaction of democratic representation.

That being said the Great Leap Forward did have mistakes. That’s what happens when you try to modernize a SLAVE AGRARIAN SOCIETY RUN BY MONARCHISTS to a modern country. It also ended the famine cycle that had been common in China for several hundred years. Given modern estimates show 6-10 million deaths during the recovery of one of the largest revolutions and most drastic socioeconomic evolution in world history, that’s a pretty good ratio.

As far as the 100 Flowers Campaign, yeah. That was a good thing and showed why education was more important before freedom of the press could be established. Mao et al naively thought China was immune to propaganda campaigns at that point in the revolution and believed that criticism would come from people that genuinely believed in freedom and progress. And they were right, for a large amount of the criticisms posted, all of which have since been addressed surprisingly enough. But the ‘let’s let the US own us, let’s return to a puppet state, let’s sow racial division instead of national unity,’ propaganda campaigns threatened to split China, which would have resulted in additional western-owned colonial puppet states like Japan.

While .world does tend to block a lot of instances, watering down would in this case be a problem with over-federation. .world tends to host the most popular communities, which then is a self-feeding cycle that increasingly centralizes user share on .world, which then produces more content than native communities, then making .world communities more popular, and so on.

It produces much more average (to American and Euro-centric tastes) posts, while also being the defacto instance/community for a particular topic. Watering down what could be much more specialized topic posting and discussions.

Shall we talk about what China is doing to the Uigurs

Sure. According to the UN, UK, and every single independent investigatory body not currently operated by the CIA, China imprisoned more Uyghurs than necessary in the 1990s and held them in prisons below EU standards but above US standards. At this time there is no evidence of genocide, nor is there evidence of continued discrimination.

what happened on tiananmen square in 1989

Sure, let’s talk about ‘Peaceful’ “college” “students” stealing rifles from a military base and shooting unarmed police, resulting in a militarized response to minimize casualties.

how many people Mao killed?

Lots of people die in a revolutionary war, that is the purpose of them.

Or about the corruption in the higher levels of the KPCh

You are only aware of that because of the anti-corruption policies of the modern CPC; which has resulted in dozens of arrests and executions. Your press calls it “Xi killing non-loyalists.”

Sure, theoretically, after everything else has been solved and it’s what’s desired. The goal of communism is a sustainable (as much as there can be in a universe with entropy) way of life where no one goes without what they need to live. Let’s figure that part out before exploring exponential growth, instead of the other way around.

Yeah, how dare the 100% efficient, highest possible torque drivetrain type be used to move heavy vehicles. Those damn Chinese don’t know anything and are obviously fad chasers.

You’re asking this on .world, the normie instance. .world is the watered down version of lemmy.

But to answer your question, yes, ideally all people should move to foss versions of corpo software, if only to devalue digital data trading and advertisement space. Yes that means more instances going further right wing, and some instances choosing to no longer federate with the larger, more ‘normie’ ones; but the overall good to society is worth the cost.

…And then, if you read the rest of the comment, I give exact prescriptions for solutions to the material conditions that allowed this to happen to this person…

This is a trolling or punking or puking or whatever the fuck the slang is, isn’t it?

I know America has some of the lowest reading comprehension scores of every country that teaches English in any form, but you really take the cake on this one. It’s almost like I’m on truth social or Facebook.

To be more specific:

No, I did not say ‘I would fix the world and society,’ I say analyze the material conditions that lead to the failures that resulted in the tragedy, then work to make sure those conditions improve. Like every country EXCEPT the US does. Literally everyone one. War lords in Somalia analyze the failures that lead to the crimes in their demesne and work to improve those conditions. The US doesn’t.

For example, as I have stated multiple times, medical care, therapy, state apparatuses to detect bad parentage – fucking improved living conditions and parental education and screening, literally anything. You know what happens when a depressed, isolated kid with clear distractions shows up to school in Norway?

They’re called into a counselor’s office, told whatever they say is confidential, and that they’ll be protected and helped if they let them know what’s going on. There has yet to be a child surviving child sexual abuse that does not show outward, obvious signs of that abuse when not around their abuser. There is entire fields of psychology built and peer-reviewed on detecting it from behavior. It takes 30 minutes once a month to teach teachers to recognize the signs.

