Beaver

Beaver, 6 days ago

The funniest 16 year stretch of American history trump-kubrick-stare biden-horror trump-drenched biden-rember

Beaver, 6 days ago

Food pantries in rural areas are not only a much-needed service, but they’re an opportunity to talk to potential voters who have a lot to gain from direct government intervention. Huge opportunity for the Dems to associate themselves with helping people out. Instead, they’re going to spend all that money and effort on… billboards and TV ads? People aren’t stupid, they think billboard ads are corny and TV ads are annoying.

Beaver, 7 days ago

Napster was a godsend, as I couldn’t afford to buy music. I installed it on the school computers, and I had a sneaky little hidden folder with my mp3s. I’d plug in my headphones and listen over lunchtime. I eventually figured out how to use multipart rar files to put them onto floppy disks, so that I could get them back home and listen on my parent’s computer. I was eventually able to buy a portable CD player that played mp3s on CD-RW, which really opened up the possibilities. Without piracy, I don’t think I would be into music in the same way - I simple never would have had the opportunity to listen to most stuff.

Beaver, 13 days ago

Such an L even from a neoliberal point of view. The US is an advanced manufacturer, those are our inputs. Nations that are dominated by resource extraction get into a rut because they fundamentally can’t match the productivity of economies that are creating the final end goods, because that’s where most of the profit comes from. The sellers of inputs can only ever match the profit rate of the final good it’s used for. The US is obviously not going to have a resurgence of production of steel, aluminum, solar panels, and semiconductors, so this is just going to end up tanking every sector that uses them. It’s just the worst of the nudge-based economic brainworms taken to it’s logical extreme.

Beaver, 21 days ago

Knittpilled

Beaver, 21 days ago

My IRL leftist peeps are either still too LIB to appreciate this place, or they’re militant types doing actual praxis IRL, in which case the last thing they need is more social media in their lives to sap their vital psychic juices.

Beaver, 21 days ago

The algo for the front page feed got cranked up to Maximum Monetization, and it’s just a bizarre hodgepodge of content nowadays. There was actually a sort of golden age many years ago when a lot of my friends and family posted pictures and updates about their lives, and so scrolling my feed was a way to keep up with them.

I still use Facebook a lot for scheduling local public events, as I’ve found there’s a reasonable level of discoverability for local stuff. The groups feature works okay for small groups, but that’s getting swallowed by discord. Social media is a shitshow.

Beaver, 24 days ago

Aquaman will buy the shares! just-one-small-problem

Beaver, 24 days ago

It’s so good, that it actually makes Blade Runner retroactively better.

Beaver, 25 days ago

Vote for me, and we can bring order to the galaxy

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/cd6ae304-620d-47f8-a79c-d5bd8e42e071.jpeg

(Even Darth Vader promised to end the war, lol)

Beaver, 2 months ago

The power outage on the ship was caused by Stuxnet remnants

Beaver, 2 months ago

It will be funny when he drains the RNC coffers to pay his legal bills, and then wins the election anyway.

Beaver, 3 months ago

Aint that some shit, when the people you’re shooting at fire back?

Beaver, 5 months ago

It’s making me wonder if Israeli gunships actually killed more civilians than Hamas did, and that a big cover-up of that is happening.

Beaver, 6 months ago

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

Beaver, 6 months ago

thus, achieving Peace In The Middle East

liberalism

Beaver, 7 months ago

Good for them. Consumer co-ops can still be kind of exploitative towards their workers.

Beaver, 8 months ago

Biden croaks, the Clinton machine yoinks the nomination from Harris, we get another Trump vs Clinton. Bonus points if Trump croaks in October and still fucking beats her.

Beaver, 7 months ago

I don’t know how they expect people to get back on their feet when they’re constantly destroying their shelter and chasing them around the city.

Beaver, 8 months ago

The Owners understand Marxist thought intuitively. A reserve of unemployed labor is necessary to keep wages suppressed and maintain profits.

Beaver, 8 months ago

That’s exactly what they’re striking about. Almost all of the long-tail revenue from TV shows past their initial run has shifted away from reruns on network and cable TV (which is covered by their contract) towards streaming services (which, per their contract, they get basically nothing for). That’s a total betrayal of the spirit of the agreement that content owners and the creators had - namely, that the people who worked on the shows would also share in some of the long-term profit from the show. What’s funny about the community note is how it literally doesn’t even contradict any of that - it’s just saying “lol, suck it, we take all the profit now because of how the contracts are written”.

Aaron Paul may specifically have negotiated more up-front money, at the cost of less residuals. But it’s crazy that he would be getting nothing from one of the most popular shows out there, and it means that everyone else who worked on Breaking Bad who was counting on residual income is getting majorly screwed. We tend to focus on big stars who “made it”, but tons of working actors, writers and others work on lots of shows, and take worse up-front pay so that they can instead be payed out from a portion of the long term profits. Those people are getting ripped off, and so they’re striking to get the contracts changed.

Beaver, 8 months ago

For me, the Year of Linux on the Desktop was 2021. There’s literally only one computer in the house running Windows anymore, and that’s simply to run some of the pro-level software I use for gig work (and so I’ll never be entirely rid of it).

Proton’s improvements were a big step in transitioning my PC gaming to Linux. There are still a lot of games that won’t run on Linux, but… there are so many that do, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out.