For purpose of discussion, assume that due to bad luck, this asteroid has evaded the detection of all amateur and professional astronomers until about six months from impact. The asteroid is too large to deflect with humanity’s current spacefaring capabilities, and the general scientific consensus is that the impact will end...
I started a new job at a whole new grocery store a couple months ago. Got hired as a cashier a little while before the grand opening, but my first weeks consisted entirely of stocking all the empty shelves. Then when we opened, it was a nightmare suddenly dealing with customers for the first time but I thought I adapted fairly...
I can’t get paid for shitting on company time since I never really need to shit at work, but I’ll be damned if I don’t kill the same amount of time while on the clock. Thank god restroom breaks are mandated by OSHA and they don’t count toward our normal 10 minute paid breaks. Over the course of an 8 hour shift, I try to...
I have no idea why .world’s admins and userbase even left in the first place, they’re not even allowing discussion of piracy ffs. Might as well they go back, it would lessen their workload dramatically with the help of the reddit admins in removing leftists.
Talking to someone who justifies this kinda shit is always a trip. They’ll say that people who aren’t earning a living wage just need to work harder and pick up a marketable skill to improve their situation. But you can simultaneously get them to agree that many of these low wage “unskilled” jobs need to exist for society to continue functioning, so which fucking is it?
The answer is that the capitalist parasites and their horde of boot lickers believe it’s totally acceptable for there to exist an underclass of human beings born to work until their bodies give out for the enrichment of their superior employer.
They can’t afford to live a dignified life doing the shit I need them to do? That’s fine, just toss 'em into the hole when they stop working and replace them with the next generation.
Honestly man, I’m getting real sick and tired of pretending to be above violent retribution when it comes to these people. My blood fucking boils each and every time I need to look my boss in the eye and pretend to smile as they say farcical shit like “we’re all a family here” or “let us know if there’s anything you need” while paying me exactly the minimum wage and hiring the exact number of employees it takes for them to avoid giving any of us enough hours to qualify for benefits.
Anyway, Stalin had the right idea with gulags, and we should bring those back. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
lmao this lemmitors comparing Hexbear users to 4channers shit never gets old. When you liberals meet someone far to your left it must really break your brain for you to lump us in with fascists.
You know what I almost never see referred to as edgy out of hand? People who don’t want to fully abolish the US prison system, which to this day kills far more people far more often than the Soviet gulag system did shortly after the end of WW2. And that’s really strange considering the US prison system is designed from the ground up to maintain a pool of slave labor by incarcerating racial minorities on bullshit drug offenses. Personally, I’d much rather prison be used to keep dangerous reactionaries from causing trouble while they’re being reeducated.
Don’t worry, you may not live in the US, but you’re definitely an American in spirit.
And you clearly don’t seem to have problem with US prison system, only that wrong people are sent there. You’re as full of shit as the people you think you’re criticizing
Soviet Union: Sequesters fascists and counter-revolutionaries for reeducation after Nazi Germany murdered millions of people while invading the USSR with the express purpose of genocide.
The US: Uses drug prohibition as a bullshit excuse to systematically arrests racial minorities in their millions in order to continue enslavement after the abolition of chattel slavery. The conditions are so brutal that the death rate for modern US prison inmates exceeds that of the Soviet gulag system just a decade into recovering from the devastation wrought by WW2.
Lemmitor turbolib: Wow, these are morally equivalent. If you replace the words “fascist comprador looking to resume the brutalization of the working class” with the words “black people” then you tankies are starting to look an awful lot like 4channers!
I understand why they did what they did and it makes me think of how db0 and other admins are saying fuck all and taking a very big liability for making and supporting a free internet and i want to say all the work you do is very much appreciated. Also shoutout to lemmy.ml admins for running a similar community on their own ....
That makes it even worse. Imagine putting in all this effort and taking all this supposed risk to create a new social media platform free of the pitfalls that come with a for profit site like reddit only to slowly adopt the exact same corporate friendly code of conduct while purposefully curating a community of annoying shitheads who are nearly indistinguishable from the horde of cretins on reddit.
If making a new reddit is legitimately the best they can do, then they should absolutely just scuttle the entire project.
