They're not really microchips... The chips data centers use are huge.

Tiny voice "If you'd worked harder you'd have nicer stuff!"

Whoa, she lost her race? ....so she just doesn't know what race she is anymore?

She keeps asking the mirror and touching her skin... Trying to look for the concept of race, but just can't find it.

She's race blind now.

That's not me claiming to be doing a comparison of the two, or saying they're horrible. But thanks for the clarification on what you were saying.

*Cloaca

Oh no... Their lives will continue on like normal!

Just say "The eel is deciding whether to run me or not".

Bubble.

Is there a prediction they'd look the same?

Might be better to record issues/quirks you've noticed with the station. Clues for the next person.

Momento in space.

There's other providers. ViaSat is one. Amazon Leo is another. So this is being announced as a message to Musk/Trump/Putin. But I don't know, perhaps Trump has organized competitors be turned lff, or forbidden them?

No I didn't. Where do I claim to be doing a comparison of horrible systems? Where do I claim one is communist and one is not. I didn't even originate the thread we're on. I certainly didn't say anything about spiced versions of each other. I didn't come up with these terms.

Sounds like you got to that, because you wanted to rant about it out of nowhere. I don't really get why you're doing it me. But whatever.

It's not really about that ... I mean, we don't live under communism, we live under the deadlier of the two systems.

You dirty rat!

feeling obligated to read the parapgraphs on paragraphs

Fuck that shit, AVOID AVOID!

Technically Xi's stuff is Crimes Against Humanity. Americas is more massive, historical, and ongoing War Crimes in the middle east... But both countries ramped up after 9/11, and are anti arab and anti Muslim in their victim selections. So... there's that...

...I tell ya, the US quietly going into Syria had some stank on it. We focus on Iraq and Afghanistan, but boy the list of investors who were pushing for Syria... Here's some from Genie Energy, the main oil concern:

Genie Energy's Strategic advisory board is composed of: Dick Cheney since 2009 (former vice president of the United States),[3] Rupert Murdoch (media mogul and chairman of News Corp), James Woolsey (former CIA director), Larry Summers (former head of the US Treasury), Michael Steinhardt, Jacob Rothschild,[4][5] and Mary Landrieu, former United States Senator from Louisiana.

Syria (and the oil rich Golan Heights) is right next to Israel. So the whole thing had uber Capitalist millitary industrial finger prints all over it, and it was done pretty quietly. People just didn't really notice the blood for oil that time. I imagine Israel annexed the whole region with Americas backing.

It's good to be informed and kind of natural people will be more aware of systems they're in and close to than they will be of systems from 1950s USSR or somewhere overseas that speaks another language.

Well, I'd need to be strapped to a bed in a Canadian mental home with a steady drip of LSD, and a tape on loop to forget CIA_chatbot... As the CIA discovered during their horrific MK-Ultra experiments on mental patients.

All states have propaganda campaigns against specific things/areas of discussion.

America (like most western "liberal" democracies) heavily targets leftist causes, such as Communism, Anarchism, Socialism, Peace movements, and climate change activists.

Many of which threaten to protest big oil companies, the millitary industrial complex, domestic spying on citizens, big polluters, industries that want to under pay workers, tech billionaires and AI data centers.

As a Westerner I find that list of areas of concern and suppression to be much more representative of things I want addressed by democracy than I do the existence of tankies, communists, and socialists.

So my gripe is about proportionality. The powers that be would prefer we focus on tankies and the ills of soviet era communism - because that makes us divided and focused there rather than on modern corporate Capitalism and its corruption of our democracy.

That would be my reality check.

Or you're just not that familiar with Capitalist and Communist history.

Killed by the British East India company famines in India and Bengal: 10 - 15 million (the company exported ALL the grain, even the grain farmers were paid with and living off. Gotta get those profits!).

Killed by the Libertarian Congo Free State under King Leopald: 10 - 15 million (but the rubber business boomed).

That's 20 million to 30 million dead from Capitalism right there.

Killed in the USSR Gulag system? 1.5 - 2 million. Most people survived the Gulag system (18 million went in, the majority walked out alive).

Outside of that Communism had a lot of undesired and unintended famines largely contributed to by one conman scientist fabricating results to keep his job:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko#Consequences_of_Lysenko's_views

Capitalism has in all likelihood intentionally killed waaay more people than Communism (just by the numbers)... And if you know the history, this becomes more obvious. This comment doesn't even cover the many wars by Capitalist nations pushed and carried out in the name of profit.