[-] someone@hexbear.net 20 points 13 hours ago

Even when he's lucid, he insults people, is mean on purpose, and dismisses legitimate concerns and issues people ask him about.

The perfect embodiment of the Democratic party.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 5 points 20 hours ago

I don 't think it's a scam, but it's a great way for the developers to build a huge database of customer habits that they can sell to marketing companies.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 4 points 20 hours ago

The worst thing that happened to the John Wick franchise was when they actually showed how the underworld worked. It was more fun in the first movie when it was all left to one's imagination and the movie focused on what it was good at: the action scenes. When they tried to flesh out the lore, it got boring.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

I want to lathe an election-night-speech mixup into existence. Biden loses, the prepared victory speech is loaded into the teleprompter by mistake, and he reads it enthusiastically thinking he'd won because he'd forgotten he actually lost.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

All our mining companies ought to be stripped of their mining rights to anything anywhere, the companies nationalized, and the former senior management automatically placed under human rights violations investigations - for starters. Our mining industry is a horror show, domestic and abroad. Name a human rights violation, and they've all done it. Brutal union busting, dumping waste into watersheds, beatings and murders of environmental activists, it's all there. But it flies under the radar because of our bullshit "niceness" reputation overseas.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

A very mean, and sometimes fun, trick to play on others in a collaborative programming environment is to randomly replace semicolons with Greek question marks and watch them slowly descend into madness during debugging.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago
[-] someone@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Absolutely, I keep telling people this. It's really just a matter of making extensive use of the like and not-interested buttons. The algorithm is scary good. One's main feed can easily be a sea of socialism and anticolonialism pretty quickly and consistently.

When it comes to getting the masses on board, we need to go where the people are. Lenin didn't demand that people visit him in some academic office on his timetable, he went out to meet the workers in their own gathering places, and when it fit their schedule. We need to follow Lenin's example, not just in what he advocated, but also in how.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

I found a magical artifact of incredible power. Only the greatest of lesbians are able to wield such a fearsome weapon.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago

I'm okay with a little elder abuse, so long as the victim is someone who spent his adult life making life hell for the working class.

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As we all know, by the year 2360, Earth had reached a level of development in which commerce as we know it had fundamentally changed. It was a post-scarcity paradise. Individuals instead challenged themselves to purposes that benefited others.

So my question to my comrades is this: what sort of Soviet-style awards would our crew have? Obviously Picard would have a Hero of the Federation or two. And Dr. Crusher would have a People's Doctor of the Federation.

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Build-a-Bear After Dark (www.buildabear.com)
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Build-a-bear - yes the actual company and not a generic competitor - has a section for 18+ they call "After Dark".

Now this is all actually pretty tame stuff. They don't sell little accessory dildos. But they have some interesting choices.

Would you like your bear to have some exciting underwear?

Or a cute little crop top expressing a specific inner feeling?

Maybe your bear is a hot stylish mature bear.

And of course to help everyone relax into the evening, you could provide martinis, or maybe something for special occassions.

Also... I have questions.

But at least we can all engage in that greatest of nerd arguments, weighing in on a debate of leader versus leader.

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The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday the interest rates on federal student loans for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The interest rate on federal direct undergraduate loans will be 6.53%. That’s the highest rate in at least a decade, according to higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. The undergraduate rate for the 2023-2024 year is 5.5%.

For graduate students, loans will come with an 8.08% interest rate, compared with the current 7.05%. Plus loans for graduate students and parents will have a 9.08% interest rate, an increase from 8.05% now. Both of those rates haven’t been as high in more than 20 years, Kantrowitz said.

The rise in interest rates could complicate the Biden administration’s efforts to get the student loan crisis under control and relieve borrowers of the pain of interest accrual, experts say. Even as millions of people have benefited from recent debt relief measures, new students will be saddled with more expensive loans for decades to come.

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In honour of the late great Roger Corman, I've queued up some amazingly cheesy movies from his oeuvre, playing right now. I haven't seen most of them myself. Should be fun!

She Gods of Shark Reef. The Los Angeles Times film reviewer at the time said that this movie had only two things in its favour: it's in colour, and it's only 63 minutes long.

Creature from the Haunted Sea. This one doubles as a feel-good movie where Cuban counter-revolutionaries get got by a monster at the end and it's portrayed as a positive outcome.

War of the Satellites. A cheaply-made, quickly-made bit of schlock intended to cash in on Americans' paranoia about Sputnik.

Battle Beyond the Sun. This is actually a Roger Corman distributed English-dubbed and re-edited version of the 1959 USSR film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebo_Zovyot.

Of course this is nothing from the official admins of the hextube. This is just me being bored and slightly sad about Mr. Corman's passing and wanting to enjoy some schlock.

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Researchers have mapped a tiny piece of the human brain in astonishing detail. The resulting cell atlas, which was described today in Science1 and is available online, reveals new patterns of connections between brain cells called neurons, as well as cells that wrap around themselves to form knots, and pairs of neurons that are almost mirror images of each other.

The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimetre, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses — the connections between neurons. It incorporates a colossal 1.4 petabytes of data. “It’s a little bit humbling,” says Viren Jain, a neuroscientist at Google in Mountain View, California, and a co-author of the paper. "How are we ever going to really come to terms with all this complexity?"

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The brilliant team name is courtesy of emizeko, I claim no credit for that.

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Amazing movie, I highly recommend watching it if it comes to a theatre near you. It's worth the effort.

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This actually has a real-world purpose. I'm going to get a custom baseball jersey made with the player name "KINSEY" and player number "03" to wear during pride events this coming june. I just need a good team name for it.

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Let's play "Guess which national Canadian news outlet posted this as their front page top story?"

Post your guess before clicking the link! The answer may horrify you!

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Over 400 artists, bands, and entertainers sign an open letter denouncing anti-trans legislation and policies. Of course like any open letter or petition it's just symbolic. But it was heartwarming to see that Fred Penner and the two surviving members of Sharon Lois & Bram were among the signatories.

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