There is at least one TV application that doesn’t support local streaming without first logging into Plex’s servers. I have an LG tv and it’ll hang at the loading screen, then error out if I don’t have Internet connectivity. I love the TV but LG as a company sucks. I wouldn’t buy it again.

Given we have the technology, any new construction should be required to be environmentally neutral at a minimum, ideally with ongoing improvement.

If they need to use millions of gallons of groundwater? Great, go fucking wild, but directly fund managed aquifer recharge projects to replace that groundwater at an equal or greater rate.

Increases in resource consumption should be covered entirely by the data center plus improvements to benefit the community.

No longer should big business be used as a means to siphon the value of labor and natural resources and concentrate it for selfish use by the worst of humanity.

I don’t see it as ragging on her. I think she is being used as an example as she has given away more in proportion to her total wealth than most other billionaires yet is now worth more than ever. The point I believe this meme is making is billionaires will still continue to be obscenely rich even if they are heavily taxed.

One of my motherboard’s memory slots went bad, no idea why. Figuring out if it was RAM or, if the motherboard, exactly what was wrong, was a tense few hours because neither is getting replaced.

100% right on for me. It took me years, YEARS, to get my mother to where she would check if USB peripherals were plugged in before asking me to come over and find out why it was broken. Even the occasional slight complications with Plex get her to where she doesn’t use it for months unless I fix it for her. Jellyfin just ain’t happening with her.

I thought that was a golden calf, not a jackass.

Plus the article itself is primarily dramatic fluff writing, followed by something I loathe: quotations from social media reactions. I’d love for anyone that does like them to share why because I cannot see the utility.

Pretty much. My grandmother made something called tater tot casserole: a mix of ground beef, frozen tater tots, canned beans, and mystery spices that went stale sometime in the last ice age. This was covered with about half a kilo of cheese and baked until a point she couldn’t quite articulate but “just knew”.

Extra tasty ham loaf… as opposed to a regularly tasty ham loaf? Huh.

I had an elderly aunt that made “oyster stew” on special occasions. The recipe was as follows:

One gallon of 2% milk
One 16 oz. jar raw oysters with juice
Salt and pepper to taste

That’s literally all that was in it. She’d mix it together, heat until steaming, then serve. Just a big pot of hot, oyster scented, salty milk, served with oyster crackers. Everyone hated it and none of her children carried on the tradition.

That recipe deserved to die.

Edit: oops, broken line breaks.

I started young with the Muppet Learning Keys and Discovery Disk. I loved the AD&D games: Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, and Champions of Krynn. We didn’t have an NES, so there was… The Great Giana Sisters. Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar was great.

I might like CRPGs.

They’re not the brightest, which we all know tends to correlate strongly with conservatism. I’ll always remember the idiots in 2004 who voted for a second W. Bush term because “he made this mess, now he needs to clean it up”.

That’s like hiring an incompetent employee who messed up a mission-critical project and not only took no accountability, but verifiably lied about their actions, yet you continue employing them to finish the project.

You too, eh? I could type before I could write! I loved our VIC 20 and C64.

Come with me on a journey of nostalgia! Do you remember any favorite programs?

I didn’t know about Kricfalusi. Damn.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kricfalusi

See “sexual abuse allegations”.

Yes! I have big, smelly dogs and also have had great luck with Thornell L.O.E. for laundry. I bought a gallon for $60 and it’s enough for about 250 big washer loads of gross smelling pet stuff.

I don’t know how to put this more gently. You’re speaking about a subject that, for anyone familiar with it, it’s pretty clear you don’t know much about, and are getting defensive and doubling down when anyone contradicts you.

It seems like you’re more interested in feeling right than actually being right, and I’m just not interested in wasting my time with someone who would rather write paragraph after paragraph about how other people are wrong than spend 60 seconds first looking online to check if they’re actually right themselves.

In the US and that’s absolutely the norm here. I’d know - I went through it.

Your edit expands the context outside of what we’re discussing - losing 10,000 STEM PhD candidates. People don’t often do part-time PhDs in STEM as they’re not frequently offered. People aren’t keeping their full-time jobs which getting a STEM PhD because that becomes their full-time job.

Looking at it from a super high level, universities apply for funding to complete research, which is completed b graduate students with assistance from faculty. Their tuition is covered to give the graduate student the necessary skills to complete the research while also furthering their other educational goals as time and funds allow.There are often constraints on how and when this research is performed which can make it incompatible with a part-time schedule. The time requirements can also be massive - between classes, teaching, lab research, field research, and being the de-facto lab manager, I easily put in 70-80 hours a week. I even had to sign an agreement that I wouldn’t seek outside work or I’d lose my funding, which ultimately was comical given I wouldn’t have the time

Most PHDs of the type referenced, and most STEM PhDs in general, are fully funded. In other words, tuition and generally some degree of living expenses are covered in exchange for work performed for teaching and research assistantships, fellowships, and grants. This is also true for many STEM masters degrees, though with fewer funding opportunities.

If you’re going post-graduate in a STEM field with a thesis requirement AND are paying tuition, you’re getting fucked.

You wanna take some time to gather your thoughts first?

Either you’re quite condescending or there is some confusion here. I’m going to assume it’s the latter; if it’s the former, well… life is an adventure.

Yeah but, which part exactly should I not understand because of my American education?

I’m not referring to you in my original comment^{[1](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20221397)}, but to the person to whose comment I’m responding.

So you’re not talking about Marx and Engels, but you are somehow talking about socialism AND scientific socialism no less?

The vocabulary I said I wasn’t referring to is the list of terms provided by Prole^{[2](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20225314)} in response to your question^{[3](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20225057)}. My original comment was offhand, not intended to be a detailed analysis, so their response was assumptive. I’m familiar with the user and they’re good people, so I’m sure it was in good faith.

To answer your original question, here are specific terms in the Wikipedia article^{[4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism)} I would suggest are not covered in US public education with sufficient depth or frequency to give the average citizen the functional vocabulary necessary to fully understand the article without significant further reading. I.e., most Americans would be unable to provide even a basic (correct) definition if asked.

Materialism
Historical materialism
Dialectical materialism
Utopian socialism
Scientific government/Technocracy(though briefly described in line)
Classical liberalism
Marxism

And by extension…

Scientific socialism

The United States ranks 36th in the world for population literacy, with 54% of Americans reading below a 6th-grade proficiency level and 21% being functionally illiterate^{[5](https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics)}, so I’m pretty comfortable with my suggestion but am willing to be convinced otherwise.

Those aren’t what I’m referring to. The comment I was replying to was about the theory density of this wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism

I’m referring to the vocabulary contained there.