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Watched Season 1 of The Leftovers in c/movies@hexbear.net
[–] 6 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Barely made it through the first episode. I feel like mediocre writers resort to genre gimmicks when a good writer could do without. Like, you can do a story about loss and religion and all that without resorting to supernatural events

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    I need someone to tell me where to find another good pirate streaming site. Specifically for The Lowdown S2 in c/movies@hexbear.net
    Lisp | Trans Megathread for the week 29-09-2026 to 04-10-2026 in c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net
    Uchiyama Gudō and the Kōtoku Incident - Novo General Megathread for the 17th-23th of May 2026 in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
    [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Had to enter information into an Excel sheet for work – information that should be stored in a database and not a spreadsheet – and I had to keep myself from loudly yelling at the computer. Usually bureaucratic busywork doesn't faze me, but somehow, improperly organized data drives me up a wall

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    Evangelicals sure do seem to love some Heresy in c/christianity@hexbear.net
    [–] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The rise of evangelical Unitarianism as a conservative political force has got to be one of the strangest developments in American Christianity.

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    fedditors saying the quiet thing out loud in c/slop@hexbear.net
    [–] 39 points 8 months ago

    Never really understood why West Germany decided to be both the legal successor of Nazi Germany while also keeping most of their laws intact. That always seemed a bit too on the nose for me.

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    *Permanently Deleted* in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
    [–] 35 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    The "=" is an OCR error that occurs very often in these files and presumably stands for another digit here, so I don't think this is much of a smoking gun.

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    On Ableist Language - A Post from the Disabled Community in c/disabled@hexbear.net
    Turns out Larian also sucks [CW: racism, transphobia, sexual harassment] in c/slop@hexbear.net
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    Looking for recommendations on the history of the GDR (hexbear.net)
     

    I want to ask you all for some reading recommendations on the history of the GDR. This is for a party thing I'm doing, so I'm looking for something credible that's not just anti-communist propaganda (and also not just apologia, but that's less of an issue obviously). I've heard that the PDS published a whole book series, but I'm having trouble finding it. Can anyone point me at some books or texts? I kind of have no idea where to start, so basically I'm just looking for a general overview. Thanks!

    Blue-ringed octopus - Novo General Megathread for the 24th-26th of November 2025 in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
    [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I want to ask you all for some reading recommendations on the history of the GDR. This is for a party thing I'm doing, so I'm looking for something credible that's not just anti-communist propaganda (and also not just apologia, but that's less of an issue obviously). I've heard that the PDS published a whole book series, but I'm having trouble finding it. Can anyone point me at some books or texts? Thanks!

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    The perfect demonrat ragebait post doesn't exist... in c/main@hexbear.net
    Is this the right place for shitlib Lemmy slop? in c/slop@hexbear.net
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    Recommendations for cheap laptops? (hexbear.net)
     

    Hey all, I need a new laptop and don't want to spend much money. It just needs to run Linux/Debian, have a functioning battery and be able to play internet videos, nothing more. I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad X220 right now and I've heard that Thinkpads are still okay, but does anyone have more concrete suggestions? Thanks in advance!

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    Journals that published Richard Lynn's racist 'research' articles should retract them (www.statnews.com)
     

    Lynn, who died in 2023, was a professor at the University of Ulster and the president of the Pioneer Fund, a nonprofit foundation created in 1937 by American Nazi sympathizers to support “race betterment” and “race realism.” It has been a primary funding source of scientific racism and, for decades, Lynn was one of the loudest proponents of the unfounded idea that Western civilization is threatened by “inferior races” that are genetically predisposed to low intelligence, violence, and criminality.

    Lynn’s work has been repeatedly condemned by social scientists and biologists for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. In particular, he created deeply flawed datasets purporting to show differences in IQ culminating in a highly cited national IQ database. Many of Lynn’s papers appear in journals owned by the billion-dollar publishing giants Elsevier and Springer, including Personality and Individual Differences and Intelligence.

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    Jack Dorsey gave $10 million to a project run by an anonymous dev — who turned out to be a follower of a fascist 'guru' (www.businessinsider.com)
     

    "We don't know who the leader is, it's like this anonymous Brazilian," Dorsey said.

    That anonymous Brazilian is Giovanni Torres Parra, a developer who has also built at least two webpages devoted to disseminating the work of the far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho. Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19, de Carvalho — known as Olavo — praised Brazil's military dictatorship, claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses, preached that tolerance for homosexuality was "incompatible" with democracy, and had an office in Virginia decorated with portraits of Confederate generals.

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