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I found this maddening to watch from a technical perspective - it was beautifully produced, subtitles, video and audio - but it didn't work right in my browser! (latest chrome on win10) - the audio and subtitles didn't sync - if I touched the scroll wheel on my mouse it would rapidly generate events that caused the 'next' action - if I click on next after the audio was complete on one page there was no audio on the n…
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Trump != capitalism Capitalism is: - freedom to own property - freedom to use or trade property you own - freedom to trade services for property or other services Of course that's not enough to create a viable society. Whatever else you add to the sauce is not capitalism, it's something else.
libertarian edition of "we've never achieved true communism"
"U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move" - June 2002 - https://fair.org/extra/u-s-papers-hail-venezuelan-coup-as-pr...
For all the negative comments about the presentation, which I might normally agree with, I liked this format this time. It took a while to load (thank you multi-threading). I got through it because I treated it like an interactive video with subtitles, which is better than a video. I liked the sound - which, in my iPhone, was muted at the started as my phone was muted, so I didn't even realise there was audio. I like…
I actually found this to be worth the time. I haven't paid much attention to the situation down there, and seeing it was enlightening. Onto the content... I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by? Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large s…
Most of the people you see sitting around in the video are actually queuing for food. There's a huge shortage of food and you have to queue for hours hoping there's something left in the market when it's your turn to go in.
I found this maddening to watch from a technical perspective - it was beautifully produced, subtitles, video and audio - but it didn't work right in my browser! (latest chrome on win10) - the audio and subtitles didn't sync - if I touched the scroll wheel on my mouse it would rapidly generate events that caused the 'next' action - if I click on next after the audio was complete on one page there was no audio on the n…
For what is worth, it worked flawlessly for me (FF on Linux).
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I actually found this to be worth the time. I haven't paid much attention to the situation down there, and seeing it was enlightening. Onto the content... I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by? Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large s…
According to The Economist, the average Venezuelan has lost 19lbs; more than half of children are either malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2017/03/31/venezuela-... Univision reports that 57% of Venezuelans have gone hungry to feed their children. https://www.univision.com/univision-news/latin-america/hungr... The situation in Venezuela is clearly grave.
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libertarian edition of "we've never achieved true communism"
Can you explain your comment?
I wonder, if you go there can you still buy stuff for USD? E.g. how does the reporter survive there? I can't imagine a journalist would drop to that quality of life he describes just for his job.
Some people have found work that is more than “just a job”.
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Reader view in safari or firefox is what you want. I have it turned on for all websites and haven't looked back. I honestly don't know how chrome users can use the web nowadays with how bad things have gotten.
Reader view doesn't seem very useful for this particular article, which is primarily visual.
I just tried without reader view and I got a lot of the same stuff but with needless video taking up the whole screen that I couldn't skip around.
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Can you explain your comment?
I don't have a dog in this fight, but when I bring up some pathology of "capitalism" (like planned obsolescence for example) with one of my libertarian friends, they come back with " oh, but we're not working under -true- capitalism ", and I'm like " gee, that sounds so familiar "
Raise up the lowly (by giving them as much freedom as possible and leveling the field between them and the powerful), bring down the lofty (by regulating them to the extent that their power takes freedom away from the lowly)... that's the ideal economic policy as I see it :)