Brazil had something like that in the early republic days, only literate people could vote. Needless to say, only the robber baron elites kept getting elected, also thanks to the significant amount of fraud that happened. “The election is won during the counting”

Feels like we’re heading back to the early 90s, before search engines, with pages that are just a bunch of curated links to other pages

Never had the chance to play it properly. I had a demo of it in a magazine CD, but could never figure out the controls

Disagree. That’ll only make kids look for the next easiest solution. Tor? VPN? Too complicated. Just join a telegram chat group, done. Piracy and porn galore (plus fuckloads of ads, piracy for sale and scams). They’ll only use AI to make porn of girls in their classes

“Do you know how hard it is to keep the plebs just happy enough that they don’t burn down my property?”

Is it up on the comedy central site already? Gonna watch it if so

Time to ignore all the copyright and patents for my own nefarious purposes AI training

Annoy them, call their bullshit, but don’t harass or threaten them, those are likely to backfire spectacularly

I love how this reply of yours is just a bunch of bad faith arguments, especially the first part that neatly ignores the fact that the state owns everything in NK, not unlike how a company owns and runs its property. I fully expect you to say that nazi germany was left wing because “national SOCIALISM!!!”

Some of the actual reasons people hate crypto are:

• extreme volatility
• many coins’ value can be easily manipulated by whales
• most stablecoins are probably one step away of crashing down like Terra Luna
• resource intensive - you can shout about proof of stake all you want, there are still gigawatts of energy being burned to “mint” bitcoin
• no protections because “code is law”, even when the code is flawed
• forking risk nearly every year
• the coins that aren’t as resource intensive, have fast transaction times and negligible fees, are unlikely to gain traction or receive widespread adoption
• you still have to go through the hoops of a heavily regulated exchange to get actual money from any crypto you have

Economy and politics are intrinsically tied to one another, no matter how much some economy masters try to say otherwise. Regulations, tariffs and taxes happen because of political pressure and they all have a very direct and measurable effect on the economy. Democracies may not directly control economies like dictatorships can, but they can and do heavily influence it to work one way or another, via tax or tax breaks, easier or harder credit, etc. Culture also plays an important role, even if the majority of economy academics downplay or ignore it, just like they downplay or ignore the importance of nature, but that’s a different discussion.

it was founded as a Marxist state

Alright, can you tell me what are some of the marxist teachings that NK applies to how it runs the state and the economy? Because “being founded as” and “actually run as” are not the same. I mean, it’s official name is “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”. It’s obviously not democratic and barely qualifies as a republic

confusing authoritarianism/liberalism with left/right ideologies

I’m not. Left wing ideology usually leans towards “the govt and economy should work for the good of the people”. Communism, which is as “far left” as it typically goes, assumes that the people collectively own all the means of production and government becomes unnecessary. Which leads to the next point

It has public ownership

NK doesn’t have “public” ownership, as in, the people cannot say that they collectively own anything, and literally have no say in how anything works, everything belongs to and is run according to the will of the state (or, more accurately, the current leader). Like I said before, not different from an absolutist monarchy. Unless you can argue that the majority of Kim’s policies are all for the good of the NK people, he cannot be considered “left”.

Funny how you mentioned Spain and Portugal but avoided Italy.

What, you gonna tell me that Mussolini was a far left politician?

There, just the way elon likes it

North Korea is far left

I mean, if you make a line where dictatorship is on the far left and democracy is on the far right, then yeah, NK is “far left”. But on a more real note, there’s very little difference between the Kim dynasty and absolutist monarchies, or the dictatorships of Francisco Franco (Spain) and Antonio Salazar (Portugal), I doubt any of those were ever considered “political left” in any manner.

Whenever you’re in new situations, it’s ok to not know how to behave, you never did that before and, unless someone walked you thru, you won’t know about hidden rules. Like the first time doing a job interview, or the first time going out on a romantic date. The difference is that in some settings, everyone is so used to everyone “knowing” that they really can’t fathom someone not knowing

Funny bit, I recall a piece on the local TV showing a tourist (I think he was German or French) who visited Brazil for the first time. He went to a self service restaurant, but just sat there, waiting for someone to give him a menu, for like 15 minutes until a woman approached him and asked if everything was ok. “Everyone” knows you’re supposed to pick a plate and serve your own plate with the available food in these restaurants.

Not at all how it happens in Brazil, it’s free for all, especially as sometimes the bus might already be so fucking packed it won’t fit everyone trying to get in. I’ve had that happen to me several times and I also had the “pleasure” of being the last person to find a way to squeeze in more than once.

Some 10 to 7-ish years ago, it was also very common to have attention seeking idiots who’d put their phones on max volume and play their shitty music so everyone else had to listen, sometimes ending in a fight. This shit apparently died out, thank fuck

“I WOULDN’T BE REINVENTING IT IF THEY DIDN’T FORCE systemd AXLES ON EVERY WHEEL!!!”

Even in the early 2000s, those single letters would be awful as lone search terms

Oh, so it’s a contender against Brainfuck

Some people really suck at coming up with names for their programming languages. There are so many single letter languages (B, C, D, E, F, J, K, V…) that it really makes one wonder what the fuck is wrong with them

Adding to this: GDP only measures the amount of money spent on stuff, not the actual value of the things. That’s one of the reasons that makes economists think untouched nature is bad, it doesn’t contribute to the GDP