femboi

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[–] femboi@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I remember listening to an interview with a guy who was spied on in one of those groups, I forget which podcast though... Maybe TrueAnon or QAA?

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, the PNW states have long resisted sending water to southern California, politicians know that it is super unpopular (for good reason, it's billions of taxpayer $ to prop up oligarch plantation owners) so they resist, not impossible that it might change but it would require some truly incredible kickbacks. Will plug the book Cadillac Desert which goes into detail about the history of water struggles in the southwest.

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's more energy efficient than heating your entire home because you're only heating a small area under the table. Of course, if you use it in addition to heating your home then it's going to be more expensive

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Scrolled through his feed on xcancel, it's fake

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Nothing will break!

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

Yeah exactly, really funny that he hasnt thought about this "plan" for more than 5 seconds. iirc they did change the SSN system to be more random a few years ago but I think think the first few digits are still the region of birth

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Seconding Boox, I have a Note Air and I love it. Definitely pricy but it has everything I want

Edit: one of the reasons I went with Boox is that I wanted good PDF support, and the large screen lets you view them easily

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

Damn ze's actually back

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'd definitely make contingency plans to move to a state with trans protections. Leaving the country, if it is something within your means, should probably be a last resort thing unless you already have a good support network abroad

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The issue I have with this argument is that i feel like it is confusing voting for someone with endorsing them publicly. An argument I've heard from socialists online that has really resonated with me is that yes, voting for president in a liberal democray is a way that you can influence politics but it is literally the least powerful and least effective way to do so. Therefore if we, as people who call ourselves socialists and who want to change society for the better, if we spend a large percentage of our time online arguing with people about voting, we are being tricked into believing in this lie that voting between two bourgeoisie candidates is meaningful. The clearest way this manifests is in so-called socialists who demand that other socialists vote for Democrats. These people are obviously betraying their values and have become party hacks for the libs.

But another way that I think this manifests, and that ties back to this thread, is when we go out of our way to spend time and effort demanding that people write in a third party candidate or abstain instead of voting tactically. Initially this was really counterintuitive for me because I hate Kamala and the Democrats so much for enabling genocide that I couldn't stomach the idea of anyone I cared about actually voting for them. But upon reflection, what I was really disgusted by was the idea of someone endorsing or supporting them. Because that is what makes a material difference. If someone is spending time and energy getting people to vote for Kamala, or any other liberal war criminal, then they are knowingly or not working to preserve the current system of oppression. But if all someone does is bubble in her name instead of trumps, they are not materially supporting genocide. While I personally don't buy into the idea of voting as harm-reduction on a presidential level, if someone else wants to I'm not going to argue with them about it. What matters so much more to me is what we do with the rest of our time. If we can make material differences in our communities during the other 364 days of the year, that makes 10,000x the difference than a harm-reduction vote. (Again this only applies to the vote itself, if someone is going around advocating for others to vote blue then that's a different story)

For context on where I'm coming from, I voted for De La Cruz but I don't live in a swing state so my vote is purely symbolic anyway.

Anyway for OP don't lie to your friend, that's kinda shitty. I'd say if he wants to vote kamala as a token 0.1% harm reduction then by all means, but maybe point out that all of this energy he is spending convicing others to vote blue could be better spent doing literally anything else.

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

jfc its sad to see that the nato brainworms have fully consumed Torvalds

[–] femboi@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If im reading it correctly, the linked picture shows that he is only the most blocked account in the past 24 hours, @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net can you update the description

 

There was a thread here that I had saved a few months ago where people had recommended lots of cool lesser-known DS games. I finally got ~~a flash cart~~ a legal means of obtaining games but sadly all of the comments on that post have been hidden by the admins. Would be nice if we could start a new thread for recs

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