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Huey Percy Newton - New General Megathread for the 17th-23th of February 2025

“I dissuade Party members from putting down people who do not understand. Even people who are unenlightened and seemingly bourgeois should be answered in a polite way. Things should be explained to them as fully as possible. I was turned off by a person who did not want to talk to me because I was not important enough. Maurice just wanted to preach to the converted, who already agreed with him. I try to be cordial, because that way you win people over. You cannot win them over by drawing the line of demarcation, saying you are on this side and I am on the other; that shows a lack of consciousness. After the Black Panther Party was formed, I nearly fell into this error. I could not understand why people were blind to what I saw so clearly. Then I realized that their understanding had to be developed.”

― Huey P. Newton :huey-wut:

Huey Newton, born on the 17th of february in 1942, was a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (‪1966 - 1982‬). Together with Seale, Newton created a ten-point program which laid out guidelines for how the African-American community could achieve liberation. In the 1960s, under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs (renamed survival programs in 1971) including food banks, medical clinics, HIV support groups, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing co-ops, and their own ambulance service.

The most famous of these programs was the Free Breakfast for Children program which fed thousands of impoverished children daily during the early 1970s. Newton also co-founded the Black Panther newspaper service which became one of America's most widely distributed African-American newspapers. In 1967, he was involved in a shootout which led to the death of the police officer John Frey. Although arrested for the murder of Frey, the charges were eventually dismissed.

In 1970, after his release from prison, Newton received an invitation to visit the People's Republic of China. Newton made the trip in late September 1971 with fellow Panthers, Elaine Brown and Robert Bay, and stayed for 10 days. At every Chinese airport he landed in, Newton was greeted by thousands of people waving copies of the "Little Red Book" and displaying signs that said "we support the Black Panther Party, down with US imperialism" or "we support the American people but the Nixon imperialist regime must be overthrown."

By mid-decade, Newton faced more criminal charges when he was accused of murdering a 17-year-old sex worker and assaulting a tailor. To avoid prosecution, he fled to Cuba in 1974, but returned to the U.S. three years later. The murder case was eventually dismissed after two trials ended with deadlocked juries, while the tailor refused to testify in court in relation to assault charges.

Despite graduating from high school not knowing how to read, he taught himself literacy by reading Plato's Republic and earned a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness program in 1980. In 1989, he was murdered in Oakland, California by Tyrone Robinson, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death. We will have to be driven out with a stick.”

― Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide :huey-wut:

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KuroXppi [they/them] - 10mon

dojt say anything just appreciate this trans rights furret

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GalaxyBrain [they/them] - 10mon

Under communism it will be a job to go around in a lab coat with measuring tape and see how long or tall things are and write it in a log.

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Lerios [hy/hym] - 10mon

chat my favourite PhD scheme just scheduled me for an interview powercry-1 powercry-2

like i could go back into the science that i love, help improve the enviroment, AND quit my dumbshit finance job?? it would be a genuine miracle please please please please

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] - 10mon

my girlfriend...

she's good, folks a-little-trolling

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viva_la_juche [they/them, any] - 10mon

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buh [she/her, any] - 10mon

Nothing could have prepared me to hear my gen X groyper corporate boss call a KPI “mid”

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peppersky [he/him, any] - 10mon

Read more books people, it's good for you 👍

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Coolkidbozzy [he/him] - 10mon

Breaking news: Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent

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Sickos [they/them, it/its] - 10mon

I combatted liberalism harder than usual and it balkanized my lib friend group. This is uncomfortable, but it feels like I have moved from the absence of tension to the presence of justice--though there was a lot of tension at the end.

This may leave me and my partner temporarily without any form of support group, which is unfortunate; but they seem surprisingly unbothered by the outcome and approve of me sticking to my morals rather than capitulating. I got a good one, comrades.

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DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

"Gen Z is lazy!"

Reality:

doomjak: "Ok bossman, the friendly face of the republicans is in all government, we've given you subsidy after subsidy, all products are expensive and rent is high so any pay you make will go right back to you, and you've just had the best 5 years of your life.......NOW will you start making jobs?"

porky-happy: "ummmmmmmmmm..........No thanks, all set here! <3"

No one wants to fucking hire anymore. All my 20s are going to be wasted solely because some dipshit suits decided to take away all the jobs because "muh efficiency".

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] - 10mon

Get tired

Have to cry

What did my body mean by this?

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

wtf I thought trump got rid of DEI in games??

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x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its] - 10mon

"Impeach" is such a funny word. Sure, ➡️🍑 the politician. Physically shrink him and then hide him inside the peach fruit. That'll really show him.

(Does anyone who is good at language want to tell me the actual etymology of "impeach"?)

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Blockocheese [any] - 10mon

How did I just see a job asking for a bachelor's and ten fucking years of experience

80k a year btw

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Carl [he/him] - 10mon

lmao a guy on lemm.ee is still arguing with me over a post I made eight days ago.

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miz [any, any] - 10mon

ma'am your baby is a groyper
assigned groyper at birth
gender reveal but it's groyper
green balloons and pepe

DOX that BABY

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Blockocheese [any] - 10mon

Found a hair salon where everyone masks including the customers crush

Might be able to actually get a haircut i like instead of the meh cut I do on myself

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CthulhusIntern [he/him] - 10mon

Puzzle game idea: A guy eats food. You are his digestive system. You take the letters from the food he ate, and make words out of it, the rest is turned into poo. The longer the word, the more points you get. The game will be called "Vowel Movement".

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Blockocheese [any] - 10mon

A couple of years ago I saved a bunch of memes relating to mental health problems that were pretty honest/edgy about what they're like (think bpdmemes on reddit) and I went through some yesterday and don't relate to like any of them anymore and was hit with the undeniable proof that I've grown for the better comfy

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Hohsia [any] - 10mon

I wrote a dystopian short story the other day about a government that decides to use gas chambers for the death penalty because it’s much more economically efficient than lethal injection

Arizona just proposed a bill that would do exactly that

i-cant

Is my phone also spying on my notes app or is this a coincidence

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viva_la_juche [they/them, any] - 10mon

Woke door

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 10mon

Yin Yang

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Coolkidbozzy [he/him] - 10mon

lmao the truest believer in the DNC at my workplace thinks they need to get more racist to win

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

I’m amazed everyone in a 2km radius of musk doesn’t just cringe to death.

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

“Imagine the reaction if Luigi was black or a Muslim” they literally arrested him for being too hot and bisexual

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Three logicians walk into a bar, the bartender asks “does everyone want a beer?”

The first logician says “maybe”

The second logician says “maybe”

The third logician says “are we still doing this dumb bit?”

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

Is anyone else weird about death like I am? Like a lot of people treat it with such reverence which I just don't understand. My granny died recently, and while it was sad to see her go, she was old and suffering very badly from dementia. But I wasnt that upset about it, and all my friends were acting like I was super fragile. One of my friends asked me how the funeral was, I said it was alright, and she was like "ok got it, you don't want to talk about it". Like what the fuck? That's not what I said at all. It was a nice ceremony and I was doing fine, was I supposed to pretend to be sadder than I was? People die, acting like death is a taboo is so strange to me. Also I've never understood people talking about disrespecting the dead and stuff like that. Like if you step on a grave, the corpse won't care, it's a corpse. It can be disrespectful to the living, so I don't do it, but the dead won't be upset. Dead people arent happier when they're dead, they're just dead.

I don't believe in ghosts or spirituality or an afterlife, but it seems like most people do. Also one of my friends said that people who don't believe in ghosts are stupid which pissed me off because like no that's not stupid to not believe in ghosts. I don't care if you believe in ghosts, why would you care if I don't.

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ClathrateG [none/use name] - 10mon

I posted a picture of McCain at the euromaidan at reddit thinking it may raise some questions, but the libs are all like 'fuck yeah remember when republicans had balls' lmao

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Goblinmancer [any] - 10mon

Church that supports gay marriage because premarital sex is a sin.

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Grownbravy [they/them] - 10mon

Honestly, when i think about how there are people who logged +2000 hrs of the video game Destiny, i wonder how that’s not considered self-abuse

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Carl [he/him] - 10mon

The Wild Thornberries 2: Eliza and Debbie are grown up and have ended up carrying on their parents' legacy as nature documentarians. Donnie has become a tech guy and runs the camera, and the joke is that even though he speaks English now he's still completely unintelligible when he talks because he uses excessive zoomer internet slang. Darwin is still alive but pretty old by chimpanzee standards and is the most grounded member of the cast. The whole family is vegan.

