[-] reader@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Don't let anyone gaslight you, that shit is whack. Shows how serious they are about the rising tide of fascism and the value they place on protecting their members.

This is the kind of form democrat political campaigns make so they can harvest your info and sell it along to every future campaign in the country as a mailing/fundraising list.

[-] reader@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Polish site I ran into shows similar "CIA" labeled bins in the background on photos of Epstein with woody Allen (?)

https://m.jbzd.com.pl/obr/4387113/epstein-nie-byl-powiazany-ze-sluzbami

The comments seem to be implying this is the office of a European leatherworking company, Miret y Cia, SA. But it would be weird to label all your bins "Co" as in "and Company" right? So idk

[-] reader@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They are in Philly, not Minneapolis/St Paul

also of interest, from the description (machine translated):

*Two days after our report was published, Paul Birdsong released a video explaining that Aaron Dixon, a former member of the Black Panthers who mentored him and allowed him to use the name “Black Panther Party for Self-Defense,” had withdrawn his support for the group. They therefore decided to rename themselves the "Black Lion Party for International Solidarity." However, their mission and activities remain the same.

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I wasn't expecting much but kid's like 60-70% of the way there in ways I didn't see coming.

If this is the level of understanding preppy white kids have I feel pretty good about the prospects for the rest

[-] reader@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

Wasn't there just discussion about how china is just silently not approving any tungsten exports to the US? Seems more likely to be that than datacenter demand.

https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/wolfram-dominion

No idea about copper prices though

[-] reader@hexbear.net 63 points 1 month ago

Story that I don't think was covered here: the sinking of russian cargo ship Ursa Major, which is now a year later being alleged by a spanish newspaper to have been carrying nuclear reactors to DPRK for their nuclear submarine program (which I didn't know was a thing tbh), and report from inspecting the wreckage indicating it was sunk by "external explosions" (they are claiming the holes in the ship were consistent with supercavitating torpedos)

Original spanish source: https://archive.is/haUA4

english-language summary: https://archive.is/JVP4Q

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So, this article seems like uncontroversial fluff, until you get to this part:

The Myth of “Feeding the World”

But the capitalists and their politicians cry, “We need factory farming and industrialized agriculture to “feed the world”!

But this, too, is a capitalist lie. Far from solving hunger, the industrial monoculture model at the heart of factory farming actively exacerbates it. As Vandana Shiva has noted, “industrial agriculture accounts for only 28% of the world’s food production, [but] it is using up 75% of the world’s resources.” Capitalists constantly frame the system as more “efficient,” but here too we see a system of staggering inefficiency. Industrial agriculture’s reliance on vast single crops like corn and soy — a large portion of the global harvest dedicated to livestock feed — causes varying levels of environmental destruction. Industrial agriculture under capitalism “pollutes the environment by increasing the use of inputs, accelerating soil erosion, polluting water resources, raising carbon level in the atmosphere, and decreasing biodiversity.” This model then often drives deforestation to clear land for more monocultures or cattle, further damaging biodiversity and fueling climate change.

I'm on board with the latter section, I think that's clearly true, but is it really the case that industrial agriculture is less than 1/3 of global food supply? Anyone have any idea how that's measured? And where's the line, is it just mechanized farming/mass raising of livestock? It seems like if this stat has any basis in reality it's mostly because of feeding animals for livestock, not because large mechanized farms don't work (though as discussed they have major flaws and downsides)

[-] reader@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

again, you shouldn't just dehumanize people because you've projected americanism onto all annoying or antisocial behaviors. I mean fine, it feels good to rant on the internet, you do you, but I think it sucks.

[-] reader@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

hot take but people who are annoying are still people

[-] reader@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think the assurance only feels needed for that exact reason, many people do not have any IRL community that is covid-aware.

I feel very lucky to have almost half my IRL sphere be on their shit about masking. I don't know if I would still be masking if they weren't, just to be frank.

I think we should do more to combat the relaxed liberal attitudes slipping in around masking in that thread like "I'll only do it when I'm sick/in flu season". I can understand the fatalism that produces those desires, but they probably shouldn't be allowed here, or at least should be strongly disputed.

[-] reader@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Yet another layer of structures to enforce capitalist realism and push austerity. Genuinely not sure how you push through all this besides just like, gaining absolute power and doing Socialism in One City which obviously isn't super viable.

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[-] reader@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

other way around I think?

https://mronline.org/2024/11/07/einstein-opposed-zionist-colonization-in-palestine-and-predicted-the-current-catastrophe/

Not that he was necessarily a staunch anti-zionist in today's terms but he saw the nakba and the terrorists who perpetrated it for what they were (nazis), it seems

[-] reader@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

this is US-centric advice which isn't even a great idea in the US and misunderstands the OP

[-] reader@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

Manufacturing consent...

edit: or better yet, inventing reality party-parenti

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