news news The U.S. Navy is preparing for the possibility of military action against China by 2027. This was reported in the Navigation Plan by U.S. Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Lisa Franchetti.
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    If China needs any American civilians to take to a camp, but the camp is like cozy in the mountains somewhere getting to eat home made soups, noodles, and rice dishes where I get to study kanji DM me. I'll teach you the secrets of anglo grappling for a local Sanda school.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse AliExpress is full of bizarre fascist products, like these Xbox 360 buttons in the shape of Nazi bullet casings
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    I'm sorry they're nazi coded cause those look very therapeutic to press as buttons. A fighting game box with big ass fucking buttons yes please. Give me one of those spinning balls like an old mouse and I'd pick up Tekken just cause

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Mystical rabbi
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    Easiest Lion of Damascus set up of my life

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  • latam latam Paulo Reglus Neves Freire - New General Megathread for the 18th-19th of September 2024
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    Oh my god. I just went on an adventure to get oil and now I can just have refueling for a jetpack no matter where I am in the world.

    That schematic makes total sense to me

    i-get-it

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  • latam latam Paulo Reglus Neves Freire - New General Megathread for the 18th-19th of September 2024
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    In my mind the dimensional depot was for trading resources between saves or giving stuff to other people. That's actually huge.

    I'm having trouble visualizing what you mean about inputs and outputs and why it helps. Any chance you could whip a quick MS paint-style image for me to make a blueprint for?

    My next step is to go back in and give my technology a facelift. It feels like I used primitive means to get everything functional.

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  • latam latam Paulo Reglus Neves Freire - New General Megathread for the 18th-19th of September 2024
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    FOUR HOURS OF SATISFACTORY IN ORDER TO FEEL SOMETHING!

    <200 framing and I've completed phase 2. I saw someone on Twitch mog the fuck out of my factory so I TRIPLED my production. I found four extra coal sources. I made second factory! There's so much mk. 3 track. I find it easier to use mk. 2 because I have 4 sources of reinforced iron plate. HOLY SHIT THIS GAME IS TOO GOOD

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  • technology technology PSA: Don't search cute animals on youtube. Your recommendations on the sidebar will have thumbnails of animals in distress for clicks.
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    Just installed them. Didn't realize how much I was advertised to in the home page

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Hexbear Linux users are the deep state of China
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    life got a lot better when I learned how to do sudo dpkg -i file.deb

    I get mad mad when I get a windows pop up like "yes" or "remind me in 3 days"

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  • dredge_tank The Dredge Tank [CW: gender based violence] Wow, cool YouTube. Way to open up a fresh can of trauma.
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    I read "based gender violence" and I was like wtf Dirt_Owl??

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  • latam latam Paulo Reglus Neves Freire - New General Megathread for the 18th-19th of September 2024
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    turns out I wasn't sadder than I've been all month, I was hungry

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  • chat chat Folks I'm like post work event tech bro tipsy and I hate the tech bro mask I am forced to wear to survive in capitalism. How are you?
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    I remember taking offense to being called a liberal at my last job. I didn't say the quiet part out loud, but that was the biggest tell I think.

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    In order to use YouTube I need:

    DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - no sidebar, no recommendations at the end of the video

    Clickbait Remover for Youtube - thumbnails are a couple seconds into the video, titles are in all lower case

    Hide shorts for Youtube™

    ClearURLs - gets rid of tracking from URLs

    Decentraleyes - I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure I need it

    uBlockOrigin - ad blocker that you can also use to delete elements that it misses otherwise

    SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships

    Shit is fucking crazy, comrade

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  • traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns We love our evil trans ally parrots don't we folks (CW: transphobia)
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    TERFs blob-stabby xi-reactionary-spotted TAMPs

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse If you're being mean to me on Hexbear, this is who you're being mean to.
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    if you're gonna call me a dumbass, you better put 'sensitive' in front of it, you whack assholes kitty-cri-texas

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  • dredge_tank The Dredge Tank Greta Thunberg named ‘Antisemite of the Week’ by "StopAntisemitism" after latest arrest at anti-Israel protest
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    Famously hateful to people based on their inheritance Greta Thunberg who made a name for herself by blaming climate change on left handed people. The incurious, unthinking teenager who never once considered the opinions of scientists and historians, Greta Thunberg became at odds with the well-loved mainstream when she disagreed with their rhetoric that was responsive to the desires of their base.

