BanSwitch2Buyers

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[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 1 points 20 minutes ago

No matter whatever political position he takes, badmouse will always do it in the most smug, pretentious way possible. Even his ML videos were annoyingly condescending.

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 4 points 23 minutes ago

Right-wing religious women who think adopting male right-wing views is going to protect them somehow.

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

THAT'S THE POINT. THEY DON'T MAKE PORTABLE GAMES ANYMORE. EVERYTHING IS JUST PC GAMING, PC GAMING ON CONSOLE, OR PC GAMING ON HYBRID "PORTABLE".

An entire branch of game design is gone.

How do they get mad at you over Google Maps?

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Go ahead. Say Linux one more time.

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Self-modutizing and banning your comments from my thread if you don't shut the fuck up about Linux.

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 8 points 2 hours ago

The US is kinda' stuck trying to funnel weapons to 2 countries and I don't know if they won't just keep supplying both as MIC gets greedy for more contracts/money. If the US picks Ukraine or Israel the other one's basically guaranteed to lose. Ukraine might get more European weapons than Israel would, but IDK.

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Skimmed it and I don't see how this benefits the libraries at all.

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

And none of them play new games, which is the point made here.

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Found one anyway.

Missile Factory in Arkansas Raytheon partnered with Israeli defense contractor Rafael in February to construct a Tamir missile facility in Arkansas to support US and Israeli warhead requirements.

The Tamir is among the primary missiles used by Tel Aviv’s Iron Dome.

The center, which will be built in East Camden, will also manufacture the Tamir’s American variant SkyHunter for the US and its allies.

Plans for the Arkansas factory were first announced in October 2023.
https://thedefensepost.com/2024/04/25/raytheon-expands-missile-factor-alabama/

L3Harris (formerly Raytheon Technologies) assembles SM-6 missiles in Camden. The Aerojet Rocketdyne facility in Camden manufactures their propulsion systems.
https://www.magnoliareporter.com/news_and_business/ouachita_county/article_ae76c556-2c95-4b56-96aa-e0fac2201efc.html

So there are either multiple factories here, or they're expanding one big one they have to make multiple missile types. Looking it up on Apple Maps it seems pretty small and desolate minus a bunch of factory/warehouse-like buildings from satellite images I'm seeing.

Edit: oh yeah, the other post with the maps is better and has the factories in East Camden listed out, seemingly. There are multiple factories here. I guess it makes sense since this place only seems to have a university, weapons manufacturing, and seemingly little else. Not sure how many weapons manufacturing company towns there are in rural US, but yeah.

 

Last year I travelled alone on a flight from London to New York. The flight officially takes around eight hours, but from the time you get on the plane to the time you leave it’s probably more like nine or ten. As soon as I sat down in my assigned seat I took out my fully charged PlayStation Vita. I was playing the visual novel Norn9. I recommend it. Once I started to play, the man next to me decided to grab his Steam Deck, Valve’s ostensibly handheld console, before the flight.

He was storing his Steam Deck in his backpack that was sensibly stowed away in the overhead locker. As people were still shuffling down the aisle, there was a little hubbub getting the portable console to his seat, but with a few minutes of struggle it was secured. He sat down and turned it on. I noted that he also had a full battery. After some browsing through his library he settled on Hogwarts Legacy. After this I remained absorbed in my story until I heard a sigh.

I turned to the noise to see that his Steam Deck was dead. The sigh was not only because his Steam Deck was dead, not only because it can’t be charged from the weak plane USB chargers, but because we were still mid-take off and he couldn’t put the handheld away until the seatbelt sign was turned off. He wrestled a little to grab his headphones from the seat pocket in front of him with the Steam Deck teetered awkwardly on his lap. It was impeding him from doing anything else. Eventually the sign turned off, he put the Steam Deck back into the overhead locker and I never saw it again.

lol. The stupid fucking behemoths we get now instead of something actually usable.

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago

I finally finished the Mario Kart 8 coin grind so I'm going to finish LSD: Dream Emulator and then the OS4 Shadow Of The Colossus remake. And then I installed new batteries in all my Pokemon carts so I can restart my catch 'em all playthroughs of those.

[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Don't know the antisemitism accusations will work anymore now that Israel went and started another war.

 

And I keep saying yes, but I'm running out of room on my finger for the rings.

Update: I asked him more firmly about it and he revealed that it was a scheme. He says we're now married 14 times, or as he put it, "14 layers deep into marriage" (a quattro-decima marriage) and if I ever left him I'd have to divorce him 14 times for 14 different reasons to leave him and get out of all the marriages. I'm looking up if this is legal but can't find anything saying two people can have 14 separate marriages with each other.

I do love him 14 times more than the average marriage but I'm worried for his self esteem if he thinks he needs to do this to discourage me from leaving him.

Update2: I got kinda' mad at him and he proposed again, likely to distract me, and I couldn't say no. So 15 layers deep now.

 
 

At a recent forum on Palestine, I spoke alongside the managing editor of The Breach, Martin Lukacs, about media bias. In my opening remarks, I discussed the uniqueness of Canada’s support for Israel, the longtime head of Postmedia chairing an extremist Zionist organization and the media’s refusal to cover a poll highlighting Jewish Israeli racism.

Afterwards Lukacs (unprompted) denied any ethnic/religious contribution to the anti-Palestinian character of Canada’s media. His central observation was that the Globe and Mail was owned by the WASP (white Anglo-Saxon and Protestant) Thompson family and it was biased against Palestinians so anti-Palestinianism in the media simply reflected the establishment. He repeated the point in a subsequent comment in which he said the military-industrial complex and corporate lobbyists were wealthier and more powerful than pro-Israel forces. Lukacs emphasized that suggesting ethnicity played any role in Canada’s media bias offended him.

It requires only cursory knowledge of Canada’s media to know Lukacs’ claim is mistaken. His position is also morally bankrupt, inverting a basic moral principle.

Canada’s largest newspaper chain was established by Jewish Zionist, Izzy Asper, who imposed an aggressively anti-Palestinian editorial line when he added the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun and other daily papers to his media empire in the early 2000s. It’s well documented as it sparked a Montreal Gazette publisher to resign and Reuters to formally complain about their wire copy being rewritten in a biased, anti-Palestinian, manner.

I don't like The Breach. It's better than most but it's still NDP-tailist radlibs for the most part. They also take a really bad line on Russia-Ukraine, etc.

 

Hey.

 
 

 

There is no inherently superior number of sides for a shape to have. Be it 4 or 6 or even (shudders) 8.

I shouldn't have tried to start a 6-sided shape war. I will not keep asking the admin for a squarebear sister site for rectanglers such as myself. I will no longer refer to moderators as "hex maniacs, and not the cute kind". All sides are valid. I will not sign my posts with "get rect".

I'm sorry.

 

The union tried to help, but hit a number of barriers. Normally, the union uses public records to find out who owns a tenant’s home and then identifies what other properties the landlord owns. But public records only list if a person owns a unit in a condo building, not how many units they own. That means they couldn’t identify other tenants with the same landlord.

“A lot of the tenants end up not wanting to do a bigger fight because they feel so alone,” she said.

The union is brainstorming new tactics. One idea, which hasn’t yet been tested, is to organize around common issues instead of common landlords.

M.H. tried to do that when her water was shut off. But she found that each renter, because they had different landlords, had a different experience.

https://www.readthemaple.com/how-canadas-condo-class-has-disrupted-political-organizing/

 

Good thing I was recording it.

Uploaded it to vocaroo: https://voca.ro/1esKvzpiURQm

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