Someone else and not an expert. But Maybe types are implemented with Monads, Maybe is a common monad.

Its how rust does error handling for example, you have to test a return value for "something or nothing" but you can pass the monadic value and handle the error later, in go you have to handle the error explicitly (almost) all the time.

With all due respect some parts are crudely wrong and some absurd, and the decisiveness with which you state it is unjustified and makes it hard to take you seriously.

USSR ostensibly got rid of personal property

Absolutely not. They got rid of private property. Personal property means the ownership over your personal belongings. Private property is the ownership of non-governmental entities. What existed in the USSR was public property - the property of the state

USSR was state-capitalist

Also: No. Capitalism is defined by the existence of private property, concretely the private ownership of the means of production. There was no private property.

There also were no competitive markets, no "free" price systems nor a ubiquitous profit motive, no finance capital and certainly more characteristics of capitalism.

You can't call the USSR capitalist in any capacity, that would be ignorant, the best label to assign it I've heard is: "state-socialist".

Both countries lied to the people to get a socialist revolution started

Where is that from? NED weekly magazine?;)

The USSR did fail the people in many regards, sometimes criminally so, and its important to learn from them, but for that to happen we must undertake a serious attempt at understanding them. There is a lot of neoliberal propaganda ("history is written by the winners" etc).

I didn't talk about China bc calling it capitalist is significantly less absurd but rest assured I don't subscribe to your statement.

Obligatory Michael Parenti

No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed

Its forgivable we have all been molded by the propaganda of out capitalist ruling class, but we can't be content with that. In the end you seem to be making a nod to communism, if that is true then stay on course we need a better socialism but we can't expect to have it if we're not willing to learn

Its impossible though to get rid of paid actors that mingle to spread ads or agendas and who are indiscernable from normal users.

As soon as the reach is there I assume capital interests will be flocking in

Richten die sich bei der tagesschau bei ihren artikelbildern eigentlich immer nach dem/der jeweiligen amtsträger*in? Und lassen sie sich die propagandabilder vom Stab vorgeben oder suchen sie selber noch akribisch nach dem best geeignetsten Wahlplakat?

Diese kompromisslose entschlusskraft die da transportiert wird und die klar in dem titel zum ausdruck gebracht wird. Wenn andere zaudern verkündet Maggus kühn seine entscheidung, bis wann er eine entscheidung getroffen haben will.

Samma wen juckt das eigentlich?

On a Pixel with GrapheneOS

I use KISS, I wanted an opensource launcher

Its quick actions, history and tags are exactly what I need.

You need to customize it heavily to get it to look good: I use a very minimal amoledBlack&white config with Arcticons and I love it

I agree, the best thing is to not jump to conclusions neither the conclusion "Everything is 100% CIA lies" nor the conclusion "China bad" and be patient with individual topics before stepping onto the emotional roller coaster

I've listened to a podcast ("Silk and Steel") by a Chinese living in the US and he describes the media coverage of China in the West as skewed, but he describes it as narrowed onto a certain slice of Chinese reality that is there just blown out of proportion.

I don't remember his exact words and I am not an English native so I might not transfer the nuance precisely. But along those lines is what I remember. And even IIRC its just the opinion of one person, but it stuck with me. Tbf that was years ago though and narrative has certainly picked up since then

Thank you for the appreciation, I have to say I have yet to get used to the discussions on lemmy being seemingly way more good-faithed than on reddit!

Not after the day he isn't

The problem with North Korea is that its entire cultural identity is built on resisting American aggression

I am curious: Why do you feel you can confidently speak on the exact nature of another nations cultural identity? Let alone reduce it in this way?

Not sure if you understand how arrogant your statement is, but you have to realize that you have 0 idea of the cultural identity of the people in the DPRK.

Corporate news isn't interested in showing you anything but the conflict don't make the mistake of letting that shape your perception. The first step is realizing your ignorance

[The USSR] was state capitalism economically

That statement is not valid and I can't understand where its decisiveness comes from. The enonomy was centrally planned, nobody respectable calls the USSR "state capitalist"

Russia was never even close to starting to try to attempt communism

IMO the urge to conclude this comes from having to reconcile two believes: First that "the USSR was evil" and secondly an interest in communism.

People affected can then either decide to denounce communism or reevaluate and deepen their knowledge of the USSR.

The latter option is often incomprehensible, so a third option is contrieved: decoupling one from the other.

I applaud you that you could uphold whatever positive view you hold of communism and instead settle for the last option rather than denouncing communism.

However the USSR obviously absolutely seriously tried to develop their country towards communism. A lot went wrong, mistakes were made even crimes committed.

But you also have to see the context of the times. The statehood is repealed in a revolution and you need to rebuild it. all the while a couple of the strongest nations on earth invade you and fund a civil war in your country also your people are poor. Then the behemoth war machine of the nazis invades. After you beat them, costing you 30 million people, the biggest power in history declares you their enemy.

A lot went extremely well compared to that: No society was ever development that quickly before and only China managed to pull this of as well. For a brief moment in the 60s life expectancy in the USSR was higher than in the US.

Wherever you stand: The USSR is something to learn from, successes and mistakes. Keeping them in the "evil" corner is just falling for propaganda.

militarizing space now might be about the phenomenon

Just to be clear I did NOT have a shortage of explanations for the interest to militarize space. That was already a given, much more so than any phenomena

seems that several Congress members, from both parties, are interested in unveiling where trillions of dollars went by the military

In the Oversight committee on national security? No way.

Its crazy how different interpretations can be. I was constantly roling my eyes listening to that hearing

Here is a cached version if you want to reject tracking without flipping a hundred individual switches

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