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  • art art Please give advice on how I can make this rock look better
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    I agree. I feel like the veins serve to make it busy instead of contributing to the form. If it had 2 rock climbing holds cut out of the square then you'd go "oh! it's a rock."

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  • history history Hildegard von Bingen - New General Megathread for the 16th-17th of September 2024
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    I'm working with concentrations that are in parts per billion.

    Or... you know...

    ppb

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  • the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank Eric Adams vs Reality
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    This shit would make the Hunger Games blush. This is parody levels of spin. This only happens if you're not accountable for your actions.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Yemen releases new photos of their "Palestine-2" hypersonic ballistic missile which hit Israel yesterday
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    I always roll my eyes when it comes to r/upliftingnews

    Is it great that Israel is being frustrated in their efforts to do genocide? Yes. But what is that settler colonial state doing there in the first place???

    ::: spoiler spoiler idk the format sort of feels flawed for this joke :::

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  • badposting badposting I broke up with my ex girl, here's her number
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    niiiieiiiien!~

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    I broke up with my ex girl, here's her number

    PSYCH! THAT'S THE WRONG NUMBER!

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    askchapo askchapo Why isn't there a frog based kaiju?
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    Kishimoto during the Pain arc be like

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  • news news Trump is ‘safe following gunshots in his vicinity,’ campaign says in statement | CNN Politics
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    I'm not mad, just disappointed.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse IM BACK FROM 4 MONTHS OF REHAB
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    The gender affirmation of addicts treating you according to your gender expression cat-trans

    GG no re to the addiction. Congrats!

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  • the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank Mao 🤝 Kamala Harris
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    Damn, that's so radical! No wonder everyone's calling her a communist.

    Is that really the shit that republicans froth at the mouth over?

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse As always - democratic pols can't actually fail themselves. They can only be failed by voters.
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    under my breath jesus christ...

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse The policeman of the world says you can't have a state
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    Who asked?

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Merry 9/11 and Happy Holidays - New General Megathread for the 11th-13th of September 2024
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    It hurts me to see people take the immigrant pet crisis so lightly. There's plenty of police reports regarding the 20 eaten pets/day. Google police 20 pets per day and you'll see the evidence clear as day.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Merry 9/11 and Happy Holidays - New General Megathread for the 11th-13th of September 2024
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    I am hungry because of my diet but I'm losing weight and I'm seeing lines on my body. It makes everything more difficult though. But for some reason it feels good. It's like I'm winning and I like to win.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse As always - democratic pols can't actually fail themselves. They can only be failed by voters.
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    I feel that only the democratic party gives half a fuck about "middle [America]" and the people who are waffling between the two candidates. I'm sure you could get a fuck ton of votes doing something, anything popular instead of talking about bullshit Marvel slop quotes to try and convince someone whose high fructose corn syrup coated neurons couldn't conjure a coherent ideology any faster than infinite monkies could.

    It's a dogshit analysis.

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  • anime anime One Piece chapter 1126 discussion
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    Look at Shanks, dog. He's not beating the rat allegations. I bet that poison had anti-sun essence in it or something.

    Garp's not dead. Sad!

    It feels good that Kuma's not dead, but I think he ought to be. Seeing Nika and seeing Bonney emulating Nika after a lifetime of sacrifice seems like the beautiful tragedy that completes his character arc. It's like if I got to see [redacted] after toiling under capitalism and hearing story after story of the horror with so many people crying in rubble under the MIC. What's he got left to do? If he murks someone on Elbaf it would steal the glory from someone else and if he gets murked by a rando it'd cheapen his arc.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Hollywood writers struggle to match the horrors of reality
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    Carry the child and then carry the wheel chair so it doesn't look like the room had been occupied?

