Apparently the government is using the excuse of the current emergency situation to ban a much larger protest scheduled in Utrecht against cuts to university funding. I think the fascist hooligans were too macho to get their asses beat intentionally, but stirring shit up sure was convenient.
Make some tea, roll a joint and donate to orgs trying to undo the bastard's damage: https://www.uxolao.org/ https://www.maginternational.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/laos/
Looking forward to a bountiful slop harvest this season
aww, thank you
MAINbe this is the wrong comm for this but I just wanted to say I've never found an online space that has as deep of an internal culture as this one. This place has the 21st century equivalent of a fucking oral tradition. This place has heroes and myths and legends. New youngling users are told the stories of heroic posters from past generations. Memes live and die a thousand inane lives until any memory of their origin is lost. 
has always been and always will be.
Every now and then I see someone reference the 
and I have a moment of existential dread as I realize I've lurked this space or its various iterations for a significant portion of my lifespan. I tear up as I remember that the first time somebody here called me a 
and told me to read theory was many years ago on a different site. I light a candle for the posters martyred in the fight against slaveowners.
Anyway whatever I'm drunk and having a nostalgic moment. Death to the tank comms and long live c/main. You can use this thread to remember the posters of ages past (unless they've returned).
Critical support to the Amsterdam taxi drivers who made some zionazis take a swim
Thought about this exact video as well.
Communism is when indentured servitude.
* acts all tough, asking you to pack the bowl more or they won't feel it *
* immediately coughs into the bong, projectile-launching the burning embers on a ballistic trajectory across the room and setting fire to your carpet *
No. As a rule of thumb whenever the EU does something half decent it's either by necessity or accident.
Tech companies are already lobbying hard at both the European and national levels. The recent AI Act looks like it's written more by policy wonks who drank the AI industry's Kool-Aid than by actual experts in the field. On one side they want to cut funding to NGI0, one of the few genuinely good things the EU did in recent memory, which - among other things - funds Lemmy development, and costs pennies at the scale of the EU budgets. On the other they're planning to pump ungodly amounts of money into "the AI industry" - whatever the fuck that is - because they got sold on GenAI being the next big thing and they don't want to be left behind.
In EU policy for every half decent thing like the GDPR the are many ChatControls and similarly terrible ideas.
I see your Toum and I raise Yemen's Zhug: another absolutely banging middle eastern condiment. It's easy af to make, you can decide how spicy you want it, and it rips. I put it on basically anything.
4 trillion people dead from the brutal forced redistribution of peanut bars
It's barely the start of his long list of crimes. I just wanted to share this specifically since I'm currently in Laos and it seems like a part of the Vietnam War's horrors that people know less about.
It's a glorious day. Henry Kissinger, former thief of oxygen and current polluter of soil, is dead. Unfortunately, death won't stop him from claiming more victims.
During the Vietnam war, Laos was officially neutral and engaged in its own civil war between the monarchic Royal Lao Government and the communist Pathet Lao forces. Its territory also hosted parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a crucial supply route for the North Vietnamese army. The US, in order to both combat the spread of communism and stop the flow of weapons into South Vietnam, started the so-called "Secret War": a years-long bombing campaign in which they dropped more ordnance by weight than in the entirety of the second world war. A planeload of bombs was dropped on Laos every eight minutes for nearly a decade. It's called the "Secret War" because it was largely kept secret from the US public. While Kissinger didn't himself start the Secret War, he vastly expanded its scope, to the point of personally picking or approving targets for bombing runs.
If the title of "World's Most Bombed Country" wasn't enough of a burden to bear, the sheer amount of ordnance dropped means that to this day, half a century later, the Lao PDR still has a massive problem with UXO. People still die today from bombs dropped by US planes 50 years ago. A large portion of the bombs dropped were cluster munitions, each of which could contain hundreds of bomblets (called "bombies" here in the Lao PDR). Between 10 and 30% of bombies used in those years failed to detonate on impact even in ideal conditions. They are the size of a tennis ball, if children find them they will often pick them up and play with them. Thousands of kids have died or been maimed this way since the war. Once again, to drive the point home: Kissinger is responsible for these deaths.
If you feel like celebrating the old bastard kicking the bucket by doing a good thing, there are organizations you can donate to that are working to undo the damage done by him in Laos. UXO Lao and MAG International are running projects to either directly clear the land from UXO, or support affected communities.
I for one was excited to see you folks' weird ass posting breaching containment on my normal timeline.
But from my home instance feddit.it it seems I can only see your posts to other instances, not any content from Hexbear itself. I can see some comms like CTH but they haven't been updated in weeks.
I'm guessing you guys switched to whitelist federation and stopped sending us new slop. Can we reopen the slop valves please? Having to switch accounts makes my dumb brain tired.
Anyway welcome to the Fediverse!
Ten bucks???? That shirt's not worth the cotton it's made of...