CarbonScored

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[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The existence of anyone here or Grad being a total fuck like that is upsetting, but I'm glad they got dealt with. Really glad to hear you've got help and support Care-Comrade

As I say, can't say you're wrong with any certainty. No way to be sure where spammers sourced their email, just wanted to float web crawlers as a definite (albeit, also annoying) possibility.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Sorry you're having to deal with that, I totally get it's annoying.

Not saying it definitely isn't deliberate, but I wouldn't necessarily jump to this being malicious. There are still plenty bots out there that will crawl webpages and pick up email addresses to add to spam lists. They'll undoubtedly crawl places like this, so if you're putting your email in plain format in your posts, that's fairly likely to happen. Plus obviously anywhere you're signed up to can leak your email any time.

I've had previous email addresses get the kind of spam you describe, and it only takes a single instance of it being leaked or in the wrong database to get spam like that in the hundreds of emails per day.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Unless the US does some major overhauls of industry, coupled with mass centralised investment, I can't help but feel the country who wins a trade war is gonna be the one that.. makes all the goods, and has been accumulating foreign capital for decades.

One of them will sit and cry now they can't afford 90% of the stuff they imported and rely on, while the other has mass leverage to stabilise their own currency from a dip in exports, while sitting on piles of useful stuff they can just use and/or trade elsewhere.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I personally think we should all agree not to kill anyone (until we want to), that way, peace is achieved

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Please never take a "I heard X about this union" at face value. Obviously sometimes unions will on occasion do bad things, but I cannot stress how extremely common it is for employers to deliberately spread lies about unions. I have personally seen full-page ads in newspapers with bald-faced lies about the stance or actions of unions.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As someone who absolutely institutes heavy protectionist tariffs in Victoria 3 spreadsheet simulator, what is this

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is inevitably going to be a heavily context and detail-dependent affair. Since you don't seem to know to any specificity what the individual actually did, who the victim was, or how recent this was, you're going to struggle to convince others of the importance.

Thusly, I'm not sure anyone could give good advice in this situation, other than to talk to those previously affected and what their actual views on the perpetrator are - otherwise anything you do is going to be based on complete guesses. Sometimes that's all you have to go off, and in those cases, you can only instead ask people to err on the cautious side.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's easy to remember that Wine is just an API compatibility layer - Just gotta know its actual name:

  • W - Wine
  • I - Is
  • N - Not (an)
  • E - Emulator
[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 59 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Before Thatcher, the top tax rate for highest earners was 83%. If it was classed as 'unearned income' (eg capital gains), the tax could have a 15% surcharge, meaning the top tax rate for unearned income was 98%. (Under Thatcher, that went down to 60% - the top rate now is just 45%.)

And people wonder why we suddenly don't have money to fund public services anymore.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Hexbear is now officially a centrist instance.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

I want to live in a world where Studio Ghibli dismantled Israel with a huge lawsuit.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 50 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The US has blatantly disregarded the constitution loads of times. To pretend that breaking it now would necessarily lead to collapse is a bit weird.

 
 

I don't know how meaningful the question really is, and fuck YouGov, but still thought the data were interesting and vaguely positive.

 

inshallah

Or

Frogshallah lives on as my headcanon

 

An absolute many are neo-fascist libs, but some, I assume, are good people. a-little-trolling

https://lemmy.world/post/18545268

I thought it was nice to see a couple good takes out in the wild for a change (an anti-dunk tank?). Not all of the comments are perfect, but many are fighting the libs on the posting lines. posting

@Rookwood

The reason capitalism leads to fascism is that inevitably capitalism will lead to untenable inequality. Injustice will be too great to ignore between the rich and the rest. This will lead to populism.

There are two forms of populism. One will seek to rectify the imbalances caused by capitalism. The other will seek to divert blame to minorities. If there were less . then our society would not be in decay. One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism.

160 upvotes • 12 downvotes

Dharma Curious

Some of the comments in this thread really tell you why it takes a novel laureate to say this. Some of y’all do not have a basic understanding of history, economic systems, or what the term reactionary actually means.