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  • dredge_tank The Dredge Tank "Your honor, I motion for this case to be thrown out of court because of exhibit A: a fanboy said 'it might have been a joke' and exhibit B: 😂"
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    I think it'd be hard to point at a time where he's been outright hateful, so I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. But I suppose I've seen someone turn transphobic in nursing school before and they got all obsessive with misgendering me and insisting I was using steroids as the central theme of how they present themselves. It's really gross and dumb and weird and frustrating. It's absolutely a plausible conclusion.

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  • dredge_tank The Dredge Tank "Your honor, I motion for this case to be thrown out of court because of exhibit A: a fanboy said 'it might have been a joke' and exhibit B: 😂"
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    It makes me think of my friend with whom our relationship has deteriorated into him making, and I don't want to make this word plural because it's the same joke, a joke about gay fellatio if ever two men exist around each other. Fighting, agreement, laughter, gaming, business, argument, ANYTHING. I don't even want to talk to him anymore. His personality seems to revolve around gay fellatio - it's not like something I'm sensitive to when it comes up, it's incessant and central to how he presents himself. I almost can't believe it as I write it.

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  • dredge_tank The Dredge Tank "Your honor, I motion for this case to be thrown out of court because of exhibit A: a fanboy said 'it might have been a joke' and exhibit B: 😂"
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    Not to mention, depending on the class of criminal, the princess' purity would be a bargaining chip so they'd really rather not be awful. I'm increasingly less surprised by stories like this

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Merry 9/11 and Happy Holidays - New General Megathread for the 11th-13th of September 2024
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    I know a little python and JavaScript. Can i volunteer to code a hexbear.com/chao where everyone gets their little object shitheads to raise?

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Merry 9/11 and Happy Holidays - New General Megathread for the 11th-13th of September 2024
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    I fuckin knew it! I knew I didn't have to give a shit about Dune. That shit was a fad

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Merry 9/11 and Happy Holidays - New General Megathread for the 11th-13th of September 2024
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    Merry 9/11 to those who celebrate

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  • askchapo askchapo What's the most unusual thing that you think might actually happen in the US presidential debates in a few hours? Return to this thread after the debate is over to dab, flex, and claim prizes.
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    ::: spoiler black myth wukong spoilers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMO5evc30pY :::

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  • the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank MORE deregulation or big exciting speculative science fiction dreams will never come true. Literally a bottleneck. A neck of a bottle, literally.
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    And the trend was something like "for every new environmental regulation you need to repeal 2" under Trump. Did Biden ever change that?

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  • the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank MORE deregulation or big exciting speculative science fiction dreams will never come true. Literally a bottleneck. A neck of a bottle, literally.
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    The speculative science fiction in question? Red Rising

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 2 weeks ago 96%
    Do you remember that "I want to be ninja song?" Probably not, because you only think about yourself.

    You remember it now, dork! *IIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiii want to be neenja!!*

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    "hey, I have something to reveal to you - I'm into drag" "hey, awesome! It's about time you had a hobby"

    ![they-dont-know](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/89529252-6f9f-4712-a17f-fc6d9b75743c.png "emoji they-dont-know")

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    chat WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 3 weeks ago 100%
    Is there a difference between thinking of yourself as special and having main character syndrome?

    I've been pontificating about it to myself for long enough to form it into that question. When I think of someone virulently MCS, the content is almost always their perception of others as lessers - NPCs, background characters, or fodder. They are the hero and they could cut through a horde of others and they're frustrated by rules and regulations that say they can't. But I might be so bold as to say that their problem isn't that they see themselves as special, but that they see themselves as exceptional. The problem is that they're rude to service workers, upset when people step in front of their camera, or judge the choices of others (especially for the effect it has on you e.g. opining during a marriage ceremony). Therefore my thesis of special vs exceptional is that if you are filming yourself on a busy street but you don't obstruct people nor react to people walking through the shot, you're not hurting anyone. You can take up space, but you should be polite while doing it to be someone who cohabitates this one world. You can think yourself a person with a hidden demon within them who must prove themselves to be the best and be monstrously disappointed when you finish second all the while being a weird anime person, but cheating, misrepresenting yourself to others, or expecting others to help you is where you cross the line. So all that being said, perhaps it's not a problem to think yourself in a unique position to solve a problem no one else has - perchance help people along the way. After all, no one else is you nor has anyone ever been nor will anyone ever be. The world is a collection of individuals. You can think you're cool, smart, mysterious, kind, forgiving, or hang your hat on some other piece of personal esteem and be a great friend, peer, and comrade. On a tangential note, I like how in prominent MMA promotions, after someone is declared the victor, the camera begins to focus on them and their celebration instead of zooming in on someone who is visibly very frustrated by their loss. You neednt even wrap your brain around the boundless scale of everyone's genius in some aspect nor make yourself less by reminding yourself of it when you think highly of yourself - it is a lesson to learn if you're belittling others. I'd really like your input and opinions on the matter. *“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” ― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History*

