The events that led to the conquest of northern Africa by Arabs took place what, 1000+ years ago? You can hardly argue that “Arabs are colonialists” in modern times by judging 1000+ years old historical events, in the same way you probably wouldn’t judge modern Greek people as colonialists because they speak an Indo-European language and Indo-European languages are spoken all over the continent of Europe and much beyond.

We didn’t choose the system. I wasn’t handed a ballot when I was born, were you? Capitalism developed in specific historic and material conditions not by popular choice but by the logical consequences of those conditions.

We’re not stupid animals, there are plenty of historical examples of societies allocating resources based on need rather than economic capability. We’re just living under the wrong system, and we need to evolve past that system towards something with actual democracy, where the people can decide democratically how the economy works and how the resources are allocated, where the workers aren’t under the orders of a dictatorial power structure 8 hours a day 5 days a week, but instead they collectively make the decisions and take the profits from the companies they own collectively.

Because they can pay 10 million to a consulting firm to develop a customer-profiling model that predicts their income based on the most recent purchases with a 10% margin of error.

Fully aware, that’s why I reject blaming the individuals as opposed to the system

Pretty sure that if you can see Valencia and surroundings, you should be able to see Barcelona which is to its northeast, and that small central peak in the Iberian Peninsula looks to me to be close to Madrid, what is it then?

Madrid is gone, reduced to ashes? And so is Barcelona? Weird

By whom? How could China’s numbers be less reliable than India’s?

Not really, and I say this being a communist myself. Capitalism just requires to extract the maximum profit from the capital investment, sometimes it leads to what you said, sometimes it leads to the opposite (e.g. no difference between i5 1st gen and i5 8th gen)

will urge

You literally make the laws

Funnily enough, I’m Spanish and the meme is somehow also accurate here?

Are they stupid?

Not how it works. Public transport isn’t dying due to lack of demand, it’s dying because of neoliberal policy and budget cuts in government spending are the norm for the past 30 years. As an example, in Tallinn public transport is free to use for all residents. 90% of residents agree that this is a good thing. Their government is going to drop it anyway.

Even taking into account a little traffic I’d still spend 2x times the amount of time going to work compared to going by car. Not to mention it’d cost about 20-30% of my net wage to do so daily.

So you agree that public transit is underfunded and shitty? That was exactly my point.

In most of the capitalist world, transit is getting increasingly defunded and low quality, except high speed rail in some countries (which idk if counts as transit)

Capitalism.

Yeah, in my opinion you were clear about that in your comment, so I guess people are just being outraged assuming that “they’re not supporting solar!!!”

I really don’t know why people are downvoting you. The internet is full of journalistic coverage of new developments in the field of photovoltaic and electric batteries, and journalistic coverage of science is generally… poor. They overstate the importance of everything because they wanna make clickbait, and the result is that it feels like there’s a nonstop of development, of new battery technologies that are gonna change the world… It’s frankly exhausting, like, give me real data as you say, such as capacity installed per year, trends in battery capacities and prices and the reasons for that, and so on and so forth.

I hope solar eventually beats ICE engines for efficiency

I’m not sure your comment makes a lot of sense. The problem with solar isn’t that it’s not as efficient as internal combustion engines, it’s that you can’t generate electricity on-demand. But it’s already a cheaper form of energy than burning fossil fuels in many countries.

Not gonna argue anymore with someone who declares themselves a leftist and complains about “USSR being fascist” while literally parroting made-up fascist talking points. You’ve literally moved the goalposts from the original Francoist “the prices they paid were abusively high”, to “well it was supposed to be aid and then they started charging for it!!!”. You’re a fucking pathetic excuse for a leftist for parroting fascist propaganda. Don’t bother answering, you pro-fascist piece of shit, you’re blocked from now on.

Dude, you’re insufferable, trying to explain to a Spaniard how he’s actually wrong about not believing the fascist propaganda myth of the USSR scamming Spain for weaponry. Anticommunists like you would literally rather swallow fascist propaganda than side with leftists.