bananon

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[–] bananon@hexbear.net 1 points 48 minutes ago

At first I was very confused as to what kind of law a roach would practice

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago

I never realized it before, but Tank Girl's anarchista-chad "Charlie Don't Surf" reference to Apocalypse Now has a way different implication post-Kirkening.

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have an story idea for a post-collapse USA with deseret as one of the regional states, not because the Mormons are powerful, but because we have so royally fucked over the ecology of the desert that it functions as a badlands, and the future mormons function as nomadic marauders.

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I tried answering to the best of my car knowledge

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

The problem will come from sales tax and import duties when you try to register the car in your home state. In most states, you need proof that you've already paid the sales tax when you bought the vehicle (and import duties if the car is foreign), and if you haven't paid enough to match your home state's limit, you will pay additionally to match. This is why people from Alaska get so pissy when they move to the lower 48, because Alaska doesn't have a state sales tax for vehicles, and all of a sudden they're paying thousands of dollars just to register their car in fuckin Idaho.

Technically what you're thinking about already exists on the southern border, plenty of people will buy Chinese cars in Mexico and then drive them up, and they're able to get around the blanket import bans that the US has. However, they then will still have to pay any outstanding sales tax, plus the insane import tax on Chinese vehicles, making the car more expensive. However, given how cheap the Chinese cars are produced, and the relative weakness of the Mexican Peso relative to the USD, it may still come out as a cheaper option, though I'm not well versed in the Mexican auto industry.

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

Is Hexbear still hosted in France? If so then in a way we are all French

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 64 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Perhaps the single most baffling thing to me in all of this is that these people coordinate their criminal sex crimes... over gmail on their smart phones.

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

If you’re interested in climate change, Tsinghua also has this program in English https://yz.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1035/1183.htm

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ooo time for my Firefox rant.

For months now my mobile Firefox has had a glitch where the enter button on web searches does not work. Sometimes it takes upwards of 10 seconds to process, sometimes it doesn’t process at all, sometimes it will process twice and reload send me back to search results when I’m already reading a page. But weirdly the suggested searches work perfectly, so I’ve been forced into the habit of clicking on those instead, much to my chagrin. This is just annoying enough to bother me, but not annoying enough to make me change browsers, because it’s also what I use for school and work and the desktop version doesn’t have this issue.

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're presenting like...I don't know the word for this kind of modern men's fashion. It's when they've got skinny khakis, the pencil mustaches, slip on loafers without socks, and round glasses. Is there any even a word for this or are they just grad students

Trostkycore

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Put that kid to work

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Believe me I know, Swiss banks even make you pay a fee to open an account it’s insane. But given the free restriction it’s the best one I’ve seen.

 

A local university has gone full austerity mode in the last two years, firing staff, forcing their work onto others, reducing department budgets, all the while hiring more executives and middle managers. This has pissed off pretty much all of its faculty, from adjuncts to department heads. Now Texas may be a right to work state, but these profs are in a unique position where a lot of them has tenure and the university will have a difficult time firing them, which is why they’ve opted to making conditions worse so that the profs will quit themselves. The remaining faculty wants to do something besides sending anonymous complaints that get ignored, but they’re floundering. Is there a union/adjacent org that they can turn to for guidance?

 

lets-fucking-go

 

Need an obscure book that’s not on the go-to sites and I’m not paying 60 bucks lol

 

Just broke my wrist, and it takes me like 10x as long to type anything. I had been looking into written alternatives for a while, and this blew me over the edge. I like the Remarkable 2, but I don't think I can justify that much on a device that can only read and write documents without trying one out first. The other option people keep recommending to me is an ipad. I don't have one of those either, but I've used one with a paper screen so at least I know how that feels. My biggest problem with the ipad is the opposite of the Remarkable, there are too many apps and I have no idea which to use. So what apps do you use, if any, or do you use another thing entirely?

 

Mark Twain once said that God invented war so Americans would learn geography. Evidently, God didn’t try hard enough.

 

I thought about this yesterday when I was trying to explain the difference between socialism and communism. Even such a simple question requires so much foundational information. I couldn't just say they were different stages of society, because communism is really more a vector of transformation for societies, and to even understand how these societies transform you have to understand dialectical and historical materialism. So I'm revising my post to explain what a dialectic is and I realize I'm already in my third paragraph. Not only is no layman going to read this because its just boring philosophy mumbo jumbo, but I've wasted the last 20 minutes writing out this thing that I eventually just end up deleting anyway.

What we need is a streamlined way of propagating theory for a new online age. The Communist Manifesto was supposed to be the quick and dirty version of theory to propagate, but people don't even read 10 pages anymore. What we need are children's book versions of these ideas, summarized in an easily spreadable copypasta format. Not only do they have to be simple and succinct, but entertaining as well. Getting someone hooked has never been harder, because with so much information at our fingertips, its never been easier to ignore it.

I also think they should be modular, rather than longer masterposts. Someone who asks a simple question shouldn't have to read an entire essay, but if the question requires it we should be able to plug-and-play with additional information. This is the hard part, having separate copypastas for each topic that can work with each other while still being understandable independently. It's hard, but I think its necessary in order to bring editing down to a minimum and increase spreadability as much as possible.

Edit: oh cool I got featured lol

 

link to whole thread

Honestly by the end of this their struggle session might give us a run for our money. Currently at 8 upvotes and 110 comments. OP is also a new account who has only posted this and in r/Taiwan. Grab your popcorn folks, this one’s juicy.

EDIT: The cowards locked it.

 

Found this on r/LeftistGamersUnion. These are not my own words, just a cross post.

“Some clarification for gaming ban in China also AMA

TL;DR As a Chinese gamer, I truly support the ban because the ban ONLY applies on trash games like gatcha and WOW rip off games. It also only applied on Chinese EA, which is Tencent.

Chinese gaming industry is plagued by Tencent monopoly. Except Tencent, most other companies only make WOW rip offs Since it was popular in 90s and there are tons of middle-aged dude pay to play it.

Tencent gaming only have rip offs and 2 moba games, LOL and it's mobile vision. Its main income come from mobile lol, which unlike lol you guys know, is full of pay-to-win mechanics. Yet it provide most of profit for Tencent gaming.

Tencent, killed all hope of Chinese gamers. Chinese companies made some cuttin edge games in 2000s but most of them die off because of piracy, which is no surprise Tencent was in it.

Some times Tencent rip offs perform even better than the original. Why? Tencent monopolized social media as well.

It's also the reason most Chinese hate the company. People who don't want to play arr forced to play due to peer pressure. It also create a huge problem on kids because Tencent targets kids as young as 10 start to play and pay. And that's the main reason behind the ban.

Steam on the other hand, is in a gray zone. CPC allowed steam to operate with minimum oversee in China, but it technically not under Chinese administration, so the ban DOES NOT apply on steam games.

I know gate keeping is bad, but the problem is beyond imagine for western gamers. Tencent, which is the main target of the ban, already destroyed gaming in China. I fully support CPC on this. CPC had lots of new policies support gaming industry in China recently, so the ban helps gamer get rid of Chinese EA.“

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