The Dredge Tank
"Zionist Communist"
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Yeah this one’s definitely an op
the_dunk_tank
Better than Twitter tbh.
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“Now the tech has finally caught up to my vision”
It’s hard to imagine a more smug statement.
Damn bro, you’re living in 3024 while the rest of us are wasting time not being as smart as you.
chapotraphouse
Conservatives and centrists are exhausting to be around
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Many cis people make their gender their whole personality too, it’s just socially acceptable to do so
fediverse
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I’m of two minds. On one hand I agree, it’s gotta be dead simple. On the other hand I think the public is more capable than it seems. People figured out email and the mess that is Windows. The fediverse just feels like a lot because it’s new. Some better branding is in order though, like your example of not using the word “instance”.
I often think it would be better to obfuscate the federation aspect altogether. Most users don’t need to know or care that a post or user came from another instance. But I think that path will ultimately be more confusing than just having the small learning curve.
the_dunk_tank
Liberal techno-fascists are utterly deranged
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Because these people think of the world in terms of LOTR just like liberals think in terms of Harry Potter
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4 days ago
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The political cum piss is actually shit
chapotraphouse
The shooter being a NAFO Boomer is the funniest fucking thing ever.
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4 days ago
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Stormy sends her regards
askchapo
What is an important "butterfly moment" for you that helped push you towards leftism later on?
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idk being a liberal was extremely frustrating for me. Anxiously following polls and election results, volunteering time and money, and even when your person wins seeing nothing change anyway — I don’t like the word but cuck is really the only way to describe it.
At least as a Marxist I can be disappointed but also understand wtf is going on
askchapo
What is an important "butterfly moment" for you that helped push you towards leftism later on?
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Same lmao
The Dredge Tank
Ronald Reagan would vote blue. So should you!
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17 former staffers doing something is completely unremarkable tho lmao
BREAKING: In stunning turn of events, this brunch table of four local Denny’s enthusiasts has declared their unwavering support for Kamala Harris. This is huge. The coveted Denny’s electorate has predicted 6 of the last 12 elections.
chapotraphouse
erm akshually my genetically superior soul prevents me from being born into such a mongrel caste. ☝️🤓
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random chemical bullshit
yeah people way overestimate the degree of determinism embodied in DNA.
Gene expression (epigenetics) are half, probably more, of the story.
chapotraphouse
erm akshually my genetically superior soul prevents me from being born into such a mongrel caste. ☝️🤓
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I get what you’re saying but also disagree on the conclusion, if I’m reading right. Feels like a form of solipsism which is just … navel-gazey.
Imagining oneself in another’s position is simple empathy, an evolved trait foundational to human civilization. The point is not to be able to perfectly imagine that other life, or to understand it in full detail. The point is to recognize common humanity between yourself and that other person.
In empathizing, I make a basic assumption about another person’s experience, in its intelligibility to myself, despite not having experienced it directly myself. It is like how in physics, we can’t prove beyond all doubt that the laws of the physics are the same in other galaxies (although there is of course strong evidence, e.g. spectral lines). I am reasonably certain of a baseline humanity shared by all humans, and on that basis I feel valid in empathizing.
news
Bulletins and News Discussion from September 9th to September 15th, 2024 - Viva Sandino! - COTW: Nicaragua
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I think they’re Trots or something. They do sometimes miss, especially on Ukraine. But overall yes they are actually communists.
One of their top viewed videos is Ash Sarkar on Good Morning Britain making Piers Morgan look dumb
chapotraphouse
Effort post: corruption is loosely defined in capitalism, and comparisons with socialism are inherently unfair
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Not to mention not all companies are publicly traded
the_dunk_tank
people don't like my bot, it's going to be against TOS to be against it
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I’m afraid you have left me no choice but to shame you with a photo of… one adorable kitten! 👹
chapotraphouse
Hollywood writers struggle to match the horrors of reality
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Agreed… disability is a biologically relative term, not socially relative. A society which fully accommodates deafness would not actually abolish deafness.
Someone I know has a hearing disability. It’s not like they are unable to survive without me, but hearing would absolutely make them safer at times. For example, when walking through a dangerous part of town, there is a reason hearing people don’t wear headphones. In nature, it’s a good thing if you can hear rattlesnakes or idk, a bear charing at you lol.
