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    <3

    thanks for looking. I don't even mind the look so much as it interrupts the slop. But even on desktop it can look bad yah

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    Good info to have out there! There's a 0.0% chance of me switching to Windows, but if you're going to run it this is the best way to do it.

    Also might want to change the shitter links to xcancel.com or something so that people can see the whole thread without having an account at that torment-nexus-ass website

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    This update has made the SSR functionality basically useless by adding the interstitial pulsing placeholders... Any way we can disable those for the first pageload or something? because it's driving me bonkers

    On slow devices, it goes like this:

    • The page loads (takes a few seconds),
    • content loads in basically immediately
    • I start reading/scrolling.
    • After 1-2 seconds, the content that was loaded from the server initially disappears entirely, replaced by the placeholder animations
    • then all that content is re-loaded, wasting time and data,
    • after several seconds of that, the content is rendered again and I can actually browse.

    afaik it was always wasting CPU cycles/data but the hip new animations took that background annoyance and made it an actual UX issue

    As always thank you for the effort though, the next UI is intriguing though I don't love the black and blue theming

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    That's because it's not a link, it just triggers some javascript. Don't think its a new issue either. There's probably a way to make it work but I don't know what it is, otherwise I'd try to contribute it upstream.

    Though I do see that now we don't even rewrite the URL with the sort/pagination parameters anymore when changing pages... 0.19.3 would change the URL to something like this: /?dataType=Post&pageCursor=P103a73c&sort=Active

    is that intended @makotech222@hexbear.net ?

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    I heard people straight up think that maddy was like, crazy and wrong and trying to get her to commit suicide together, or reading the most overtly trans scenes as being her memories/hallucinations not isabel/owen's so there's definitely a million ways to misinterpret if you aren't looking for the transness.

    I was with you in terms of hyping it up a little too much the first time and being sort of let down (but also just astonished and devastated that the movie ended when it did). It was almost more impactful the second time but that is probably due to personal circumstances of mine

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    I read that comment when you posted it! Doing my best to learn I guess, even before I accepted this might be a thing lol

    I have no idea if stimulants will work well for me. I've definitely used caffeine to self medicate most of my adult life so maybe? But either way I know it won't be a magic bullet, just one thing to try if a doc recommends it I guess. I honestly don't know what not being able to mask would look like for me, but I work from home on a computer and have very accepting friends so hopefully the adjustment wouldn't be too rough? I try not to downplay (or play up) my own struggles but all things considered I've lived a pretty chill life I feel like. Lots of self-repression and some serious struggles socially at times but you know, not outright horribly traumatic? So maybe that helps idk.

    Thanks for your prolific support and advice all over the site! I just got new insurance so I'll have to see what it will cost to see someone this summer. I hate to say it but I want to see if I can get the ball rolling on this diagnosis stuff without telling them I'm trans... (is that a horrible idea?) Let's just say I don't want to be on that list given the way the US is going lately... My gender is none of their business and even barring government action, telling your doctor you're trans unfortunately seems like an excellent way to get subpar medical care. Or maybe I'm needlessly paranoid but I'd rather be paranoid and wrong than the target of fascist repression or plain ol discrimination.

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    I still struggle with burnout to this day due to being an overworked IT contractor for years.

    hahahahaha ha.. ha..... fuck

    This video finally convinced me I probably have A(u)DHD. I already thought I was on the spectrum probably but didn't feel any need to go to a psychiatrist for it (I don't... like or trust them? not for any great reason necessarily I just have an aversion) but if there's any chance ADHD meds help me I probably owe it to myself to go

    I don't know why this is what did it. probably the fact that the 2 month procrastination jobby is basically what I'm doing with a key part of my day job right now. Ruined my whole weekend and the mental block is still there.

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  • Sphynx electrolysis development journal entry #6: first alpha of Lite board done 🙌
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    Yessss! So glad it worked!

    To explain the confusion: I actually pulled the entire lead tube out before separating the collet from the lead tube, (the main body/grip of the pencil is a separate piece of plastic!) so I had plenty of room to grab the collet with tools. However your way might be better, since as I recall it took a fair amount of force to pull the lead tube out the back, and after doing it a few times the two halves no longer seem to click together and stay very well.

