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  • Ooops@kbin.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinux Salesman
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    2 months ago

    Canonical is basically the closed to corporate Linux you will find on the free distro market… They are pushing stuff you don’t want for marketing reasons (for example their own proprietary Snaps when a better working open source solution already exists with Flatpack), love their telemetry (can be mostly disabled for now, but given the defaults and their other behavior we can already see where this is heading) and in general decide more alongside their latest business plan than actually making sense or listening to users.








  • Oh, no! Their debt rose by 1,x percent… to a total of ~64%. That’s nearly 20% under EU average. And while countries with rates of 100-160% (let’s not even talk about Japan or US as they are playing in another league entirely) take on more debt to push the economy in times of crisis Germany is not spending anything as no new debts (beyond 0,35%) are allowed constitutionally.

    Sure… Germany totally has a debt problem. One of retarded politicians stuck in economic ideas of the 1970s that still don’t understand the difference between a country’s economy and business economy. So they refuse to take on any debt when everyone else does to make their location more attractive for companies via investments.

    And still the German economy is only shrinking if you round rediculous low numbers up to 0,1%. Guess the country will deindustrialise and collaps any day now. I hope someone tells the companies building massive new production sites in Germany that they are wasting their money on lost case they will lose all its industry… somehow…


  • When your government has taken on debt with the assumption that number keep go up, that’s a problem.

    And again, the opposite is true. They have reduced debt constantly for decades, did not spend big sums on stimuli while covid (in fact the recent budgetary discussion was about the unused covid funds) and are still not spending anything on the economy. If they actually would take on debt to invest it into economy boosts like everyone araund them does right now, they would obviously have growth.

    So they sat at ~+/-0 now and everyone loudly cries recession, doom and apocalypse because two quarters in a row had a (rounded down) -0.1% which technically qualifies.


  • Sure… so much common wisdom about Germany. Including their immidiate collaps any day now for the last 20+ years. Or the 5%+ economy loss should they not get Russian gas (after all those people who froze to death of course).

    In reality those massive losses -coming out of covid, still having supply chain issues and with not even a fraction of the stimulus money other countries spend to counteract on top of no more gas- are now what? +/-0? And with some more obsolete techs slowly sourcing out parts for cost reasons while new technologies open up shop there at the same time.

    The only actual risk for Germany (and a lot of other countries) is that people start to believe the bullshit, the outrage farming and doom scrolling trash and all the usual propaganda they are flodded with on a daily basis.






  • Ooops@kbin.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldI'm too afraid to ask
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    5 months ago

    Basically yes. Or: the term is fine; in the eyes of people who never heard or thought about its racist origin.

    And your were entirely on the right track when your first comment started with explaining the origin first. When that’s your starting point and you then get the response “But I’ve been saying it for years”, it’s probably far more successful to go with “Yes, but it can be offensive for people knowing its origin, so why not use available alternative terms?” than with “bro it’s been fucking racist for years”. In one case people have a high chance on thinking about it, in the other they will instictively feel attacked and get defensive about it.


  • Ooops@kbin.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldI'm too afraid to ask
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    5 months ago

    I just don’t understand why people are attached to it

    Because words aren’t racist, people and opinions and sentiments expressed by them are.

    When the term ricing is used for so long and 95%+ of people don’t know where it came from and have zero negative connotations associated with it, your argument (from their perspective) sounds like this:

    “Don’t use the term, by its obscure origin you didin’t even know about it is racist”

    “I’ve been saying it for years without any racism intended nor perceived

    “bro it’s been you are being a fucking racist for years”

    And then you are surprised by the negative reaction…