Alexander Smith, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said he was given a choice between resignation and dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week....
Genocidal fucks like you are gonna be why trump wins. Biden is gonna lose if he keeps supporting blatant genocide, no matter how bloodthirsty you are about it
Polite unless you’re Ukrainian, or any ideology other than ML, or really any reason they decide you’re a degenerate or bourgeoisie or whatever. They constantly brigade what few other instances they’re not banned from (and ones they are banned from with alts). Stop defending tankies, there’s a very good reason we call them red fascists
I’ve seen tons of tankies say transphobic stuff, so it’s definitely an element over there. Maybe less than other tankies, but only in the way some conservatives can keep their transphobia quiet enough to watch Blair White or have her as a guest on a podcast or whatever. They don’t hate trans people there less, they’re just deceptive enough to fool people into thinking their dream ML utopia wouldn’t put queer people to death like all the others they love so much. People who aren’t transphobes don’t worship Stalin
Hexbear, the place that’s supposedly full of trans people and allies, yet they all simp for transphobic regimes who’d have them gulag’d or worse. Yall are gross as shit, we don’t liberate ourselves by acting like totalitarian regimes who murder queer people are the best. Yall should be fucking ashamed, you’re no better than Caitlin Jenner voting for trump
Hexbear users don’t think any differently, in fact they’re worse than average, they just don’t say that part out loud. You genuinely think these fuckers that fetishize dictators who imprisoned queer people give half a shit about queer rights? You think people that jack off to places like Russia and China that punish homosexuality feel anything but disgust towards us? That’s naive as shit and I hope you get your head out of your your ass some day
Also I’d rather see one dumb fucker that hates trans women than a hundred bloodthirsty cunts who want Ukraine to be conquered by Russia. Imo any place that trivializes conquest and genocide is a shithole, and hexbear is even worse on that front than the most liberal “vote blue no matter who” cesspits
Inb4 “Russia actually has a right to that land and also nato was baiting them and also Ukraine is full of nazis and also stealing children isn’t genocide, but also they deserve it”
Hey look, it’s a tankie that jerks off to Stalin and thinks Russia isn’t imperialist! Go fuck yourself, you cunts should stay in your own instances instead of spreading your trash all over the rest of the fediverse. Nobody with half a heart likes you, and nobody with half a brain thinks you want anything for me other than to be thrown in a gulag for being a degenerate and an anti-revolutionary (an anarchist-leaning nb who doesn’t want to be murdered or conversion therapy’d)
“you cannot have progress under imperialism, and many right wing and queerphobic countries are in a struggle against imperialism.” so you just don’t give a shit about progress, you think it’s a thing no government is gonna do so you’ve just given up on it? Goddamn I hope I’m wrong, that’s really fucking sad and I’d like you to actually give a shit about our rights rather than going TERF and supporting people and movements that want us dead
Why in the fuck would you do things for other queer people, then want desperately for the government to punish us for existing? Who the fuck genuinely thinks that things would be better for us under Stalin than anywhere in the US besides Texas and Florida? Seriously what the fuck is your point? How can you support regimes that would repress the fuck out of you while claiming you’re not full of hate?
Stalin recriminalized homosexuality. China doesn’t allow “sissy boys” on TV. How the fuck can you consider supporting this scum for even a millisecond? Legit if there’s an explanation for this other than “actually no USSR country ever did anything bad to queer people and if they did we deserved it” let me know. This is fucking bewildering. What kind of queer person simps for governments that try to outlaw their existence?
Don’t bother fighting with that cunt, he’s one of those liberals that loves genocide and wants people to shut up and support it. No amount of talk could convince him to stop supporting genocide or attacking people who don’t want to
“Makes me feel real warm and fuzzy inside to know that the pro-minority attitude of the online left isn’t even deep enough to be performative.” very funny bullshit coming from someone who’s so “pro-minority” he would go all out to defend the mass murder of Palestinians and shut down any attempt to protest it
He hates Palestinian children having the freedom to not starve and not get bombed. He can’t shut up about how people critical of the genocide need to shut up and stop supporting trump (bc there’s truly nothing more trump-ish than opposing genocide)
I just can’t wrap my head around it. They want to be called and seen woman, but they have to get bottom surgery. Take hormone pills, all these excessive stuff to be a woman. They don’t have menstrual cycles nor can they carry a child. Why can’t they just be happy being a male and just wear feminine clothes? Like a femboy...
An astronaut crash lands on an elongated asteroid with extremely strong gravity. He manages to crawl away from his ship and finds that the gravity in the middle is normal and the gravity at the far end is reversed. Time is also affected by gravity and goes backward at the far end of the asteroid. His dog was injured and he...
Copilot ai is very obviously wrong, I haven’t watched either movie but the synopses are blatantly not the same at all. Do you just let chat bots do 100% of your thinking for you?
