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Fuck

He's so shitty I don't even know where to start, but so many people on there are convinced he's some kind of heroic anti-corruption reformer and taking on the CIA and shit.

I'm starting to sour on the platform over it, I was enjoying talking politics on there but now my feed is flooded with Musk worship 🤮

Would we have Lil cities that look like models or would the ants have just killed us? Global warming wouldn't be a problem and if we got as far as we did now but were tiny things would be looking okay

I heard them use jokes I've only heard on Hexbear, but I kept chalking that up to "maybe this is just leftist twitter humor". Now, I'm casually listening to the latest episodes and one of the hosts made a throwaway line about lathing something into existence. There is no way that bit is used anywhere other than Hexbear.

it feels like so much 'news' online is just looking at clips from fox, cnn, msnbc etc, talking about their reporting. are there any left wing news channels that actually just report shit and aren't doing commentary on other people's stories? preferably daily/semi-daily news.

thank uuuuu

My grandpa is old and til now has always done things with paper copies including legal paperwork, taxes, and all that. Recently he's said the tax people don't want him using paper to file them and has sent him online resources to do so. Problem is his most recent computer runs Windows 7, and most web pages refuse to load. The only problem I have been able to determine is that the computer is wildly out-of-date, no longer receives security updates, and the internet doesn't like that.

Solutions I can think of are trying to prolong the life of the computer with Linux, getting a newer computer that has the hardware to run Windows 10/11, or taking him to the library to fill out info there. I am always glad to convert people to Linux, but for him it would have to run very similarly to the Windows 7 he's used to. He would have to be able to run EXEs easily and not have to configure anything. I know of low-to-no configuration distros, but I don't know if they can run his applications as easily. A new computer would be a pretty easy fix, but not exactly cheap either. The library, I'm not 100% sure they would allow you to do that paperwork there for security reasons, especially if the patron doesn't know how to log out and secure themselves. Even then, my grandparents have been reluctant to use our local library since they moved here from out of town, probably because they're old and don't like change.

So this is my predicament; if anyone has any suggestions regarding these or with different options, I'd appreciate them. If there is a way to use his current computer, that'd probably be ideal for him, but I do understand that's nowhere near ideal generally.

I know it used to be a thing you could do to the earlier customer service bots like with air Canada but that's a product of poor implementation of the LLM, right?

Chain broke while commuting the other day - I managed to repair it at the time with a quick link, but the new link seems to be catching slightly when going through the derailleur. Every 4ish rotations of the pedals there's a very brief sound like I'm freewheeling, and the derailleur starts pulling back when in top gear, but I can't replicate any of it when the wheel's off the ground.

Might just be a dodgy quick link causing problems, but does anyone have suggestions while I wait for new ones to arrive?

I'm looking to buy a house so I'm going through mortgage stuff, so you inevitably hear a bit about the context for the 2008 financial crisis.

Now, what I've seen a lot from this perspective is that what the banks did wrong was to lend too much money to "anyone who applied". This narrative seems to be the justification for lots of the more invasive and punitive mortgage practices 17 years later.

To me, this is blaming the poor people who needed money for housing, then jacking rates above what they knew borrowers couldn't afford. It drops all blame from the banks who, if anything, are portrayed as "too generous" in this period, which was sadly ruined by idiot poors not paying their bills.

Now it might just be my anecdotal biases at play, but it all gives me the same vibe as carbon footprints: Sure, maybe it wasn't ideal for people to be sold loans who weren't likely to afford them later on, but you motherfuckers made the system whereby housing is either consolidated by shitty landlords or locked behind a lifelong debt designed to bleed you dry for the privilege of "owning" something.

I think if might have done just that shoveling some heavy wet snow. Just curious.

I know kollontai but what newer stuff is there? I wanna be less of a masc cishet empty head loser

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4453394

My leftist reading group at uni is reading Imperialism in the 21st Century by John Smith. Is my diagram that i quickly drew up a good supplement for it? Also I know in other spaces shit flinging occurs about value created through labor in the west being "more productive," so more value is created than "unproductive third world labor" vs the inverse of that position; the length of the values in the diagram is arbitrary and constrained for space reasons, not because i think one way or another; but feel free to argue ig. I mean, has anyone read the polemics of Harvey and Smith? They are sassy as fuck and hilarious. Disappointing though to see Harvey to take such a vague and stance on modern imperialism, as well as the dissavowment of China by Smith because of alleged "Stalinism" (lol). I'll link the first video and four polemics they directed at eachother: "Imperialism: Is it still a relevant concept?"-Harvey "A critique of David Harveys analysis of imperialism"-Smith "David Harvey denies imperialism"-Smith "Realities on the Ground: David Harvey replies to John Smith"-Harvey "Imperialist Realities vs. the Myths of David Harvey"- Smith

Also in the leftist reading club we're using these as additional sources:

https://monthlyreview.org/2019/03/01/global-commodity-chains-and-the-new-imperialism/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49687-y https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X?via=ihub

Secondly, and more broadly, is the view of stock market bubbles forming due to speculation and the discontinuity between stock price and actual value an accurate assessment? Because of massive price gauging and speculation for textiles, garments, tech, housing, coffee, etc it seems to me like a large portion of many western economies or at least the US economy is sitting on a large bubble across almost all industries, and i've heard talks of an oncoming economic disaster from people of all flavors. Could mass tariffs and import restrictions on the global commodity chain bring about the popping of these bubbles?

hell no 😭😭 i dont want a bunch of those die antwoord or whatever they’re called kinda people being here

border’s closed for brown people being bombed but we have space for white people who have a 50% chance of not knowing how to read?

For context this is the channel formerly known as Beau of the Fifth Column, famed human trafficker and probably fed plant who has now apparently turned his youtube over to his wife.

For me It's "The Way I Are - Timbaland", "Disturbia - Rihanna" and "Out Of Touch - Hall And Oates" (weird combo ik)

Mine's gotta be Marge on the Lam. It's got Ballet as bears driving little cars, it's got Homer about to have his arms sawed off cause he didn't let go of soda, it's got good waffles sticking together, it's got moonshine straight from your own still, it's got ghost cars, it's got Miguel Sanchez, it's got Sunshine and Lollypops and Raibows, it's got precious antique cans, it's got suspects in a...red car who are passing directly beneath the earth's sun.......now. it's hilarious and really encapsulates season 5s 'fuck it, we ball' attitude.