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    yeah that's definitely the toughest part... the collet needs to come out the front of the pencil, it can't fit out the back. It is barbed (visible in this pic if you zoom way in) so it digs into the plastic pretty damn well, but it can be pulled straight out.

    I basically just used brute force. it should be pretty safe to pull straight outwards on the collet by the ring part (the part that moves freely) since that way there's no bending, its all metal on metal, in tension, and the thin members of the collet are pulled snugly together and stressed evenly. you can use a small pliers but you don't want to squeeze too much. either grab the ring head-on and squeeze enough to get a grip, or use a sufficiently tiny pliers to grab from the side between the spring and the collet ring, not squeezing basically at all and just hooking the jaws of the pliers under the ring and pulling out. Some wiggling/wobbling the collet (while still pulling outwards so nothing bends) as you go could help but will probably make the fit looser when you go to put it back in so don't go overboard.

    I don't think there's a great way to push it out from the rear either, since behind it there's a narrowing of the hole in the plastic to about the same size as the one on the back of the collet. Maybe if you had just the perfect 1.5mm rod or something but it would probably just buckle.

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    oh. on desktop at least it only "breaks" that one tab and re-opening the site in a different tab, or clicking on the homepage and then refreshing both gets it back to working.

    Are you using it on a phone with it saved to your homescreen as an app or something?

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    if you just mean it isn't following ohms law thats to be expected for a big inductive load. ac gets weird with wattage since with non-resistive loads the current draw will not perfectly align with the sine wave.

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  • cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2061061 > I was a little skeptical about Ibis, mainly for practical/technical reasons, not philosophical differences ([link](https://hexbear.net/comment/4694315)). > > But something today really changed my mind as to the necessity of figuring out those practical/technical hurdles... I discovered that Wikipedia has widely cited associated site "WikiSource" as its only source for the contents of Salvador Allende's final speech before his death, and now that widely referenced page has been deleted from the site, for "Copyright violation", despite the fact that it almost certainly wasn't, and even if it were, no person in their right mind would ever claim it as such. On the wikipedia side, there's been no updates to the many references to that page, and on the WikiSource side, no serious discussion on the implications of just nuking that *highly relevant to the public interest* speech from their site, and no coordination between the two. > > They cite some Chilean copyright law, copied from the spanish language WikiSource, but then somehow come to the opposite conclusion that the esWS people did! This was a user-submitted english translation too, so they threw out all of that user's work over a speculative claim by some friggin internet janitor and didn't think that might be relevant. And none of this would have ever come up if they didn't try to become their own source, rather than citing independent websites and other sources... So. Fucking. Stupid. > > And this is after they had the EXACT same discussion 10-12 years ago. It was deleted, and then later restored, based on the EXACT same line of chilean law. But someone decided it was time for a revisit a few months back and now all the links to it are dead again. Just in case, idk, the family of salvador allende decides to sue wikipedia? fat fucking chance > > Also to add insult to injury, the first line of their "Copyright Discussions" page is as follows: > > >This page hosts discussions on works that may violate Wikisource's copyright policy. **All arguments should be based entirely on U.S. copyright law.** > > I get that due to treaties chilean law is probably relevant here but this is all just a wank-off between Um Actually ![nerd](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c3c351bb-cee7-484c-aecf-5b87fbc2f496.gif "emoji nerd") moderators so it still made me rage a little > > Anyhow thankfully [archive.org aren't such dweebs](https://web.archive.org/web/20231206104447/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Salvador_Allende%27s_Last_Speech) and I can share with you here the contents of the speech: > > > > ::: spoiler Speech: > Surely this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air Force has bombed the antennas of Radio Portales and Radio Corporación. > > My words do not have bitterness but disappointment. May they be a moral punishment for those who have betrayed their oath: soldiers of Chile, titular commanders in chief, Admiral Merino, who has designated himself Commander of the Navy, and Mr. Mendoza, the despicable general who only yesterday pledged his fidelity and loyalty to the Government, and who also has appointed himself Chief of the Carabineros [national police]. > > Given these facts, the only thing left for me is to say to workers: I'm not going to resign! Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for the loyalty of the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seeds which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. > > They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and the people make history. > > Workers of my country: I want to thank you for the loyalty that you always had, the confidence that you deposited in a man who was only an interpreter of great yearnings for justice, who gave his word that he would respect the Constitution and the law and did just that. At this definitive moment, the last moment when I can address you, I wish you to take advantage of the lesson: foreign capital, imperialism, together with the reaction, created the climate in which the Armed Forces broke their tradition, the tradition taught by General Schneider and reaffirmed by Commander Araya, victims of the same social sector who today are hoping, with foreign assistance, to re-conquer the power to continue defending their profits and their privileges. > > I address you, above all, the modest woman of our land, the countrywoman who believed in us, the mother who knew our concern for children. I address professionals of Chile, patriotic professionals who continued working against the sedition that was supported by professional associations, classist associations that also defended the advantages of capitalist society. I address the youth, those who sang and gave us their joy and their spirit of struggle. I address the man of Chile, the worker, the farmer, the intellectual, those who will be persecuted, because in our country fascism has been already present for many hours -- in terrorist attacks, blowing up the bridges, cutting the railroad tracks, destroying the oil and gas pipelines, in the face of the silence of those who had the obligation to act. They were committed. History will judge them. > > Surely Radio Magallanes will be silenced, and the calm metal of my voice will no longer reach you. It does not matter. You will continue hearing it. I will always be next to you. At least my memory will be that of a man of dignity who was loyal to his country. > > The people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves. The people must not let themselves be destroyed or riddled with bullets, but they cannot be humiliated either. > > Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again and free men will walk through them to construct a better society. > > Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers! > > These are my last words, and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain. I am certain that, at the very least, it will be a moral lesson that will punish felony, cowardice, and treason. > > Santiago de Chile, 11 September 1973 > ::: > > I know this is far from the worst thing Wikipedia has ever done, but it really got to me, and I feel an organization with its priorities in order would never behave this way. And in a federated system, not only could I use an instance with its priorities in better order, but also other sites would have likely mirrored the content.

