I hate being a leftist. Why my anarchist and ML friends gotta be at loggerheads? Why am I responsible for organizing my workplace when it's a large corporation in a field where a union is basically unprecedented? Why does explaining my worldview to anyone need to be such an uphill battle when it just started from first principles of compassion and empathy? Why do I have to sound like such a fucking nerd?

Every single time I see videos of ICE officers doing anything, I feel a sense of rage that makes me uncomfortable. I want to see these people fought against with force.

I have to remind myself, the ideal scenario for them is rehabilitation. I want to believe in a future where everyone who has worked with ICE and similar organizations are put away into mental hospitals and not released until it is ruled that they're no longer a threat to society. They are people deserving of compassion, even if they're really fucking stupid and racist. They do deserve to be locked up, I don't think the best case scenario is just fighting them with force.

However, if there's no real political movement to get them put away and rehabilitated... then we have to consider the second-best scenario.

does hexbear have a reading list somewhere? I'm specifically interested in WW1 & WW11 history

But also if it's an ocean planet and doesn't have a dense iron core, it's gravity won't necessarily be greater than the Earth's

naahhh, this is just media hyperbole. Not even the republicans would ignore the parliamentarian, that's just beyond the pale.

i dont know how to describe how im feeling without describing the events that have happened to me in the last 7 days but that is way too much info and i dont want to doxx myself when there's a decent probability that some authoritarian government is gonna use my internet browsing habits to put me in a work camp some day

im gonna gro a mullet not jsut to spite you

I think it's actually cool and good to judge historical figures through a modern moral lens, and we should do this more often

Hexbear is a little weird/embarrassing

But also like, when have Pro-Palestine protest movements in the US called for violence?

I would be amazed at this point if Peter Theil had not funded some stealth startup to make an anti-woke LLM (like Grok but more openly fascist) to start spamming the internet with reactionary rhetoric. I try to not default to blaming everything on bots, but it really is only a matter of time until this happens, and I feel like the influx of batshit takes I'm seeing online does not correspond to the change in rhetoric I've seen from libs I know IRL.

I have a few friends who have mentioned to me that they barely do any work at their job, especially remote workers. One of them says they literally only work 6 hours a week.

Is this common??

For the past like 3 years I've been at a very micro-managey company that incessantly tracks time, so I've been pulling a solid 40+ hours a week. Job security is good, but damn, if I could go work somewhere where I can slack off more, that time would be invaluable. I'd love to read more