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No, this was true in USSR so like even 40 years ago, I grew up exposed to that a lot and believe me no one can say for sure which is which.

To keep things fun, USSR was not communist either for most of the time, it was sort of socialist I guess. There are a lot of jokes reflecting the confusion between socialism and communism and how we always go to communism but never reach it

Today there are examples of socialist but not communist countries in Europe. But if you compare them to Venezuela or Brazil you would be crazy.

Maybe we need better terminology

Everyone in China has to and will accept cash in practice

False. If you say this as advice to anyone you are putting them in danger. Cash is a no go for most vendors and you may struggle to buy food if you only have cash. I was personally rejected numerous times and told to scan QR or go home.

if you're talking about Russia, people are switching back to cash en masse

Also false. I don't know a single person to switch to cash. Friend of a friend lost bank card and was basically on QR for months, no cash no plastic.

Here is what I know:

- There are limits on dollars basically since the beginning of war. (Normal people aren't affected because they don't use dollars)

- There was apparently a brief scare that banks cannot satisfy if you want to withdraw a lot of ruble and then the gov quickly claimed it to be false (of course). The amounts were too high for any normal person.

- a bit of cash is helpful to help because censorship infrastructure caused internet hiccups so electronic payments occasionally don't go through, but it seems rare now

- in western regions people tend to carry more cash simply because mobile internet is regularly unavailable. After all if you can't access your banking app to pay for coffee while civilians in Ukraine across the border are getting bombed, it's a bit embarrasing.

Otherwise everyone is as cashless as usual, people moving money out of banks en masse is probably made up.

PRC is way more capitalist than Norway or some other European countries. Approximately, one is capitalist dictatorship and the other socialist democracy.

Yes PRC government was originally propped by USSR but that's it. If you look at labor protection laws, social security, etc it's nowhere near.

Smells like "no true scotsman" fallacy because they are nearly synonyms. Nobody in USSR could tell the exact difference or at least there was no consensus, and you are expecting modern Americans to do better huh?

This basically sums it up:

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate, but the distinction rests largely on the communists' adherence to the revolutionary socialism of Karl Marx." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism#Communism_and_social...)

(To make it more fun Marxism is also its own thing)

Where cash is stigmatized? I haven't seen such a place except PRC.

Most people want government to be able to seize assets of baddies. It is possible with cash, it is possible with banks, hardly possible with crypto.

The technology to scam people at scale with untraceable emoney is not everybody's cup of tea.

Speaking from a country that invaded its neighbor, for our government (as well as north korea) it is lovely to have a way around sanctions. Libertarian crypto bros of the west are a godsend.

They are also a godsend to current American president which loves a nice side of washed crypto along with all the other theft.

It is absolutely possible to like cash and dislike crypto

From my experience and what I heard in China you will get a super clean airport train and metro but if you go away from urban centers you encounter crazier and crazier stuff, the likes of which you would never see anywhere in UK or even US

I think it's kind of the opposite in non authocratic countries...

Yeah, with tmux it sucks that switching window size ruins pane layout. But it happens so rarely I don't really care

False, just updated one a day or two ago, it keeps suggesting iOS 26 but below that was 18.7.7

the amount of people not updating anyway is less than .1%

what do you think about LLMs "licensing" the content so you get royalties

which LLMs are doing this?

Ask the makers of this site (cloudflare)... they are successfully blocking their own scanner after all:)

You aware that iOS 18 is patched right and "old" means 17 and before?

Blacksky and other instances of bluesky are not affected, what are you talking about?

You mean those three people who refuse to apply ios 18 security patches because they think it'll give them liquid glass?)

You mean the one for old ios versions?

wasnt ai supposed to get us post-scarcity?

It's American company... unlikely.

An anonymous account isn't the same as bot account. Number of obvious bot accounts jumped 1000% in the last 4 years or so.

the fact that is the first thing you learn humanises the username behind the keyboard

The username is macOS26. The name is "Agent!". As in "Agentic AI for your entire Mac Desktop". All commits are made by this entity.

Until someone here told me there is a real guy behind it I sincerely gotta say, it looks like there's no human behind the keyboard and actually there's no keyboard at all.

Combined with cancer message on top it made me think some LLM "agent" is trying different tricks because it was prompted to achieve maximum stars and forks. I feel shitty for saying this but how not to be cynical because literally that's what we degraded to thanks to "ai".

OK, I take it back. What can I say, even knowing he is working on this LLM stuff that's becoming the curse of humanity I still wish him beat cancer.

In my experience, everyone got their act together except Google.

I remember a bunch of spam and fishing emails from weird Outlook addresses. Don't remember any from Google.

I don't have a problem with mentioning cancer, but they should've mentioned which cancer to raise awareness and help others. The ribbon icon is gold which means pediatric/childhood cancer?

Asking for stars and forks is where it gets weird. I understand a crowdfunding program but how is this going to help?

Makes it even weirder that this is a completely anonymous, we don't know who works on it, and actually the project pretends to be authored by "AI". look at commit history and contributors

I don't want to be cynical here, my dad was diagnosed with cancer too but this just feels like some LLM was given a prompt to maximize stars and forks and this is how that went. I am very sorry to say this.

I feel stupid, thank you got explaining!

But this means it's a tiny balloon? Almost hand sized already?

Where is juggling shop a thing?

what means "snip the ends of a balloon"? when I think of balloons they are pretty large spheres for juggling

that's valuable info.

wikipedia actually makes the game sounds interesting unlike a typical dating sim.

WARNING possible spoilers, don't read if you plan to play, but just know it's not just a dating sim.

while it appears to be a light-hearted dating simulator, it is a metafictional psychological horror game that extensively breaks the fourth wall.

Reviewers pointed out that the game's horror was built on the destruction of a sense of control over what happens in the game and the feeling of helplessness that stems from the distortions in the game's world

Honestly, if you live in tmux, this probably isn't for you but it's really helped to speed up my workflow.

Fresh honesty, nice.

yes true the short one has no grounding.

Anyway as I replied to the other guy (and got downvoted for it) if the plug was grounded there would be no issue. Apple chargers have ground pins.

But sure it's bad if they stopped including grounded versions by default in EU...

And then in future if you try to build something to reverse the situation your coding llm becomes stupid and your psychologist llm recommends you some blue pills.

You haven't gone away from touristy track. A friend of mine did last year and the stuff I heard was pretty bad

touristy track is covered by cctvs and they are used to get people for anything including public urination or graffiti so of course it's clean