The whole show has a doomer vibe, with the pair often feeling like they're just cataloguing the Earth's final days. In half of the episodes they revisit a location from the show's original run and explore the ways in which it has been fucked by climate change and/or overdevelopment. Eliza can still talk to animals but there are fewer to talk to than there used to be. A recurring villain is their producer who is always trying to get them to do vapid influencer shit.

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viva_la_juche [they/them, any] - 10mon

Passed a billboard in Spanish for Israel, one that said HARD MOUNTAIN DEW IS HERE, and one for a clinic peddling ozempic and then got held up by a cops funeral procession

Real Burgerpunk 2025 hours on the commute

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DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them] - 10mon

my wife is taking a week off work next week so we can hang out. gonna be playing undertale on saturday, because somehow she has never played it. how a transgender, autistic, lesbian, in her mid 20s has never played undertale utterly baffles me. HER OTHER PARTNER WAS A HOMESTUCK KINNIE BACK IN THE DAY, LIKE HOW HAVE YOU NOT PLAYED UNDERTALE

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blipblip [they/them] - 10mon

Caught a cutie staring at me on the train multiple times this morning. Then a lady at work complimented my hair just now. I'm gonna be riding this high for weeks.

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

CANADA WINS IN OVERTIME lets-fucking-go

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viva_la_juche [they/them, any] - 10mon

Step 1. Defeating fascism with the power of dance

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Carl [he/him] - 10mon

I hate how listening to any socialist country's historical music on any platform will inevitably lead to the music from Red Alert. I never played that game but I know it's fucking music by heart because even if I try to filter it out it always gets put into my playlist.

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peppersky [he/him, any] - 10mon

eating some spicy tofu skin roll (spicy) and damn they weren't kidding when they said spicy. before i opened this thing i was like "this shit better be spicy" but whew

edit: there's some cartoon figurines drinking and dancing on this packaging i better open another beer

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

My spotify ads be like "hey you poor fuck have you thought about gambling" 🤑, please I live my life on the edge everyday I don't need the cheap thrills of scratching a lotto ticket 🙄

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allthetimesivedied [they/them, she/her] - 10mon

I just found out they actually confirmed RFK Jr., lol.

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Sickos [they/them, it/its] - 10mon

Ok Huey but what if the person who does not understand is a landlord?

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mechwarrior2 [he/him] - 10mon

(Me when I'm shitting) can't rush greatness comfy-cool

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edge [he/him] - 10mon

Some Zionist on Twitter said "waiting for Hamas to visit you and your family" and people from many different countries are quote tweeting with "when Hamas visits me and my family" and a picture of a feast or party.

Musk must have gotten big mad because you can't see the quote tweets on that tweet anymore, but someone gathered a bunch of them.

(CW: meat) https://twitter.com/Hamzakk/status/1893300653511852533

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

My self image bounces up and down but highest is in the middle of the night waking up to piss and getting a glance of myself in the mirror, It's like damn I'm hot. I later return when fully awake and go "wha happun?"

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Blockocheese [any] - 10mon

Cats having their own weed is so important

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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 10mon

This guy I know spends most of his free time watching Asian women dancing. Either South Korean K-Pop stars, Japanese baseball cheerleaders, or Chinese girls he finds on Youtube Shorts. I find it kind of creepy tbh.

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Babs [she/her] - 10mon

Lmao my boss actually just said "fuck tankies".

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FumpyAer [any, comrade/them] - 10mon

A few cardinals are hanging out outside my window.

The male's colors really stand out against the snow.

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SpiderFarmer [he/him] - 10mon

Yes, the hole in which I shout random shit is back. Hopefully I can record a demo song or two. Or even four tonight. Glad I got ahead of pace on FAWM, cause the past few days sucked.

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WhyEssEff [she/her] - 10mon

binging FD Signifier's catalogue and reading NieR Automata fanfiction and posting on my phone #screenmaxxing #bloodlinecurse

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 10mon

go to fast food place

make my order to go

get my food

take my food to a table and eat there

my trickery and deceit knows no bounds

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

I had a pretty good day

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

I hate smuglord ”I simply don’t define myself by my work” okay but your work does define where and how you spend about 1/3 of your life. Like you can’t smugly dismiss people being unhappy with it. It’s not their personal moral failing to be bothered that 1/3 or more of their life just sucks.

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DengistDonnieDarko [none/use name] - 10mon

everyone is turning so fucking shitty. wether it's just existing in public, online in games, people on websites, it's everywhere. everyone is so mad and on edge, ready to start fights with anyone else at the drop of a hat. it's like people are going feral, it's so fucked.

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

moving in with my former best friend and slowly realising he's actually a complete asshole is not so fun. also living with his narcissistic bully of a girlfriend is not so fun

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UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her] - 10mon

There are those who will say "Your dog is 8 1/2 years old. She's not a puppy anymore. Stop calling her that."

And to those people I say: No.

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

i hate academica i hate college i hate my professors i hate reading academic texts i hate having adhd aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Babs [she/her] - 10mon

I was wiring my robot together but fucked up working in such tight spaces and accidentally shorted the lipo batteries and it almost exploded in my hands. Had to rip apart some melting-hot wires to stop the reaction.

Very scary but also now I need a new battery.

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wombat [none/use name] - 10mon

it is february 17 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

I survived chapo.chat and hexbear.net without being banned this whole time despite ::: spoiler spoiler being on here without my parent's permission :::

As long as no one snitches I'm sure I'll make it through hexbear.chat too catgirl-smug

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CDommunist [she/her, love/loves] - 10mon

dracula-flow

I move to swing states just to make my non voting hurt even more

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BigBoyKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them] - 10mon

99% sure I'm going to be fired in the next two weeks so my boss can consolidate power.

✍️

I hope one day there will be a trial.

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ratboy [they/them] - 10mon

::: spoiler cw menstruation/self harm


Ive had an IUD thats at the end of its life and it got rid of my extremely dysfunctional periods which has been a godsend. For the past couple of months, though, they've come back very lightly and I've noticed that I get really extreme depression and suicidal ideation right before it starts. It's so debilitating; idk if I have PMDD or what but I really hope that a new IUD makes it all go away. I fucking hate having a period and I can't keep going on like this feeling suicidal every fucking month. That's what my mood stabilizers have been for and I hate that it just feels like they aren't working anymore. I can't live like this

:::

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

a few days ago I hung out with some cats

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

One of the funniest jokes in the history of movies: Ted's drinking problem from Airplane

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take_five_seconds - 10mon

so far my favorite One Piece villain has been Captain Smoker

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buh [she/her, any] - 10mon

I haven't fully articulated my thoughts on this, but I feel like there's a throughline from edgy teenagers who like to "ironically" say things like the gamer word and "hitler did nothing wrong" because "it's just words bro, why are you so triggered?", to right wing adult debatebros who are like "I'm just asking questions, dabbling in the realm of thoughts and ideas, why won't you engage in a civil discussion with me? perhaps irrationality in your disagreement is causing you to react emotionally smuglord very-intelligent "

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

There’s always something funny about the Canadian federal conservative leaders trying to attack “elites”, or public servants, or even Trudeau’s privileged background. Not a single one of them in the past 25 years has held a real job for more than a year their entire lives. They are career politicians, they don’t know what it means to work in either the private or public sector. They have less real world experience than even Trudeau. It just makes me roll my eyes every time.

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

Currently in an absolutely disastrous group project. We're supposed to be doing presentations in two hours, but two people have done the same task. Everything we communicate is in a WhatsApp group with four separate conversations at once. Someone wants us all to make a collective PowerPoint even though we're just supposed to read an individual thing out loud. It's such a mess. Thank fucking god this is individually graded

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

They heinous cuz they anus

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WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

motherfucking meet the grahams is playing at the grill I’m at rn lmfao??

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Sending out an email to everyone in government that’s like “do u do work? Y/N”

Jesus Christ, how is everything Elon musk does just a dumb guy’s idea of that thing? How does a guy who has allegedly managed companies thinks this is a good idea? Bring back Hunter Biden, we need a competent drug addict in charge again.

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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

Max Payne 3 was certainly a product of its time, didn't end up loving it. I am loving Red Dead Redemption 1 so far though, the reactiveness and liveability is far higher for me than in GTA, with a much better story.

