sleeplessone

Shamelessly stolen from hecks bare.

The new hexbear domain will cause the instance to automatically federate with instances that block the existing domain, including lemmy.world. The blueanon libs who populate those instances will say the domain expiring was actually a tankie plot to surprise refederate with them and spread muhthoritarianism.

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.

This has been a concern of mine for awhile now, and it's finally happening. My only close friends are people I have grown up my whole life with. We're all suburbanite cishet crackermen who were well-off enough to never have to struggle with potentially starving or becoming homeless; predictably, this has fostered some garbage politics, mainly trumpanzees and blue MAGA. With Cheeto Hitler removing whatever shreds of a mask of humanity the Great Satan had left, I now have my blue MAGA friends calling out my trumpanzee friends for their support of Drumpf. The trumpanzees have been silent since the inauguration, and today the group chat has been split.

It was already a terrible form of liberalism for me to have let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship with people who, if I wasn't already close to, would throw in the cuck pit. There is still a major issue in that the most vocal of the friends I'm still in touch with are blue MAGA to the point that, if I'm to grow a spine and actually stop letting things slide, I'm worried that I'll be smeared as fascist myself and lose the close friends I have because pushing back against great man theory takes that make Orange Satan out to be a uniquely evil force instead of recognizing the evil of the system that produced him will invariably come across as defending Trump. I'm bad at making myself go outside, let alone making friends, that I'll have very few IRL people in my actual life.

Edit: The issue seems to have been deeper than politics, and the sides reconciled. However, the baseline seems to be "no outright evil political beliefs", and Marxism Leninism is considered evil by most burgers.

The university I'm attending for my masters degree sometimes sends out generic emails to all the comp sci students. This one made me do a double take.

I have to write a summary paper for a class I'm doing for my masters degree, and since the professor running the seminar this semester specializes in data visualization, the paper has to be related to that. Being the aspiring Marxist that I am, I figured international trade between countries (what commodities are being exported/imported, which countries are exporting to/importing from whom, what fraction of a country's imports/exports are of a specific commodity, etc.) would be a good choice. While I'm going to look for papers myself, I figured I would have a higher likelyhood finding someone into that stuff on Lemmygrad compared to other online spaces.

So I put a picture of a guy wearing a headband on your headband.