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    I'm nervous about making my long awaited return to badposting

    What if it's not perfectly crafted bad? What if it belongs in the mega instead? What if it's too genuine and not ironic enough?

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    BREAKING: I feel sick to my stomach about the way I treated this Palestinian

    I was doing a 1 min no increment bullet chess game when I noticed my opponent opened a line from b2 to their rook for my bishop. I took it. They then proceeded to drop every single non-pawn piece in 18 moves and then got checkmated on move 19. When I looked up, I realized that they were Palestinian. I am so sorry. ![kiryu-slam](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/a2713769-3700-4b05-b29f-3cb670db99b6.gif "emoji kiryu-slam") On the bright side, I've been abandoning games against anybody I see with a ![isntrael](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/22613e15-bbfc-43e6-9930-8b5265b96626.png "emoji isntrael") flag

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    bloomer WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 2 months ago 100%
    Just got a stimulus check of motivation.

    My hobbies sound fun. Food tastes delicious. Energy is running through me. We're so fucking back. Lets fucking go!

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    On Bodybuilding (a response to a moderated thread)

    I thought this was still worth posting: I've lifted on and off since high school. I hit my 1/2/3/4 and beyond and continue to maintain my membership in the 1000lb club. My clean and jerk was higher than Arnold's ever was because I never learned I wasn't supposed to be able to do it. I did team sports and XC in high school. I primarily focus on combat sports these days. People seethe when I get their head in the clinch in muay thai. All this to say that I have a really good working relationship with my fitness. I don't think anybody ever quite hit the nail on the head when it comes to the downsides of body building as a primary pursuit as this guy, Braden Wellman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BhlgWZz7_w Bodybuilding is a silly and selfish thing to put the glut of your focus into. ESPECIALLY if you don't like it. Vanity is not fulfillment. The reality of vanity is bringing your own cake to birthday parties (with no allergies), declining going out with friends because of your sleep schedule, you can't track your macros at the local pub, alcohol inhibits muscle growth, or white knuckling through shit sleep for an early workout. "I'm sorry your mother is mad at me, babe. I know that this food is something you've eaten for generations for celebrations, but I'm having chicken and rice again instead." Couple that with the Instagram game (which absolutely trickles down into your fitness forum) with photoshop, steroids, anglefraud, perfect lighting, etc. and it effects you. There's nothing quite as ubiquitous as lifting as a means of finding affection. You could probably nick a couple rightoids from the gym for leftist causes if you explained alienation & atomization in an engaging way. They probably think socialism is when the government pays for Ozempic and takes 30% of your gains to give to people who watch Desperate Housewives. If you put dedicated gym goers in a society that isn't plagued by forever wars, where their extended family doesn't have 5 vets with PTSD, 8 people who can't afford healthcare, an upbringing defined by their parents' work stress and instead had a walkable city, nutritious food, and things to do, I bet 85% of them will find something else to focus on other than maintaining <10%BF. Could many of us stand to be more active? We're on an internet forum, there's no doubt! It would not only be good for the body, but for the mind. But would there be diminishing returns? Not only would there be, it could leave you worse off than when you started if you obsess over it. Hiking is a beautiful thing that doesn't give you an aesthetic body. Traditional martial arts have a rich history and lore, but doesn't help you in the street fight they're always droning on and on about. Combat sports are the most fun thing I've ever done, but I get hit in the head, my joints hurt, and it's not anabolic. Yoga could help you with a bad back or a lack of mindfulness. Aerial sports/pole dancing will attract their ire despite being badass and thrilling. Regular dancing is the most consistent anti-depressant activity[1], but invaded by those same people trying to get female affection while they learn how to talk to a woman for 4 minutes for their progressive overload. Triathalons are. Swords are fucking sick whether it's fencing, kendo, HEMA, or LARPing. The fash are obsessed with aesthetics. It's no wonder they'd be willing to do all the legwork it takes to be the one that stands above the others (for their body). That's their whole shtick. The difference is that I don't look down on someone for going to the party, eating a slice of cake, finding someone cute, falling in love by accident, and realizing it doesn't work 3 years later. I think for every 1 person who has truly made something special out of their life with aesthetics, there are 9 other people who scrubbed away magic and social fulfillment from their living. I think, for many people, they'd be better off really engaging with themselves and interrogating why what they have and who they are isn't enough. Maybe they'd realize that aesthetics aren't everything and a better future is possible. TL;DR: Exercise is only as useful as it is liberating. If you like bodybuilding, you should continue, but if the sacrifice isn't worth it, then you'd make a rational decision to avoid it, likely in exchange for a different type of physical activity. [1]https://www.leafie.co.uk/news/dancing-best-exercise-treating-depression-study/