We care about freedom from hunger, unemployment and poverty — and, as FDR emphasized, freedom from fear. People with just enough to get by don’t have freedom — they do what they must to survive. And we need to focus on giving more people the freedom to live up to their potential, to flourish and to be creative. An agenda...
Exactly this. Israel is an ethnostate, and as violently antisemitic as Nazis are, a lot of them see Israel as a prime example of how they think the world should be
Damn, getting some hate for this post. Thanks, I guess. Lemme rephrase this post title, since this is the part I was curious about in the beginning anyway til everyone fixated on the “tion” and ignored the original ask altogether.
Honestly, if there’s ways that machine learning and the like can make AAA game development cheaper or faster I’m all for it, and I’m pretty against most use of ML in art. Modern AAA games aren’t economically viable. You have to overwork and underpay the shit out of developers to make your average AAA game, and even with that they still nickel and dime users for all they’re worth. The obvious solution is obviously to stop paying execs so much and stop endlessly, pointlessly pursuing better graphics (ie more polygons and shaders and RTX), but that’s not gonna happen any time soon bc capitalism and shit. Theoretically ML can be used in a way that doesn’t result in people being laid off and instead just reduces the workload and allows more to be done in less time, while everyone gets paid more. It certainly couldn’t make EA games any more generic or sloppy than they already are. That would be perfectly fine imo, but chances are they’ll just lay off half their devs and voice actors and shit, again bc capitalism and shit.
Tldr AAA game devs could use ML to make AAA development more ethical and economical, but probably won’t be bc that’d make less money for the shareholders :c
Oop I didn’t mean to say overpay lmao, I know that’s not the case.
I honestly had no idea the games industry was so lucrative, I assumed they made less money than movies but that’s not even on the list. That’s extra evil, I knew they have rich execs ofc but I didn’t know just how badly distributed that wealth was. Maybe they make more profit bc of how horribly they treat everyone Idk, or maybe bc there aren’t as many celebrities with massive paychecks as there are in Hollywood.
You’re right, I thought it wasn’t a very profitable industry but it’s just that publishers are evil and choose not to pay studios enough or treat them like people. Nvm I hope AI bullshit doesn’t end up in these games (my hypothetical magical christmasland scenario of devs working less and not being laid off by it wouldn’t be too bad in my book but that’s not at all likely)
Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle....
You don’t have to be brave to say racist bullshit xD you’re like those stand up comedians who think they’re being brave in the face of liberal cancel culture by making fun of trans people
McDonald's: $18 Big Mac was 'exception' (www.newsnationnow.com)
McDonald’s is fighting back against viral tweets and media reports that it says have exaggerated its price increases....
Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Alexander Smith, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said he was given a choice between resignation and dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week....
Are you transgender or gender diverse? Informal Survey Result: Majority of active Hexbear users say Yes and Maybe. (lemmy.ml)
Dug up their survey for it out of curiosity, you can find their original post here hexbear.net/post/2226865...
Remember, if you oppose genocide you support fascism! (lemmy.world)
Why are we wasting our server bandwidth on shit takes? (midwest.social)
I Just Don’t See Trans Women As Women
I just can’t wrap my head around it. They want to be called and seen woman, but they have to get bottom surgery. Take hormone pills, all these excessive stuff to be a woman. They don’t have menstrual cycles nor can they carry a child. Why can’t they just be happy being a male and just wear feminine clothes? Like a femboy...
[request] Help finding a space movie
An astronaut crash lands on an elongated asteroid with extremely strong gravity. He manages to crawl away from his ship and finds that the gravity in the middle is normal and the gravity at the far end is reversed. Time is also affected by gravity and goes backward at the far end of the asteroid. His dog was injured and he...
Time is up for neoliberals | Democracy requires a new, progressive capitalism. (www.washingtonpost.com)
We care about freedom from hunger, unemployment and poverty — and, as FDR emphasized, freedom from fear. People with just enough to get by don’t have freedom — they do what they must to survive. And we need to focus on giving more people the freedom to live up to their potential, to flourish and to be creative. An agenda...
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How do you pronounce the "ques" part of "question" ?
Damn, getting some hate for this post. Thanks, I guess. Lemme rephrase this post title, since this is the part I was curious about in the beginning anyway til everyone fixated on the “tion” and ignored the original ask altogether.
EA studios 'hunger' to start using generative AI 'as quickly as possible,' says CEO (www.pcgamer.com)
As if EA didn’t already make bland, derivative games…
Medical freedom vs. public health: Should fluoride be in our drinking water? (www.nbcnews.com)
Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle....
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Why do black people have to be so loud?
Like seriously and I'm not even intending to be racist (though some smarmy asshole will for sure interpret it that way for an unironic purpose)....
George Washington University encampment... (lemmy.world)
source: x.com/jmcmaster29/status/1786588095162335328