Does that mean a deaf person cannot live a life as rich as a hearing person? I don’t believe that at all. Like said above, there can be certain subjective upsides to deafness that might balance the losses. But it’s still a disability.
science
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tl;dr one hypothesis is that regions dense with objects can effectively clear out the interstellar medium that would otherwise block its light. According to this paper, all the observed Lyman alpha emissions are from objects with nearby companions
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Some published discussion on this from February 2024
covid
Florida high school football player dies after game, becoming the school year’s latest tragedy | CNN
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The heart issues are probably undiagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. HCM is inherited and often starts symptoms during adolescence. And it’s often what causes random cardiac arrest during high school sports. It’s why many programs require echocardiograms as part of the screening physical exam.
A surprising number of people have it, about 1 in 500, and go their whole lives with no significant issue. But sports like football seem to be better at “finding” the problem with repeated brief bursts of exertion.
badposting
There should be an emoji-free version of Hexbear
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badposting
There should be an emoji-free version of Hexbear
quarrk
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badposting
There should be an emoji-free version of Hexbear
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2 weeks ago
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badposting
There should be an emoji-free version of Hexbear
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Back in my day we were able to use ascii art without destroying the planet storing large meme files in data centers
Even with our best and brightest algorithms, modern society can hardly muster a simple portrait of Karl Marx
I’m always self conscious on public transit when I’m scrolling past dozens of huge emojis of Joker Marx and the pig with digestive issues
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Might as well set up some sort of sandbox for it as a side project
badposting
Holy shit I fucking hate driving holy fuck
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I enjoy driving fun cars in fun places and hate driving boring cars in boring places
memes
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toothbrush
chapotraphouse
Hot Take: it's actually a good thing that AES states don't allow evangelical proselytising
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religion was catalyst for class society
It’s the other way around. Class society is the cause, not the effect, of religion.
Or rather, they both cause and result from each other… but the base is always more fundamental than the superstructure.
Otherwise we’re getting into territory where the basis of society is not economic, but religious. Which is not materialist but idealist, essentially Hegelian rather than Marxist.
AES states are not classless, therefore not without religion. But definitely working toward religious abolition indirectly through class abolition.
technology
Google & Facebook partner admits it can listen to device microphone to serve ads
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Copying my other comment
Google Pixels have long had a Now Playing feature that can identify songs playing nearby. As far as I know, it’s all on-device and offline. There are pre-loaded hashes of a bunch of common songs which can then be compared to ambient sounds.
So there could be similar on-device functionality that recognizes spoken trigger words and record them to some file which can then be accessed by apps that serve ads.
This would be different from (and more efficient than) recording large audio files and sending them over the internet.
technology
Google & Facebook partner admits it can listen to device microphone to serve ads
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Google Pixels have long had a Now Playing feature that can identify songs playing nearby. As far as I know, it’s all on-device and offline. There are pre-loaded hashes of a bunch of common songs which can then be compared to ambient sounds.
So there could be similar on-device functionality that recognizes spoken trigger words and record them to some file which can then be accessed by apps that serve ads.
This would be different from (and more efficient than) recording large audio files and sending them over the internet.
news
For the first time in almost 2 years, the European Union imported more gas from Russia than from the US
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Trust the process
main
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Many people don’t have the means/knowledge/time to make a homemade Frappuccino, nor own an espresso machine. But yea if someone is paying $8 to wait 20 mins for a normal-ass filter coffee, they’re really lost.
Pro tip: look up Frappuccino recipes online if you don’t wanna pay the money. The reason many attempts seem off is because people don’t add an emulsifier. It will thicken up the drink and keep it from separating. A really tiny amount of xanthan gum is all it takes. I’m not sure what emulsifier(s) are in the proprietary Starbucks Frappuccino base powder, but it’s close enough.
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Is the gutter oil stuff not true?
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Bulletins and News Discussion from September 2nd to September 8th, 2024 - We Love Our Trans Comrades - Chemicals of the Week: Estrogen and Testosterone
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The Israeli economy is in shambles because of the war and divestment tho, how is it not relevant, even applying their own logic?
