SWERFs love specific instances, so probably.

Pretending that any software is 100% accurate in a capitalist setting is a ridiculous thing to do; and every television and car since the 1970s has some software involved.

With cars it generally works well enough long enough in enough cases that that direct ECU or other computer patching isn’t needed, because who cares if you have a misfire in every 100,000 cycles as long as the car still runs.

I was originally referring to the same thing in ICE cars that are in EVs, i.e. the infotainment and gauge display systems which are the majority of software updates in either case study, but let’s not pretend this is the 1950s for ICE cars; yes your ECU on your shitbox probably does legitimately have a software update that has better tuning, especially if the same engine was used in two separate production years. Guess what they updated to get more performance despite it having the same engine in order to justify the next year release? The fucking software. Also many recalls are software based these days for all the things that aren’t directly mechanical, like airbag, or lane assist, or backup cameras, or fuel systems, or the ABS controller. All of those things will inevitably have a software flaw. All of those things can be updated, and are updated at least once during the production cycle if only to add additional hardware support when new hardware is swapped into the same model.

EVs, because they are so much more simple than ICE cars in every single possible way, lean harder on software since that’s the only thing that can really be effectively separated into distinct packages and models until solid state batteries come about.

Given they stopped making them before smart phones were a thing I imagine not, but that’s also why your SiriusXM no longer works if you’re not a brokie and got a level 3 trim.

There’s a reason I said ‘current industry standard,’ things from almost the last century barely qualify as vehicles by modern standards, and your car couldn’t pass a safety inspect for sale in almost any country today.

That’s better than ICE cars having to go to the dealer to update their software, which is the current industry standard.

Dictatorship is when a president needs approval from congress to do anything. You sure are very smat.

That would be ridiculously expensive and time consuming. The question does not present a lead up scenario but one would assume whatever deal this is doesn’t allow for a lot of prep time or extra money.

Additionally any money that would exist in that time period that survived to today… would still be present in that time period. In a pre-computer world it’d be easier to get away with what is essentially counterfeiting or what would be explained as counterfeiting to those that caught you; but that’s still a massive risk for saving at best a few years building up that wealth yourself.

And that’s all assuming you didn’t create a paradox by allowing those two versions of the same item to exist simultaneously. Like you traveling back is fine, as you wouldn’t exist in 1945, but bringing items that did exist would either displace the money to avoid the paradox, changing the future possibly significantly which breaks the rules, creates a paradox which would cause you to no longer exist.

So I suppose in your mind all the academics Stalin had murdered all deserved it yes?

Generally yes? Exceedingly few ‘academics’ were ‘murdered’ in the USSR, are you confusing it with China who made ‘academics’ work in the fields as a way to force them to understand how their ‘lessers’ were living?

Stalin also didn’t ‘murder’ anyone. He didn’t have that authority vested to him. There are multiple historic sources showing Stalin fighting with the council to do things, which is not something a ‘dictator’ has to do. All of the purges were backed by the democratic authority, and generally well backed. The implementation sometimes went awry, because it was the 1940 and 50ss and proving identity was basically impossible.

I suppose murder in the name of the soviet state is acceptable as long they’re political enemies right?

Depending on the enemy, yes. Objectively yes. And you also believe this. The Nazis were political enemies.

I suppose the Uyghurs are all happy and definitely haven’t been persecuted or reeducated hmm?

No. They haven’t been. Again no international neutral party has ever supported the idea of a genocide happening on the Uyghur people. Not a single one. There are a handful of people, literally less than two dozen, none of which have ever been shown to live in China, that have generated the totality of claims against China during their response to the Terror attacks funded by the US and Turkey. If you believe this propaganda point, you’re doing the meme of a ‘enlightened centrist’ that doesn’t realize their ‘center’ is a heavily propagandized and heavily curated version of reality that does not line up with actual reality.

It’s also the dimension of the political compass in which authoritarians would prefer we not talk about so I talk about it as much as is feasible.

The political compass is useless. It’s the Meyers Briggs of the political world – i.e. it has no scientific backing whatsoever and Buzzfeed quizzes are objectively more accurate to the realities of the world.

The alternative to authoritarian socialism is libertarian socialism which is where any person who values both theirs and their fellow humans dignity and mutual respect would want to live.

That is just socialism. There is no difference. That is literally the basis of all socialist movements. Read any theory, read any manifesto, read literally anything any of these ‘evil dictators’ wrote. Anything. Did you know Xi Jingping has a doctorate and has published more internationally peer reviewed papers than any other world leader? Did you know he has nine books? Did you know Stalin published at least two? Did you know there is no such thing as ‘Stalinism’, a term that first appeared in the late 2000s?

There is plenty of information out there, translated to all ten major languages that over 90% of the population at this point.

When you rule with an iron fist, when there is no due process, when there is no personal representation only state representation and the ability for change that can only come from a functioning and healthy democracy; people are squashed under the boot of those in power a la Orwell’s Animal Farm. Neither of these worlds are ones I want to live in; nor do I want for any of my loved ones.

The USSR had jury trials*. China has jury trials. There is due process written into both constitutions. The reason you believe there was not is not ‘historical record’ it is simply the propaganda you were taught by a system built exclusively to dissuade you from any useful action. All revolutions will get to the stage where the people are in charge of the state – and that will require massive amounts of violence, and that will result in massive amounts of violence. Because people do not give up their power. Tomorrow, if the US were to undergo its first people-led democratic revolution, your neighbors that own land or are fans of those owning land will be subject to violence. They’re not going to give up their greed easily. Many will work with countries that are enemies of their people in order to stop the revolution. There isn’t another solution that has been proven to work, unfortunately.

