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Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy
  • The only problem is that I can’t convince my friends/roommates to embrace the media center piracy box. Literally the smallest level of extra work is too much. I’m not sure how to make it easier

  • Got to find a leftiest place.
  • Banned for making bad (and kind racist) “xinnie the poo” jokes, lmfao

  • Cruise Didn't Tell Anyone That A Woman Was Dragged 20 Feet After Being Pushed Into Robotaxi
  • Anyone with even a hobby level of coding knowledge knows it’s solving the edge cases that’s the real issue with resolving software problems. In this case I wouldn’t be surprised if automation reaches similar or lesser levels of traffic incidents, but the real shitty part is gonna be how much harder it is to get justice from a large corporate entity owning these robotaxi fleets versus nailing the little guy driving his Uber/taxi.

  • Hexbear federation megathread
  • It's actually really unfortunate because the emojis on hexbear are one of the best things about it. I had a lot of fun stealing my favorites and adding them to my friend group's discord for awhile.

    Devs really just need some time to sort them out

  • La Sombrita
  • They couldn't even finish the 710 because it would require them to domain the rich folk in the hills. So now the city still owns some homes that are going to rot below the hills and they spend (waste) money on cops to patrol/make sure no homeless can squat in them.

  • Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles
  • The fact that you're so focused on marx is really what showing your ass here. Almost like you're full of shit.

    But also I and plenty of others do spend time organizing offline. Turns out I have the free time to both organize offline and post if I want to. Actually I suspect most anyone who does organizing has that much free time.

  • China is bad
  • During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

    If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

  • China is bad
    Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles
  • I'm sure you know a lot of these real communists and they don't exist entirely in your head

  • Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles
  • The government has a long sordid history of violently suppressing which of these groups?

  • How many of you are actually chatbots?
  • The only way to know if I'm a chatbot is to see if I post political opinions that are different from yours

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from August 7th to August 13th, 2023 - White Blows From A Black Hand
  • I was there. I had moved into my pure American liberal bluemaga phase believing in the evil Russian interference. I guess one of the things that helped dispell that was that I came from a conservative background and I knew that Hillary was a shit candidate on so many levels that eventually the Russia shit just stopped making much sense.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from August 7th to August 13th, 2023 - White Blows From A Black Hand
  • I've talked to enough people with new money to see that the general reason they choose to entrench themselves in conservative or just classical liberal ideals is that they want to protect their own status. Generally, they desperately want to feel like what they have is earned or is because they deserve it. Often they understand, on some base level, that it's all very fucked but their beliefs are not really concretely based on thinking that the system as a whole is correct.

    It's honestly very sad to see people I know that struggled early in their lives with poverty switch to this kind of self defense, knowing that all it will actually take is conditions declining enough that they too feel the pain for them to flip back into some kind of class contiousness. What I do know is that I'm never going to date someone again who cries at Elizabeth Warren losing the primary.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from August 7th to August 13th, 2023 - White Blows From A Black Hand
  • The Harry Potter jokes are there for a reason. Most US folk never read a book of their own volition past their school years. You don't need to read a lot, or even read theory at all, but even a nominal amount of personal reading will lend a lot to deprogramming the propaganda.

    I usually just suggest the Jakarta method and Manufacturing Consent and if someone won't read those then talking is pointless

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from August 7th to August 13th, 2023 - White Blows From A Black Hand
  • I too wish to kiss a girl after my alter ego forms anarchist cells and blows up the major credit reporting company buildings.

  • Don't let infections rule you. Use protection
  • Setting up pihole or using a similar DNS based blockage of unwanted content is also really great. Some vpns will have this as an option which can make it easy. Doesn't necessarily protect you from all malicious stuff but it is very effective on dealing with ads and whatnot. Plus dealing with all of that on mobile devices can range from impossible to very difficult

  • Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week
  • How is it brigading when this is one of the top threads on active when browsing hexbear? How is it brigading at all when we can see posts from other instances naturally, without having to jump between them? This isn't reddit.