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    There's a specter haunting Europe

    and it's my fuckin 2-0-4 monkey ace that just became the hard carry. ![amerikkka](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6dedb145-206a-4b35-ab5e-c9e41e1130c7.png "emoji amerikkka")

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 2 months ago 100%
    Holy gender! You forgot your woke pills!

    That would've been so white male if you didn't take your fluoridated SSRIs. After you swallow them (with the bud light to wash them down) why don't we go to the high fructose corn syrup show where women dress immodestly?

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    https://hexbear.net/u/Civility

    [@Civility@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/Civility) ![downbear](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/2ecd0805-fe83-4761-9771-8844f0e83a78.png "emoji downbear")

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 2 months ago 100%
    Eminem - Renaissance [Official Audio] yewtu.be

    I'm not actually listening to this

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    What do my comrades think of the SafeWrap system of restraining people? (CW: brief footage/discussion of police brutality, discussion of combat sports)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM9h4p91oow Rener and Ryron Gracie are back at it again. A little context, the Gracie family are the people who helped put the UFC on the map. They're the ones who spearheaded the move to bring Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to America (and are oft credited with its creation). Rener and Ryron are a few generations removed from the invention of the art, but have really made their place in the world as entrepreneurs - especially when it comes to BJJ. Sometimes they have things like a sackpack that's also a hoodie or a pillow that doesn't let your head droop for airplanes. You conventionally find them teaching Gracie Survival Tactics, which is marketed especially for ![cop](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/b5f38499-dea3-442a-9984-bcc1c8744dba.png "emoji cop") s. It's grappling for things like taking someone out of a car or how to get handcuffs on someone if they're resisting. They will talk about it's appeal for healthcare workers, especially for those with dementia or acute psychosis. But the main thrust of what they mean to contribute to the conversation is the ![LIB](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f737e650-47c9-4d1b-b03c-0d75e5a4f692.png "emoji LIB") position "here's how we can do what we do more humanely." If you are quickly compelled with joint locks and head positioning into compliance, then I think it's hard to argue that there would be less trauma and less bad will towards the police. Sometimes bad things happen because an inexperienced cop panics (Philando Castile's fatal run in with the police comes to mind but you can easily and readily disagree with me on this specific instance). Rener Gracie, of course, is not going to address topics like covering for cops that hurt people, bloated police budgets, whether they help deter crime, racism, overpolicing everywhere because of a study where one time they put more cops in a hotspot and it cleared up, etc. And here they are, back at it again, with the SafeWrap system. First, it's dumb that they're trying to copyright it in my opinion, but that's illustrative of the attitude and not really my bag to talk about. My bag, as a brown belt in BJJ, is that I like that giftwrap that the person on the upper body takes. It's a massively effective grip to the point that it centralizes my technique. Anytime I'm passed their hips, I'm either looking to submit them right there or provoke them to give me that grip. For example, I'll put both hands on one of their wrists so they need to bring their other hand across to defend it, but turning to get that other hand through exposes their back and lets me grab their top arm and pull it across their face. It allows me to go from being on top of them to controlling their back which is bigly bad for their chances of winning. ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/024429bd-ae43-49a9-927f-9a26986a3289.jpeg) I could also conjecture with a decent degree of confidence that the person controlling the feet is doing a great job of preventing them from getting back on their knees. That's the place where they can get some traction and start frustrating your efforts. There's a specific movement I just adore where they try to build up onto their elbow and I grab their elbow out from under them and they land onto their pinned arm. All that is to say that the SafeWrap technically works and it's a specific application of submission wrestling that is admittedly clever. Its effectiveness as a restraint isn't a criticism worth levying in my estimation. I even think, if someone needed to be restrained, which can happen even under communism, it is probably good for deescalation. But, of course, when it's a tool for police to use, alarm bells go off in my head. I sure would be happy if every cop were the antagonist of an adventure novel. It's like how voting normalizes an inherently oppressive system, it feels like that for a carceral state. It's not like you should use something else when someone needs to be restrained, but it feels dirty if there's no talk about who needs to be restrained. If somebody gets restrained like this because they allegedly used a counterfeit bill, it prevents George Floyd's fate, it's less ridiculous than suffocating them, but it's not not-ridiculous. What do you all think? Look effective for protests? ![freedom-hater](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/9b03520e-afa8-4e34-bf07-060f277d56d3.png "emoji freedom-hater") Should I go ahead and get certified and give away free training to lefties? My friends and I have been in class thinking about how to make fists against the face and neck extra shitty (no gi ezekiels, wrist against the nose, mid thumb knuckle right below the jaw, etc.) so we could add that if you're feeling saucy

