Strictly speaking, a normal distribution doesn’t cap, neither at 0 nor at 200. Maybe the scores achievable by standardized tests do, of course.

Let’s make anti-shit!

You’re absolutely right to ask this. I took a look at wikiquote (which wouldn’t still prove anything by itself) and that quote isn’t there: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

However, it fits his anti-war and anti-capitalist sentiments and his often angry tone quite well, so it might be legit.

That’s very reductionist. I’m no tankie but you have to admit the soviet leadership were no bad strategists. They were well aware that there would be war and they needed every bit of time to build up their heavy industry to be prepared. Without the masses of tanks they had by 1941, the soviet union wouldn’t have stood a chance.

And acting as if the Western Allies were any better is quite laughable. They were acting out of pure self-preservation as well, not for some great ideals or honor or something.

No, joined together because of them all being threatened by Nazis.

No, definitely not.

The report is linked in the article. It’s an annual report of the Secretary General to the Security Council.

That’s a weak argument because everything used by normal citizens is, in practice, always used by the big corpos against the normal citizens in much greater quantity and with much more force.

Now that I think of it, it’s no argument at all because I already admitted, that under capitalism, you might not have another choice to get paid for your work. That still doesn’t make it morally good or logically sound.

Of course it’s work finding solutions to problems and you should be able to live off your work. And in capitalism, a patent sometimes is the only option to do so.

However, patents and other forms of “intellectual property” are absolutely illogical and amoral. Nobody ever made a completely new thing. Every innovation builds on so much knowledge accumulated by so many people that came before. It’s absolutely nonsensical that an advancement that’s 99 % an achievement of humanity and 1 % of a single person should belong to that single person.

I’m neither. You’re the misinformed one here, and the people who downvoted me as well. Go to the link you provided.

• click the link to the article for Ahmed Al-Sharaa
• click the link to the article for Al-Nusra Front
• see “part of” section in the overview: Al-Qaeda

Yes, they split several years ago. Insofar I have exaggerated. Are they substantially better in terms of authorianism and religious fundamentalism? I seriously doubt it.

Correct, it’s the other big islamist group, al-Qaeda.

That’s the question: would they fight it? From all I’ve seen so far, they wouldn’t.

You won’t listen anyway. Just look at your language, calling us idiots and fuckwits while pretending you’re the level-headed one.

There’s enough comments under just this meme and every single discussion on this topic explaining why that change is a direct attack on privacy and privacy being the reason why many of us chose Linux.