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Ruth First - New General Megathread for the 17th of August 2023
  • Pretty fucking wild to see someone claiming that Biden and the Dems did "harm reduction" when the only difference is that they pay lipservice to science.

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    Voting blue didn't stop shit
  • Don't forget the recent decision on that baker that didn't want to make a cake for a gay couple's marriage. The SC ruled in favor of being able to decline service to LGBTQ+ people on the basis of freedom of religion and free speech. Something that could easily be abused to repress the queer community.

    I don't think any of us here are pretending that things under Trump would be fine, instead we question the merits of the argument of harm reduction under Biden.

  • Voting blue didn't stop shit
  • Declared the pandemic over. Removed most, if not all economic and healthcare protections for affected by the pandemic.

    Still have immigrant concentration camps, just rebranded.

    Billions wasted on trying to create a forever war for Russia.

    Half hearted attempt to reduce college debt.

    No attempts to protect abortion or LGBTQ+ rights.

    Paltry environmental protection policies. Awful response to climate disasters that have gotten worse due to climate change.

    I could keep going, but you get the point.

  • Mariola Sirakova - New General Megathread for the 15th of August 2023
  • Might finally be going on a date with my crush meow-melt

    Been a bit of an emotional roller coaster (and will probably be for just a bit longer lol), but she had let me know she was interested about a month ago. Asked her out about two weeks ago via text, but it was a bit last minute and I didn't get a reply. We kept talking at work, but I hadn't brought it up. Then our schedules started to drift apart a bit and last week just kinda sucked. Then this past weekend we worked together again, but I hadn't quite mustered up the courage to ask her out again. Our schedules matched up today and I went ahead and asked her out again and she said yes. Nothing quite final because the event we'd be going to is a couple weeks away, but there's a good chance our schedules will line up enough for us to gopicard-excited

  • The Great London dock strike, 1889 - New General Megathread for the 14th of August 2023
  • 4 call outs from the opening shift at work today. This covid wave is going to be very cooldoomer

  • The Great London dock strike, 1889 - New General Megathread for the 14th of August 2023
  • I feel like the answer should be yes, but I had one for about 3 years and it didn't seem to make me an attractive enough job candidate sodie

  • The Great London dock strike, 1889 - New General Megathread for the 14th of August 2023
  • The Mets. If they laugh at you it's not my fault though.

  • The Great London dock strike, 1889 - New General Megathread for the 14th of August 2023
  • Ah. I figured it was a more widespread feature. There definitely are 4 door sedans that have fold down seats though, but it's just a handful.

  • The Great London dock strike, 1889 - New General Megathread for the 14th of August 2023
  • I'll do whatever you tell me Mr. Xibottom-speak

    Oh wait, that's not what they mean when they call us bots is it?

  • The Great London dock strike, 1889 - New General Megathread for the 14th of August 2023
  • Pretty sure you could. Do the rear seats drop if you have to extend the trunk a bit?

  • The Great London dock strike, 1889 - New General Megathread for the 14th of August 2023
  • My mom was telling me that my nephew was going to have his first child and I sent a message congratulating him. He replies and says thanks me and says something about his career and I'm likelenin-confused So I ask my mom what he's talking about and she tells me he's also becoming a copooooooooooooooh

  • What's the deal with Hexbear?
  • The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

    Seriously, if you look into each cubicle we're in we aren't all the same personfedposting

  • Fidel Castro - New General Megathread for the 13th of August 2023
  • Yeah, Killer Mike is solidly in the black capitalism = liberation camp. I'll of course still listen to his music, especially his RTJ stuff.

    But anti-semitism is a completely different matter. Sad that NoName isn't really taking the criticism of featuring Jay Electronica to heart.

  • Fidel Castro - New General Megathread for the 13th of August 2023
  • I had checked my fonts settings to make sure, but looking around the fonts looked about right. Main thing was a lot of Firefox's UI looked super small (like the address bar, and extension icons). It was bothering the fuck out of me. But I added an edit for what ended up fixing it.

  • Fidel Castro - New General Megathread for the 13th of August 2023
  • I don't know if its just me, but I had all my display settings on my Debian install just about right for my eyes. Ran an update and now I swear everything looks small again, but I checked my settings and everything is the same as I had it beforestop-posting-amogus

    EDIT: Think I've got everything back to how it was. I think it was actually when I tried checking out KDE with X11 instead of Wayland, which is what I had been using. The scaling setting switched all X11 apps to scale themselves instead of scaling with my system setting. Crisis averted😌

  • Fidel Castro - New General Megathread for the 13th of August 2023
  • Not sure if everyone got switched to All, but if you want to see less go into your user settings and change it to local for Hexbear only content. Way less stuff like that. I was thinking of switching Subscribed or All, but eveytime I click on All it really is quite a lot to take in.

  • Luigi Galleani - New General Megathread for the 12th of August 2023
  • Not too shocked, but my mom does indeed have COVID after a couple of positive tests today. Her test a couple of days ago came back negative, but she at least put on a mask and isolated as much as possible.

    Someone at work also went sick as fuck. He is out of sick days so he ended up going to work, but seemingly made no effort to ar least mask up to help protect others. He says his COVID test was negative, but that doesn't mean much.

    What a great fucking timedoomer