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 2 months ago 100%
    Mmmmmm avoid cringe you must, it leads to the lib side.

    Based your posts must be ![trump-enlightened](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c098a9c3-b809-469f-abab-8f5c3a14d508.png "emoji trump-enlightened")

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 3 months ago 92%
    "One does not simply shitpost, it is an artform"

    Oh yeah? Explain this then

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    chat WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 3 months ago 100%
    Do you want to be a special person?

    I think there's a lot of cultural motivation to be some kind of great person - be it because of the great man theory of history or the economic glorification of the captains of industry. However, as communists, our theories of history and economics don't have any love lost for this analysis of the world. We recognize that without labor, not a single gear would turn. So, in my mind, success as a society doesn't rely on the prophetic vision of someone unbound by the constraints of societal pressures, but by iterative improvements and experiments put forward by groups of people who could stand to be liberated from under the economic heel of serving treats and proliferating the MIC. In this paradigm, the person who does push forward the big discovery/gadget is congratulated and venerated, but the cultural zeitgeist shouldn't be centered around that moment of discovery, but instead around highlighting the group and their efforts. Think of watching a Summoning Salt video instead of just the WR speedrun. If I can characterize my desire as wanting to be part of a culture that celebrates the collaborative more than wanting to be exalted as the person who accomplishes something, I can say that I don't "lack motivation" because I don't yearn to be celebrated. I also struggle to see myself in chosen ones - I don't write the MCs of my novels as inherently special, but rather people who have to rise to the occasion. I hear that media that depicts hordes of zombies (post-apocalyptic has never resonated with me) springs from the same core philosophy. I would much rather hear about someone who is weird because they had to panic and push through a crowd of normal people than someone who is normal who had to run their truck through a horde of zombies. When I think of what I want for myself, the conversation is never to cultivate what makes me special to live up to my potential, it's always about doing something cool because the opportunity exists for those who would take it. For example, with my black belt coming up in BJJ (in likely <year), I find a lot of joy in reflecting about how I took detours to learn about striking, wrestling, and judo while I've never had a genuine interest in my tournament results which have, as a result, been lackluster. For me, I grew up hearing people say that nobody's cut from a different cloth and how "you're a fucking sick (oops, can't show that word on a Christian forum) if you want to be." I went into BJJ because I wanted to believe that anyone could walk in off the street and, with the proper attitude, opportunity, will, and work become a black belt. I don't know that it ever crossed my mind that among the public, I was specially engineered to get that belt because of some characteristic about myself. On the contrary, my enormous gag reflex, gentle demeanor, and sensitive skin would imply that I am particularly imperfect for BJJ. Sometimes it's hard to go into a group of practicing MMA athletes as a weekly manga reader with no competitive ambition and believe "yep, I can hang with you shirtless people with tattoos and muscles!" even if I was invited by the coach. I think in my darkest moments I worried that inherent characteristics about myself made me too bad of a person to be able to accomplish the goal or that my accomplishments would be given out of pity. Even then, when it came to digging myself out of that hole, the act of showing up and being part of that community and touching ~~grass~~ mat helped bring me out of that funk when people showed me love instead of hating me for being me. So, I guess sometimes I feel like I'm missing some fire or edge because I'm not striving to stand out. I do have accomplishments that stand