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FYI HP (and Dell, but not Lenovo) are priority targets on the BDS list. Please do not support them even if they support Linux.

I haven’t looked too deeply into her, but from what I can tell the phrasing she uses and how she sometimes frames things isn’t the best. But I would definitely disagree with those (AOC, for one) who are slandering her as an antisemite.

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Food, energy, and currency sovereignty is the trifecta that nation states need in 2026 if they want to maintain real sovereignty. Nukes are useful too, but I would posit that having the three things I mentioned above has better prepared Iran to defeat the US empire despite not having a nuke.

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Personal property is respected under communism. Your possessions are yours. Countries like China, the DPRK, Vietnam, and Cuba have some of the highest home ownership rates in the world, for example. It’s productive private property - the means of production - that are limited. That means things like factories, farmland, etc. But even with productive private property, what we have learned over the last century is that socialism is a transition from the old to the new. And practically speaking, trying to completely eliminate any sort of small business emerging isn’t particularly helpful in the early stages of that transition.

Regarding self-expression, I don’t see why that would be limited under communism. Go to China now and see that people express themselves in just as many ways as other places, for example. I guess if you are talking about collective versus individualist values… we already have some fully capitalist societies that are more collectivist than others (say, Japan versus the USA). It appears to me in those instances, collectivism is not mutually exclusive with self-expression, no?

And border disputes are not border conflicts, either. What’s going on in the SCS is disputed borders, a border conflict (what OP here says) is when open war breaks out over borders.

China hasn’t been at war since before 97% of the folks here were born, and even that wasn’t a “border conflict” (Vietnam 1978)

Vol 2 is great! I mean there’s definitely some dry parts (the chapters on Smith and Ricardo were absolute slogs for me to get through) but Parts 1 and 3 have some of my favorite stuff Marx has written!

This is a correct observation, from an American.

Now that everyone buys everything off Amazon, even inside houses I am noticing people are owning a lot of the same first-that-came-up-in-a-search items.

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Yes it’s paved (an old rail line that was paved and converted to a trail)

I needed a Bluetooth speaker for my work PC (I work from home). I got one with a radio tuner as well. I’m fortunate that I have several radio stations in my area that play music I like. I prefer having some music on in the background while I work, but I was getting tired of having to actually think about what I wanted to listen to next. So I’ve been listening to OTA radio quite a bit, and it’s a nice change of pace from streaming music. And it’s not like the radio bits added much to the cost of the speaker.

Edit: also eyeglasses (sure, I’ll count that as a “gadget”). I hadn’t been to the eye doctor in probably 20 years. Hadn’t really noticed any problems but wanted to get my eyes checked since I had just gotten insurance. Doc recommended a prescription and now it’s like seeing the world in HD instead of standard def. If you’re in your late 30s/early 40s and haven’t gotten your eyes checked, it’s possible your vision has slowly degraded over time and eyeglasses will help more than you realize.