Recent example is Intel dropping the i from their CPU branding. What was an Intel Core i7 is now an “Intel Core Ultra 7”. This is a bizarre choice. The i3, i5, and i7 branding is very much a household name, and they’re just throwing that away....
It was for some local primary or something, I don’t know, 2020 was the last primary I’ll ever pay attention to. I’d been getting these texts all month and thought they were mostly automated by now, so in frustration I responded “For the love of god please shut the fuck up”....
I’m not gonna shit on this guy because I think his heart was very obviously in the right place, but I have to agree with others here in that this is a terrible waste of a life, particularly a life belonging to the one US troop willing to die fighting the Palestinian genocide.
Unfortunately, I doubt he was capable of doing much better because of how massively alienated he must’ve been. He almost certainly lacked anything resembling a coherent set of politics, and he almost certainly lacked like minded comrades to set him on the right path. Considering he was active duty, I have no doubt he could have found a way to frag some officers, but he probably thought violence would be counter productive. There’s a reason why Americans grow up learning about a wildly sanitized version of MLK Jr. and absolutely nothing about the Black Panthers.
So in the end, he spent his last moments screaming in agony for nothing, not understanding that the media was going to effortlessly sweep this under the rug just like it did the last few self immolations. This is so fucking sad, and it’s why we need to organize to capture and productively redirect people like this as they radicalize. Rest in peace.
Lmao what’s with this assumption that Walter, a guy who is desperate enough to rob a woman who is under the protection of a private militia, has the kind of cash to hire his own private militia? Most libertarians make up some bullshit to skirt around the fact that the poor would be mega fucked under their ideal system, but here it’s just obvious subtext.
When ADT looks into Walter and finds out he has no security company, they’re not going to complete any investigation or pay for any arbitration, why bother spending money on that? They’ll just show up at his home, beat the shit out of him, steal everything he has, shoot his dog, and sell him into slavery. Honestly not unlike what we have now except there isn’t even a farcical trial or appeals system to maybe have some amount of recourse.
Damn, the things used to be these thin little, well, cards. Nowadays they are reaching the size of entire consoles and can more accurately be called graphics bricks. Is the tech so stagnant that they won’t be getting smaller again in the future?...
I’ve tried Chameleon and Valyrian root tea blends before thinking they might make good sleep aids, but I’ve never had any luck with them. A lot people say they find those very relaxing, but I wasn’t even catching a placebo effect....
The most obvious possibility is AOC. In that case I am sure she’ll move even further right and get totally ratfucked by the party regardless. That’s the most jokerified option, I think. At the very least, her obvious ratfucking will push many more people to the left like the Bernie campaigns did....
Just found out there are tons of people on Youtube actually doing the former, and given the amount of anime avatars present, my assumption is there must be some number of them simultaneously doing the latter
Those things are too rich for my blood, but it seems to me like the concept is a great idea, and it would be nice if something like that became cheaper and standardized across brands....
Generally speaking, I get the feeling I should stick to something that isn’t worth enough for felony theft charges to apply, so no RTX 4090 or 4080. The 4070 Ti isn’t at all a bad deal for $0.00, so I suppose that’s the one....
How would human society actually react to the discovery of a very large incoming asteroid?
For purpose of discussion, assume that due to bad luck, this asteroid has evaded the detection of all amateur and professional astronomers until about six months from impact. The asteroid is too large to deflect with humanity’s current spacefaring capabilities, and the general scientific consensus is that the impact will end...
Got fucking ghosted by my employer two months into a new job
I started a new job at a whole new grocery store a couple months ago. Got hired as a cashier a little while before the grand opening, but my first weeks consisted entirely of stocking all the empty shelves. Then when we opened, it was a nightmare suddenly dealing with customers for the first time but I thought I adapted fairly...
Anyone else try to spend as much time in the restroom at work as you can get away with?
I can’t get paid for shitting on company time since I never really need to shit at work, but I’ll be damned if I don’t kill the same amount of time while on the clock. Thank god restroom breaks are mandated by OSHA and they don’t count toward our normal 10 minute paid breaks. Over the course of an 8 hour shift, I try to...