out - I don't like to list them in public because it feels boastful. But if we just look at BJJ - while it's hard to get accurate data, a safe assumption is that <1% of people who walk in the door to do BJJ make it to brown belt. If the exclusivity were the goal, I feel like I should feel some other emotion about it. That maybe I should lean into it and make it into some complex about what a precise and superior fighter I am. I earnestly, when I'm being honest and sincere, don't toil in the hopes of being more than someone else. Deep down in there I'm hoping that an attractive person I'm attracted to goes "oh you **really** like that thing that I like too! Let's talk about it for hours" and magically I like talking to them for hours. Likewise, being really helpful and working on my own terms has 1,000,000x more resonance to me than being really rich (marble countertops, consuming luxury slop, having exclusive seating/priority, etc.). But with a resume of cool shit that I've done it's like *shouldn't* I want to pursue something until it's amazing? Shouldn't I be one track minded towards a goal? I seem to be floating listlessly and a goal might shake that up. Am I just coping? Do you feel the same way? Without great man theory, imperial core chauvinism, and ~~unenlightened~~ non-liberating education do you still strive to be special and stand out? Do you want to be outstanding - the person who finally discovers and invents the thing? Do you have any guidance for me?

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 3 months ago 100%
    So y'all are like gay and shit?

    Damn, that's metal. Happy pride and allat.

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 3 months ago 100%
    The meta thread was about me, I post too good

    But I'm not making space for you unfunny people. Get pwned

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 3 months ago 100%
    Oh, you're a proud socialist? I'm a slothful socialist

    I'll read theory and organize eventually

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 4 months ago 100%
    What gives you slope?

    I have a right triangle but I only have one side and its angle, the angle is 60 degrees and the length is 4. Please help, this is bullshit. Fuck math

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 4 months ago 100%
    Heckin valid
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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 4 months ago 100%
    If you tremble with indignation every time One Piece takes a week off you're a comrade of mine

    ![straw-hat-republican-army](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/78902c29-b4f6-4c8e-8023-578cadcea7f1.png "emoji straw-hat-republican-army")

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 4 months ago 100%
    I'm joining the war on gender dysphoria on the side of dysphoria

    Wait, I meant like in a good, supportive way. I fucked that one up

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 4 months ago 100%
    Meta thread: does anyone else forget what meta means?

    Sounds boring so I choose to believe it's counter-revolutionary

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 4 months ago 100%
    Popular badposts annoy me

    How are you going to make a popular bad post, comrade? Some of us are really out here toiling in the posting mines. You're just a champagne bad poster. My forum posts are not your costume.

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 5 months ago 100%
    ${user.name} don't gotta badpost to get upvotes

    Well I do, so fuck them and fuck ${user.name} too

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 5 months ago 100%
    Which one of you is this? (twitter post)

    https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1779809298303897708

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    badposting WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 6 months ago 100%
    I can't believe I have to say this: tankies should upbear my post

    untankies should also upbear my post

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    games WhatDoYouMeanPodcast 7 months ago 98%
    One Big Mario Party by But A Jape

    Disco Elysium who?? https://www.butajape.com/comic/one-big-mario-party/

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