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the Hexbear greek chorus is scored for six voices: low, med-low, med, med-high, high, and screaming

(five beautiful choir singers with a single girl doing pig squeals) "Hexbear dot net"

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"Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations" white liberals lmao

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check out these categories: >American translators >Iranologists >Poets from Tennessee >Sufi poets >University of California, Berkeley alumni this mf is a bit on Trillbilly's podcast lol

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"Sniffing women's tears reduces aggressive behavior in men" hey PMC, are you doing ok??

www.sciencedaily.com

 

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"I drive a Tesla but I'm not a freak, I'm just exploiting the tax rebate lol" ideology isn't what you believe, its what you do

"I have lots of progressive ideas in my head, I'm actually immune to propaganda despite my actual behavior that is entirely consistent with capitalist ideology" AOC buying a Tesla isn't "weird" or "anti-socialist", rationally navigating marketplaces to find loopholes is within the ideological framework of being a technocratic PMC under neoliberalism. The entire idea of 'tax rebates for electric vehicles' is probably one of Biden's main accomplishments lol

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"Unintentional ASMR: WW2 captured spy body search" can't tell if softcore fetish content or just weird

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> I thought this was an inspection for people looking to join the war, and I kept thinking, “they’re being really rude to this guy who just wants to serve.” It makes more sense now. the working class shares the same interests of being dehumanized and objectified, despite imperialist rivalry > Rest in peace for all who died in ww2, and those affected by it. I hate to admit it but it is relaxing.  > Wouldn’t it be hilarious if after these men examined him, both he and the doctor walked out saying “okay, the doc will be here shortly.” "lol..." (fantasizing) > From my experience the investigator is into the soldier, but the soldier won't realize until they lose contact 

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The Woke Left HATES The Precious Christmas Puppy, They Refuse To Pray For His Survival

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"Milk and baby food aren't good for young dogs" adding the precious Christmas puppy to the black book of communism list of deaths

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They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like: We need to take deep learning algorithms away from filmmakers

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Chris Person is increasingly based, guys with generic NPC names rise up! You have nothing to lose but your blank Wojak faces

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Haus of Decline's "you are not special" nihilism comic made radlibs very mad because Biden's "mental health" regime is the mandatory positivity of soy Ted Lasso fascism

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-are-not-special-childrens-book >"Curse of The Author", December 22, 2023: In this podcast episode, I talk about a comic I did...(he talks about this recent incident of being hated on by everyone on Twitter like halfway through, and mentions the Hesse X JoCat social media harassment incident) https://www.hausofdecline.com/episodes/1/1655962 https://deadline.com/2023/03/ted-lasso-cast-to-discuss-mental-well-being-at-white-house-president-first-lady-1235304222/ You can be anything you want!...As long as you are a soy uwu smol bean who stays delusionally positive despite living in hellworld where having skills (lol Obama neoliberals) or natural talents is required to not be homeless and dying in the streets (Kamala Harris voice) "You will be special and have some value to the market to extract, or you will perish" :kamala-gun:

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naively looked at the front page of Mastodon, found the most cringe Ted Lasso neoliberalism lol

>'Obamacare'...Republicans hated Obama so much that they wanted to associate his name with the worst thing they could imagine: caring." (angry Felix noises)  its actually ideologically consistent because "Obamacare" was originally "Romneycare" (a neoliberal project in MA designed to turn patients into healthcare consumers who navigate the free market) and the GOP mostly hates Romney now lol

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"Somali piracy" is a finance imperialist psyop to rationalize attacking fishermen who dared to organize to stop corporate pirates from shooting locals to steal fish or to dump nuclear waste

