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  • AbsentBird@lemm.eetoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksPermission
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    3 days ago

    Indeed Inspector HelixDab, that is the letter of the law.

    That said, anyone who says that to a woman deserves to have their balls kicked it, regardless of the legality. Laws are largely written to maintain order and uphold the status quo, they are not a divine tool for determining morality or justice; Rosa Parks broke the law by sitting in a part of the bus reserved for white people, but in retrospect that was a vital act of resistance.

    Tolerance of patriarchal domination does not make for a more just society, it only makes things worse. Knee those balls if you can get away with it.



  • All I’m saying is that taxing the rich is good and necessary for as long as they exist. Sure, our current system is a disparity engine, but it’s not impossible for us to dilute the effects of it with progressive tax policies, as has been done in years past.

    Personally I don’t see it as a choice of either tax the rich or abolish capitalism. I see the two goals as mutually connected to liberation and progress: tax the rich until we can replace the system with a better one.

    Building coalitions around progressive policies within the current system can help shift more people into alignment with post-capitalist thinking. Fomenting divisions between socialists and progressives does the opposite; solidarity forever.


  • AbsentBird@lemm.eetoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works*Permanently Deleted*
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    20 days ago

    You don’t have to go that far back to find a time when the rich were heavily taxed and income disparity was much smaller. Keep going back and you can find other times when the disparity was greater and the rich were taxed less.

    The best outcome may require the system to be torn down, but it’s clearly also possible to tax the rich significantly more even with the system already in place.




  • To each their own. Personally I can’t stand MS Office, I think Google Docs is easier for most nontechnical people these days anyway. For the rare cases when Office is needed, the web version works fine on Linux.

    LibreOffice works great, and WPS Office is proprietary but at least it’s free.

    Personally I write my documents in markdown and use pandoc to convert them into PDF or docx or whatever. It’s like writing the source code and then compiling, I like it.

    I’m sure you’ve looked into all that, but for anyone else who is interested in alternatives those are my recommendations.










  • AbsentBird@lemm.eetoRPGMemes @ttrpg.networkD6 bite damage
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, a bite is more like a dagger than a short sword. Plus barbarians already get an extra +2 damage while raging, which makes their bites average more than a d6 plus strength with the same max damage.

    Beast barbarians can even cause their teeth to grow during a rage giving them a d8 bite attack.



  • AbsentBird@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldSelective rage
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    2 months ago

    Whiteness, at least from a racist perspective, isn’t really about skin color, it’s more like a club for ‘approved’ ethnicities. There’s many Italians with darker skin than Mexicans, but Italians are considered ‘white’ and Mexicans are not. Same for large parts of the Middle East and Asia.

    Romani are white skinned Europeans, but they’re not ‘racist approved’, so they make up rumors they’re actually from Egypt and omit them from the White Club.

    The determination for what counts as white is highly inconsistent. Before the 1700s Germans were not considered white. Before the 1800s Irish were not considered white. For a time in the 1900s Finnish people were considered Asian (while many Finns were striking for better working conditions, what an odd coincidence). Italians weren’t considered white until about a hundred years ago. It goes on and on.