• Yes, during specific war-time purges these were illegally suspended, not by Stalin, but by individual officers who lost their jobs and many were executed by the state for violating rights. As Stalin wrote he deeply regretted not dedicating more resources and not having clearer directives on how to carry out the trials of suspected nazi and US collaborators, especially in liberated lands that had extensive nazi collaboration where proving fact was difficult.

Yeah but without cash as a freshly time traveled person to 1945 there’s only so many ways to get a gun.

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Yes I totally have a life.

One does, actually, by the definition of ‘left-wing’ politics, exclude the other.

Horseshoe theory and other ‘enlightened centrist’ viewpoints were created solely, and I do mean solely, to disrupt class consciousness. Nearly all propaganda you believe that make the USSR or China seem bad was created by the US wholesale, with some being created by criminals given extremely cushy paychecks for life for utilizing their background to give legitimacy to stories made up by people that never left the US.

‘Intolerance,’ doesn’t enter into it. Period. There isn’t any documented accounts of that from any left wing government. Period.

1945? Bank robbery is still incredibly easy. Literally all forensics is during this time period is just fingerprinting. People are also malnourished and incredibly weak compared to the average person in 2026. So beat up some GI that illegally kept a gun from the war, use that to perform a series of bank robberies along the west coast of the US and the American South (where Gold stores were concentrated during the gold standard period we find ourselves in).

After that invent corporate trusts and the concept of multi-layer corporate holdings. This would be having a corporation per property owned, which is owned by a corporation and uses services from another corporation, all of which eventually ends in a labyrinthine ownership path that few, if any, forensic accountants in the 1940s could possibly follow to find out it’s all just me.

By understanding, even just vaguely, which cities and areas get built up over time in history and buying surrounding properties cheaply and simply holding them until areas are built up enough to sell them for massive profit I would be able to generate essentially infinite money from basic seed money. Add onto this a series of bank and hedge fund holdings that are informed roughly when to invest in specific companies as they come up through the ages the infinite money glitch becomes an exponential money glitch.

Again layers and layers of holdings on holdings on holdings creates obscurity and complexity that would take well into the age of computers to ever unravel. A kingdom easily rivaling the Rothschilds, while being even more hidden as I’d be copying their modern techniques a half century before they perfect them.

With infinite exponential money during the golden age of capitalism I can wait until the present day when I’d no longer be effecting the timeline and then start funding communist revolutions globally, allowing for myself to become a martyr in the revolution.

A popular myth about the Chinese revolution is that Mao’s government ordered the execution of landlords. This is entirely incorrect. Mao actually insisted on nonviolence towards the ownership class that complied with the revolution so that systematic and non-violent justice could be done as a show to the world the new government weren’t just violent peasants throwing a fit; but rather prove that peasants, when given power, would act more fairly than those that ruled before.

Despite this push from all official sources to NOT kill landlords, with assurances from Mao’s government that renters would be free to make legal claims on the land they’ve historically rented and their landlords would be legally punished, the people, when given the opportunity, decided to kill their landlords en masse.

Some of these landlords, undoubtedly, were “fair” landlords. Some were undoubtedly “able to keep rent tolerable.”

All of them were leeches on society, and society, when given the freedom to express their true feelings of reality, understand these leeches need to be physically removed from this plane of existence.

People generally do not have it in them to kill others. It’s one of the few things people cannot generally just do. It requires someone to be pushed, punished, tortured, sometimes for years or for someone to pose that same immediate danger.

Landlords will always fall into one of those categories.

Write the marbling into the CAD file.

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It actually does, if they’re leftist.

Also define authoritarian in anyway that excludes any possible state you would support, and includes a state you’ve been told is authoritarian by people currently raping children in concentration camps.

Something something 40 gorillion christians killed by JEWISH bolsheviks something something 80 gorillion innocent light skinned practically white farmers murdered by the dark skinned commie dictator Mao because of his hate for their righteous struggle against the dark something something here’s a link to a National Endowment for Democracy funded site that self-cites all of its sources or cites only old british men that have never been shown to ever be within 10,000km of a chinese person.

There were several wom*n on board (sorry to use a slur.)

If it would be something that’s needed, that would improve humanity in anyway, maybe.

But here’s the problem, these will kill off entire ecosystems. The installation alone will do that, but also whatever anti-corrosion, anti-growth coating on the outside that has to be somehow maximally thermally conductive will do that. The ocean is alive, it wants to be alive, and that life destroys metal and organic matter. It also just eats through petroleum products and every single type of coating we have invented.

So no matter what these will be coated in some toxic paint, that will need to be frequently reapplied, like within 6 months of application, because we want to keep thermal conductivity and barnacles and various other sealife are what I would think everyone can agree are ‘insulating’ layers.

So where-ever these are will have an entire town built up around them for the constant maintenance; which again involves constantly killing off everything that grows around them and on them, while leeching toxic materials to the environment.

Is your hardware ten years old or more?

Do you want a system made up of software that is on average 3 years old?

Do you want absolutely ridiculous stability for the uptime memes?

Are you a fan of the idea that every design decision should be done by a committee of theoretically democratically chosen developers but is actually just whoever wants the job because there is never any real transparency or motion about when the meetings are, much less when elections are?

Does the idea of your operating system being compatible not because its good but because it’s just the largest base thanks to corporate investment make you moist?

Then pick Debian.

If you answered no to literally any of those options then go ahead and pick an Arch flavor, or Arch itself.

And then he rallied against immigrants and trans kids.