hostops 15h ago • 100%
Yes of course. For collaboration with current and future remote abroad workers. Also in my country almost everyone speaks English.
hostops 2w ago • 100%
Thank you for your opinion :) I will be more careful how I write my posts.
hostops 2w ago • 100%
I love my now only living grandmother. She is a friend to all of her grandchildren.
When my other grandparents were alive (and I was a child/teenager) our relationships were mostly formal.
hostops 2w ago • 33%
(I am contemplating whether your are just trolling me and I should stop participating in this debate. But lets assume you really did not understood my point.)
- You typed in google something like "EU failing privacy/democracy/freedom" and posted top results. And all those cases are real, but are cherry picked. Therefore I responded with a classical argument about why smoking is "not bad for your health". https://www.logicalfallacies.org/anecdotal.html
- Your results did not include any actual indexes or aggregation of the data.
Please check this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices especially "list of scores by country" where you also have some historic entries.
To help you with some conclusions:
- EU countries are by far most free and private. Yes of course with their own issues but still way better than any other country.
- China is awful regarding this topic.
So why I had a problem with your response: I strongly believe you already knew the above two facts. You just decided to ignore them and presented me with some problems eu has so you can win the argument. So... I do not like you tried to "win argument" with a logical fallacy which is counterproductive for the debate. And when we just throw random arguments so opposing point of view comes out as bad, everyone comes out a little more radical in their view and noone changes their opinion. And I spent some time writing those comments (not with research but by forming thoughts and sentences in my second language). By turning the debate to this "Facebook like arguing" you destroyed my effort to participate in this community.
Also in response to your latest accusation: I specifically told you I have a healthy relationship with freedom, and "they hate us for our freedom" does not belong in this category.
hostops 2w ago • 100%
Another question. Why does this post have so many down votes? I have some ideas but I am not sure which is the real reason:
- Asking about generalization could be considered unpopular.
- Are communists down voting me?
- Badly written post. (I mean English is not my first language and I do believe lemmy needs more content and I am trying to go out of my comfort zone and be more active user)
- This topic is just unpopular?
In other thread I got vibe that majority of Lemmy users support communism and CCP. Is support for Russia/Putin? Or have I just stumble in a post dominated by those people. I also read a phrase "lemmy.ml" user. Is lemmy.ml instance considered communist? I understand there will be more left leaning users in Lemmy compared to Reddit. But I expected moderate left and not radical communist left. What is your opinion on that?
hostops 2w ago • 25%
"I have an uncle who smoked whole life and is 98 years old" I am sure you know what you have been doing when you presented your "evidence". Not cool.
hostops 2w ago • 29%
I believe your comments is just a paraphrase of: "They are being stupid"
In my opinion this is a very toxic way of thinking and does not try to understand the arguments "the other side" presents.
hostops 2w ago • 25%
Yes I have seen you in other comments. And we both know what is the actual state and level of freedom, poverty, and capitalism and corruption in China. Maybe organize a protest in China.
I know you like their system, but for some reason you fail to see issues with their system.
hostops 2w ago • 50%
Correct!
hostops 2w ago • 33%
Read all my statements again. And apply strict mathematic logic.
Few years of degradation of antitrust laws and some effective reforms in this year alone does not in any way prove your point.
hostops 2w ago • 22%
I would not live there. I value freedom and privacy. (In a healthy European way)
hostops 2w ago • 33%
This is simply not true. And whole EU is doing this more or less effectively. But your government has to be very very careful since this sure can happen.
In recent years we have seen degradation of this leash. But EU commission started keeping up with global monopolies.
I believe also in USA they are making some antitrust changes after a few decades of sleeping.
hostops 2w ago • 50%
They have the most wild form of capitalism there is. And they married it with a lot of corruption and zero political freedom. This is not an alternative. Please.
hostops 2w ago • 66%
About defending capitalism (and not billionaires - who more often than not abuse this system). Some of us lived in other systems. And we understand any other system is way way way way worse.
There are however a lot of problems with capitalism and should be held on a very short leash. Or else monopoly happens. The most effective actions to keep capitalism at bay: strong anti-trust laws, strong worker protection (this includes a lot of stuff), wealth tax.
And be aware there are many flavours of calitalism. Most commonly people in USA are the most extreme where you have really "long leash". And people see such capitalism as failing and want to replace whole system.
hostops 2w ago • 100%
I find is disturbing for Americans to not understand what socialism is.
There is a reason why socialism was refused in every country it was implemented. Including my own.
Country with social politics is not socialist. And yes I agree in USA you have almost no social rights which is obviously bad for people. For example USA is one of two countries to poor for paid maternity or paternity leave, which is crazy.
hostops 2w ago • 100%
I am bald with a beard and glasses. So everyone thinks I am their friend with the same properties and completely different face.
hostops 4w ago • 100%
Mobile networks are awful and are very easy to spy on.
But the video is worth every minute.
hostops 4w ago • 89%
Competitor with no content, users is not a competitor. Youtube should be forced to share content they do not own. Just for the sake of competition.
hostops 1mo ago • 100%
Because less rich and more poor people start donating blood. Due to how much health correlates with social status and money.
The mere existence of such buying blood organization has such effect on a whole country.
In my country you can only donate blood for free. But however for your charity government pays you a meal and day of work.
This "compensation" must be low enough and presented in a way people still consider it a charity. Otherwise it has described effect, and people who actually donate blood feel cheated. Also in my country healthcare is "free" and you can receive blood for "free" which seems "fair" to a person who is donating blood.
Source: a book "things you cannot buy with money"
hostops 1mo ago • 60%
When people start getting paid for their blood, overall quality of the blood in such country suffers.
Edit: Question based on DMA: element.io/blog/the-eu-digital-markets-act-is-here/
I just became dad last month. So from more experienced fathers: What are best ways to express love to your family?