Ottoman Turkish, although the geographical terms and country names wouldn’t have differed much.

Works fine for me. You can open an issue on Github.

Throwback to when they announced releasing a simple phone. Fun times.

The existence of lemmy.world which you’re part of, proves that lemmy tolerates right-wing instances if you ask me.

Make use of the decentralized nature of lemmy, the devs won’t knock at your door for creating or posting on right-wing instances.

It’s always been a family (indeed, a national) tradition to watch the world cup. Son inherits his loyalty to a club from father just like clan names. However, in the last two cups I became only loyal to a good match of football, to whomever knows how to treat a ball like a gentleman. Perhaps it’s the nostalgia or the collective bondage which still draws me like millions of other fans to watch it play out every four years.

That said, nothing beats a good, friendly match with the pals in the local field; or the recess matches between the cramped walls in school, using a home-made nylon/paper ball.

No, I am not the dev. Perhaps I should’ve clarified this.

“evil corporation” is quite the tautology.

I’m afraid this is not an ebook reader, but a book tracker.

This is an offline tracker, so it doesn’t compare per se. There were talks about integrating bookwyrm into the app, but as of now there is no public API.

This project was actually my exit way from Goodreads. Unlike another commenter, I found virtually no issue with searching for books in European languages. All the statistics which GR offers are available, and you can easily import your books to the app. And of course, no ads, zero trackers and open source.

The only caveat is the social aspect, since this is an offline tracker.

Edit: If you have any concerns, hop on the matrix community where the dev is active.

See https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads-android/issues/90#issuecomment-1722339001

Out of interest, how often do you find issues looking for books on OpenLibrary?

Honourable mention: paying as little tax as possible

It’s a tough choice, but if I had to choose it would be Betrayers of the Truth by William J. Broad and Nicholas Wade. The book deals with the problematic ways fraud is dealt with in the scientific community, namely as an exceptional phenomenon, a bad-apple type of analysis that unwittingly brushes off the structural issues of academia.

A honourable mention would be Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot which questions the layered process of producing history. The production of history is itself a product of history that should not be taken for granted. All of this is showcased through a quick overview of Haitian history.

Neat! Thank you for sharing.

See, you’ve written this long reply (and I appreciate your commitment) to attack republicans, yet you still could not credibly defend the Democratic Party. To be against the Republican Party does not automatically make you a Democrat, truly such a one-dimensional spectrum is only conceivable in the land of incoherences of yours. For instance, communists staunchly attack republicans, yet they equally attack the democrats, arguing (rightfully, in my opinion) that both are two sides of the same coin which is capitalism/liberalism.

I want to go back to the roots of our debate in order to recalibrate, and that is the fact that you’ve created quite the frail and unnecessarily complicated moral compass which, ironically, adds no philosophical value. Instead of basing your evaluation of SBF on a shallow criterion of political funding (which leads to many problematic conclusions due to the ideological indeterminacy which plagues American political parties), you can directly employ, like any sane person would, a humanist compass (granted that humanism has its caveats). You should then be asking whether EA conforms to the conceptions of humanism, on the short but also long term, and should future generations be prioritised over present beings?

No it doesn’t, only system packages are admitted as viable options for WebView, hence the need for root privileges.

First, let me clarify that I am not an American, so my perspective is quite different. Second, my argument is that this binary is misconceived since both parties are not humanistic (albeit to different degrees).

Anyhow, we are talking about administrations here, these are presidents and not simple individuals. Past decisions clearly show that the party in question, if it has any humanistic values, they are at the very least selectively or discrepantly implemented.

If it would have fought for environmental protection, the past administrations would have stopped appeasing oil shells.

And how could racial equity or gender equality have any impact if they do not liberate the working class from the capitalists’ oppression?

At least now that the US army is progressive it will at last employ queers to carry out drone attacks in places that Americans ignore their whereabouts.

The two parties complete each other’s policies more than you think they don’t, at least when seen from a non-American point of view. Just like Clinton progressed Nixon and Reagan’s neoliberal policies, the Biden administration is resuming the construction of Trump’s border wall..

Logically, we (or you, actually) cannot invoke the list of values enumerated above as “core values” to the Party if it cannot consistently abide by them.

P.S. exposing several administrations’ compliance in neoliberalism and imperialism is quite evidently not “cherry picking”. So please, I beg you to argue with good will.

If he favors democrats, he’s putting humanity above wealth & tyranny. If republicans, the altruistic claim can be easily dismissed.

Your claims are from the start erroneous because they are based on a one-dimesnsional criterion which ignores the democrats’ perpetrations.

How the Democrats Traded the New Deal for Neoliberalism (Jacobin)

Obama’s Drone War (The Diplomat)

Biden Said He Would Stop Drilling. Then Reality Hit. (New York Times)

Biden’s Backing of Israeli War Crimes Carries on a Sordid US Tradition (truthout)

I am intrigued to know what is the original message.

I see myself blowing up a pipeline.