Is there any reason to assume they are “so focused” on it? Keeping an eye on unit or per-weight prices is somewhat conventional and pretty easy—at least I think most major grocery chains around here include that info right on the sticker.
At least where I'm at they're legally required to include that info and they appear to comply maliciously whenever possible. Sometimes it's slightly wrong. Often the unit of weight changes between items of the same sort. It's absurd.
You did not understand the comment. The person is talking about units per dollar, not necessarily calories per dollar, or anything about health. If I can buy one sponge for $1.25 and three sponges for $3, for example, I prefer three. This has nothing to do with how many calories are in a sponge.
20 years ago I gave Dries the domain Drupal.com for free to support open source.
I recently gave the domain MrBeast.org to Beast Philanthropy.
But more important than Open Source is Freedom. I recently acquired the domain antifascist.org to fight the rise of fascism. This will be a website to share information on protecting your loved ones - it will be open source in that everyone can contribute.
I welcome anyone that wants to help - send an email or use the contact form on the website.
I forgot to mention - I won the lottery!
I won the 2nd prize of the recent Powerball - $50,000 and I am donating it to the new AntiFascist foundation.
I am NOT rich. This money could have a significant impact on my life. But I wanted to help others and so I am showing my commitment to fight for Freedom.
I have run OpenDomain for 25 years and have contributed domains to Open Source worth millions all for Free. I am ending that project to fight the rise of fascism.
That sounds really great, but right now the site is still 80% template text/pages. I'll check back and make a donation once it's ready and lists the non-profit receiving the money.
The first two are effectively rituals. If we stopped the such rituals, should antifascism be considered successful?
The military is deployed inside the country, if only law enforcement officers were conducting the same work would antifascism think it was a job well done?
And therefore, exactly what do you consider fascism? Hence my question.
It’s always weird to me how when I try to talk about what fascism means to antifascists they go silent and assume I’m somehow pro-fascist. I’m pro-“Liberty and Justice for all.”
I am also an engineer: One that sees poorly defined requirements, and not a fan of authoritarianism.
It could be because 99.99% of people who decide to get into arguments about what fascism is turn out to be fascists. I believe it's called "sealioning": stalling actual discussion and wasting time of your opponents by endlessly asking basic questions politely.
Sounds like people playing it fast and loose with the term fascist. Or maybe overloading the term. And that’s a big problem, not only does it create an in-group / out-group divergence in language but it is the foundation of an ideological motte & bailey.
Do you think it's possible that people get called fascists by antifascists because they are actually fascists?
How do you define a fascist? I'd say followers of fascism are fascists. Perhaps you think only the ones in power, actually doing the fascism, count as fascists. That would be a mere semantic difference.
I’ve seen of accusations of fascism levied on all sorts that do not believe in: authoritarian political ideology that seeks a centralized, dictatorial government, suppresses dissent and opposition, ultranationalism promoting the supremacy of one group over others, and rejecting democratic institutions and liberal freedoms.
I suppose you can pick your poison, either condemn an innocent so no guilty escape or the opposite. But in that condemnation I often see: authoritarian political ideology that seeks a centralized, dictatorial government, suppresses dissent and opposition, rejecting liberal freedoms. And they self identify as antifascism. Its not a new thing, “horseshoe theory” has been around for ages.
I think we can collectively do better in combating trends towards fascism and its ilk than that. But not without understanding the problem, and the context in which it rests.
And you identify the paradox of tolerance, almost.
Killing people is bad, but Adolf Hitler is bad. So is it okay to kill Adolf Hitler, or would that make you as bad as him?
What if you were sent back in time, to before he did the bad things?
This is the extreme version of the "antifascist is fascist" debate. In the current time most of the bad people are not Adolf Hitler and we don't kill them and we aren't even 100% certain they'll be bad because we don't have time machines (only pattern recognition), but the same moral quandaries apply mutatis mutandis.
Some questions don't have simple answers. And it's better to at least acknowledge that, than to assert a particular simple answer, as a defense mechanism to allow yourself to continue believing there is always one.
Yeah, no. Nothing of what you said is actually correct, starting with "The connotation for fascism" ending with "naturally fascist". It to an almost impressive degree semantically nonsensical as well as logically incoherent. But at least one can concluded that you don't like the term fascism for some reason, a term that has reasonably well defined and commonly agreed meaning (and nowhere near anything what you said), albeit with a tendency to be overused.
Well, first off: it's not my conclusion (I would likely have used some other and more precise term, like "modern authoritarianism", which has enough similarities to historical fascism to cause alarm). Secondly, "fascism is on the rise" is such an ambiguous statement that could mean anything from "the seeds on fascism is forming somewhere" to "the number of fully fledged fascist states are increasing", which just leads to thirdly: I could certainly continue to help you get out of your mental block where you can only see one absurd reason for fascism being on the rise, but I think we can agree that this really isn't necessary.
It may be that they are speeding it up by keeping the .net runtime resident in memory. They used to do this with Visual Basic runtime
I ran norton utilities on my pc yesterday and noticed a new service - it was .net runtime. Please note that I am a developer so this may be just to help launch the tools.