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buh [she/her, any] - 10mon

So many dean norris emotes, but when are we getting :deanis:

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peppersky [he/him, any] - 10mon

i got that room i was writing about yesterday. very cool to finally have the chance to move out of this shitty place after three years and it's very cool that it is comparatively really cheap too, but i somehow can't really get too excited about it all. I don't know, moving is going to be quite a lot of stress, I need a lot of new furniture and all, I still need to deal with my roommate here if i don't want to pay double rent for a few months and it's also just not really any closer to the city centre than my current place. It sucks just how many compromises you need to make if you don't have infinite money. Like I'd love to have friends over more often, but getting them to take the train there seems almost impossible, even though it would take them less than half an hour or so. Hard to feel particularly excited, which sucks. I dunno. It's good that things are changing either way.

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ClathrateG [none/use name] - 10mon

Watching some netflix slop; it's funny seeing people portraying 'normal' US presidents in contemporary shows lol

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wombat [none/use name] - 10mon

it is february 21 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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CDommunist [she/her, love/loves] - 10mon

Fuck all cars forever

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

Most right-wing nationalists in the USA, Britain and France who say they dislike the Nazis don't have a very good reason, since their rhetoric is just as genocidal. It's tempting to say that theyre lying, and they dont actually dislike Nazis, but I believe that most of them do believe that they're better than the Nazis.

But what they hate about the Nazis isn't what they did, but that they lost. If the Nazis had won, most of these people would be frothing at the mouth in celebration. They don't hate Nazi ideology, they hate what they perceive to be losers, and the Nazis were pretty big losers

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KuroXppi [they/them] - 10mon

secret re-pinned megathread 🤫

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Did someone post a picture of his mom with Motörhead when she was 15, without realizing that bands in the 1960s and 70s absolutely did not respect age of consent laws?

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

Cowboy Bebop's future worldbuilding is objectively bleak- Earth is destroyed with civilization forced to move underground, humans in space seem to live only on terraformed patches of land on the solar system's planets and moons while surrounded by desert if they're on Mars, Venus, or Io, or surrounded by ocean on Ganymede, or in the frigid cold on Callisto. It's a capitalistic future with resultant crime, poverty, and imperialist wars. And yet it's so fully realized and interesting that I kind of want to live there. I wouldn't take it over the Star Trek future, but there is something strangely appealing about it.

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CthulhusIntern [he/him] - 10mon

Sketch idea: A bird person goes on Hot Ones. Since birds do not have the ability to react to capsaicin, they just eat everything without any problem, and wonder what the big deal is supposed to be.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

First sign of the free market collapsing is the large amount of valentines day cheese I saw on sale, folx it ain't looking good is all I can say

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KuroXppi [they/them] - 10mon

Cha cha not running real smooth (for me :()

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Beetle [hy/hym] - 10mon

Turned off notifications for all my apps (have to open message app to see messages & same for all other apps) and have to say it’s very relaxing. I have sound off always but not seeing any notifications when looking at my phone is really nice too.

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LocalOaf [they/them, she/her] - 10mon

biblically-accurate-kitty

(using the last poop bag in the roll to scoop the litter box)

RAMIREZ, LAST BAG, MAKE IT COUNT

dprk-stare

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KuroXppi [they/them] - 10mon

dprk-general it is me, General Megathread

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x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its] - 10mon

Going to logout for a week or so, see y'all later, please @ me if any cute Pokémon get posted in the meanwhile and/or if some really important news happen

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

It sucks that millennial nostalgia is just going to bring back calling people the r-slur and ironic homophobia, instead of Halo lan parties and listening to the Halo soundtrack on repeat.

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ratboy [they/them] - 10mon

I've been trying to cook more now that I'm unemployed. Still extremely burnt out so it's hard to keep up with every day, but I'm trying to steer myself and my partner to more plant based, high protein foods and it's been good so far. I made a tofu ricotta spread today that slaps. I used soft tofu so it's really creamy and I think I'm gonna use it for an Alfredo sauce and I'll use it in place of cream cheese on toast and bagels. tofu-cool

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plinky [he/him] - 10mon

I've been playing horizon forbidden west (the lore is cool and fine), but wtf is going on with acting in big games (aside from daniels from the wire ♥), it's just weird pauses, the faces could be emotive sometimes, but not always, dramatic but unrealistic poses and positioning.

Strange disconnect tbh, i wonder if i got unused to aaa shenanigans or oblivion voice acting is still the golden standard for big rpg games. But i think tomb raider was fine like 10 years ago? gta 4/5 was also passable, maybe it's scroll wheels dialogue problem? but then it's easy to fix, just don't do 1s pauses, and record dialogue in tandem? It's not active dialogue ffs, why does it have feeling of being recorded separately.

*dark souls lines are memorable, but they don't talk to silent protagonist, so it's easy to do there. AC black flag also didn't have this problem i don't think

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LocalOaf [they/them, she/her] - 10mon

Garfield L'Zanya not-immune-to-propaganda mondays wonder-who-thats-for

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KuroXppi [they/them] - 10mon

Idk if im imagining it but I remember bladee posting here once

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Carl [he/him] - 10mon

Just found out that the nypd took all the ceo playing cards lmao

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

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mathemachristian [he/him] - 10mon

Uh so the megathreads are back? Anything new about the domain?

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Goblinmancer [any] - 10mon

Joker burned money to make dollar stronger, hes a hero against inflation!!!

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Soy right

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President_Obama [they/them, she/her] - 10mon

Met a pretty boy yesterday

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CrispyFern [fae/faer, any] - 10mon

every day I wake up….

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Musk making all these planes crash so Cybertruck becomes the second most dangerous form of transportation.

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∞ 🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided] - 10mon

foucault-madness Oh god oh fuck this book is 19 chapters, this is going to take forever

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Carl [he/him] - 10mon

been enjoying Avowed, my biggest complaint is basically the exact same complaint I have about every single open world western RPG which is that my character just doesn't feel unique enough and the world doesn't feel simulated enough. Like I feel like every game in the genre since Daggerfall has been walking down a path of streamlining gameplay and tightening the writing, and that's fine, but there's this totally unexplored territory where they could go the entire opposite direction and make a game where you are a smol bean in a big simulated fantasyverse.

The only counter examples that come to mind are Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode, Caves of Qud, uhhhh that one game that's like a simulation of being in middle ages Scandinavia...

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

I always wonder how miserable your typical mid-tier MBA who has never programmed in their life but is an “AI specialist” and posts all day on linked in are. They’d be much happier in the older days and followed the traditional path for this type of guy, being a middling sales guy in the 4th largest bleach supplier in Wyoming who thinks he’s Napoleon.

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KnilAdlez [none/use name] - 10mon

Alright, I have a plan to launch class consciousness in America, but be forewarned: it's cringe:

I Challenge RFK Jr to boxing match.

I send the challenge to national newspapers, in a letter calling the Democrats weak and blaming this administration on politicians and their billionaire sponsors being upset at the multiple successful union drives and strikes during Biden's administration. And make it clear that the politicians won't help so we all have to take this fight in our own hands.

RFKJ takes the bait, and I beat up a 60 year old man. The rest will be history.

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VHS [he/him] - 10mon

I like operating tanks because it's the only time I can accurately say "I don't have depression". tankie

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TheLepidopterists [he/him] - 10mon

Sometimes need to know weather info for other places for a couple of tasks at work, and right after reading about IRS mass firings, found out that the NOAA is getting mass firings.

Complained to a couple of coworkers "well there goes weather dot gov" and one of them said "I don't care what they cut as long as it gets inflation down."

I asked him how he thought putting a bunch of skilled workers into unemployment was going to do anything but depress wages and he said he didn't know but burning it all down would let us build something better.

I still hate liberals but I have to apologize for ever thinking they were more annoying than conservatives. I want to pluck out my eardrums after listening to this horseshit.

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buh [she/her, any] - 10mon

sometimes I wonder if I've been mentioned in the hexbear kiwifarms thread

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

Im just trying to book a Ryanair flight and I detest how its just acceptable for companies to design their websites to trick people into spending more money. I have to scroll through so much shit I don't want to buy, they highlight the upgrades and make it hard to find the normal options that I actually want. If I was old or inexperienced with technology I could very easily be swindled out of so much money for shit I don't need.

