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Rest in piss

I use this as a music player for my ancient ipad in my kitchen. It’s ugly but nothing else worked; the dev even changed it a bit to help me out


I remember the horror I had to go through to upload my ripped dvds to iPad for kids to watch. We had to setup an http server for the vlc to download the files to its data storage



How is this different from the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie?


It is not. I assume the author just doesn't have the theoretical marxist background to correctly identify it as such.

But tbh, all "liberal democracies" are dictatorships of the bourgeoisie, so a democracy among and for the capitalists, and a dictatorship for the workers.


Capitalism is destroying the planet; no amount of basic income will stop that.


Capitalism has ended poverty at a faster rate in the past 20 years than anytime in history. Capitalism is why we have nice things. The destruction of the environment is more extreme in non-capitalist countries that are poorer. A clean environment is something that people value, they just value it less than basic survival -- which seems to make sense to me.

In fact, if UBI slows down growth and progress -- it will in fact do more damage to the environment than not having it.


The website for it uses 100% of my CPU. No thanks.


What browser do you use? It's only using safe CSS animations. (I built it) On my Chrome it's using only 2% of the CPU.


Noticed that too, all the animations seem to be heavyweight.


Philosophy Tube is pretty good for exactly what you'd expect. The recent stuff is mostly political, but the old stuff is a really good starting point for general philosophy.


And if you're into political stuff and want to actually have your views challenged instead of reinforced, on top of Philosophy Tube I'd also recommend: ContraPoints, Some More News, Shaun, Innuendo Studios, Three Arrows.


Some More News is very much "Here's an opinion you already have, let's be sardonic at the possibility others don't share it". I'd recommend Riley J. Dennis instead, for her excellent discussion of gender and sexuality.


I've seen at least some of most of those, but given my views, those would mostly reinforce them.


Fair enough. I've used that term because I wanted to represent them as left-leaning "saviors" (as in, opposition to PragerU, Shapiro, JBP, Crowder, and the rest of the shit on YouTube that only reinforces bigotry) without my comment getting flagged.


Even the political stuff is very heavily philosophy centric, though. He examines political issues _through_ philosophy.


That's a bit of a shame.


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