I think UlysessT was well served by his time spent touching grass. Before his journey, he had a habit of blowing up on comrades over some really petty stuff, but I've not seen that sort of behavior since he's returned.
That said, I've always agreed with him on like 90% of his very vivid observations and criticisms of reddit dudebro culture, and I love it whenever its some unfortunate federated lemmitor on the business end of one of his very brutal and emojiful dunkings. Glad to see him back.
At what point did this become Russia's aggression? Certainly after the fall of the Soviet Union by western backed coup (before which Ukraine and Russia were literally the same country). Did Russia's aggression start when NATO aggressively expanded into the former Eastern bloc after promising not to as a major condition of the USSR's dissolution? How about when Russia subjected its own population to devastating austerity, resulting in untold death and destruction, all in a genuine effort to liberalize and assimilate into NATO themselves? Was that Russia being too aggressive? Or did Russia's aggression not start until after the west continued to wage economic warfare anyway, demonstrating NATO never had any intention to let Russia coexist peacefully on the world stage regardless? How aggressive was it of Russia when the west helped to orchestrate the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine to install a rabidly anti-Russian fascist government on one of Russia's largest land borders? I guess Russia was being too aggressive when Ukraine decided to ban the Russian language and shell Russian speaking civilians in Eastern Ukraine for literally years and years in violation of the Minsk agreements, resulting in massive pro-Russian separatist movements forming to fight off Banderite pogroms.
I think I get it now, after exhausting literally all available diplomatic avenues to peace, aggressive Russia started this conflict out of nowhere by supporting the cause of the breakaway republics invading poor innocent Ukraine, wow can't believe a country would go to war like this at the drop of a hat! Irrational aggressive Russia should just take their troops home and surrender all territory back to Ukraine, a country losing a war so badly it's on the verge of collapse.
That's a very strange way to put it, but I agree. Like, you'd feel invincible afterwards.
Imagine pushing your boss down some stairs in full view of gods and men. The police show up and go "damn, you murdered your boss in the legal way, sorry to bother you sir" after you cite some bizarre loophole that's been sitting in the state law books since 1743. Then you read the fine print, and realize it's a law about dueling or some shit, so having won said duel with your boss by the stairs, you actually inherit all their property.
Love to have our language directed and policed by this shit.
This type of thing bothers me immensely as well. It won't be long before social media companies start hand choosing innocuous words associated with labor movements to give the algorithmic suppression treatment to. In fact, I'm 100% sure they already do it under our noses. This is why projects like Lemmygrad and Hexbear fill me with hope. The left can't use the internet to organize until we have decentralized social media kept firmly away from profit seeking.
I keep forgetting how much liberals seem to literally believe the DPRK is this Truman Show esque society where everything and everyone is performative, existing only for the benefit of onlooking western liberals.
This sort of belief is extremely pervasive and keeps coming up time and time again whenever I talk about the DPRK with literally anyone in my irl life, and it still manages to blindside me every time with how truly, deeply unserious this shit is in the west
Does it actually work?
...not the AI button of course, what I mean is are there really people out there who bought this mouse who wouldn't have if it didn't include the dedicated "AI button"?
Could we make exceptions for posts and comments in close proximity to Hexbear? Like on a federated instance just outside of Hexbear mod jurisdiction? Or posts that mention Hexbear, or made in reply to a Hexbear user?
My last dunk tank post would not be allowed under this rule, but I felt it was super productive. It brought attention to an asshole dbzer0 poster commenting on .ml. Hexbear got to do a classic anti-chud dogpile, the user was brought to the attention of the dbzer0 and .ml admins/mods, and eventually their comment was removed. I've always felt this was the sort of thing c/the_dunk_tank was made for; after a dogpile like that, it's far less likely for lurkers to take the chud's side. It's always been an extension of the r/CTH culture of using bullying as a deterrent, it makes chuds think twice about whether or not it's worth sharing their shitty opinions.
Here's a link to it: https://hexbear.net/post/2139624
The person has no upvotes in the screenshot, but that's because their comment was in direct reply to me, so I was able to post it here before any other chuds came along to upvote it.
Time, am I right? When the boomers were reaching adulthood, there were still living freedmen who were born into slavery.
terf island is such a fucking pathetically cucked country lmao, gotta get a special loiscense to buy whipped cream and sleepy time tea is considered a hard drug
KSP is the best educational game there is in terms of learning to fun gameplay ratio. The physics are simplified, but accurate enough to gain an intuitive understanding of how spacecraft navigate in orbit
Nah, I think it's a different thing. Someone experiencing ego death will be totally unable to interact coherently with the outside world at all.
Oh god, at first glance it appears he's so close to realizing that yes, with every cent of increased funding it gets, the DEA directly makes drug addiction both more prevalent and deadly by artificially driving unregulated black market demand for insanely potent, synthetic mu-opioid agonists. Some of the newer RC opioids aren't even based on the structure of fentanyl anymore. When this happens, the drug grey market literally outpaces legislation until the DEA catches wind of things and schedules a defining member of the class.
Of course, this hypocritical piece of shit is actually talking about increased funding for aid directly to the homeless.