Lemmy.World Admin Strategy: Don't like the post? It's a bot. (hexbear.net)
Genuinely fuck off with this bullshit. I’m sick of this controlled opposition hell-hole....
There were people born in the 1800s who used the internet. (hexbear.net)
There are Wikipedia links for each person....
Holy shit, lemmitor's annoying liberal self righteousness is off the charts (hexbear.net)
I step out of Hexbear and into another instance for once and immediately get this shit lmao...
until we meet again! (lemmy.ml)
Appreciation post for db0 admins in light of .world blocking /c/ piracy and similar /c/'s .
I understand why they did what they did and it makes me think of how db0 and other admins are saying fuck all and taking a very big liability for making and supporting a free internet and i want to say all the work you do is very much appreciated. Also shoutout to lemmy.ml admins for running a similar community on their own ....
Why are marketing people paid six figures just to come up with ineffective bullshit that any asshole off the street could come up with in five minutes? (hexbear.net)
Recent example is Intel dropping the i from their CPU branding. What was an Intel Core i7 is now an “Intel Core Ultra 7”. This is a bizarre choice. The i3, i5, and i7 branding is very much a household name, and they’re just throwing that away....
Does Hexbear support Trump? Here's a community comparison from when the news of Trump's covid infection first broke in 2020: (hexbear.net)
I responded rudely to a Democratic party campaign text and now I feel bad
It was for some local primary or something, I don’t know, 2020 was the last primary I’ll ever pay attention to. I’d been getting these texts all month and thought they were mostly automated by now, so in frustration I responded “For the love of god please shut the fuck up”....
18+ Holy shit. (CW: Self immolation but it's a US troop) (hexbear.net)
Redditors REALLY hate it when you criticize something about their TV shows or movies
And I’m not even talking about large criticisms where you entirely dismiss their favorite treat as trash....
You know how the very first introduction to programming in schools is a thought experiment that involves listing a set of rigorous instructions to make a sandwich?
I really wish programming tutorials for absolute beginners were exactly like that. Like please program my dumb ass to learn programming....
How law works without government (hexbear.net)
The person who robbed me in uninsured so my safety support representative denied my claim...
Are graphics cards going to keep getting bigger forever? (hexbear.net)
Damn, the things used to be these thin little, well, cards. Nowadays they are reaching the size of entire consoles and can more accurately be called graphics bricks. Is the tech so stagnant that they won’t be getting smaller again in the future?...
Putting quotes around every single word in a google search so that google doesn't randomly ignore most of them
This is getting ridiculous....
What the fuck, Kava tea is literally a nice and mellow psychoactive drug just sitting in supermarkets and no one told me about it?
I’ve tried Chameleon and Valyrian root tea blends before thinking they might make good sleep aids, but I’ve never had any luck with them. A lot people say they find those very relaxing, but I wasn’t even catching a placebo effect....
I wonder which lib asshole is going to be the successor to Bernie in competitive Dem primaries going forward
The most obvious possibility is AOC. In that case I am sure she’ll move even further right and get totally ratfucked by the party regardless. That’s the most jokerified option, I think. At the very least, her obvious ratfucking will push many more people to the left like the Bernie campaigns did....
Bit idea: Guy who edits black artists out of Gorillaz songs considers it a gross violation of author intent when an actress cast to play in an adaptation of his favorite anime doesn't have giant boobs
Just found out there are tons of people on Youtube actually doing the former, and given the amount of anime avatars present, my assumption is there must be some number of them simultaneously doing the latter
What do you think of the motivation behind Framework laptops?
Those things are too rich for my blood, but it seems to me like the concept is a great idea, and it would be nice if something like that became cheaper and standardized across brands....
Say I want a new RTX card, but I'd never in a million years be willing to pay the small fortune Nvidia is demanding due to the crypto/AI bubbles. What's the least risky way to scam one from Amazon?
Generally speaking, I get the feeling I should stick to something that isn’t worth enough for felony theft charges to apply, so no RTX 4090 or 4080. The 4070 Ti isn’t at all a bad deal for $0.00, so I suppose that’s the one....