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I don’t think his beard would look like that. His hair seems thin. Usually when someone looks better with a shopped beard or haircut, it’s because their hairline or hair quality was improved in the process
The Dredge Tank
Adapt to climate change, stop using air conditioning
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Meanwhile air travel is the only practical way to travel in this country. A mode of travel which is unlikely to ever be electrified on any meaningful scale — not to mention the amount of battery waste that would require.
China’s basically solved this problem already with high-speed rail. It doesn’t need batteries because the power is delivered to the track. Far more sustainable.
Please vote by following your preferred candidate (who should be Not Trump) on the app that we are in the process of banning. Thank you.
Not exactly an obscure song, but even 20 years later this song + anime music video still slap.
chapotraphouse
Okay, seriously tho
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It may have been deleted. I couldn’t find it either, using all of the resources at my disposal (typing it into Google with quotes)
askchapo
What are some lingering Redditisms, or generally annoying internet conversation trends, that you wish would end already?
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Citing any of these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Formal_fallacies
politics
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But they will take credit for the same accomplishments next election cycle
the_dunk_tank
Then drink it, Rocket Jesus. DRINK IT.
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I was absolutely this kind scientism enjoyer. When I was a teenager. Then I realized that the better world it promised is not possible under capitalism, it requires communism. Advanced technology is a necessary but insufficient condition for that kind of world. The social order matters too.
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We will be harmed and reduced
Pro tip: don’t not be a white man if you try this
This man is just fascinating to watch When I first tuned in, he was ranting about neocons and their adventurism, and I was a bit surprised since I agree with that Then he said Germany should stop supporting the war in Ukraine, and it doesn’t help Germany to just be a US base. Agree … because “a strong Germany is the best defense against Russia” 🤨 Something something, Kamala is going to let BRICS happen and that’s bad Just all over the place lol
tl;dw he had a “flat affect” after his daughter died because he was autistic, not because he was a murderer
this is going to be extremely vague. I just have this melody stuck in my head and I can't figure out what it is from. These four notes are the primary motif for the rest of the song if I remember right. I think these notes are approximately right, going by this virtual keyboard: https://www.onlinepianist.com/virtual-piano C2 (half note) E5 (half note) G4 (half note) F4 (whole note) repeat. Or on the virtual keyboard, with "max keys" turned on, it's the keys 1-f-o-i Anyone know what this song is?
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3183162 > Kid Killer Kamala > > from https://xcancel.com/ASE/status/1821919484757864464
Not to humblebrag but I’m not online enough to know the details of the likely struggle sessions that have already occurred relating to this (Hexbear or elsewhere) I’m reading _Racial Formation in the United States_, and it makes frequent use of latin@. But to me it just seems really awkward/forced. Just use latine? Or, if one insists on using a combo letter, maybe at least something like the Swedish å? Or instead of trying to change the language, just divorce any correlation between human gender and word gender by selecting either latino or latina to refer to all people. I only have a basic American level ability to speak Spanish so if there are Spanish speakers here with better insight, lemme hear the roasts
Race as such, as a category. Been pondering about whether it is something to be abolished in the same sense as one might speak of gender abolition or class abolition. Looking for refinement on this thought if possible. Thanks!
www.youtube.com
Kinda obsessed with this band since I just found them 20 minutes ago
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Don’t know who the original creator was, but this has been floating around for a few days lol
**Washington, D.C., July 9, 2024** - Hailed at the time as an historic change “burying” a Cold War rivalry, the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997 was privately characterized as a “forced step” by Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who told U.S. President Bill Clinton that he opposed NATO expansion but saw no alternative to signing the accord. Yeltsin’s blunt admission is one of several revelations from a new set of declassified documents published today by the National Security Archive to mark the NATO 75th Anniversary Summit in Washington. The documents show that the Clinton administration’s policy in the 1990s emphasizing two tracks of both NATO enlargement and Russian engagement often collided, leaving lasting scars on Yeltsin, who constantly sought what he called partnership with the U.S. But as early as fall 1994, according to the documents, the Partnership for Peace alternative security structure for Europe, which included both Russia and Ukraine, was de-emphasized by U.S. policymakers, who only delayed NATO enlargement until both Clinton and Yeltsin could get through their re-elections in 1996. Yeltsin and his foreign minister in 1997, Yevgeny Primakov, provided the Americans neither the “grudging endorsement” of NATO expansion that the U.S. hoped for nor even the “acquiescence” that subsequent American memoirs claimed. Rather, as Yeltsin told Clinton personally at Helsinki in March 1997: “Our position has not changed. It remains a mistake for NATO to move eastward. But I need to take steps to alleviate the negative consequences of this for Russia. I am prepared to enter into an agreement with NATO, not because I want to but because it is a forced step. There is no other solution for today.” The newly declassified documents also show that Yeltsin and his top officials continued to cooperate with NATO on more flexible arrangements under the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty (CFE) even while NATO was bombing Belgrade during the Kosovo crisis of March-April 1999. These newly published records come from the Clinton Presidential Library and are the result of Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) requests filed by the Archive and other researchers and a successful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by the Archive against the State Department to open the files of Strobe Talbott, who was a top adviser on Russian affairs (1992-1993) and Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001) during the Clinton administration.
