turns out just throwing a fuck ton of salt into the environment has negative effects
also true, i've helped out boomer relatives with computer shit only to be told to change it back immediately after fixing it
my partner's mouse's scroll wheel has been broken for years. every time i've tried to get them a new mouse they stop using it after about 2 days and go back to the busted one. why? "idk it was too heavy/didn't fit their small hands/plastic felt weird" etc. deadass i've gone through about 6 or 7. idk what the point of this rambling post is other than people are adaptable to shitty conditions and most straight up don't care that their hardware/software is shitty.
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what the fuck am i gonna do with the rest of this can of peppers??
that's cool, love it.
oooo nice. gonna fill it back up with gumballs? convert it into an aquarium? some other mysterious 3rd possibility?
it's cool seeing the new influx of blahaj users after their instance... well shit
Brigading is going through someone's past comments and posts and down voting them en masse
hexbears literally can't do that, we disabled downvotes ages ago
i have been playing a grip of baldurs gate and at this point all i see is spell icons
edit: on second glance those are not icons representing spells from the fifth edition of dungeons and dragons owned by wizards of the coast
Same. Yea there's a lot of nerds but like that's just Hexbear in general.
lmao look at these pigs cw reddit link
hope it wipes palm springs off the map!
can't believe the mojave is getting crazy rain in the summer.
ok so idk fuck all about c*mtown or any of that shit but i have a question...
is it ok to find Stav funny? cuz like... he seems pretty funny
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sorry to invoke Gorillaz in the genre but idk how else to describe this shit
coworker opened up about some relationship issues they're having and it felt shitty to hear. "i don't want to die alone, man". i'm not gonna go into specifics cuz issa smol community out here but i personally think they can get over it if they trust each other and are open to each other's positions. but i've also been blessed with a chill relationship for so many years i feel guilty even trying to give advice.
tl;im drunk: i just want folks to be happy :(
multiple things can matter at once
lol
works fine for me
can you access this post? https://hexbear.net/post/344667
in it, someone from midwest.social, Pandantic, asks a question and there is a follow up by Tachanka from hexbear. this specific thread is what emizeko linked.
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@Milksteaks@midwest.social come say hi to everyone (and learn about the cool topic zholot picked for us today)
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!yea what a shit end to this young mans career
Typing this on thumbs sorry for lack of details.
Partner kicked power plug out while cleaning and the whole computer shit itself. Doesn't boot into windows at all. Shows mobo thing but I can't access boot order or bios stuff at all. Computer eventually gets mad and tells me to use a recovery cd. That ofc doesn't work (which specifically could be issue with my DVD drive, it has been wonky burning things lately). Recovery USB looks mad glitchy and when I try recovery it just gets mad that I didn't select a windows installation. I can see all my drives if I try to install windows from it.
All this is out of my wheelhouse and I really don't want to take it in anywhere. What should I check next?
Jodi Byrd writes: "The story of the new world is horror, the story of America a crime." It is necessary, she argues, to start with the origin of the United States as a settler-state and its explicit intention to occupy the continent. These origins contain the historical seeds of genocide. Any true history of the United States must focus on what has happened to (and with) Indigenous peoples--and what still happens. It's not just past colonialist actions but also "the continued colonization of American Indian nations, peoples, and lands" that allows the United States "to cast its imperialist gaze globally" with "what is essentially a settler colony's national construction of itself as an ever more perfect multicultural, multiracial democracy," while "the status of American Indians as sovereign nations colonized by the United States continues to haunt and inflect its raison d'etre." Here Byrd quotes Lakota Scholar Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, who spells out the connection between the "Indian wars" and the Iraq War:
"The current mission of the United States to become the center of political enlightenment to be taught to the rest of the world began with the Indian wars and has become the dangerous provocation of this nation's historical intent. The historical connection between the Little Big Horn event and the "uprising" in Baghdad must become part of the political dialogue of America if the fiction of decolonization is to happen and the hoped for deconstruction of the colonial story is to come about.
A "race to innocence" is what occurs when individuals assume that they are innocent of complicity in structures of domination and oppression. This concept captures the understandable assumption made by new immigrants or children of recent immigrants to any country. They cannot be responsible, they assume, for what occurred in their adopted country's past. Neither are those who are already citizens guilty, even if they are descendants of slave owners, Indian killers, or Andrew Jackson himself. Yet, in a settler society that has not come to terms with its past, whatever historical trauma was entailed in settling the land affects the assumptions and behavior of living generations at any given time, including immigrants and the children of recent immigrants.
In the United States the legacy of settler colonialism can be seen in the endless wars of aggression and occupations; the trillions spent on war machinery, military bases, and personnel instead of social services and quality public education; the gross profits of corporations, each of which has greater resources and funds than more than half the countries in the world yet pay minimal taxes and provide few jobs for US citizens; the repression of generation after generation of activists who seek to change the system; the incarceration of the poor, particularly descendants of enslaved Africans; the individualism, carefully inculcated, that on the one hand produces self-blame for personal failure and on the other exalts ruthless dog-eat-dog competition for possible success, even though it rarely results; and high rates of suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, sexual violence against women and children, homelessness, dropping out of school, and gun violence.
These are symptoms, and there are many more, of a deeply troubled society, and they are not new. The large and influential civil rights, student, labor, and women's movements of the 1950s through the 1970s exposed the structural inequalities in the economy and the historical effects of more than two centuries of slavery and brutal genocidal wars waged against Indigenous peoples. For a time, US society verged on a process of truth seeking regarding past atrocities, making demands to end aggressive wars and to end poverty, witnessed by the huge peace movement of the 1970s and the War on Poverty, affirmative action, school busing, prison reform women's equity and reproductive rights, promotions of the arts and humanities, public media, the Indian Self-Determination Act, and many other initiatives.
A more sophisticated version of the race to innocence that helps perpetuate settler colonialism began to develop in social movement theory in the 1990s, popularized in the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Commonwealth, the third volume in a trilogy, is one of a number of books in an academic fad of the early twenty-first century seeking to revive the Medieval European concept of the commons as an aspiration for contemporary social movements. Most writings about the commons barely mention the fate of Indigenous peoples in relation to the call for all land to be shared. Two Canadian scholar-activists, Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright, for example, do not mince words in rejecting Native land claims and sovereignty, characterizing them as xenophobic elitism. They see Indigenous claims as "regressive neo-racism in light of the global diasporas arising from oppression around the world."
Cree scholar Lorraine LeCamp calls this kind of erasure of Indigenous peoples in North America "terranullism," harking back to the characterization, the under the Doctrine of Discovery, of purportedly vacant lands as terra nullis. This is a kind of no-faul history. From the theory of a liberated future of no borders and nations, of a vague commons for all, the theorists obliterate the present and presence of Indigenous nations struggling for their liberation from states of colonialism. Thereby, Indigenous rhetoric and programs for decolonization, nationhood, and sovereignty are, according to this project, rendered invalid and futile. From the Indigenous perspective, as Jodi Byrd writes, "any notion of the commons that speaks for and as indigenous as it advocates transforming indigenous governance or incorporating indigenous peoples into a multitude that might then reside on those lands forcibly taken from indigenous peoples does nothing to disrupt the genocidal and colonialist intent of the initial and now repeated historical process."
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States