FromPieces

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[The Onion] Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does this imply the story about a trans roommate/partner has been debunked?

A couple hours before reading about the roommate, I read a story quoting "Jay", a 40 year old muscle car fanatic who'd been dating Robinson:

“He was pretty shy, he was just a car enthusiast,” the perplexed forty-year-old sighs, refusing to give his last name. “We just talked about our love for muscle cars, the noise they make and the way they drive."

Hamas is an Israeli creation. Why not arrest Israeli officials first and foremost to fight them? in c/palestine@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Wasn't the Nazi government a significant "partner" in seeding the idea of a Jewish state? Others were talking about it first, sure, and the Balfour Declaration explicated the idea before the Nazi party existed, but the Nazis were hugely supportive of the idea as a more "humane" way to cleanse their population would be to simply ship the undesirables away.

I don't have a source for this, that's part of why I'm asking about it. I don't know where I learned of it and, if anyone else has heard of this, maybe they know some names I can read about or point me to a source.

What would society be like if everyone could be 30 IQ points smarter? In the future, we may be able to use gene editing to edit our brains throughout our lives, successful tests in mice suggest. in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago

That is absolutely what would happen.

The administration's assault on science feels eerily Soviet in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, what is that? The Soviets made it... more popular to get STEM degrees, is that what that means?

Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy in c/piracy@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago

I thought this was a shitpost copypasta but there was no punchline and it ends with contact information... Is this a parody of a scam or someone actually trying to pull a scam?

Remember to 2FA your kidneys. in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago

If you go years without peeing, where does the pee go?

Do the balls just start getting bigger?

Neo-Nazi gets maximum sentence in terror plot to destroy Maryland's power grid in c/usa@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I suppose I can agree the way the system should work, with rehabilitation being the purpose, 20 years is a reasonable maximum and I'd be glad the decision for how long to hold a criminal wasn't mine. I haven't studied the subject, I'd trust the people who have.

Neo-Nazi gets maximum sentence in terror plot to destroy Maryland's power grid in c/usa@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The maximum sentence for a plot to start a race war is twenty years?

Simple Optimization Trick in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess I'll have to find a friend I can borrow from, does piratebay still have old PC games?

Simple Optimization Trick in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Wait, it looks like the only way to install OpenRC2 is to have already installed RC2?

Installing on my Linux machine:

OpenRC2 needs files from the original RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 or RollerCoaster Classic in order to work. Please select the directory where you installed RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 or RollerCoaster Classic. (I haven't learned anything about how to live in the Linux environment, I barely use this machine)

Simple Optimization Trick in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Holy fucking shit this is the best motherfucking news this year

Exclusive: DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no "client list," died by suicide in c/usa@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait, would you mind expanding on that about the Hungarian uprising? Isn't that where the term "tankies" originates from, something something Soviet tanks rolling over innocent civilians to get them back to work, I don't know what the original "tankies" argued about the situation but I'm curious if this proof actually establishes that, no, the original "tankies" weren't actually being unreasonable at all

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Utah Republicans Fund Report Proving Trans Healthcare Saves Lives (le.utah.gov)
 

I'm seeing headlines that Republicans quietly posted a report proving trans healthcare saves lives and simultaneously seeing that Utah Republicans stand by the ban(1) and are misquoting the report's conclusions.

Download the report from the Utah State website where it's hosted.

When I clicked the "Download Report" links from Firefox, the file that downloads doesn't open as a readable report. That may be a problem on my end though.

(1) Utah Lawmakers Stand by Gender Care Ban After Study Refutes Reasoning

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Daily-but-Sexyish Underwear Options for Mascs (lemmygrad.ml)
 

So, the gist is, I've only ever worn whichever-FruitOfTheLooms were cheapest at whatever Walmart or Target I happened to be at. There was that one time I was at a fetish shop and I bought fancy underwear (for like forty dollars...) but I'm hoping to find something somewhere in between.

What's an underwear option that supports looking like they were bought, neither, by one's mom 20 years ago nor by a 40 year old virgin at a sex shop?

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Researching the Business Plot - Re: Behind the Insurrections (lemmygrad.ml)
 

I decided to listen to Behind the Insurrections again and this time follow the sources Evans provides but... I can't find any place hosting the podcast episode that has the show notes which allegedly contained the sources?

My wider mission is to find the sources Evans used to build the episode but first I'm looking for a thesis Robert recommends the audience read which provides a summary of the business leaders' perspectives in the time leading up to the Business Plot. This essay, Evans says, is authored by Bradley Galca of the University of Albany.

Searching that name on Google and on DuckDuckGo comes up with nearly no results and nothing relating to the actual author. That is, a few LinkedIn profiles? Not what I'm looking for.

Does anyone here have a better place to search? (I know I don't know how to search anymore now that Google is useless)

And also, does anyone know where the source list for this episode went? Does it still exist on the internet?

Behind the Insurrections: The Business Plot: When Rich Fascists Almost Took Over America

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Why Did The Nazis Call Their Party "Socialist"? (lemmygrad.ml)
 

This question has been steeping in my mind in the years since a conversation with an ex-friend of mine (libertarian baby-fascist) regarding his self-identification as a "Nationalist" and his point that he thinks "The 'socialism' of Scandinavian countries would be okay here (United States) if it were only for the American citizens".

It didn't occur to me then to ask him if that made him a National Socialist and if he had any familiarity with that term, but... Now I don't talk to that baby-fasc at all.

So anyway, the question that I have now is "Why Did The Nazis Call Their Party 'Socialist'?" I understand they definitely weren't socialist, they were extremely capitalist with private interests using the power of the state to plunder the networth of "undesirables".

So why did they call themselves socialist? Was there a pretense that the state would build a socialist support network after it established itself as an imperial entity? (But) The Night of Long Knives was them scouring the party of any left-leaning members, right?

Did they call themselves socialist just as branding?

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