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They seem to have unlisted most of their Chapo clips. Really liked their reading series playlist.

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Uhhh, what the fuck?

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There was this huge hullabaloo about Google employees forming a union, but I'm assuming that went nowhere considering how ruthless the company was with it's layoffs. Anyone got the full scoop?

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AFAIK, their war lay primarily in the Pacific, and beyond supporting the Brits and Russians materially, I’m not really sure why the US would want to involve themselves physically in the European theatre. I do feel fear of Germans beating them to the bomb might have something to do with it, but that’s just conjecture.

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago

It's not surprising that an encyclopedia maintained by volunteers is heavily biased when the only people with sufficient time and money to volunteer are terminally-online basement-dwellers.

This (at times insufferable) article does a good job of describing the effort it takes to combat misinformation on Wikipedia

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?

Nah, they'll just blame it on the immigrants ez

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

My reddit brain just instantly wanted to comment ~~r/ABoringDystopia~~ before I managed to stop myself.

I have a lot to unlearn folks...

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago

Can we please reclaim FOSS from these nerds?

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Hexbear, supposedly (hexbear.net)
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  • Panama was a Colombian district until the USA, taking advantage of Colombia's internal strife, orchestrated it's separation in 1903 to facilitate construction of the Panama canal
  • FARC, while officially distancing themselves from all tendencies, were closest to the Maoists in tactics by virtue of the largely agrarian nature of the Colombian economy
  • the ELN, another armed revolutionary group, are largely Catholic and seem to practice some form of revolutionary theology (this one took me by surprise; I would've never associated Catholicism with revolutionary mindset)
  • Yair Klein, an Israeli mercenary (seems redundant), played a major part in the training of right-wing death squads who were responsible for a wide variety of atrocities from assassinations to large-scale massacres (even academics/teachers were not spared since they formed such a large part of Colombia's unionized workforce)
  • Book Recommendation: Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century; a US veteran's memoir with a critical view on the US's imperial ambitions that also covers their interests in Colombia

Some unrelated things that I found interesting:

  • Alexei Nalvany, the Russian opposition leader and darling of liberals everywhere, was a key ally to Russia's anti-immigration and skinhead elements
  • The American Civil War saw the use of IEDs in the form of booby-trapped artillery shells by the Confederates (this apparently made Sherman pretty mad)
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Brightline supposedly represents “The Surprising Success of Private Passenger Rail”

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The ones I got off of RARBG seem exceptionally poorly seeded.

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

What kinda training is he upto that he can't even lose the baby fat on his face

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

I've been vegetarian all my life and I still find it extremely hard to give up dairy (due to economical, logistical, but, most importantly, palatability reasons). I can't imagine how difficult it must be for folks who've grown up on a meat-heavy diet.

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Are there Black Wolf equivalents for Blowback, WTYP, Kill James Bond etc?

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I legit thought it was theory but google just drowned me in a deluge of memes

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Problem is, I don't know at what point my writing is mature enough to share with others.

Even if I do feel like sharing something, I'm never sure what platforms I should post to. It seems to me that sites like medium only help if my writing is already somewhat engaging...which kinda defeats the point of getting feedback early and often.

I'm quite lost here.

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

Interesting, nobody mocking the cope cages on that armour this time around

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

God damn, my weekly slop is getting thinner and thinner

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

I dunno if "it wasn't supposed to", but the Bilbo/Galadriel ring scenes from The Fellowship of the Ring lived rent-free in my head and continued to haunt me throughout childhood

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Love how the anarchy is within a covid-cool

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