Koarnine

Right, but Capitalism incentivises this behaviour, thus making the checks and balances required both more robust and needing to be applied for regularly - while the powerful are capable of preventing this.

On the other hand, Socialism has incentives that are completely different - managing the abusers would be a much simpler task.

Kicking the can down the road implies you have a better solution?

As tmyakal said echoed, and I said originally, the better comparison is suboxone/methadone, its about weaning off the harmful food into healthier ones with medical help.

I wasn’t trying to snark, and I understood the point, I was primarily trying to point out how harmful it is to ‘stop cold turkey’ with drugs, and how the relationship with addiction is still similar.

You can wean off of Xanax onto Valium and then reduce dose/dosing frequency until cessation.

You can wean off Heroin onto suboxone/methadone in the same way.

You can wean down from 20mg nicotine to 12, 6 and 3, before switching consumption methods and then finally quitting.

In the same way you can wean down from mcdonalds and taco bell, to home made meals with controlled portions, you can try foods that have high volume. You can stop drinking your calories and consuming sugar. Over time those meals that make you fat will become disgusting and your habit and addiction will falter.

Obviously you can’t stop eating completely, and just like alcohol addiction the triggers are ever present in society. But the idea that you can’t approach it in the same way is faulty.

Except you are ignoring the concept of tapering.

If you cold turkey alcohol or benzos you will have seizures and do permanent damage to your body. You’re supposed to be weaned off.

In a similar way, you can wean yourself off of excess calories by reducing portion size.

Obviously the end result isn’t a complete stop but it could be a complete cessation of certain foods. Just like how heroin addicts are given suboxone/methadone for their cravings.

Lemmy.world users being delusional as usual

Please do. Fuck big tech

I first used linux with Ubuntu Hardy Heron, I was 8 or 9 years old…
the ‘macs are cool’ to ‘modifying windows to look like mac’ to ‘try linux’ pipeline was real

I did move back to windows with the windows 7 ‘black’ beta I found on kickasstorrents tho.

Ah… 2008 was a much simpler time (on the internet)

Nobody owns anything in communism?

Your tools would be destroyed pronto?

Whats with the sneaky nonsense in an otherwise reasonable comment…

Big fan of

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth”

• Garry Kasparov (2015)

That is to say, don’t let them shut you up.

There is a longer, more historical version of this but it escapes me at the moment.

I can only find the Hannah Arendt quote (1974)

“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And [to] such a people… you can do whatever you want.”

But i swear there was one that finished “When the truth is silent, liars can move onto action”

Sick is still used by gen z, fallen off a little but still part of my vocab (26, UK)