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    I changed my mind: I'm now on board for Ibis! (rant post)

    I was a little skeptical about Ibis, mainly for practical/technical reasons, not philosophical differences ([link](https://hexbear.net/comment/4694315)). But something today really changed my mind as to the necessity of figuring out those practical/technical hurdles... I discovered that Wikipedia has widely cited associated site "WikiSource" as its only source for the contents of Salvador Allende's final speech before his death, and now that widely referenced page has been [deleted from the site, for "Copyright violation"](https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=13762438#Translation:Salvador_Allende's_Last_Speech), despite the fact that it almost certainly wasn't, and even if it were, no person in their right mind would ever claim it as such. On the wikipedia side, there's been no updates to the many references to that page, and on the WikiSource side, no serious discussion on the implications of just nuking that *highly relevant to the public interest* speech from their site, and no coordination between the two to say, fix all the broken links they just created? They cite some Chilean copyright law, copied from the spanish language WikiSource, but then somehow come to the opposite conclusion that the esWS people did! This was a user-submitted english translation too, so they threw out all of that user's work over a speculative claim by some friggin internet janitor and didn't think that might be relevant. And none of this would have ever come up if they didn't try to become their own source, rather than citing independent websites and other sources... So. Fucking. Stupid. And this is after they had the EXACT same discussion 10-12 years ago. It was deleted, and then later restored, based on the EXACT same line of chilean law. But someone decided it was time for a revisit a few months back and now all the links to it are dead again. Just in case, idk, the family of salvador allende decides to sue wikipedia? fat fucking chance Also to add insult to injury, the first line of their "Copyright Discussions" page is as follows: >This page hosts discussions on works that may violate Wikisource's copyright policy. **All arguments should be based entirely on U.S. copyright law.** I get that due to treaties chilean law is probably relevant here but this is all just a wank-off between Um Actually ![nerd](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c3c351bb-cee7-484c-aecf-5b87fbc2f496.gif "emoji nerd") moderators so it still made me rage a little Anyhow thankfully [archive.org aren't such dweebs](https://web.archive.org/web/20231206104447/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Salvador_Allende%27s_Last_Speech) and I can share with you here the contents of the speech: ::: spoiler Speech: Surely this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air Force has bombed the antennas of Radio Portales and Radio Corporación. My words do not have bitterness but disappointment. May they be a moral punishment for those who have betrayed their oath: soldiers of Chile, titular commanders in chief, Admiral Merino, who has designated himself Commander of the Navy, and Mr. Mendoza, the despicable general who only yesterday pledged his fidelity and loyalty to the Government, and who also has appointed himself Chief of the Carabineros [national police]. Given these facts, the only thing left for me is to say to workers: I'm not going to resign! Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for the loyalty of the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seeds which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and the people make history. Workers of my country: I want to thank you for the loyalty that you always had, the confidence that you deposited in a man who was only an interpreter of great yearnings for justice, who gave his word that he would respect the Constitution and the law and did just that. At this definitive moment, the last moment when I can address you, I wish you to take advantage of the lesson: foreign capital, imperialism, together with the reaction, created the climate in which the Armed Forces broke their tradition, the tradition taught by General Schneider and reaffirmed by Commander Araya, victims of the same social sector who today are hoping, with foreign assistance, to re-conquer the power to continue defending their profits and their