communism does not inherently mean authoritarian dictatorship

How does that work without fair elections?

Marx didn’t invent communism,

Maybe not, but his definition is the basis from which all others are derived. So any other form needs to be specified IMO.
I am very well aware that no 2 practical attempts at implementation are alike. Hell some of them aren’t anything more than simple dictatorships, like North Korea.

E.g. the UK is seen as a “democracy”

It’s basically as bad as USA, and also a dysfunctional democracy. They even had the chance to change that in a public vote, and the idiots voted against it!!

A FAIR democracy is a democracy where all interest groups can have representation, although you typically have a lower limit of 2-5% vote to get representation.
And where every vote is counted equally, so a vote in 1 end of the country counts as much for representation as a vote in the other end.
And representation is according to the populous vote and nothing else.

My perspective is that I don’t see democracy as any more virtuous than authoritarianism as a political system when elected officials aren’t serving the people’s interests.

Well technically it isn’t really a democracy then, because their job is to serve their constituents.
Of course the worse the democracy the more that can be the case. And USA is a very bad democracy.
Still even that was way better than not having democracy until the Republicans went full blown sociopathic, and was still rewarded government power.
Something I suspect will only happen in a very bad democracy without equal democratic representation by minor parties.

Marxist-Leninism

Yes Karl Marx actually defined socialism/communism, so if you use something else, it is not socialism or communism but something else.
Just like Social Democracy is VERY different from socialism.

The word socialism has changed meaning over time, it used to mean the same as communism, but now some people use it to mean Social Democrat, which is very confusing.

But there is no doubt about what Communism is, that term never changed its meaning, and Marxism is by definition what communism is.

Literally all communism is boiled down to is workers owning their workplaces cooperatively.

Not true, Communism also contain ideas about society, and that for instance child labor is illegal.

Completely wrong because it is both, communism is an alternative to democracy, all systems use capitalism in some way to function, even communism, the capitalist part is just extremely heavily regulated, and you don’t have free markets.
Communism was also traditionally called socialism, and the alternative to that is called social democracy, because contrary to communism/socialism Social Democracy is based on democracy, and not a one party system as Communism.

Yes that is absolutely insane and undemocratic.

Communism is one of the systems we know for sure demonstrably is worse for the general populace than democracy.
Others are Patriarchy and dictatorship.

Although for 50 years Americans have fucked up their democracy so badly, it’s beginning to look like it doesn’t matter.
But that is only until democracy is overturned, THEN it will show that democracy is obviously superior to the authoritarian dictatorship that is likely to come after.
Even a dysfunctional democracy like the American is better than any of the 3 mentioned above!

What would be better would be to strengthen democracy, and improve protections of citizens, and regulate capitalism better.
All of those are best done with a functioning democracy like for instance the Scandinavian model that is based on Social Demoracy.

Cooperations are legal entities, and in legalese that is called “a legal person”.
That is the case probably everywhere. Because that generally is part of how you take a company to court, and hold a company responsible.
But only in USA is it taken to such extremes that companies have for instance democratic rights, which is completely insane, because that is not what it is supposed to mean in a democracy.

I have no idea why they call it “integration”? It’s just a search option like any other search option.
Personally I have 10 search options enabled already, so this is number 11, and if I don’t like it, I will just disable it, which is dead easy to do, with a button for the purpose of changing settings right beside the search options.

I tried it for 2 terms I know very well, and the response was very good, but I would never trust an AI response without double checking.

You lose, I lose, everybody loses.

So… what?
I think that’s a big so… nothing. Biden never interfered in any investigations which is tradition that the president stay out of.
Trump is breaking every rule written and unwritten.

You defending Trump with a bad whataboutism example that is an obvious false equivalence is disgusting.

Many headlines with claims about Trump fumes, but I’ve never seen any actual fumes.
But to be safe I’d keep my distance, because if the fumes are real, I bet they are seriously toxic.

Guy on drugs wants war on drugs.

If you think this is bad, it’s actually just a small taste of what’s to come, when MAGA has turned USA into a full fledged dictatorship.
What Americans are experiencing now is PEANUTS, compared to what they are risking if they don’t act.

Bye bye democracy = bye bye freedom.
And on top of that, fascism will be extremely harmful to the American economy, and normal people will suffer a dramatic downturn in available income, as power is concentrated 100% among the rich.

Best hopes and wishes to the Americans that stand up for democracy.

It is not “normal” to run a 4 year money loser and claiming to be worth billions.

Maybe not, but it is absolutely normal to lose money for years to make a profit later.
Microsoft was ready to lose money on Xbox for 10 years to take a place in the console market. And it’s a very profitable market for them now.
Microsoft tried some of the same with Windows Phone, where they invested billions for years before they gave up.

One of the most hyped AI companies is probably OpenAI, and they absolutely have products that makes them money. They are not profitable yet.
But among the bigger stock holders are Nvidia and Microsoft, and if OpenAI goes under, they will absolutely survive just fine. But I don’t think they will.
OpenAI is owned by companies that know how to make money, and apparently OpenAI knows how to do it too, and has been quicker to make money on for instance ChatGPT than Google was on making money on YouTube.

Some AI companies will go down, that’s the nature of being in a cutting edge business, and it’s the nature of competition. But I think the AI business will mature and stabilize like most businesses have, not burst like a bubble.

Nobody called it a bubble when the smartphone market exploded. Because everybody could see the value of the product, although it’s not quite the same, many companies have been forced out of the smartphone market due to competition. I think the AI market will be mostly similar.

I think VW had it right when you had to do it manually. But I’m not sure that’s still the case.

Hungary is an outlier not the norm.
EU is doing fine in general, out of 27 countries obviously there will be problems in some of them.
Hungary may very well be on the way to a better path by next election. Orban thought he was clever playing both sides, but I think that game is over.

“Entire rest of the world” is of course an exaggeration, just look at Russia. But overall if it wasn’t for Russia and USA we would be doing pretty well in the world right now.

For me that’s no different than anything else Stelantis.

If functionality can be restore, the car was not bricked.

Bricked means beyond repair. The device is as worthless as a brick because it can’t be repaired, and it has absolutely zero functionality.

So yes it must be comforting for people to know that they can have their car working again.

If it doesn’t pop, it’s not really a bubble, it just looks like it.