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This is my Roman Empire
Separation of concerns is a basic concept in computer science. Djikstra's original explanation sounds strangely similar to dialectics, to me  I mean, it's not exactly the same (dialectics are much richer) but it is indeed interesting that we only "discovered" this in 1974. Although to be honest, the idea is probably older than Hegel. Das Kapital basically follows this structure. Various aspects of the capitalist mode of production are viewed in isolation, from one limited perspective. Only after examining each perspective, and the interrelation between them, can one really understand the entire system.
Saw this comment on the commie side of TikTok. My gut tells me this is ultraleft bs, but perhaps my fellow hexbears can educate me on this discussion which I’m sure is not new. I don’t see how a poor American on food stamps is responsible, even though a systematic analysis reveals that international superexploitation is a thing. The American proletariat can and should organize in any case. I don’t see how Americans can build any sort of socialist movement if any organization at all is accused of being hypocritical.
Bonus points if someone can use their shopping skills to merge it with 
Since a Biden replacement is increasingly likely, I need to start preparing my reasons why every individual alternative besides DotP is bad
I discovered this [feature](https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/play-background-sounds-iphb2cfa052c/ios) a little while ago and find it useful for focusing. The extra nice thing is that it can play simultaneously with video or audio. So if you want to watch a show, it will continue to play background noise. Sharing this here since I understand many ND people (particularly ADHD) benefit from background noise. Not sure if there is an Android equivalent for this. There are the sleep sounds in the Clock app, but that’s not quite the same.
github.com
Dropping this recommendation because I’ve been looking for a reasonably good iOS Lemmy app for a year. They’ve all been bad (IMO), but this is so far the closest to how good Apollo for Reddit was, in terms of features and polish. It is also FOSS which is great. I haven’t tried the Android version, but since the apps seem to just be containers for the web app ([vger.app](http://vger.app)), I imagine it’s just as good over there. The one feature I noticed missing is user avatars. I don’t know the developer or anything. Just glad to not have to use the browser to use Hexbear.
 1. Can this use a fixed-width font? Currently, the timestamp jumps up and down a line depending on the combination of numbers. 2. Can the date be formatted as yyyy-MM-dd or dd.MM.yyyy? The current format of MM/dd/yyyy is reminding me of America and I don't like it
EVs do not have gas tanks and are therefore superior
allthingsliberty.com
Interesting article about the black Americans (freed and enslaved) who fought in the American Revolution. Having received an American education, I don't recall learning that black Americans heavily favored and fought for the British. Britain started on a path toward abolition in its own land after *Somerset v Stewart*, so slaveowners in America felt that the institution of slavery was under threat in the colonies as well. The continuation of slavery was therefore at least a minor factor in the American Revolution.
This one’s going on Fox
* U.S. Embassy deemed process “reasonably free and fair” * Putin drew 53%, not today’s purported 87% 2000 popularity based on tough Chechnya policy, image of vigorous leader, pension increases * What Embassy called “first ever democratic transfer of power” in Russia was managed transition to hand-picked successor I share this not to suggest it is perfectly accurate regarding the actual history, but to show that the US did not doubt the legitimacy of Putin’s first election, according to US embassy documents. ___ ::: spoiler About the National Security Archive Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets. :::