privileges. I address you, above all, the modest woman of our land, the countrywoman who believed in us, the mother who knew our concern for children. I address professionals of Chile, patriotic professionals who continued working against the sedition that was supported by professional associations, classist associations that also defended the advantages of capitalist society. I address the youth, those who sang and gave us their joy and their spirit of struggle. I address the man of Chile, the worker, the farmer, the intellectual, those who will be persecuted, because in our country fascism has been already present for many hours -- in terrorist attacks, blowing up the bridges, cutting the railroad tracks, destroying the oil and gas pipelines, in the face of the silence of those who had the obligation to act. They were committed. History will judge them. Surely Radio Magallanes will be silenced, and the calm metal of my voice will no longer reach you. It does not matter. You will continue hearing it. I will always be next to you. At least my memory will be that of a man of dignity who was loyal to his country. The people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves. The people must not let themselves be destroyed or riddled with bullets, but they cannot be humiliated either. Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again and free men will walk through them to construct a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers! These are my last words, and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain. I am certain that, at the very least, it will be a moral lesson that will punish felony, cowardice, and treason. Santiago de Chile, 11 September 1973 ::: I know this is far from the worst thing Wikipedia has ever done, but it really got to me, and I feel an organization with its priorities in order would never behave this way. And in a federated system, not only could I use an instance with its priorities in better order, but also other sites would have likely mirrored the content.

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    www.listentomichigan.com

    The campaign isn't leaderless, it was organized in large part by the people at Listen to Michigan, who explicitly say "We hold Biden's margin for victory", and "Biden must earn our vote through a *dramatic* change in policy." (emphasis mine). You can post as hard as you want about how absolutely servile to the democratic party *you* are, but most of the people voting uncommitted actually give half a shit about genocide, so don't claim them for yourself. Like seriously, get fucked you brain-broken liberals. Biden won't save you, stop trying to undermine the few electoralists that are actually trying to make a difference in a potentially effective way.

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    and now someone from this.mutual aid.group I help with wants me to be done with my shit in 4 days not 5, as is the usual max, and they texted a bunch and called, all while my phone was off ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

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    I didn't watch the superbowl this year but "why do billionaire celebs bother to do ads for random crap" did catch my interest as a video topic

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    This doesn't apply to everyone, not on such a deep emotional level (I liked cars but I was never naming and hugging and kissing them) but when a car is a necessity, and you spend large swaths of your life in one, you definitely form a certain attachment, if not to the specific car, then to the general vibe and lifestyle. For say, a trans person in the american south... a car could be a lifeline, frequently the only thing between you and homelessness, etc. I'm thankful to not need a car anymore, and I've developed a similar but different attachment to/fondness for transit, but cars still hold a certain comfort as someone who grew up in the sticks originally, and whose first real dose of independence and refuge from the world was getting a drivers license and access to a car. And while that shouldn't be allowed to block reforms to the urban landscape that make cars less necessary and less viable, it's worth being more empathetic to those with a strong connection to the car as that process progresses. Maybe this isn't even a good video to explain what I imply in the title but I hope it makes sense, and it did get me thinking about the topic

