Sorry i'm harsh Cuba isn't quite a dictatorship i give you that one (Although not quite democratic either), maybe that could be a good study.
But saying Stalin or Mao are not dictatorships is just delusional.
The CIA as a source is pretty funny though.
I get it Stalin didn't quite have all powers, like that's what it took to classify a government a dictatorship. As if one-party system couldn't be complex.
(And yes socialist market economy, that really makes a world of difference from capitalist market)
Also to make things clear i wouldn't have sided with tsar or anyone else than Lenin. I do believe in communism.
Now some improvements may be from communism, i hope so, but don't pretend you can prove it more than i. It's not like life expectancy, literacy rate or other factors alike couldn't rise with another system. It's not like you could eliminate the possibility of third factors in a time with so much change in all areas of life.
But i sure wouldn't have followed Stalin in his totalitarian regime. I sure hope if communism was a solution today it would be democratic.
Have you read my comment?
I know capitalism don't work, everybody does now.
That has nothing to do with the fact we didn't manage to have one successful exemple of communism either...
So USSR was a dictatorship, the country was in ruin after WW2
The 3 factor i mentioned are there.
The data shows what everyone knows, capitalism increase inequality. But what it doesn't show is how communism made the country improve, because it didn't.
What i'm saying is, it couldn't help because of the war and Stalin. We don't know if it would've otherwise.
Cuba again is a dictatorship, and wasn't rich.
The PRC is a dictatorship, China went on a horrible famine with Mao. Nowadays getting richer only because of how their economy is now fully capitalist.
So let's say you had significant data that showed it improved some things socially. And let say you somehow managed to prove its causal and not coincidence.
I would still rather not say dictatorships like USSR or PRC are good to live under.
That's my point, even if communism was good, dictatorship is a plague that makes any system a nightmare.
Most didn't? Can you give a few exemples then?
You don't start a war unintentionally... but i didn't say start, just being in a war.
Also i don't imply it was because of communism, my point is that, how can we judge communism if other devastating sociological factors are involved.
Now, i don't have a point if you say most of them were better for it, but i don't know any who did so i'd love to educate myself...
To be clear i agree.
I do feel for the Russian people that will suffer Putin's decisions, but i personally wouldn't concede one bit of Ukrainian soil to that fucker.
I wish my country was helping. That said, as a French without any skin in the game, let me tell you we don't even have skin in our own games. (If you followed any news of us you know)
It's not like any of us are ever being asked what to do. And I do genuinely fear our so called democracies are gonna implode. And when they do, diplomacy with Russia will get bad for everyone.
I don't think anyone knows what it's like, was there any communist country which wasn't also both a dictatorship and poor?
Pretty hard seeing the good and bad of communism when it's always alongside the two worse things that can happen to a country.
P.S. Wait, actually not the two worse things... there's also war, and that applies to most of them too.
Western Europe getting involved could be so much worse.
Let's remind ourselves you fight for your country, we on the other hand have nuclear weapons and rising fascism all over...
So in account of humanity thanks for keeping Russia's shit out.
I use this numbering sequence for manga only, very satisfying to coincide the reading directions with it.
Maybe it's not universal but in school literal equation basically meant there were letters instead of numbers.
It's the term we use for instance when going from the equation of a line like y=3x+2 to lines in general y=ax+b (a and b in ℝ)
And i agree it's a lot better to specify to solve for x (because you can solve for anything or have multiple variables).
Although x being a variable, and solving for it would be the most logical assumption.
For distance and mass, zero means no distance and no mass.
For temperature though having none means no kinetic energy of atoms/molecules. It's absolute zero, the zero Kelvin. So the other units are the weird ones.
But since zero Kelvin isn't a phenomenon you'll ever encounter in nature, it makes Kelvin a pretty unappealing scale for everyday life.
And thus we started making shit up...
P.S. My bad Rankine also shakes hands with Kelvin about absolute zero, very demure, very mindful.
Hopefully most "sign" of mental illness in this scenario is lowkey because it's not due to a mental illness.
It can be from anxiety or just being very introverted. Which can be hard to deal with but still somewhat lowkey to a mental illness.
It will never fill the social bar irl but for some it can fill the fun bar.
Largely depend on your level of anxiety and creativity.
I know I just thought the free trial would be more accurate.
I haven't thought about sales taxes, i guess you do pay more taxes if you count those.
Although not really similar to a subscription in that case.
Probably because unlike paying for the service, we don't feel how it takes our money from us.
A psychological trick that works so great that it made a lot of services exist in the first place like the whole of YouTube. And now we're kinda addicted to those too.
I wouldn't call it sharing... don't know about you but where i live you pay less taxes when having a child, and i've never seen a service make you pay less to share it.
That's taxes. Life in general though, well that's literally sharing.
Yeah to be fair if you do all the homework with LaTeX there's no reason not to set up your machine.
I've even heard of someone who even used it to take notes in class... Honestly I wouldn't dare to try and learn that!
But yes, that's when the macros and possibilities you don't have on overleaf becomes really good to have.