But the most vile thing is that you can PAY EXTRA to offset the carbon emissions. Utterly evil. Guilt the working class into paying for carbon credits so you can continue to pollute the planet. The person who came up with that should be shot in the head.

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TheOtherwise [none/use name] - 10mon

Looks like Die Linke will get representation. They're at ~8.5% right now

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

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homhom9000 [she/her] - 10mon

Guy who reads 1 chapter of a book and immediately tells everybody what they just read (it's me).

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peppersky [he/him, any] - 10mon

Had another roommate casting at a place that's literally half the monthly rent of where I currently live. If I got the room that would almost completely solve my financial problems overnight.

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FumpyAer [any, comrade/them] - 10mon

I have strep/the flu/something and omg it sucked so bad. I think I'm on the way out though.

Neti pot + lemon tea + salt water gargles + dayquil/nyquil.

I add honey to the salt water and it helps me not gag.

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WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

Dormmates have made what they believe to be the worst tasting weed brownies of ALL TIME lmao

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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 10mon

Hate how US media is so omnipotent that it affects local culture. Younger people are calling themselves “Latino,” which is something we don’t often do, and white Latin Americans have learned “white-passing.” They love using that to prove they don’t have white privileged and aren’t really white. I’ve seen white Guatemalans with blonde hair and blue eyes saying this because they get a tan from being outside all day.

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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony was more fun than the base game and TLaD by a good deal. I think overall San Andreas is a better game though, the missions were more fun and the tone was better for what GTA is trying to be. Not the biggest fan of GTA overall but it's nice to be completing these games and scratching them off of my backlog, so it's still worth it for me.

Really, more than anything, I am trying to restrain myself from jumping into yet another New Vegas replay, there are a bunch of exciting mods I want to try.

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Blockocheese [any] - 10mon

I wish we could steal some of the bots from the deprogram sub

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Blockocheese [any] - 10mon

I hate libs so much theyre so spineless and pathetic

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KuroXppi [they/them] - 10mon

Just saw a person walking their huge cat off-leash through a park and the birds were flipping OUT. Swooping, disrtress calls, making it super clear that they were frightened. The person with the cat didn't even register. idgi i really don't

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SexUnderSocialism [she/her] - 10mon

I saw someone on Twitter with the username:

the 'death to america' people had a point

peltier-laugh

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

You claim to be a capitalist but you never wear any caps

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FunkyStuff [he/him] - 10mon

The discussion around Conclave (2024) is decroded.

::: spoiler spoiler So many people talking about the twist while misunderstanding it. Some think that Vincent is transmasculine (or even transfeminine!) despite the movie spelling out very clearly that he's intersex and didn't know until late into his life. All the discussion of the twist is so superficial, like it's just supposed to be for shock, instead of engaging with the way the character himself spells out how his existence is an example of the ambiguities the Church struggles with. The themes of the movie couldn't be more clear! Yes, Tedesco is a goofy vapelord, and if you ever meet real world tradcaths you'll find they're extremely common in real Catholic spaces and they behave in even goofier ways.

I even saw someone say "the movie isn't really for tradcaths it's more for the Francis lib types. No! The whole point of Bellini's failed campaign is that liberal compromise and leaser evilism is ineffective and only lends more strength to reactionaries and corrupt bad actors such as Tremblay! It rejects liberalism!

:::

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

If they had internet in 1922 you KNOW ao3 authors would be putting comments on their stories like "hey sorry for the eight month hiatus, I joined the revolution and had to kill a bunch of whites :3 but I'm back now! And I can finally write more Jesus x Judas fanfic!!!"

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

Looking through indeed and see secret service posting for only 40k, really seems low imo

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 10mon

trying to find a way to make one of the dumbest EU4 runs i could possibly think of and I don't know of how I'm going to make Mayan Prussia work in theory, let alone actually achieve it in game

that being said, +10% infantry combat ability, -10% land maintenance, AND -20% coring cost reduction on top of Prussian ideas? good lord you'd be unstoppable

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GalaxyBrain [they/them] - 10mon

Folks, I think I might not like x files that much. I'm still in season 1 but it's a combination of boring and if Joe Rogan wrote twin peaks. They just called humans carnivores. I'm watching the Jersey Devil episode and the drawing of it the homeless dude provided reminds me of a Dennis Reynolds drawing of a woman. It's dumb as shit but in a way that I think has cause some serious damage so it's hard to have fun with it.

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Objectively I have a cushy job but it’s making me so anxious and depressed. I wish I’d just like followed my father’s footsteps (against his advice) and became a trucker. Maybe not gone the overly physically intensive route he did, he has to leave the cabin to do loading and unloading himself a lot which isn’t common. Like just driving around alone listening to podcasts seems nice. I just hated the constant do-nothing meetings, or doing completely pointless and ambiguously defined tasks. I really can’t keep doing this, but I can’t find an alternative. I keep applying to other jobs in bursts and getting hopeless after hearing nothing back.

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

How is there no notification timeout window on phones. I know people are messaging me, my phone vibrated. I do not need it to vibrate 17 times because the group chat is active. I don’t think shit used to be this annoying but I guess we used to have separate IM and group chat apps.

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

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Rojo27 [he/him] - 10mon

My posting power has been greatly reduced due to all of the work I've been doing the past week. I barely even have time to lurkooooooooooooooh

I'm legit just running myself into the ground. Feeling so tired and sleepy. And even a bit light headed at times. Not sure if its just that I'm experiencing some long covid symptoms because I really do have a lot to do right now.

Also talked to my crush/friend and she was telling me how she had wanted to send me a picture of the trinket keychain thinkingy I got her Valentine's and how she changed her mind because it was stupid/silly and she'd rather show me in person and in my head I'm just like "I stop myself from texting you thinking that way too"cri

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KuroXppi [they/them] - 10mon

I (mentally and to myself) called it that as the bird plague picks up steam in the USA there'd be an increase in 'new virus in China' articles. In a group chat a member just shared 'new coronavirus found in wuhan' and suggested we'd be going back into lockdown.

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VHS [he/him] - 10mon

🚨🚨When Evil Helena spots you at the restaurant 🚨 🚨

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rafflesia [she/her, doe/deer] - 10mon

whyyyyy am I getting so many tiktoks that just boil down to "you don't like SNL? Wow, how original smuglord " I don't like it cuz it sucks!!!!! matt-jokerfied

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

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DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

It pisses me off just how absurd the TikTok censors are.

99% of people can say horrible stuff about trans people but the minute I say something back and call them an "idiot" all my comments get taken down.

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FunkyStuff [he/him] - 10mon

Yo if y'all saw several trans pride flags together with pro-life messages chalked on a public plaza would you also immediately assume it's a psyop?

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GalaxyBrain [they/them] - 10mon

DaVinci has to be the most over rated guy ever. He drew some lady he knew ans well as the hottest guy he could think of and the math of how to make that guy and a helicopter that doesn't work. Who hasn't?

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DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them] - 10mon

putting together the best god damn team of oil drillers you have ever god damn seen to deal with this asteroid issue

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

The new twitter meta is logging in, checking on Noah Smith and Nate Silver, and deciding which one is the bigger dumbass that day.

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UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her] - 10mon

The Changeling is so much fun in Total War Warhammer 3. Absolute shenanigans.

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

enjoying things that are bad was a huge breakthrough for me. like i get really obsessed with media extended media that is just kinda bad. specifically high school musical. wow this weed is pretty good

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KnilAdlez [none/use name] - 10mon

Well, I think it's about time my disabled ass moseys on out of America. I know how this goes, and I don't think I'm interested in watching it from the inside. Gotta find a job somewhere cool though.

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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 10mon

It’s surprising how many people don’t recognize that Nico Robin is very clearly based on Uma Thurman in the 2000’s. You can see the resemblance if you look at pictures of her in Kill Bill. Just make the hair black and you have a live-action Nico Robin.

Edit: Actually, Pulp Fiction is a better example.

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] - 10mon

@MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net

Do you like the band Rise Against? I was just listening to them and I thought of you. They are progressive and anti-imperialist in their message, but I imagine them very focused on domestic, American issues more than they speak to an international solidarity. I'm curious if you've ever heard of them.