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    this is more real than the slander against the USSR and DPRK it's pattterned after

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    image shamelessly stolen from r/dumbphones and mostly unrelated I feel like we could almost use a comm for this specifically but c/technology will do Anyone else here have luck with cutting back on smartphone/technology use in general, or feel like they need to try a change in that department? Or even just social media? Chime in below I'd love to chat about it. I'm avoiding work rn and thinking about smartphone use. I had an android phone for many years and I think it was a really negative force in my life. Sure there's lots of times it's useful as a one-off but overall I don't think it was actually good to have on me all the time. I think the overarching issue with a lot of modern tech is that it reduces or tries to eliminate intentionality on the part of the user, and make the user experience completely frictionless. But some of that "friction" is important, intentionality is important, without it we are just mindless consumers at the beck and call of marketers and big tech companies. Music apps don't need to decide what you listen to and in what order, being able to get a mix based on a song or artist is one thing, but the tiktok-ified endless autoplay of songs with no user input is... not good. especially when you grow up with that you lose so much. Or social media I think we all know is a toxic time suck and honestly just a mindless addiction for many, even this place can take on that role, I know it does sometimes for me, it's easier to scroll than face whatever stressful thought or situation is at hand... and fine, maybe that urge to distraction isn't going away, but on reflection I find scrolling to be the least-soothing way of scratching that itch... So it would be better if it wasn't quite so frictionless, to help break the feedback loop. Push notifications (for things other than messaging) are another insidious way that such behavioral patterns are fostered. For the computer nerds, I think of it as like an interrupt for my attention, it breaks the flow of what I'm doing and demands I look at it, and frankly 80% of push notifications just don't deserve that level of priority. But because exerting any control or intentionality over those notifications is made to be extra effort in the name of UX streamlining, most people just have these annoying interrupts conditioning their brain at the whims of whoever controls the apps. *In such a tech dependent world, user control over software is way more critical than it's ever been,* and for all their annoyingness and often mediocre or bad takes on other topics, free software people have been hammering on that for years and building alternatives. All that to say: I've been using a linux phone (pinephone pro) as my only phone for the better part of 6 months now and it's been a breath of fresh air. I'm reading again for the first time in years, I'm building a music collection that I actually own, I'm starting to cut the tether to big tech spyware platforms, but I'm not disconnected from the world. The point is: it's not a dumbphone, it just has some extra friction in places, and that has enabled me to be a lot more intentional about my use. It's slower, and the battery life is worse, and lots of other tradeoffs, but in practical terms mostly what that has led to is me being more intentional about my consumption. I can always just go on a computer and browse to my heart's content, or put videos on the TV all night, but the device that's with me all the time is optimized for the things I care about, not for spying on me and robbing me of my attention and sanity. (and fwiw linux phones aren't really non-nerd ready yet unless your requirements are pretty basic, but I could see the next gen of them being much closer to linux-on-the-PC levels of easy. It's getting better every month) **But the lower tech alternative is what you are seeing more and more on places like r/dumbphones** (and I have adopted pieces of this as well): purpose built devices. Instead of one device that does everything (including a bunch of stuff you don't even want it to and