The correct response to “neo liberal capitalism has contributed to the rise of fascism” should be “no shit, Sherlock”

It’s truly sad that that isn’t 100% of the comments here.

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleed, y’all. That doesn’t mean all liberals are fascist, that means that fascism is an outgrowth of liberalism.

And just in case y’all also don’t know what that means, “liberalism” in that context isn’t “Obama liberal, Bush conservative,” it means the political ideology of liberalism, of which both Bush and Obama were proponents of.

ETA: I’m not engaging anymore… it’s not my job to teach y’all the difference between an economic system and authoritarian states. Also, your magic has no power here, I am an anarchist, not a stalinist. Please educate yourselves. If for no other reason, do it to make it easier to pwn the tankies or whatever the fuck

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@DancingBear@midwest.social

i hate it when I hear people making the claim that it is capitalism that has helped so many people in the world with better quality of life and more opportunities and better outcomes, etc.

Capitalism is a fucking disease that we need to rid ourselves of, it is worse than Ebola the way it infects our minds with the dumbest shit.

You know what has made lives better for billions of people? The washing machine and the cotton gin and fucking electricity.

Capitalism has fought against progress every step of the way.

74 upvotes • 9 downvotes

@njm1314

Well of course it has, fascism is the end result of capitalism. Some would say it’s natural conclusion.

63 upvotes • 13 downvotes

BlackLaZoR

fascism is the end result of capitalism

I wonder what sort of echo chamber you must live in, in order to believe this

20 upvotes • 67 downvotes

 

This is just a short, easy-to-read paper I keep in my bookmarks and go back to occasionally. It explores, qualitatively, the various outcomes that contact with alien intelligence might have. I think it's a really cool 25-page exploration of possibilities that are fun to think about. Some choice quotes:

ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) might attack us not out of selfishness but instead out of a universalist desire to make the galaxy a better place.

perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks

hexbear-posadist

They may be interested in incorporating us into their civilization so they can sell us their products, keep us as pets, or have us mine raw materials for them.

if ETI place intrinsic value on lives, then perhaps they could bring about more lives by destroying us and using our resources more efficiently for other lives

My favourite section is the "unintentional harm" outcomes, which suggests the possibility that they just might squish us by accident.

One non-biological physical hazard that we could face from direct contact with ETI is unintentional mechanical harm. For example, ETI might accidentally crush us while attempting an unrelated maneuver.

i-spil-my-jice

Can't for the life of me find where I first heard of this, but I just wanted to share it for being fun and fairly silly yet still officially worked on by NASA.

 

Because it's bad. It's a bad place with honestly bad posts.

madeline-deadpan

That's all.

 

owl-pissed

Nah I obviously don't care, r/greenandpleasant are alright. I just thought it was funny to see my own words out there.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-bristol-st-pauls

"99% of dentists across the south-west aren’t accepting any new adult patients."

Getting anything but emergency healthcare in the UK is nigh impossible for much of the country now, I've been on the waiting lists of all my local dentists for over 18 months.

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

 

You mean mass, indiscriminate air strikes aren't a good way to save hostages and actually just result in dead people???

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/52. Lemme kick it off with the still top rated post on hexbear.net, probably worth restating for our federation friends too.

edit: this post has gained a lot of traction over the course of the last three months so I believe some clarification is needed

this title is indeed a land of contrast, and i think the following statement should do a better job at voicing what I really meant with this post:

people who think they can own one or several human beings and treat them as their property or capital do indeed deserve to die, preferably sooner than later, and not of natural causes; helping accelerate this process by loading a rifle with ammunition, pointing it at a slave owner and pulling the trigger is a good idea and should be done when possible. hopefully this clarified the stuff

The post that announces the death of Henry Alfred Kissinger better overtake this one as the most upvoted post.

edit:edit:The killing slavers fandom is dying! Upbear to murder a plantation owner right now!

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