There is no doubt that the unpaid internship is exploitative, moreso than the already discouraging/tiring path to a first job programming. But I also think you were right to accept it as a step towards launching a career. It's something you will never have to do a second time... onward and upward
I believe as individuals and society we are over reliant on unnecessarily advanced technology and should seek alternatives to distance ourselves from this.
I feel about the same way, to the point I don't even really want print media to die. We're still looking at something right in front of us, but at least it isn't a screen. I've been framing it mentally as part of an intentional relationship I want to have with technology, and I think generally others should consider this too. Adopt technology selectively and critically, don't just let them foist new consumer durables on you, LOL.
Makes sense, a limit as strict as 8 minutes for the youngest kids seriously inhibits basic communication, so really this either has to iterated on or a great deal of parents will just opt out so it has no effect.
To quote @Giyuu: I do not not live in China/am not Chinese/do not know [much of] the language/etc. But from the outside, it seems that due to reform & opening up, Chinese go through much of the same shenanigans we do, whether it will be eventually solved through planned economy or not. They have bosses, landlords, and cops; they work too much and compete for stressful jobs and rigorous education, and there is sure to be some amount of corruption even with the victories of the Tigers & Flies campaign... a friend from Tieling, Liaoning province personally complained of his folks having to pay bribes but did not get into why.
I think a modern socialist planned economy fit for our situation would come out with a very pemanent, modular, and repairable cell phone. It would resemble an Apple product in no way, making use of open source hardware and software and with an ideological commitment against planned obsolescence.
Would anyone join a vintage story server? I would probably do it by whitelist, and have a few mods installed.
For the unfamiliar Vintage Story is (to me) a sort of spiritual successor and awesome extension of the idea behind the Minecraft mod Terrafirmacraft
The mods I've been using that I remember are Better Ruins, DR Decor, Ceramos, medieval expansion, maybe a couple others... if I can get it working, I really want to add a sailboat mod.
For worldgen I want to make things interesting and do a hot climate or a cold climate... probably a hot climate. I like the idea of growing pineapples :D
Some gameplay concerns: I have heard that food rotting is a problem on multiplayer because of the passage of time with no players online? Could we set up the server to pause time when nobody's on? We could probably have one collective farm so that whoever's on can take care of it and just put the harvest in a basket for others to take as needed. Really, we could probably pool a lot of stuff and get something like a commune going. I would probably play around an hour a day until September at which point I would try to set aside a couple hours a week :)
Anyways, interested in other's ideas.
Glad to hear the automobilism is being rejected. Really it was one of my biggest worries about the direction China is going, that there seemed to be lots of cars, but I had yet to make an investigation and I like what I'm hearing :)
For the last one you have to write a friggin iterator ;_; But I'll get to it!!
we can have a few impersonators as a treat
The US falling from its position of power may be a prerequisite to socialist movement in North America.
May we live to see a revolutionary socialist restoration, but more than a restoration, a forging anew <3
It is an understandable but misguided sentiment. There is plenty of work for the communist orgs to do, I think, and some of the more progressive community orgs may even be friendly or ambivalent to the communists. Maybe instead we should be relieved that our relatives and neighbours are finding ways to try to improve their situation, even though they lack a radical perspective and critique of capitalist society. We know charity has limits and deficiencies. Does anywhere have a food bank that has good enough food in good enough quantities, with no hoops to jump through?
Wow, that rules! What is your party called & does it have an online presence, like a program etc available to read?
Also on a silly note, Does the district name Borgerhaut have anything to do/ contain cognates with "burgher" and "haute"? a name something like the High Burgher [District]? Burgher Heights? :P
Behind the Urals is great. John Scott was a fellow traveller or party member in New York as I recall. Immigrated to the USSR to work in Magnitogorsk.