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DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them] - 10mon

::: spoiler EU4 cope and seethe how the actual fuck do people do the Byzantium shit fam. like I can beat the Ottomans and push into Anatolia, but then the mamluks have had nobody to check their power and you're 900 million in debt, everybody in Europe wants to kill you, and Muscovy is the worlds most broke ally to ever exist

I am just pure seething rn because I was on such a good run, and then Austria got their PU on Hungary, enforced their PU on Bohemia, and then enforced a PU on Poland who was weak due to no Lithuania. and so that's it GG, mega Austria with claims all over my shit in like a 120k vs 40k fight the fuck am I supposed to do??? if you keep union of churches to have catholic allies, you get 30k rebels every 6 months in some random province, but one of them will just outpace you and you have no good allies :::

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Carl [he/him] - 10mon

just made spaghetti, and I just like, assumed that I need to put it in a bowl, but do i? Could I not simply eat this out of the pot?

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∞ 🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided] - 10mon

chad-stalin “Give us anti-aircraft guns and the aluminum and we can fight for three or four years.”


Edit: I should make clear where I am quoting from, I myself hate when people don't do that. Denna F. Flemming, The Cold War and Its Origins, 1917-1960, Vol. I, Chapter 7

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viva_la_juche [they/them, any] - 10mon

Like avowed a lot. I’m not far enough in too form to concrete of an opinion but it looks fantastic.

As much as I love crpgs it is magical being able to walk around and see stuff from the poe universe up close.

Also really digging the combat, I like how there’s little warnings for the enemy attacks, feels a lot more polished and weighty than any other scrollslike I’ve played

Oh and it’s a little goofy mechanically but I like the idea of holding a grimoire in your off hand to get the spells from it

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thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

Don't know the rules about self promotion so I can remove if needed, but I started an indie publishing company and we just published our first novel over at https://ephesus.press/. It's been very rewarding to read submissions, and I spent a long time editing this work. It's rather dark, ::: spoiler cw it's about a man who wants to demonstrate the purity of his own suicide by building and using a guillotine with a chainsaw ::: but the prose is fun and propulsive. I've got other books in the pipeline too, so we'll see how this venture plays out. Not expecting to make any money, as profit and art are an unholy fusion, but I hope I can sell at cost to keep up our funds for more books in the future.

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 10mon

wild how a 8 year old who grew on Frozen is probably graduating from college next year

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∞ 🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided] - 10mon

I'm just a cat on it's way to the moon, wishing the rocket would go faster

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

isaac-pog "Damn that warhammer sure looks expensive, how much was it?" looks beyond the forth wall and smirks "About 40k" smuglord

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

I wasn’t expecting to like slow horses as much as I do. Apparently the main things needed for me to like a spy show is for it to be funny, the spies to be massive fuckups, and Gary oldman farting a lot.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 10mon

I was thinking about why American patriotic nationalistic propogantistic films can't be sincere and can't risk being cringe. Compare Top Gun vs RRR or Wolf Warrior II. Part of it has gotta be that America doesn't have a ton to be proud about and part of the myth making in RRR and Wolf Warrior II is the struggle against western imperialism lol.

I think you could have a successful action film in that genre but it's have to center people in the Concrete Universal. Like Django, that's a dope film and it is not afraid of sincerity or seeming silly and it has great moral clarity. You could make a movie about John Brown or the Black Panthers - Hollywood tried but American cultural institutions are somewhat unwilling to let that moral certainty stand for itself and also hedge their bets and don't aim for maximal sincerity, so you get weak TV series and films like The Good Lord Bird and Judas and The Black Messiah

Ironically, I think an exploitation genre film would work great. Not enough oversight from the big institutions, it's cheap and schlock so you can be as sincere as you want. I'm thinking of what about an American version of Monkey Man, the underdog rising up against corrupt institutions within the imperial metropole

::: spoiler talking about sex trafficking I was rewatching The Wire, got to season 2, every time I see those women getting walked from the strippers to the condo under armed guard to perform sex work under coercion, I think "the day will come when they rise up and kill their pimps and get their freedom"

So what about that kind of film, that would embrace the revolutionary aesthetic, you can talk about liberty and the American Ideal, you can kill a bunch of traffickers and corrupt cops and take down a network, it's Monkey Man but in the American heartland. And you can be super sincere and risk all the cringe you want, they would represent the Concrete Universal. I think it could be fun, it is an exploitation film though so it has all those failings 😬 (but exploitation films can still be fun as fuck) :::

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x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its] - 10mon

Calls myself a programmer

Can't ever remember the git command for showing where you cloned the repository from catgirl-flop

It's git remote show origin

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DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them] - 10mon

made ravioli again yesterday. home made pasta just tastes so fucking good. it's honestly not even hard to make is the great thing, the most tedious part is I love ravioli and have to fill them one by one with my wife and it can take a while

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Rojo27 [he/him] - 10mon

MLB spring training starting✅

MLS regular season starting✅

yes-hahaha-yes-l

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CrawlMarks [he/him] - 10mon

My buddy likes to eat toast with peanut butter on it.

He is upset when I told him that is just beans on toast.

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

Can someone tell me if Trump and Elon are just ripping the copper out of a dying empire's walls, or if they genuinely believe they're doing something ideological and are just that incompetent

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Do the intelligence agencies actually have a loser department where they send you to not do work? Man I’d be actively trying to get into that place.

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Tomboymoder [she/her, pup/pup's] - 10mon

Do you just become a Facebook boomer poster when you turn 40? Why is Kyle Kulinski like this now?

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

Pope's gonna die soon.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

Visiting LA for the weekend. I get the impression that pedestrians are much more obedient of crossing signs than in NY. Also, the buttons actually work here, and aren't placebos like they are on the east coast. I am still tempted to sniff any hesitation in motorists and yell "HEY, I'm walkin over here!"

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ClathrateG [none/use name] - 10mon

I saw someone quote Orwell's erstwhile comrades from Spain which talked about how they didn't like him, anybody have it? or a similar one?

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Hohsia [any] - 10mon

Can’t wait until food is behind a locked glass pane

And people just continue going about their lives as normal lol

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CDommunist [she/her, love/loves] - 10mon

pineapple-spin

I'm only human after all

I'm only human after all

pineapple-spin

I'm giving brain for free

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LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any] - 10mon

There's a jailbreak for newer Kindle devices available. You can't do a ton with it right now as the python installer hasn't been updated to work with the newer devices yet.

If you're the kind of person that mods your devices, it's probably worth doing just to disable OTA updates before Amazon patches it.

Here's a good guide if anyone's interested:

https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

I also figured out how to disable ads on the ad supported devices. If anyone wants to know I'll post the details.

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LocalOaf [they/them, she/her] - 10mon

Lol not that it matters to anyone but I just hit a WR on CoD4 "Death from Above" arcade mode from what I've seen online

Danger close Bravo-6, repeat, danger close, over

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CocteauChameleons [none/use name] - 10mon

Huey and Jim Jones having a connection is not something I expected to see when going on his wikipedia lmao

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

Felt devastated when my last job dumped me after a week but keep hearing more about the situation and like damn. Basically was just an emergency hire and the company has a habit of doing this, now they having trouble calling back people since everyone they dumped knows their shit. Part of me wouldn't mind too much but when they dangle benefits and full time positions hell even seasonal positions in front of me like that it feels straight dirty angery

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

Me coming up with a fake name Hi there my name's... Cole, oh my last name too huh... Slaw" oh-shit

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mar_k [he/him] - 10mon

what podcasts (or twitch streamers/youtubers) do yall like or are most popular here? i need fresh background noise

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Chuds talking about “malicious compliance” are so fucking annoying. Of course I’m going to make life harder to the asshole that just fired my friends and made my life harder. They also talked about it in the context of government shutdowns and it’s like of course if my boss tells me I’m not getting paid I’m going to lock up and go home lmao.

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DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them] - 10mon

::: spoiler dumb EU4 shit Holland got the Burgundian inheretence??? I have played this game for 5 thousand hours, I genuinely did not even know Burgundys subjects even COULD get the BI. like, sure, they ofc royal marry their subjects I get how this can happen now that it has, but I am genuinely astounded I have NEVER seen this before. gonna be a chonky Netherlands this game :::

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Hohsia [any] - 10mon

Comrades, my ND ass made a damn fool out of myself tonight. Attempted to greet a friend I don’t get to see often with a handshake and hug and completely botched that shit. My self from a few years ago would’ve sent an apology text but I think I’ve moved a little. Just terrible no matter which way you look at it 🤦‍♀️

This is why I don’t do the hugs despite wanting them :( another new visual to play on loop in my head

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Getting to heaven and it’s a bunch of medieval peasants making fun of the TikTokers who don’t know how a mirror works.

