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That can’t be it, cause then that’s all 4/4 horsemen of 3/4 present.

Where did I say “government does stuff”? If a service is provided not for profit, funded by the community and is otherwise not privately owned, it’s socialist. It needs to be for-profit and/or privately owned to be capitalist.

Arguably, The US does have several socialist policies, albeit implemented very badly. For instance, public education. Does capitalism stick its grubby fingers into it from every possible angle? Yes. But at its core it has collective funding through taxes (therefore owned/controlled by the state), universal access, and the prioritization of public welfare over profit (at least on paper). Those principles are strictly socialist and not capitalist.

It’s not about strictly “owning”, it’s about controlling. Control can be achieved in many different ways, including, but not limited to regulations. Socialism is an economic system, of which you can implements certain parts.
I didn’t say “social policies”. Socialist policies are a more specific subset of social policies, so all socialist policies are social policies, but not all social policies are socialist.
Regarding the European countries’ degree of being socialist, it of course depends on the country. But on average, you might be right, and perhaps using “equally” was an exaggeration.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Your embed doesn’t work for me.

Seems like it’s because you used http instead of https:

The only reason I know the contents of most classic literature is because of “So You Haven’t Read” series on YouTube.

15,000 years in the past is absolutely not enough to go back to monke. Even just the modern homo sapiens existed for the past 150,000 years. But I suspect to expect those bros to know that is irrational.

I think the “Cat Looks Inside” meme would’ve been more appropriate, because the “# Let’s See Who This Really Is” (a.k.a. “Scooby Doo Reveal”) meme is more about revealing something that is actually different, while the CLI one is sarcastic. Like “Wireless device. Look inside. Wires” isn’t revealing anything serious but makes fun of the misleading nomenclature. A good SDR example would be pulling the mask off a KKK member to reveal a cop, while they are supposed to be on the opposite sides, they are one and the same.
On the meme spectrum, SDR sits somewhere in between CLI and “They are the Same Picture”.

Thank you for not coming to me MemTalk.

Oh so corndogs do have hotdogs in them. Good to know. I thought it was some weird bread thing.

Oh, I know this guy. He used to be a presenter on that science channel on YouTube like 10 years ago. Forgot the name of the channel, but the other hosts were Laci Green and Trace Dominguez.

Edit: The channel was called DNews, now renamed to Seeker.