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submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/videos@hexbear.net

dudes rock kim-salute

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[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

What if I need that page later? Surely I'll come back to it later, so it needs to stay open. blob-no-thoughts

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 63 points 4 days ago

AI surveillance bullshit would be my guess

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

I want to return to a time before I opened this post.

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago

I'm not arguing that they're doing a good job, but I do think that's the intention. The Ukraine adventure was supposed to miraculously either cause regime change in Russia or collapse it entirely to further loot the Soviet Union's corpse and split Russia away from China, and instead it's basically demilitarized NATO and started deindustrializing Europe. This latest attack on Iran was clearly supposed to be a "kick in the door and the whole rotting structure comes down" thing and in classic fascist hubris it's blowing up in their face. So while I think the imperialists have vague ideas of a plan to ultimately confront China, they're doing it in possibly the most farcical way possible because we're like three generations of failsons deep at this point.

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago

Yes, that's it. Thank you!

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 47 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Not explicitly news related but I hope this is okay since I think a lot of fellow newsheads would like to know that Geopolitical Economy Hour apparently moved to Radhika Desai's own channel: https://youtube.com/@raddesai. I wondered why they seemingly stopped making episodes on ~~Multipolarista~~ Geopolitical Economy Report. The latest episode talks a bit about whether we're experiencing World War 3 or if this is "merely" the deaththroes of imperialism. Even though the super powers aren't in direct conflict with each other (even though they kind of are when NATO troops are basically doing everything but pulling the trigger on Western missiles firing into Russia), the current conflicts are clearly about attempting to encircle China before a direct confrontation, especially cutting off their oil imports and disrupting peaceful development of the BRI. It's hard to imagine what else to call a conflict clearly intended to seize control of Eurasia, and in my opinion Ukraine and West Asia are just fronts in the same conflict. There was an article from the late 90's or early 2000's by Subcommandant Marcos that someone posted here somewhere that argued a similar case about the First Cold War. Curious what others think or if it's a distinction without a difference. There's also the question Desai raises about every world war changing the world financial system, and whether the bear trap the US walked face first into with Iran making the energy markets scream has laid the conditions for that shift to begin.

[-] 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)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/videos@hexbear.net

sicko-biker beanis

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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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submitted 9 months ago by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/badposting@hexbear.net

yet it still scrolls me to the comments. curious thonk

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submitted 11 months ago by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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 11 months 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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

~~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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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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submitted 2 years ago by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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.

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submitted 2 years ago by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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

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