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623896657364 [none/use name] - 10mon

I don't know if this has been the case for longer, but I've been checking r/europe this week, and each day literally all the threads are about Ukraine. Does Europe have nothing else going on?

no more "USA taking the minerals means they'll need to stay and defend them" cope. posters there have accepted that the USA has utterly betrayed them, and all that they sacraficed on America's behalf will have been for nothing, but they still believe their participation was entirely righteous and just path to take. every other post is fantasizing about making the EU a military super-power.

The peace deal is still gonna suck for Russia. they get part of 4 oblasts, which ukraine and other countries don't need to recognize, Azov stays, Kyiv stays in the west NGO-sphere and will keep electing anti-russia presidents, and ukraine will probably have very beefy tripwire force of EU soldiers deployed. For people to be crying this much over it, when all it's going to mean for their lives is a tiny change of borders on Apple Maps and lower energy prices is insane.

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Demifriend [she/her] - 10mon

I decided to resize and move my /home partition on my computer today without thinking about it too hard and am now wishing I had decided to do this tonight while I slept instead… It’s only copying 859 GiB, how long could it take clueless

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GalaxyBrain [they/them] - 10mon

It would be amazing if it turned out Nolan was making an adaptation of Super Mario Odyssey

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Blockocheese [any] - 10mon

Rant, I hate my step brother

::: spoiler spoiler My adoptive mother is in a pysch ward, my adoptive father is over my grandparents house taking care of my grandfather who is entirely dependant on him (after having to take care of my dying sibling, whom he's still mourning, for a year) and my step brother comes over to the house to try and dump his fucking kids on my adoptive parents, again

And I know he's gonna pull his bullshit about """"""helping""""" while his kids scream the entire time they're here and trash the house while never cleaning up after themselves or being asked to by their shitty parents as if anything he does makes up for having 5 kids who don't behave (not entirely their fault, their parents suck) around the entire time. And if I say he just does this to avoid watching the kids he decided to have im the asshole even though he's just on his fucking phone the entire time :::

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

Been trying out other jobsites besides indeed and just get a mess of emails and stuff for places I go and check that either aren't in my specifications or not even around anymore. Trying to get a government job in my town doing road work honestly I think I would prefer that vs retail but the process is slow though at least I hope it doesn't involve any pointless interview with a follow up maybe we'll call you to say nah doomer

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x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its] - 10mon

Mega Mega Mega THREAD meow-bounce

It's nice to have one again

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super_mario_420 [he/him, comrade/them] - 10mon

Can't deny that I'm a tiny little bit concerned about the level of bloodthirst I'm seeing amongst europeans lately. Is it not pretty god damn obvious the americans aren't doing this to "stand up for freedom and democracy", just like every single other conflict they've ever participated in? Like trump is the only thing that screwed it all up and that Nordstream just kind of did that. They've thrown every ally they've ever had under the bus, and europe is cucked enough to think that this time is different.

People now unironically calling for EU/NATO boots on the ground in ukraine now that the yanks are potentially (hopefully?) fucking off. Do they think they're somehow immune to the realities of war due to our "superior culture"? As if 99% of our critical infrastructure wouldn't be vapourised by Oreshniks and other incredibly fucked up weapons that we don't have any answer to within half an hour? Fuckin "the russians wouldn't stand a chance against the combined might of europe!!!", I'm sure we would do great with our sixteen dudes and a tractor that we're left with at this point, out of which thirteen would desert immediately once they realize this enemy actually poses a threat.

What a fucking suicide cult, it's unbelievable. Stand among the ashes of millions dead and ask the ghosts if honor matters, or however that quote goes.

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GalaxyBrain [they/them] - 10mon

Doing food costing at work, which is above my pay grade and not my job as a cook, but 1) I don't do my job as a line cook and have been managing my manager during rushes and 2) I get access to the exact amount thst the owner is profiting off me and the math to prove it, which is great raise ammo when combined with me doing my boss's job and 3) it's actually pretty fun, filling out spreadsheets and doing math for work is kinda relaxing when you're usually cooking a lot of food really fast and yelling across rooms to tell people what to make and when. It's also hilarious how not prepared anything was before the chef got a one month deadline to do this, which is part of getting asked to help, the other is me and the other guy working on it know how to use excel and how to gather and process data cause he's got a geology degree and I'm just really into knowing stuff and sometimes that requires doing some amateur science. So I've been going back through what invoices we have, finding the weight and cost of items, converting thar weight to grams and then getting a cost per gram which can be thousandth of a cent. After that we get to go through the recipe book and use the data we gathered to figure out the cost of prep batches and then take that and weigh out food while.we make it to order to establish a rough cost per item. The owner gave us a fucking month. We're also supposed to do the rest of the job at the same time. I don't give any fucks about the deadline, not my sword to fall on if missed so I get to just kinda gather Intel at my leisure, my job is making food so if there's food to make I gotta do that, but as far as slow time activities go, it beats the hell out of cleaning or restocking.

I really need to get in on the ground floor of a place and be a head chef. I just don't wanna be management, but also I'm.doing that job now for less money and kinda like that people do what I say at work cause they trust me and not cause they have to. Aldo I'd have to deal directly with the owner and keep them happy and I would refuse to work to their benefit and not the workers, take your skim you fucking slimeball, I can't make it a co-op but there's no way I could be a manager for long, I hate owners so much. It's a conundrum, if anyone had money and wants to open a restaurant I'll relocate and have 2 other people that would as well and between us you'd have the best and cheapest vegan food in whatever city you're in. It sucks being at the point where being good at food has hit it's limit and I'd have to be some middle manager to move up

Edit: I have literally done food costing by meal for what I normally make at home for fun. My falafel wraps were the most cost effective at like $1 per. If you have a scale at home and want to see the math behind your meals, it can be useful

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Carl [he/him] - 10mon

aww yeah I love spaghetti especially when I can make it as spicy as I want

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CDommunist [she/her, love/loves] - 10mon

YEEEEEEAGH

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] - 10mon

They should invent an innovation that isn't sitting on top of already existing products looking to extract more for less.

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Hohsia [any] - 10mon

You’ve all heard “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”

I bring you something that everyone at work has been saying lately: Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough

🥴

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

Finishing the Amon fights in yakuza are great but it really is a matter of now what when it comes to the combat in these games, like I still got the legend difficulty in kiwami to do but trying to take care of all the completion list beforehand. Still don't understand any of the gambling other than blackjack thonk-cri

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peppersky [he/him, any] - 10mon

Back in my hometown for the weekend and just on a short walk I had to take down multiple Nazi stickers some wannabe baby Nazis put up

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Carl [he/him] - 10mon

I've been thinking I should start a perpetual stew. Fuck meal prep, just toss random shit in the pot every time it starts getting low, and scoop out a bowl whenever hungry.

I'm gonna look around and try to find a cauldron for cheap.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

Making sludge for dinner/breakfast/lunch, big pot of sludge has everything you want everything you need

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homhom9000 [she/her] - 10mon

Sitch in time is the better movie but so the drama is a great precursor to the final season.

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x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its] - 10mon

timmy-pray <- The emoji is called :timmy-pray:; who is Timmy?

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

Idk arguing with people on reddit is such a waste of my time, guess it makes me realize how valuable my time is at least but thurston

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LocalOaf [they/them, she/her] - 10mon

::: spoiler milcom adjust fire mission autism shitpost

🛩️💣🔥

Recalibrate azimuth sweep angle, adjust elevation scan

GUN READY

SHOT, OUT

Cleared to engage all hostiles

Nail those guys

Roger, smoke em

Cleared to engage all of those

Rolling in

Got a moving vehicle here

Clean up that signal

Stand by to engage ground targets

Personnel RIGHT there, are you gonna get em?

Set scan range.

Target reset

Roger Bravo-6, danger close, repeat, danger close.

Nail those guys by the building

That might have been within 2 feet of him, good kill, good kill

Friendlies advancing, recommend you stick to the 25mm, danger close.

Copy, VIP in custody, returning to base

This is gonna be one hell of a highlight reel :::

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CocteauChameleons [none/use name] - 10mon

The awkward adult conversations in A Real Pain had my legs shaking

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

Is anyone else so goddamn tired

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sentient - 10mon

every episode of mr belvedere up on you tube

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Getting excited from the sound of the golden harvest logo. I may have watched too many Hong Kong movies lol

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 10mon

How do I unblock a community ?

