Even better: 20 lbs of long toenails and a box full of real snakes.

And the work in the lead mines

You’ll need a PhD to be allowed to push the “on” button though.
And then go back to the office to write grant applications for a month.
To buy the next beige box.

Don’t you still feel bad about defrauding Walmart for 180 hours worth of pay?
Cause I don’t.

At that point, just kill the VM the app is running on and deal with the fallout.

Cute! A rat playing the banjo under the full moon!

Yeah, numbers from 2012 are useless. Chinas GDP has more than doubled since then.

I don’t know what point you’re trying to make. According to your own quoted numbers:

combined GDP of all NATO members +Sweden = $45.93319 trillion

total GDP of only the five initial BRICS member states = $65 trillion

So you compare NATO+ with only a part of current BRICS and it’s still less.

Better stay inside the closet!

Good point.

I have a coworker like that in a shared office. Guy fucking watches movies on speaker with the boss next door.

It’s like me boycotting Nestlé.

Relationships are like the blockchain.
There’s no trusted, central database of all relationships that determines what is or isn’t cheating.
That trust is negotiated in each interaction.

Marriages follow the traditional method of a chain of trust. There is a central database that lies with the government or the church, and everyone decides which database they want to trust.

When Europe and the US put sanctions on China and Russia, there’s an obvious problem, though:

BRICS countries now have a higher GDP than NATO.

I wanna take a ride on that transbian railway.

So this answers the question what universal basic income would lead to — sitting at home and watching movies

“Are you a communist, too?” the kangaroo asked.

“No, I’m an anarchist!”

“Great”, the kangaroo said, “then we can be friends — until after the revolution…”

GIMP 3.0 will come with the next Debian release.
When will that come out?
When it’s ready.
You can get a bit of an idea where in the release process we are by looking at this graph:

Where the green and blue lines dip close to zero, there was a new release.
Next release is probably planned for October 2025.

Between releases, packages are only updated when it’s relevant for security or to fix bugs.
Thunderbird and Firefox are a bit of an exception. Those programs are so complex that backporting security fixes to the current Debian version isn’t feasible. So Debian is forced to ship the new version when security issues in the current version become known.
And they’re also not needed on servers, so the reduced stability doesn’t affect them.

At this point I believe the US simply can’t withhold support from Israel for some reason.
And they also can’t publically disclose why that is.
But the consequences of withholding aid must be worse (at least for those in government positions) than a Trump dictatorship.

Quote from the second link:

The proletariat is that class in society which draws its means of livelihood wholly and solely from the sale of its labour and not from the profit from any kind of capital

So anyone with any sort of retirement plan or a bit of money invested is not part of the proletariat.

The proletariat, or class of proletarians, is, in a word, the working class of the nineteenth century.

Yeah, that tracks. How relevant is it to today’s world, though?

The proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
The proletarian frees himself by abolishing competition, private property and all class differences.

I wonder how many people today who call themselves “Communist” would actually be fine with that.
It’s our car now, comrade.