don't get any agency over as an end user), people are rediscovering the utility of having different tools for different tasks: - A small notebook replaces a huge power-hungry phone screen+stylus for taking notes - A digital camera replaces the AI-mangled modern smartphone camera for high fidelity photos. - A little game system replaces the microtransaction and predatory-mechanic laden cornucopia that is mobile games. - A book or ereader replaces the eyestrain-inducing, sleep-ruining experience of reading long-form text on a bright little phone screen. - A watch keeps the time, even when your phone would have long since run out of battery, and serves as a superior alarm clock for many circumstances, etc. - A wallet holds cash (okay and cards... and I guess most people haven't abandoned these yet) that can be used to pay for goods and services, without the limitations of battery, internet connection, spying, etc. of mobile payment schemes. venmo/paypal/whatever are good to have in your back pocket, but IMO are really only like, revolutionary, if you're comparing them to credit cards and bank transfers, especially in the US where there's no other good system for easily transferring money digitally. - wired headphones/earbuds can be much more durable alternatives to made-for-disposal hermetically sealed bluetooth pods, they are cheaper, they can sound better, they are available in a plethora of options and repairable when they break. Not that bluetooth is verboten, many bt devices are better, but the airpods and those modeled after it are pretty trash. - if you are picky about such things, a dedicated audio player can play music, audiobooks, podcasts, for longer, in better quality, with less interruptions, than a smartphone. I'm less certain about this one personally, as even dumphones can usually have headphones and play music for you (some even support FM which is cool and saves battery over streaming), but it all depends on your preferences! - And the titular dumbphones hold the potential to be much longer-lasting, more reliable makers of calls and texts, by virtue of being simpler. having a phone's primary purpose return to being communication makes it better at that role... Now none of this is to say you should carry all this stuff and more all the time. But it's something you can be *intentional* about and tailor to your needs! Maybe you're a theory-head without a rigid schedule: skip the games, camera, watch, headphones, etc and just carry an ereader, a notebook and a dumbphone Or you're more of a direct action andy, you can leave the dumbphone (the only one that can be used to track you still) at home, or skip it entirely, or get a device with killswitches! Much harder to do if you limit yourself to the Apple/Android dichotomy So yeah, point is you can pick what things you actually care about and bring those, when appropriate, and use them when *you* want to rather than doing, like, everything everywhere all at once with your smartphone. Yes you can tweak your smartphone to avoid many of these issues, and maybe that's good enough for you, (I encourage it, just give it serious thought, be intentional about what you really want to allow), but some are just unavoidable, and much like you are not immune to propaganda, none of us are immune to the baked in effects of marketers, big tech addiction-mongers. The simplest way to step away from the all-encompassing absorption machines in our pockets is to not have one, and to consider their replacements carefully, even if other paths are workable. I'm pretty sure ![matt-jokerfied](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/87eb5059-58b3-4f4d-92ba-640310e16575.png "emoji matt-jokerfied") originally got me thinking about "friction" in this context, and this has all been marinating and steering my choices ever since, culminating with this linux phone that I can customize to my heart's content and does not have any of the built in addictive/harmful/spying apps that all my android phones always did. Oh and I can repair it rather than it becoming useless, physically and software-wise, in just a few short years. I'm still a tech dweeb, I just want it to enhance people's lives and liberate them not make them worse and more dependent.