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Carl [he/him] - 10mon

Every time my dog does something cute I reach for my camera but I'm just too slow.

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Mao please come back

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plinky [he/him] - 10mon

Also, seppo leftists (should) shut up about bob dylan, it has been waxing and waning for 2 months on twitter and journals. (well not should, but it's just annoying, he is not even leftist, why the fuck so many takes floating around)

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peppersky [he/him, any] - 10mon

i don't like computers. i don't think they are fun. maybe i would think differently if i had the money to just buy whatever the fuck i need instead of having to deal with working with whatever half-broken obsolete shit i had lying about, but thats a big if

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

You claim to be a communist yet you use classes in your code, curious

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wombat [none/use name] - 10mon

it is february 19 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its] - 10mon

If I logout for a week or so, chapo.chat should still be fine regardless of how the mess with the hexbear.net domain ends up, right? Don't want it to happen that you move to a different domain meanwhile and I can't find the website anymore...

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CrawlMarks [he/him] - 10mon

Why do Hollywood people suits always look so thin. Is that just a specific style I only see for Hollywood people? Why don't business people have similar suits? I don't not understand this fashion situation

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ClathrateG [none/use name] - 10mon

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

Overtime hockey. This game is fucking great.

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DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them] - 10mon

Mr Toby Fox, sir, could we pwease have Deltarune chapter 3. I have been waiting for a very long time, quite patiently I may add, and I cannot handle the blue balling of "it's almost done! just one more file to test! nearly there now guys! any day now!" for like a month. I am gonna lose it with this edging

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CDommunist [she/her, love/loves] - 10mon

Fuck cars

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

Recent Chapo learning more about Musk's weird sexless life than I was expecting to hear internet-delenda-est

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

I’ve read stories of juniors only programming with ChatGPT and not understanding anything, which I still can’t imagine. I was doing a side project for someone with stuff I wasn’t familiar with, and besides having to fix everything ChatGPT was giving me it was mostly going fine. Then it made up and API call, and every form of correction I gave it it would be like “oh my bad I made up an api call, here is a working version” and it would either use the same made up api call or make up a new api call. wtf

I’ve worked with people in my field who somehow got to more senior roles than me just copying and pasting stackexchange threads and see completely lost in peer programming sessions when one of them doesn’t work. Like I get this is a real phenomenon it’s just baffling, how do you not learn something having to constantly debug non functioning code. Like that in itself should be a learning opportunity?

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WhyEssEff [she/her] - 10mon

oh shit new dragon ball super chapter drop goku-doorstep

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peppersky [he/him, any] - 10mon

People who write prose or poems or lyrics: Where do you write them? Do you use a notebook or index cards or simple paper or a typewriter or word pad or the notes app on your phone? I like the physicality and romance that a notepad or the typewriter give, but keeping things organized seems difficult.

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FunkyStuff [he/him] - 10mon

Guy who responds to accusation of antisemitism by saying he listens to TrueAnon and The Adam Friedland Show

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Chopsticks ultimately exist to keep your fingers clean when eating baklava.

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Rojo27 [he/him] - 10mon

::: spoiler Me, fucking around.

And finally texting my crush after my latest bout of anxiety over texting her, just being happy to talk with her on my day offblob-no-thoughts :::

::: spoiler Me, finding out.

And unexpectly planning a "second" dateoh-shit

At least I'm hoping its not just our second date, but a third or fourth since we got tickets for an event thats still a few months away. :::

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

I just realized due to waiting for my dad to get PR in Canada we lived in different countries for a while. Then he worked multiple jobs when we were recent migrants and when he was a new truck driver he did weeklong or even multi week routes. I basically didn’t see my dad until I was 14 or 15. Capitalism fucking sucks dude, wtf.

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turmoil - 10mon

my brother bought Harry Potter body wash. I just don't know anymore

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Blockocheese [any] - 10mon

My stepbrother is such a shit parent and so is his wife come get your fucking kid

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LocalOaf [they/them, she/her] - 10mon

I'M iN YOUR AREAAAA

I KNOW THE FIRST THREE NUMBERS

PRODIGAL FUCK THAT, NAUTICAL

TEACHIN' BITCHES HOW TO SWIM

torment

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LocalOaf [they/them, she/her] - 10mon

RULES OF NATURE

AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP

WITH THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE

ALIVE

raiden-source

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

lol aren’t finstas kind of a dated concept, like instagram can’t be that big with teens today, right? Is this ad targeting people concerned about their large adult sons?

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wombat [none/use name] - 10mon

it is february 18 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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KuroXppi [they/them] - 10mon

Suuuuuper secret mega sssshhhhh dont tell nobody

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

Dusting off my laptop for a weekend trip. Started moving some files over from my desktop and did a spit take when I noticed the entire filesystem on this thing is like 250GB. I've gotten so used to the 12TB disk array in my desktop.

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x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its] - 10mon

Can someone find a screenshot of that one Dril Tweet for me? The "under no circumstances you have to hand it to them" one?

Also, any reading (not podcasts, sorry, I really don't like podcasts) about how exactly the empire amerikkka funded ISIS? Need education about the topic.

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wombat [none/use name] - 10mon

it is february 20 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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Woly [any] - 10mon

What happened? Are we selling Hexbear or something? Can I buy Hexbear coins for a share of the profits?

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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

In continuing my gaming backlog-clearing journey, I am now on Max Payne 3. I am... whelmed. It's fun but I am not really feeling like it's doing anything extremely well, just a fun romp that shouldn't take too much longer. Excited for Red Dead Redemption, which is next!

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

For a while was getting vids on harnessing my energy/magnetic hands stuff and like if I had the attention span and follow through I'd probably have powers by now trump-kaneki

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x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its] - 10mon

I totally forgot about the domain change and logged into hexbear.net again... Time to change my password, I guess catgirl-flop

And then I'll try to block hexbear.net on my router, to avoid messing up like this again, I think that's the easiest way

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LocalOaf [they/them, she/her] - 10mon

Actually had a good day for the first time in weeks since I met crush,.and most of the other things about that day other than that were really rough too so woohoo go me today

Trying to 100% THPS2X now and oh my god the "are you serious" gap on School 2 might be impossible without the moon gravity cheat, even with max stats, all board stat upgrades, special, landing a vert grab spin perfect before it for a max speed boost, and abusing as much coyote time as you can doing a boneless as late as possible off the kicker

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GalaxyBrain [they/them] - 10mon

Mick Jagger has an 8 year old kid, right now. Born in 2016.

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videogame [he/him] - 10mon

Definitely switching to Linux in the coming months but I don't know if I'm gonna be a GNOME guy or a KDE guy. Much to think about. Also Debian or Fedora but the only thing making me reluctant to choose Fedora is its stupid fucking name

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

Recreating that one scene in dragon ball where Goku drinks the ultra divine water but it's me drinking a slurry of kombucha/sour kraut/apple cider vinegar. If I survive this my guts are gonna get such a zenkai boost

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

Euclidean topology is stored in the balls

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FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him] - 10mon

I just listened to That Was a Crazy Game of Poker by O.AR. I can't believe that was ever considered a good song. Millennial may be cringe after all.

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 10mon

Everything changes.

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buh [she/her, any] - 10mon

Is it the click of death if you only hear it sporadically? doggirl-sweat like every few minutes, though occasionally a couple just seconds apart

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CocteauChameleons [none/use name] - 10mon

Heres the story on how drinking twisted tea and whiskey together helped me get sober:

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

On one “project” I’m on I have 1-2 hours of meetings a week with close to a dozen other people. I think the entire project is to get count data and calculate some ratios of those counts. I say I think because having that many meetings complicates and confuses a trivial task so much that I don’t even know? I think this is just busy work while we get the paperwork done to access the data? I have no fucking idea.

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Grownbravy [they/them] - 10mon

I’ve been gassy for the last couplea days, but woke up not in pain this morning, which means I am due for the most satisfying fart you could ever imagine.

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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

Finished Leviathan Wakes, it was kinda fun because of the emphasis on relatively grounded tech, but it suffers from "male sci-fi author syndrome" and had very weird liberal takes and some extremely strange moral character writing I don't want to spoil.

Dunno if I will continue onward, tbh, but glad I saw it through.

