They are right. We eat babies and kick the elderly, don't we?

Ah my man, hard disagree on "videos exist by themselves".

Even if you have video, or oral accounts of something they are as flawed as the human condition is. The difference is the amount of bias, but they all have it.

In the documentary you'll have the directors/production company trying to portray whatever they want to portray. In the oral accounts you'll still have a skewed view, bound to that particular person's experience. Sure in a sense can be more genuine, but should be scrutinized also. Who is the person? What is his participation in the events? Possible interests? Which social class? Etc...

We must not deny the bias, but embrace it. If we can gather as many different sources as possible, we should be able string a better perspective, but doing so also carries our own bias.

Nothing is neutral. And we don't lose anything by admiting it.

For a man who wants to reach into space, it would be trully majestic to send him to the very bottom of the emerald mines that his ilk profited of.

Yeah, that's true, but I think browsers and office software have two fundamentally different purpouses.

You see, a browser, altough surely used in professional settings, is also a broad enough tool that many people can use a lot for a myriad of other contexts. I may browse my work email, but also watch youtube on my free time, scroll through social media, download games, etc....

Now when talking about office suites, the objective is definetly geared towards the enterprises. Sure, you can use Calc as a way to quickly get a shopping list, but that is just the most superficial aspect of the software. In this environment, compatibility should, or even, must, be foccused on. The user doesn't choose exactly what to use, but is forced to work with what his company provides or what works with his company's files.

As such, altough I would love to have more innovation in LibreOffice, I totally understand why they follow a more compatabiliy-focused approach.

It's funny that if you try the same type of argument with Stalin, or other communist leaders, then they lose their minds.

• Cobbunism killed a BAZILLION people!!!1!!1

• Well at least look at Russia in 1917 and 1930, in less then 15 years the USSR got very industrialized.....

-NOOO BAD COMMIE! CoBbunism don't work.

LoL, guess I should look into more serious ideologies. I'm specially intrigued by the theoretical framework found in Disney/Marvel Movies and twitter. Oh and how could I forget, the cornerstone of all modern political thought: Harry Potter and the Liberal Stone.

Best way the USA can garantee a no fly zone over Ukraine is to sell lots of 737MAX to Russia. With the jets crashing themselves there would be a no fly zone in no time.

No guys, you don't understand. COMMUNISM IS EVIL! He probably wants to save the cat just to eat it, because COMMUNISM=NO FOOD.

On a side note, is the trackpoint (the thinkpad's red nipple) pattented? I know some dell's have it, so I imagine they aren't.

I would love to have third party keyboards with this type of integrated pointer device. That or some sort of tracball, which, by the way, are a great alternative to a mouse. Have been using them for 4 years now and never looked back.

LoL says this while the fucking tried and true soyuz kept the ISS alive while the west let their fucking astronauts turn into reentry barbecue after a series of fuckups.

Also, look at the list of humans that went to space. Soviets not only represented the dream of going beyond, but also shared the fucking dream! For crying out loud, there was a cuban kosmonaut! The island, besides its beauty, barely has resources, compounded by the imperialistic embargos, and through partnership, there were cubans over the atmosphere. And not even mentioning the first woman in space....

And what do we have now? Decadent Mr. Evil flyin it's penis rocket into LOW just for shit's and giggles. Billionaire that rose from the blood of the exploited african worker claiming we should go to mars just so he can exploit the red planet too.

Boy I'm not a posadist, but if that is our space future I sure hope aliens watch the disgrace we are doing and intervene. My god.

~sorry, a bit of rant, but losing the space dream is something dear to me. Fuck man. Get me in a fully automated buran and fly me ro the next star to the right~

Remember kids, is not that wars are bad! It is wars that negatively affect american interests that are bad.

In 80's movie trailer voice:

Opens to juche necromancer performing ritual.

With the power of the eternal science of Historical Dialectical Materialism

Cuts to dak silhouette:

He is coming back

Cuts to stock footage of housing crisis:

For one last job!

Raging "Red Sun is in the Sky" starts playing. Title card shows:

CHAIRMAN MAO

Available this summer

Last scene plays

Dark shadows of kneeling landlord getting his head bashed in by symbolic hammer.

Mao says: Rent's up!

Cut to black

Well if communism captalism is so good, why do you need to censor it?

As we've seen recently, I bet we could make americans want to bomb their own back yards with agent orange if there was enough media traction against the yards.

I wonder what flag they would use in their twitter though

This is neat. Easy piracy is something I definetely miss from my windows days.

In one of his most famous books: Bedrooms and Bedtimes

Language learning is fun. It is kinda learning an instrument, most often than not, the answer is practice, practice and practice. I really do reccomend to everyone to try a new language.

With that said, I'm native portuguese speaker, fairly confident in English, can do the basics in french. At the moment, I'm learning russian.

In the past I tried latin too, and have some very minor interpretative knowledge of ancient hyeroglyphs, but that's from my academic background.

Edit: Reading it now sounds kinda snobish. I didn't intend this, just wanted to spark more discussion. Sorry comrades.

Most elightened western leftist.

Huum, for machinery you mean like farming? The closest I know is Workers and Resources Soviet Republic. Is like simcity and factorio got together. You must build up your city, but you can plan the economy and instead of outright buying stuff you gather the raw materials, refine them, then finaly build what you wanted. The supply chains are complex and it is in constant development. It is a great game.

I mentioned DCS which has soviet war planes to simulate. The Mig-21 is close to my heart. Also it has helicopters, the best some say, the Mi-8 being my favourite.

Over in X-plane, we have the fantastic Tu-154, by Felis. It is one of my favourite planes on the platform. Felis, the designer of these planes also made a very good An-24, and a Yak-40. These last ones are a little older but a joy to fly, plus they are free.

There is also a train simulator that I would love to try but haven't got the patience to make it run on linux: MaSzyna. It is a polish train sim that seems to have great depth for the olden soviet locomotives.

If submarines are more your type, Dangerous Waters is a great subsim that has some cold war era soviet boats. The Kilo Class and the Akula Class are available. It is quite old though. A more modern rendition, yet less sim, more game is Cold Waters.

This last months I've been on a simulator spree. Mostly DCS soviet modules. Been also thinking of returning to X-Plane 11, but on linux with amd the results are not optimal. I'm waiting anxiously for Xp12 though.