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    interesting vid, wonder if anything's changed in the last 18 months, and if there's any worthwhile left criticism of this perspective

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    Alternately :business-factory: but I would rather that be this one lol: ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4eca5916-7ec5-4a0b-aac4-9df53406e043.png)

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    >I was more afraid of [3rd Precinct officers] than any community member I'd ever met. -Former Minneapolis police officer Unicorn riot documentary premiering now

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    Not a brand new article but it was new to me >Internal 3M documents show: >- In the 1950s, 3M animal studies consistently found its PFAS chemicals were toxic. >- By the early 1960s, 3M knew the chemicals didn’t degrade in the environment. >- 3M knew by the 1970s its chemicals were widely present in the blood of the general U.S. population. >- A 1970 study of fish had to be abandoned “to avoid severe stream pollution” and because all the fish died. After being exposed to a chemical, the fish couldn’t stay upright and kept crashing into the fish tank and dying. >- By 1976, 3M knew the chemicals were in its plant workers’ blood at higher levels than normal. >- A study of a chemical’s effect on 20 rhesus monkeys in 1978 had to be aborted after 20 days because all the exposed monkeys died. >- In 1979, a 3M scientist warned that perfluorochemicals posed a cancer risk because they are “known to persist for a long time in the body and thereby give long-term chronic exposure.” >- In 1979, 3M lawyers advised the company to conceal a 3M chemical compound found in human blood. >- In 1983, 3M scientists concluded that concerns about its chemicals “give rise to legitimate questions about the persistence, accumulation potential, and ecotoxicity of fluorochemicals in the environment.” >- Purdy wrote in his resignation letter that in the 1990s, 3M told researchers not to write down their thoughts or have email discussions because of how their “speculations” might be viewed in legal discovery. >- 3M told employees to mark documents as “attorney-client privileged” regardless of whether attorneys were involved, the state alleged, and minutes of meetings were edited to omit references to health hazards. >- In 1997, 3M gave DuPont a “material safety data sheet” — which lays out potential hazards — for a chemical. It read, “Warning: contains a chemical which can cause cancer,” citing 1983 and 1993 studies by 3M and DuPont. But 3M removed the label that same year and continued to sell the products for decades without warning. ::: spoiler More >Donald Taves, a researcher at the University of Rochester, first reported in the scientific journal Nature in 1968 that the general population had been exposed to the compounds. Then Taves discovered his own blood contained it, according to a 3M document marked “confidential,” obtained in the Minnesota attorney general’s lawsuit. > >Taves was working with Warren Guy and Wallace Brey at the University of Florida on a research paper. > >3M chemist G.H. Crawford took the phone call from Taves, and admitted nothing. He wrote in a confidential interoffice memo: “We (pleaded) ignorance but advised him that Scotchgard was a polymeric material not a F.C. acid.” > >(In fact, by this point, the company knew its chemicals accumulated in the human body and were toxic, Swanson told a congressional committee. Moreover, Swanson added, 3M refused to identify the chemicals in its products, which for a generation thwarted the scientific community’s understanding of their health impacts.) > >Taves, Guy and Brey later discovered plasma from blood banks in five cities suggested “widespread contamination of human tissues with trace amounts of organic fluorocompounds derived from commercial products” such as floor waxes, wax paper, leather and fabric conditioning agents. > >After getting the phone calls from researchers, 3M began analyzing its fluorine compounds. Within weeks, they found a compound that was a likely match. > >By late 1975, 3M sent employees to see Guy and Taves at the University of Rochester, where they agreed to try to isolate and identify fluorochemicals in blood. > >In 1976, the company began sampling employees’ blood. > >Tests showed workers at 3M’s Cottage Grove plant called Chemolite had up to 1,000 times the normal amount of fluorochemicals in their blood. ::: It just goes on and on like this. fuckin grim stuff

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    The quote: >Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: > >There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. > >There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. And apparently it originates from the comments of this blog post, not from the commonly attributed CIA stooge: https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288 It's pretty lib subject matter on the whole and I'm not holding out hope that Mr Wilhoit is a marxist, but it actually maps pretty well. I was just talking to a friend about how the NLRB rulings against starbucks are doing literally nothing to stop them from union-busting and penalizing union workers, and this popped into my head: >It's almost like there's a class who the law protects but does not bind, and a class who the law binds but does not protect or something Mr. Wilhoit was onto something but it's not celebrities or immigrants or whoever he meant it about, it's the working class and the ruling class. Also I really want to eventually get called a tankie for quoting some liberal blog reply guy. I just think it would be funny PS: check out his music, it's not bad: https://www.broadheath.com/mp3s.html https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgT0vSWjBh4gAtab6JZgVrA/videos

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    The two columns are "Reasons" and "Evidence" lmao ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/fb1d1eaa-22a2-4684-ab85-4883f3bc53d9.png)

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    from the READMEs: >hello! > >i tried to compile rare, hard to find leftist themed movies as best I could in best quality I could. i mostly left out the more popular ones (such as Snowpiercer) > >remember lads, sharing and seeding is praxis. and from part 3: >Oi! This is FIXED SECOND VERSION Part 3 of a series: > >Folder 2 Magnet: > >[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e0482176fe3ae3056e470785026f5bb4659fea11&amp;dn=Leftist%20Movies%202&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.pomf.se%3a80%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e0482176fe3ae3056e470785026f5bb4659fea11&amp;dn=Leftist%20Movies%202&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.pomf.se%3a80%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce) > >Folder 1 Magnet: > >[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d91e697c72c0d520ffa1dec0f0f93953807b1976&amp;dn=Leftist%20Movies&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.pomf.se%3a80%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d91e697c72c0d520ffa1dec0f0f93953807b1976&amp;dn=Leftist%20Movies&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.pomf.se%3a80%2fannounce&amp;tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce) > >Follow me on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/HoodedLeia/list/leftist-movies-worth-watching/ > >Please seed! Seeding is praxis. > >DM me on Reddit if you have any questions u/Dark_Nuts and please check out r/LeftFilm > >boondocks leftist episode enjoy > >simpsons has fun doomer shit on electoralism

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