abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago (26 children)

Lots of people on Lemmy forget that the choice between Capitalism and Socialism isn't binary. Country picks individual policies that are capitalist or socialist in nature. All of the modern countries are a combination of both. Even USA has certain socialist policies. Most of Europe is roughly equally capitalist and socialist.
It's just making a character build and picking perks. Capitalist policies aren't bad (for the general public) by default. Depending on how and which ones are implemented, they can be beneficial to everybody.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying he's an all-round upstanding guy. I even heard he refuses (or refused?) admitting to having a daughter outside of marriage. But we also need to keep in mind that he's a dinosaur at this point, and expecting progressive views from an old rich dude from Hong Kong/China is pushing it.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, with exception of Polish, which used Latin from the start, Czech and Slovak briefly used Glagolitic alphabet, which is much closer to Greek alphabet and basically the precursor to Cyrillic. I should've been more specific.
Some Slavic languages did switch directly from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet though. And some non-Slavic languages use Cyrillic to this day (although in process of switching to Latin).

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

In China and Hong Kong if you're famous, you support everything CCP does. Because if you don't, you're not famous at best and missing at worst.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not all, some have switched to Latin, like Polish, Czech, Slovak, to name a few.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

And yet, lots of people choose not to do what they hate for money. Obviously, if you can get paid well for doing what you love is a win-win, but the point of my argument is that a lot of people don't really care about money, beyond having enough to get by.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I sense a long response, but how and why was she being mistreated? I'm just mad they had to write Jadzia off and replace her with that pixie-looking girl (Ezri). Jadzia and Worf dynamics were the best.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

It still might be, don't give up hope!

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Have you never heard of scientists or artists? Lots of people prioritize passion over money.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think we veered too far off from Jadzia doing sensual phallic pottery and should refocus.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Not from Voyager on Android. But we have already concluded that it depends on what you use.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dang, that labtop is so old it has a dialup modem built-in.

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