Diva (she/her)

I couldn’t be bothered to figure out how to watch it, did anything happen?

I put the effort in.

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I got to couch surf while still working for several months this year because the person who owned the building I was planning to continue living in wanted more money. Did wonders for my mental health

I’ll be optimistic about technology when the last techbro is strangled with the entrails of the last angel investor

I haven’t seen a single admin who’s supported the junta fighting student protesters by ramming a tank through their barricades. If you’re taking about another, more publicized event I suggest you watch the rest of the footage.

Let me know if you can find the timestamp where it happens

Also the comment wasn’t upsetting, it was confusing.

Wait we don’t care about bugs because we’re self entitled? Gonna need to elaborate on how that one works for me.

What do you mean explain away? I pointed out that they always stop the footage in a way that implies he dies- when he clearly doesn’t. Having an article about how AI photos can be used to manipulate our perception of reality cite an instance of careful propaganda manipulating the perception of what happened was just a little on the nose.

Seriously posting about a massacre from over 30 years ago where a few hundred people were killed fighting the cops like its supposed to carry water today? Just compare that to the massacre that’s happening right now in Gaza, way more actual evidence of heinous crimes and it’s way more of a concern to me because it’s my government funding it.

https://youtu.be/vSbx352cn8A

If I say Tiananmen Square, you will, most likely, envision the same photograph I do.

There was film of that exact event. The guy didn’t get run over by the tank, he got on the hood and berated the driver.

Cops in America would run you over for less

For pedestrians vs cars it already is

Getting policed on tone sounds like hell. God forbid someone be angry at injustice.

It’s uncanny, so many times when I run into a commenter with a specific axe to grind about hexbear, they got already banned for something weird, in this case 2 days prior

One amusing bit re: hexbear, it’s been around almost as long as lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, but it seems was only added to the tracker last year, as it shows up as 12 months old, I have to imagine it’s including posts/comments from before that timeframe because bozhe moi:

Even if you divide the hexbear comments by 4 they’d still be in the top 3 2 excluding the reddit repost bot. Yappers.

There’s actually a lot of lgbt people there, based on their last poll:

https://hexbear.net/post/2687582

It’s not that there isn’t, it’s just that it’s not necessarily economically viable, or in a state of active production. Unless we plan on sanctioning Chinese graphite in order to make it viable. That would then raise the question of where do we get it from until our own suppliers come online?

I had no idea that graphite was all being imported, wild

Industrial development and planning is actually really hard to drive from the top down, let alone catching up with people who are already ahead.

I mean yeah it’s practically the 4th Reich over here

I have plenty of critiques of PSL running primarily national election campaigns, the whole national level election just seems like a resource sink. I guess if they get to a certain percent they get federal money for it.

The problem is a lot of local politics are already very much on lockdown by realtor/home construction/lawyer types. They will often get unquestionably voted in by homeowners, simply by evoking the fear of housing prices going down, or taxes going up. Homeowners are often vastly over-represented in terms of voter participation, due to structural disenfranchisement of poor people.

Most people who you could organize in a given municipality who aren’t homeowners will be under constant economic pressure to follow work or new housing, leading to a lot of churn - and often leading to people just getting unenrolled because they didn’t update their address when they changed landlords.

(Honestly this is why I prefer to just work on non-election stuff with my time)

I’m really not a fan and it’s embarrassing every time Russia does some cringe culture war shit. America won the cold war so it’s what we’re stuck with, sadly

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