As a Norwegian i fully support zero. However, I think it depends a lot on the society you live in. Ideally the child learns how to fend for themselves, but if it meant a high probability of serious complications maybe no. For example if breaking a leg puts you into life altering debt

If they are so opposed to stealing, then why steal my personal information? That is not how (a functioning) society works

My strategy is to tell my view of things when the topic arise, then entertain/ignore/poke holes in their arguments when I can depending on energy levels and patience that day

Thought for a second it was a single community. A group of people downloading software while drinking wine together

Yeah. Seen this story before. Google will shit all over AOSP, and it will slowly start hurting more and more. Thought I’d give a full blown Linux mobile distro a go this time around. Maybe even get to contribute some

I just got myself a fairphone gen 6. I want to put postmarket OS on it, but had a kind of rough start. Haven’t gotten it working yet :(

I’ve been very happy with Ardour. It’s a full digital audio workspace though. Like the other comment mentioned, audacity is a simpler alternative

They are very similar yes, but not the same. I prefer kvikklunsj, but haven’t eaten them since the whole mondelez thing :(

Disclaimer: Norwegian

I see way more “China is good”-propaganda than any other nation or group of nations

Edit: they are also quick to downvote, delete my comment or ban me when I write things like this

If China is so great, why the constant need for propaganda?

You lived in ignorance, but now you see? I’m sorry to say the problems of the world aren’t limited to west versus east

So much anger, so desperate for control. You have my sympathy

This is why I do it.

You know how the surroundings are now and you don’t know how they are going to be when you have to drive out again. Makes sense to prepare for the unknown

That is also a sign of depression. Not saying OP has it, but might be worth talking the time to exclude it

By flawed I mean that there is a hierarchy where power consolidates at the top between a small number of humans. The reason why I call this a flaw is based on three premises:

1. My statement above about hierarchy of power consolidation
2. Power corrupts
3. Humans are inherently self serving. We protect ourselves and our own

As for China; take Hong Kong and or Tiananmen Square. Or something more straight forward; their conflict with Taiwan. They are pushing a narrative that Taiwan belongs to them, even though Taiwan clearly does not belong to them, which then reduces the statement to propaganda and an attempt to reframe what is true

To be clear, I favor communism as an idea. It’s just the implementations of the idea historically have been flawed. I don’t know anything about communistic subgroups. Take China for example; changing historic events by pushing an alternative “truth” is not focusing on facts. A list of books is a good indicator, but the contents of the books are also relevant

Yeah. Historic communism has the same problem as capitalism. People in unchecked power at the top. Doesn’t matter what ideology we follow if we refuse to fix root problems.

It’s also a problem that people love to gather around either worshipping or hating a certain individual, party or political direction. I wish people would focus more on the politics beneath, facts, statistics and causality