[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 67 points 2 days ago

It's been 47 years since the Islamic Revolution in 1979

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago

Kinda contradicts their whole liberation angle, doesn't it? thonk

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've haven't finished it yet but I've been working my way through The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century by Carlos Martinez. It doesn't satisfy your latter condition, but so far I've found it to be a good broad overview of the PRC and it goes on to argue that China remains socialist contrary to some Western misconceptions that China abandoned socialism with the Deng Xiaoping reforms. I guess I'd liken it to Blackshirts & Reds in that it's an introduction to what Actually Existing (Chinese) Socialism is like and how it developed. It's available on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/the-east-is-still-red-chinese-socialism-in-the-21st-century

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 32 points 3 days ago

I thought these posts were Hexbears making shitpost edits but no, the actual president of the united states is Truthing™ like this for real

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 49 points 6 days ago

Daily reminder that Japan didn't even have an analog to the ~~half~~ ~~quarter~~ eighth-assed denazification that Germany did

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dudes rock kim-salute

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 110 points 1 month ago

The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War.

Kingdom of Fear is an incredible read.

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which one of you is this? (www.youtube.com)
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sicko-biker beanis

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This is a longshot but maybe someone would be able to help me with this. I have a laptop that only has a single NVMe drive. I booted it up today to find "Checking media presence......." after the splash screen and then it booted into BIOS. The BIOS doesn't see the NVMe device. I don't understand how this could've happened because I didn't update anything or change any setting or physically damage or jostle the laptop between the last successful boot and clean shutdown and now. When I boot into an EndevourOS liveusb, the installer can see my entire drive and its associated partitions. I can't access them though, I think because they're encrypted, but even so I feel like I should be able to see them in the filesystem, as I've rescued files like that before (from non-encypted drives). So I can't really make heads or tails of this. If the liveusb is seeing the drive and the correct partitions, it can't possibly be physical damage to the drive itself, right? Or any of the connections? Yet BIOS can't see it for some reason and won't boot into it. If it's worth anything, the OS on it is Arch with grub as the bootloader. Obviously I've tried to reseat the drive, move it to the other available slot, I've toggled on and off all sorts of settings in the bios, and nothing makes any progress. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful. Thanks!

Editting to add: I'm not entirely sure the BIOS doesn't see the device. The menu is fairly unclear. There's a series of lines starting with "NVMe Device", which the corresponding entry is just blank. Then there's two lines of "NVMe Controller", one of which has an entry that I can't select or see more of that says "SAMSUNG (5...", which makes me wonder because my NVMe drive is 512gb, and I wonder if it's listed there? But I can't see anything beyond the elipses so I can't tell. Then the other controller line just says "Empty". Not sure what to make of that.

Second edit: There's a section in BIOS for RAID disks, and in it there's a listing for "Non-RAID Physical Disks" in which my NVMe drive is listed correctly. So maybe it's a bootloader thing? I'm so confused.

Final edit: Thank you so much for the help everyone, even though I'm sure my post was a confused mess. I luckily managed to back up all my files, so it's just a matter of fixing grub or reinstalling at this point. I hate computer :)

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 113 points 5 months ago

Maybe I'm very late to this and maybe what I'm about to say is obvious, but has anyone else been thinking that the massive mobilization of ICE is a way for the state to integrate the fascist gangs/militias/paramilitaries like Proud Boys, Patriot Front, et al. into the security services in a similar manner to what happened in Ukraine with their fascist groups? They're obviously the "target audience" for the recruitment drives and it feels like we haven't heard from those groups in some time, especially since you'd expect them to show up in defence of ICE at the counter-ICE rallies. It's also possible that these people could move "laterally" into other agencies once they have their foot in the door via ICE mass recruitment, then we'd really be seeing something similar to Ukraine. Just some things I've been thinking about after watching this translated documentary about Ukraine's "decentralized totalitarianism" (the author disparages the original use of the term to conflate fascism and communism, but he feels it's descriptive in a post-Maidan context) and how every imperialist frontier is a labratory for the future, and was curious about what the newsmega crowd thought.

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https://xcancel.com/ratlimit/status/1965945538903421439 soypoint-2

absolutely incredible snapshot of our current era what-the-hell

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yet it still scrolls me to the comments. curious thonk

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I don't like the new icon with a dolphin on it and I want the old clean folder look back. Is there a way to do this? I looked around but couldn't find anything.

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 89 points 1 year ago

Am I supposed to just blindly believe mainstream media without them providing any proof of their claims? How is this controversial?

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~~i feel like there's a bingo on the vertical right side but i don't know what counts for those two open spots~~ bingo!

i did not make this, i pulled it from the news mega at the beginning of the year

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petition to rename the site infinitybear og-hex-bear

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Just over a year before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered this week in Midtown Manhattan, a lawsuit filed against the insurance giant he helmed revealed just how draconian its claims-denying process had become.

Last November, the estates of two former UHC patients filed suit in Minnesota alleging that the insurer used an AI algorithm to deny and override claims to elderly patients that had been approved by their doctors.

The algorithm in question, known as nH Predict, allegedly had a 90 percent error rate — and according to the families of the two deceased men who filed the suit, UHC knew it.

As that lawsuit made its way through the courts, anger regarding the massive insurer's predilection towards denying claims has only grown, and speculation about the assassin's motives suggests that he may have been among those upset with UHC's coverage.

Though we don't yet know the identity of the person who shot Thompson nor his reasoning, reports claim that he wrote the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" on the shell casing of the bullets used to shoot the CEO — a message that makes it sound a lot like the killer was aggrieved against the insurance industry's aggressive denials of coverage to sick patients.

Beyond the shooter's own motives, it's clear from the shockingly celebratory reaction online to Thompson's murder that anger about the American insurance and healthcare system has reached the point of literal bloodlust.

As The American Prospect so aptly put it, "only about 50 million customers of America’s reigning medical monopoly might have a motive to exact revenge upon the UnitedHealthcare CEO."

And the alarming cruelty of the claims around the company's AI algorithm — we asked the company whether it's still using it, but received no immediate reply — perfectly illustrates why they're so angry.

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This was the obvious and, in my opinion, desired (by them) result of the deluge of lawfare against trans people by these Christofascists. It's just unbelievably brutal to see the real numbers. gui-trans to every fucking monster even tangentially involved with this campaign.

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 86 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd trust a Soyuz with my life over any privately made corner cutting spacecraft any day, fuck that. Outsourcing spaceflight to the private sector always seemed like asking for all sorts of trouble.

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Well, it's finally going to happen. Here we fucking go doomjak

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