[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I really respect the area of Kerala and its commitment to their public. Very robust educational system, healthcare, and a focus on access to clean water. That's just from stuff I've seen and read though, I've never been to India, I'm American.

I hope the best for India's future, but it seems worrying from what I hear. I would hope for greater collaboration with China and an easing of tensions with Pakistan. India is a massively diverse place though, with multiple languages and even multiple writing scripts, so sometimes it's amazing it's a functional country at all.

Most of what I hear though is about India dominated by very right wing movements, but there's a strong history of Indian working class movements as well. I'll try to be optimistic about the future. Also as an American I am fully aware of my country's horrifying exploitation of the Indian people. The Union Carbide disaster is still the worst industrial accident in history and its impact should never be forgotten

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

i'm tankie and gay and covered in feces (some of which is my own)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

A lot of that is probably steam decks

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oh ok, that does sound promising if the regeneration works as intended. Thank you for the insightful answer Mr. WashedAnus.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is there any advantage of this over implants? Maybe I don't understand the full scope but this seems really roundabout when I have a ceramic implant and it works fine. Maybe a regenerated tooth lasts longer?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, thanks for replying in good faith. A lot of people gave you hostility because you did say something that seems a little misinformed. And people get ruffled by seeing that kinda thing so often. But good on you for taking the time to read stuff.

I'd really recommend reading this: The Principles of Communism by Engels.

It's very clearly written, short, and explains what exactly communist ideology is and who it represents.

In very brief: Communists believe there are two classes, workers and business owners. This is always a hostile relationship that can't be mended, since the two want different things. So we propose the working class should abolish the business owning class.

Liberals do not believe this relationship is hostile, or they don't believe it exists. Or they believe it can be mended through the use of state intervention. That's one of the primary differences here.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Yeah there's no reconciliation between communist and liberal ideology. They propose fundamentally different frameworks for how the world operates. Liberals place emphasis on individual actions, intention, sentiment, or how changing people's minds is the engine of history.

Communists with a material outlook propose the primacy of material distribution and class. Liberals don't believe class exists, or that it doesn't operate as a coherent political interest group.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

lmao did someone really report me over getting their precious little white feelings hurt?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Liberal means someone who's either misinformed about their own interests, or someone who willingly aligns with capitalist interests.

Liberal isn't some badge of honor. It's the default ideology in every western nation.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Authoritarian is usually code for when white people don't rule a country

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's more the case that in human interactions with the elements, most of them exhibit a metallic phase because we're exposed to the elements on Earth. Out in space elements do weird things. Gaseous clouds of gold, solid metal nitrogen. A lot of elements in the universe are in plasma phase, which isnt common at all on Earth.

Metals are metal on earth because their electronegativity gives them metallic bonds in our atmosphere.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Metals have what're called delocalized electrons, where electrons just kind of wander around a metallic bond between atoms. Metallic bonds involve a very low level of attraction between the nucleus and its electron cloud. Turns out most elements have this, so they do metallic bonding.

It's only when atoms start to get a little wobbly do they exhibit enough electronegativity to perform ionic or covalent bonding, where the molecules donate electrons. Electronegativity increases on the right side of the periodic table when electron valency starts getting lower. And that's the non-metal side.

So the answer is basically that you need more of an electrical charge to exhibit the things we've classified as non-metals. Metals are more chill and generally less reactive.

I should also mention that non-metals have a liquid/solid metallic phase at certain temperatures and pressures. I remember a Chinese study a few years ago claiming to have made metallic nitrogen.

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