[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 56 points 1 month ago

Weirdly I was doing the same to various other texts “stop arming Israel” etc and they didn’t stop until I sent the single word “stop”

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[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

Right? Is the vomit emoji an ancient anti Semitic trope?

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 66 points 6 months ago

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/

But [Palestinian medical workers], they are working on a daily basis on the most horrific, explosive trauma that you’ve ever seen. They’re doing sometimes 14, 15 amputations, mostly on children, per day, and they’ve been doing it for six months now.

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 43 points 7 months ago

So it’s “rules based international order” except between armed corporations instead of armed countries. I can’t see how that would ever lead to problems /s

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Butlerian Jihad now

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Reading Giblin and Doctorow’s Chokepoint Capitalism and they used a term “freedom of contract” I hadn’t heard before, and which I realized that I have over-valued in my brain.

I’ve already broken through in a few spots, for instance employment contracts can obviously be exploitative and workers have little ability to negotiating the terms on their own.

Or bank loans, not because of the negotiation so much as the moral stigma attached to defaulting on loans. I can see that the bank took a risk, they can take the consequences too. Why add moral consequences to an action that already carries financial consequences?

I think this loans issue comes back to an association of business contracts with social promises, which I’ve spent some time breaking down.

The employment issue is another kettle of frogs. That comes back to consent and whether a person who is not entirely free can consent. I guess that’s the whole point of a revolution though. Any attempt to make contract law fairer to respect the fact that some parties are signing under duress will be thorny, because all people are under duress under capitalism.

There’s barely a question in there, but … thoughts?

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 47 points 9 months ago

Probability understander has entered the chat

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

So, I’m not really talking to anybody who feels this way, at least about Palestine, but my lib partner who supports a one-state solution but feels a bit less enthusiastic about violent resistance, has been talking to our Zionist or ex-Zionist friends about Palestine. She’s very concerned that I will say something that will cause them to freak the fuck out.

She’s also concerned that since I’ve put a Palestinian flag poster in our window, that those friends can’t come to our house.

I don’t know how much she’s projecting her own anxieties onto her friends vs. how they’d actually feel, but it’s definitely a source of stress in our relationship right now.

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Thanks for the background, I had no idea that foreign fish industries were raiding their waters.

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 55 points 11 months ago

It’s wild that WTYP was the podcast that helped me realize that the USSR wasn’t all gulags and sadness just two years ago.

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Hex…bear? (hexbear.net)

This is showing up everywhere, can’t be a coincidence!

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 41 points 11 months ago

It’s unclear whether Israel cut off communications by bombing in general or if Israel did it by bombing this specific building. I guess we’ll never know who is to blame who-did-this

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Someone cares about the patch enough to manufacture them, distribute them, and wear them

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Why do lantern flies congregate next to modern commercial buildings, specifically those with aluminum storefront system facades and black granite?

I just killed thirty in front of a high rise. The next block, a neoclassical building, had none. Crossed the street to a grocery store on the ground floor of another high rise and killed probably 40 in half the time.

Is it warmer at the base of these buildings? The two modern buildings faced each other so were in very different sun.

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