[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 25 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Most of them think things "will just work themselves out". In short: they don't have a plan. And if you pressed them, they would start talking in vague ways about how the luddites were bad and the industrial revolution was good.

A minority of the real sicko social darwinists think that this issue will be solved through technologically supercharged state violence. And a lot of them are investing in that future.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 5 points 15 hours ago

I didn't make a conscious effort to stop. They got really shitty on their own, and I found more grass-touching activities. I still have accounts on all of the big social media platforms, since people will message me or send me links on them from time to time. But will go months at a time not even thinking about them.

I do spend a lot of time on lemmy and mastodon, as well as groups on the various messaging services (discord, matrix, signal, telegram, WhatsApp, and good 'ol SMS and email). Those are technically the same kind of "social media". But I think everyone understands now that there's a categorical difference between real communities of people using a technology to talk to each other, and the skinner boxes.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

What's frustrating is that even normies get it, and don't actually want this shit, but it's just being shoved down our thoughts anyhow.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 213 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If I didn't want to get assassinated in public, I would simply not spend my entire professional career stoking an atmosphere of political violence and making it widely known that I'm a vicious and evil asshole who wants the worst for everyone.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 104 points 9 months ago

Do you even know who my dad is?!

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DON'T CREATE THE TORMENT NEXUS

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sun was removed from his position in 2022 after being investigated for his ties to China, a source told the Post on condition of anonymity.

Details of the investigations remain unclear, but MD Anderson was among the first institutions to dismiss China-born researchers after warnings from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of their major funders, about potential theft of US scientific research.

I don't know what's more sick:

  • treating medical science like it's stealth bomber blueprints
  • treating medical science like it's something to be owned and leveraged
[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 143 points 1 year ago

For years now I've wondered why health insurance companies haven't been the regular target of violence by clients who's lives they've destroyed. They're unique institutions because of how they regularly condemn people to death right to their faces for the most bullshit unjust kafkaesque reasons. I guess maybe a situation like that just sucks the life out of you too much to get motivated by revenge.

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Dems using their lame duck session in the Senate to pass some slop for their donors.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 105 points 2 years ago

It's kind of like how Reddit killing off 3rd party apps just made me stop wasting so much time on reddit.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Beaver@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 135 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Vote for me, and we can bring order to the galaxy

(Even Darth Vader promised to end the war, lol)

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submitted 2 years ago by Beaver@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

I want to host some LAN parties this winter, and am looking for some Free Software Games that would be a fun time. We already play some Counterstrike and StarCraft 2, but I want to expand into some actual Free games. Windows compatibility is a must, MacOS compatibility is desirable!

The two on my radar are:

  • Hedgewars, which seems like a strong candidate. We played a ton of Worms 2 in the 90s
  • 0 A.D., since we're already fans of RTS games.

But I know there must be some wacky ones out there which would be suitable for 30 minutes of pick up play.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 106 points 2 years ago

Literally one of the smartest things that Capital could do is to pool a tiny amount of their resources and make Netflix and Youtube free for the masses. These are incredible tools for keeping the masses placated.

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submitted 2 years ago by Beaver@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

The 2040 plan is mainly an ending of single-family zoning. Anecdotally, I've seen a lot more apartments going up around the Twin Cities in the last few years. The Frey regime are neoliberal ghouls, and this is a classic YIMBY approach to tackling housing shortages. The opponents of this plan are somehow even worse, an astroturfed army of KKKarens.

Choice quote: "Residents of color already face significant barriers to home ownership, which would have been exacerbated under the plan as a result of reduced access to and availability of single family properties," said activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, a member of the plaintiffs' legal team, in a statement calling Tuesday's ruling a "major victory."

What are the Hexbear thoughts on this whole situation?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Beaver@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

Guaranteed to remove all instances of macron from your system

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Death Valley Golf Course (www.oasisatdeathvalley.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Beaver@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

There's a golf course right next to the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, where everyone is taking their Instagram photos next to the hottest temperatures ever recorded.

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