This could have all been avoided. And yes, you can fix people being raped, as that, like pretty much all crime that has ever happened or will ever happen for the history of humanity, is a result of the material conditions of the criminal’s life and the society they find themselves in.

There has never been a Satanic ritual related death in US history.

There have been some troubled people that wanted to scare the Christians that were abusing them. And given the number of false convictions around the early and mid 1990s because of ‘satanism,’ anyone that brings it up just looks stupid. Purely, ridiculously stupid.

No actionable plan? There are so many actionable plans that work better than doing nothing. Pick one. Norway. Finland. Iceland. Fucking China. France. Honestly nearly any society that has made it to mid-capitalism or better.

The ‘Perpetrator’ was raped multiple times as a child, physically and verbally abused, and was only sentenced to death because this happened in 1995 instead of 1994.

She was quite literally tortured her entire life, with zero support, zero examples of positive behavior, zero effective alternatives. This was allowed to happen explicitly because of both a lack of healthcare, and a lack of government oversight. If she had regular healthcare, her rapes would have been reported sooner, and she would have had therapy and a new family to guide her to make different choices.

If we did not have a CHRISTIAN society, we wouldn’t have the hysterical whining from far-right christians like you about ‘satanism,’ which would then have allowed the jury and judge to actually look at her like a kid that has been only exposed to abusive behavior, instead of a ‘super evil super-predator satanist.’

Fix the society and the material conditions that allowed this to happen, and work to undo the harm that the failures of society caused that caused this to happen. This crime was completely preventable, and this person, given her personality this late in life after a lifetime of unimaginable and uninterrupted torture since the moment she was born, is obviously someone that would be a good person to have in society.

got all edgey with their satanism

it’s amazing when you can pinpoint Americans.

First, sorry for the late reply, this did not show up in my notifications for some reason.

How do we define memtal illness? Is it just about anything that bars you from avhieving social success? Then doesn’t it fully eliminate the choice factor?

Mental illness, specifically disorders, is any category of psychiatric illness that interferes with daily life. I used it in two ways. Many who develop a severe mental illness, say schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, clinical depression, and even cases like mild to severe autism, will end up homeless. Sometimes this is arguably a choice, as in their disorders lead them to act in ways that others perceive as a voluntary action, which supports the far-right narrative you’re basing your argument on. Most of the time this is not a choice.

Additionally, the severe stress of homelessness has been well documented to cause PTS in otherwise mentally healthy people. This then can cascade into other mental illness, which can lead people to either use drugs to calm themselves (as medical care is out of the question), or can result in the ‘voluntary’ choice of not seeking help after enough rejections. This is where the myth of ‘they don’t want help they want to keep doing drugs,’ lie comes from. People with severe PTSD from homelessness that have found a way to cope with the damage that state of being has done to their brain. When you are in survival mode constantly and find something to give you peace, whatever it may be, that is what your brain will fervently keep trying to get even if it is illogical or in other words bad for you in the long run. Which leads us to:

Rightwingers would argue that starting drugs (and even continuing using on early stages) IS a choice.

And in some select cases, they’re right. But they’re also not capable of understanding the concept of choice.

If I force you into labor at an early age, force you to work unsafely in such a way as to cause chronic pain, and then force healthcare costs to be unobtainable for you; you are left with a few choices: Drink yourself to sleep so you don’t feel the pain, seek drugs so you don’t feel the pain, or kill yourself to stop the pain. Pain management isn’t covered in ER visits unless you’re having a heart attack from it or have gone into shock. Most Americans cannot afford anything but ER visits, because ERs cannot legally turn you down.

So do you have an actual choice in that scenario? Because half of working Americans by the age of 30 find themselves in that scenario. Nearly all drug addicts found themselves in similar scenarios.

If you want to stop drug addiction and abuse, and homelessness, then the solution is universal healthcare including mental health care, AND WORKER PROTECTIONS INCLUDING MINIMUM WAGE BEING SET TO THE COST OF LIVING.