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  • azureskypirate@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlStop defending yourself
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    17 days ago

    I don’t think scantions work.

    With as many participants as there are in the global economy it makes sense: the sanctioned country can easily change suppliers and not have to change policy.

    Prior to the war in Iran, the US had sanctions on Iranian goods, especially oil. Iran has been selling mostly to China. Crude oil is about 56% of Iran’s exports.

    The point is, Iran still sells crude oil and makes revenue.

    (I’m not defending Trump, he scrapped the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and (re)imposed sanctions on Iran.)





  • I think you are right, and I find the thought of raising someone with the intent to keep them ignorant is gross.

    As a teacher, one could not bring up the subject, but one could encourage critical thinking.

    If I had the opportunity, but with these constraints I would say:

    “How do you know they are bad (or X opinion)? The Church thought Galileio was wrong about the sun being in the center of the solar system, and scientists thout Harlen Bretz’s theory about the Missoula floods sounded too biblical. Anyone can be wrong; so it is important to gather information and decide for yourself.”

    And yes, I believe a child would understand the point, even if they don’t get the references.


  • I have a suggestion.

    TLDR: High density, owned housing, professional management, restrictions on owning other properties.

    To avoid HOAs misusing funds, allow people to own, and build high density: build apartments for sale, to be managed by corporation. Corp is funded by reasonable fees set before construction as a percentage of value of property. Apartment owners can vote to fire incompetent managers, otherwise, managers are free to choose how to effectively run complex. Salary is fixed.

    To encourage a builder to take on the project, we have 20-50 people sign up to buy apartments. They have to put down a refundable deposit of $100 to get on the list, and $5000 to the builder (applies to down payment) when building starts.

    Deed restrictions, created before breaking ground, prohibit ownership of an apartment by:

    1. any corporation

    2. any individual that owns another home or is on a corp that owns rental properties (excludes REITs if shares owned is below 5% market cap)








  • Here are some tips once you have chosen:

    You can change your desktop environment later.

    If you do your install with seperate partitions for /home and others, leave 10% unallocated. Also make /bin about 15gb and /boot about 1.5gb. When you eventually run out of space, you can use KDE Partition manager to add the unallocated space to the partition you need, even if you set up encryption (gparted doesn’t play well with encryption). You can install Partition manager as a package, you don’t need to use KDE Plasma.

    Using a drive mirror is a good idea. Maybe use it the second time you install.

    If you want to use a cool filesys like zfs, just use btrfs for now (licensing issues). Ext4 will also work for desktop user needs.

    If you go with Debian, you can add repos to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. But it is a one-way trip, so before adding sid, consider running your program in a vm. Non-free non-free-firmware and contrib are fine