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DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them] - 10mon

been like 4 months since the factorio expansion came out, and I am getting the itch to play it again now some mods might be out. I love the idea each planet makes you reinvent the wheel on logistics and production, but my god if some of them are not a ball ache

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Cowbee [he/him, they/them] - 10mon

Mega mega mega THREAD huey-wut

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Gamer_time [he/him] - 10mon

Got the flu shot recently and started masking again for the first time in yonks. No one else does it around here, but I really don't want to get sick, and it only makes sense, especially with the tourists around nowadays. Don't want some rando Oozian to give me the first human to human transmissible bird flu while I am out trying to buy groceries. covid-cool

Also, random Wikipedia fact, Neapolitan ice cream was invented in fucking Prussia of all places, didn't expect that factoid today

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him] - 10mon

I haven’t bothered checking GitHub comments recently, but what percent of them are just grindset guys saying irrelevant shit and thinking they’re “networking”? Like in a way I’m glad message boards are dead because I imagine that would’ve been their path. Any interesting discussion just leading to a thousand LinkedIn guys showing you their “portfolio”.

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Rojo27 [he/him] - 10mon

I complain a lot about the Youtube algorithm, but meta's is just hands down the fucking worst. I've followed a bunch of socialist pages and blocked rightwing pages on facebook, but I still have to fucking see Matt fucking Walsh or Barfstool Sports bullshit pop up on my feed as if I haven't already tried blocking this shit a million times. I really don't even know why I use it on mobile anymore. Desktop is a bit more tolerable since I have an extension that blocks pages I'm not following.

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peppersky [he/him, any] - 10mon

Feeling kinda good about things today. Nice to finally get the chance to get out of my shitty living situation, there's some organization happening at my workplace and the group therapy does at least help loosen the tongue a bit (had two pretty good long talks with old friends about serious topics in the last week). Although maybe it's just the coming of spring.

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FunkyStuff [he/him] - 10mon

Anyone else hear the Coctuah twins? I don't think I can make the bit work over text but it goes a little like

Spitting on a stinky thing
I'm tired so I'm going to bed kings
Cause I'm defrauding my investors
Had me feeling like (trails off)

IDK it's not nl-brainiac's best work but it has some potential

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kleeon [he/him, he/him] - 10mon

amber bot test

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HarryLime [any] - 10mon

GO CANADA! GO BRAD MARCHAND! DESTROY THE AMERIFATS!!! RAM THAT 51ST STATE BULLSHIT UP THEIR FUCKING ASS!

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blipblip [they/them] - 10mon

Slept right through my alarm this morning, luckily I didn't have shit to do till this afternoon so nobody noticed I was late

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AernaLingus [any] - 10mon

goddamn Enna is an incredible singer, never fails to blow me away

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

Downloaded the drakengard games gonna see what they about, I started nier (ps3) while ago but really wanted to play drakengard before so now I get to see what Yoko Taro been cooking.

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XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX [none/use name] - 10mon

Fantastic Mr Fox is such an adorable movie

Tangentially related question: why the fuck does letterboxd not have a recommendation tool? Ive found this but it's wild to me that letterboxd doesnt have something like this on its own site

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LocalOaf [they/them, she/her] - 10mon

::: spoiler PTSD Warhammer established in overhead over AO Hammer, request mark over?

Red smoke on the LZ. NEED YOU TO SERVICE TARGETS NORTH OF THAT LOCATION. EVERYTHING EXCEPT DANGER CLOSE IS CLEAR TO SHOOT.

Neutralizing targets north of your location Metal-01, danger close, repeat, DANGER CLOSE

ODIN-6 YOU ARE CLEARED FOR BOMB.RUN, TRP-5001. WEST TO EAST, I REPEAT, WEST TO EAST, OVER??

COPY OVERLORD

SHOT, OUT

Yeah get back on those guys

Recalibrate azimuth sweep angle, adjust elevation scan.

Nail those guys.

Clean up that signal.

Metal-01 we are engaging targets ahead of you, recommend you keep your heads down until we've swept up, copy?

ROGER, WILCO

WE'VE GOT SMOKE ON THE TARGET, YOU ARE CLEARED HOT WARHAMMER

got a moving vehicle there

Acknowledged, guns guns guns

SHOT,.OUT

GUN READY

:::

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Gamer_time [he/him] - 10mon

Been playing a lot of Gates of Hell: Cheesefront on the dynamic campaign recently, as the Soviets, obvs. Listen, I love soviet tanks, beauties all, but... stalin-bummed

If I could go back in time, I'd go and beg on my hands and knees for the soviets to add electric horizontal turret drives for more of their tanks! shoulder-grab The agony of having a turret with a turn time of a gajillion years makes my nerves cry out in pain! Please, stop relying on having a strong proletarian to jork a crankwheel at the speed of sound and just use the electricity from the engine instead to make the turret go spinny! I know you have some battery in there or else the headlights wouldn't work then, huh? Even if the dinky shells from a PzKw.III bounce straight of the glorious rolled steel of the KV-85, that doesn't ease my conscience as much as being able to aim and shoot the damn thing within a reasonable timeframe! screm That's the only thing I'll completely hand to the Jerries, they had electric horizontal turret drives from the word go...

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FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him] - 10mon

At a very cool place with very cool people doing very cool things like eating wings and a turkey melt.

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Moss [they/them] - 10mon

goddamn, getting high and listening to kendrick was a good decision. tv off is a good fucking song

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x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its] - 10mon

I only just now figured out that I can get to all the megathreads by clicking on this pinned post and then on the megathread links in there. Instead of just reading the headline of every post and hoping one of them will be a megathread. I am not smart. :(

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 10mon

New Megathread nerds amerikkka huey-wut

@Acute_Engles@hexbear.net @anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net @AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net @asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net @ashinadash@hexbear.net @bbnh69420@hexbear.net @BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net @buh@hexbear.net @Cammy@hexbear.net @CDommunist@hexbear.net @ClathrateG@hexbear.net @ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net @Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net @context@hexbear.net @corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net @Cowbee@hexbear.net @CrispyFern@hexbear.net @CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net @CyborgMarx@hexbear.net @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net @Dolores@hexbear.net @drinkinglakewater@hexbear.net @ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net @EstraDoll@hexbear.net @FALGSConaut@hexbear.net @Frank@hexbear.net @Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net @FuckyWucky@hexbear.net @FumpyAer@hexbear.net @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net @gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net @Grownbravy@hexbear.net @GVAGUY3@hexbear.net @HarryLime@hexbear.net @hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net @InevitableSwing@hexbear.net @Infamousblt@hexbear.net @iridaniotter@hexbear.net @Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net @kristina@hexbear.net @LocalOaf@hexbear.net @MaxOS@hexbear.net @Mindfury@hexbear.net @mkultrawide@hexbear.net @Moss@hexbear.net @Nakoichi@hexbear.net @PaulSmackage@hexbear.net @PaX@hexbear.net @Piment@hexbear.net @plinky@hexbear.net @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net @Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net @ReadFanon@hexbear.net @RedWizard@hexbear.net @RION@hexbear.net @RNAi@hexbear.net @Rojo27@hexbear.net @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net @Sickos@hexbear.net @Sphere@hexbear.net @take_five_seconds@hexbear.net @Tervell@hexbear.net @VHS@hexbear.net @viva_la_juche@hexbear.net @WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net @Wheaties@hexbear.net @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net @Wmill@hexbear.net @wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net @wombat@hexbear.net @Zoift@hexbear.net

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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 10mon

Future historian: Mao Stalin the Eurasian Warlord to first attempt to implement socio-communtarianism employed many sigils. Some are self explanatory like the sickle and hammer, less so are ones like the ursine hexagon...

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GalaxyBrain [they/them] - 10mon

That scene in the fellowship movie where saruman stands on his roof and yells at a mountain to fuck up the fellowship is hilarious. In the book the weather was just bad. It was attributed to the mointain itself being pissed off, but that could go in the superstition direction.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 10mon

It's been months since I've used any imitation stock or veggie bullion cubes and damn if I haven't adjusted greatly. Just been a cost cutting method but like I've upped my spice game adjusted my tastes and feeling pretty good about it all. I do miss the simplicity but eh I'm reluctant to go back not to mention I barely remember the flavor most of the time.

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Rojo27 [he/him] - 10mon

-Have a breakthrough moment with someone you care about

-Feel less pressure thinking about how to approach things with them.

-Moment comes up where I think I can move forward and now I'm freezing up again

Such is my lifeagony-shivering

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