no country to date has achieved socialism

Impossible when ‘stateless’ is one of the main features of socialism. There have been “regions” and groups that have achieved it - usually briefly as they are founded in times of hardship and revolution. Some examples I can think of: Makhno’s Free Territory, Paris commune, and the collectives during Spain’s civil war are some historical examples. The Zapatistas and Rojava are some contemporary ones.

State capitalism is where the state has taken the place of the capitalist; the extraction of surplus value is still intact, meaning it cannot be regarded as socialism.

The Head by Bora Chung

Looks awesome, great recommendation! 😆

My scariest shit was in a dream. I took a dump in a bucket in the garage, and when rising and turning to look at it, it started growing into this spider that soon outgrew the garage. I chose to wake up at that point as I’m not too keen on spiders.

That was my scariest shit. I cannot think of any scarier ones.

I’m fascinated by the similarity between reincarnation and the one-electron universe hypothesis.

The one-electron universe postulate, proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler in a telephone call to Richard Feynman in the spring of 1940, is the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are actually manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time.

Last drops in beer bottles handed to me by my parents. Couple of years after that I was allowed proper glasses of table beer during festivities. All this before I was 12.

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Belgium does as well

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I have a faint feeling Betteridge’s law of headlines does not apply here.

Micrexit was right there!

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I’d pick E if I’d land in Thailand. H would be a close second.

K is out of the question with my arachnophobia.

Navidrome rules. Made the switch from Spotify some time ago, using the FOSS Tempo app on Android and Feishin on desktop, it’s been a lovely experience so far.

“Many of these free VPNs are riddled with issues,” said Daniel Card, a cyber-security expert with the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS).

“Some act as traffic brokers for data harvesting firms, others are so poorly built they expose users to attacks.”

He told the BBC despite posing a range of potential privacy risks, such apps “end up in the hands of kids trying to watch age-restricted content”, or adults “trying to get round blocks”.

Ah yes, there it is: won’t anyone think of the children. I expected that argument higher up in the article.

I love me some mechanical keyboards, consider me subscribed!

I’ve used Maybe for a while, I don’t understand how this will be valuable in a B2B context… Weird decision!

As soon as a capitalist has enough money.

last: All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

Could not finish it. The story would not start, eventually I stopped caring.

Current: James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes

Funny collection of stories that happened to him over the years. Very entertaining and funny.

Read as many diverse books on the subject, anything you can find, from Rich Dad Poor Dad to Intelligent Investor.

Then, after you think you know enough, read A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Malkiel, and eventually you’ll end up at the Bogleheads wiki and forum.