>Ever since a civil war brought down Somalia's last functional government in 1991, the country's 3,330 km (2,000 miles) of coastline — the longest in continental Africa — has been pillaged by foreign vessels. A United Nations report in 2006 said that, in the absence of the country's at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international "free for all," with fishing fleets from around the world illegally plundering Somali stocks and freezing out the country's own rudimentarily-equipped fishermen. According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country's coastline each year. "In any context," says Gustavo Carvalho, a London-based researcher with Global Witness, an environmental NGO, "that is a staggering sum." >In the face of this, impoverished Somalis living by the sea have been forced over the years to defend their own fishing expeditions out of ports such as Eyl, Kismayo and Harardhere — all now considered to be pirate dens. Somali fishermen, whose industry was always small-scale, lacked the advanced boats and technologies of their interloping competitors, and also **complained of being shot at by foreign fishermen with water cannons and firearms. "The first pirate gangs emerged in the '90s to protect against foreign trawlers**," says Peter Lehr, lecturer in terrorism studies at Scotland's University of St. Andrews and editor of Violence at Sea: Piracy in the Age of Global Terrorism. The names of existing pirate fleets, such as the National Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia or Somali Marines, are testament to the pirates' initial motivations. One Piece is a documentary about imperialists >The waters they sought to protect, says Lehr, were "an El Dorado for fishing fleets of many nations." A 2006 study published in the journal Science predicted that **the current rate of commercial fishing would virtually empty the world's oceanic stocks by 2050**. Yet, Somalia's seas still offer a particularly fertile patch for tuna, sardines and mackerel, and other lucrative species of seafood, including lobsters and sharks. "degrowth is Stalinist authoritarianism that wants to make us poor"  see also: https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/africa-archives/root-causes-of-somali-piracy-nuclear-dumping-and-seafood-looting/

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Fortune Kit podcast #187 - "Christmas Songs Tier List"

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>"the puppy was fighting to stay alive...🎵precious Christmas puppy🎵" lol...lmao https://youtu.be/snnlb7gR9iw?si=XbPnqbi-J_0suu1S

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listen, trans, nobody actually cares about Nick Land, they're just pretending to be interested in your accelerationism blogs because they're chasers

"we need a leftist wing response to accelerationism" fuck off chaser!!!

https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ >Self-hosting is the practice of running and maintaining a website or service using a private web server, instead of using a service outside of someone's own control. "private" a radlib is someone who pretends to be radical but are simply just another neoliberal, like the freakish class of Xeni Jordan ass technocratic redditors lol >Self-hosting allows users to have more control over their data, privacy, and computing infrastructure, as well as potentially saving costs and improving skills "improving skills" (neoliberal Obama PMC eye lasers meme) MORE SKILLS??? Wow! That means these filthy working class creatures are less worthy of liquidation. Historical progress is truly incredible  >The practice of self-hosting web services became more feasible with the development of cloud computing and virtualization technologies, which enabled users to run their own servers on remote hardware or virtual machines. The first public cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), was launched in 2006 these allegedly anti-capitalist redditors only exist because of the most demonic neofeudal corpos gave birth to them, really makes you think --- "Marxism is outdated, decentralized individualist praxis will win, google Bookchin!" - anarchist PMC university students at Occupy Wall Street (13 years later) Hexbear: "nooo anarcho-neoliberalism isn't real!!! Actually true Marxism is free association between free producers in a free market, my incredibly niche and exclusive e-anarchist praxis of forming a small cell with like 10 people in it is literally communism" 

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is Lethal Company a critique of neoliberalism, or neofeudalism? The company is an intermediary which treats workers as disposable independent contractors, not employees

Neoliberalism is when you are an atomized, entrepreneurial subject, but you're still living in a mostly traditional liberal society despite having a LinkedIn page and a side hustle in the gig economy. Neofeudalism is when you are fully transformed into smartphone app platform serf who takes initiative on a daily basis with no boss telling you what to do. But ultimately you must earn enough wealth to pay your feudal lords the yearly tax of ~~grain~~ harvested trash you found in an abandoned post industrial hellzone. "retrofuturist aesthetic is so cool! Such an epic aesthetic choice, wow this game is awesome!" 

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Death Panel Podcast talks about "Covid year four"

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>As we prepare to record "Covid Year Four," Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss what is left of national covid data following the end of the public health emergency, how what's left has become so thoroughly abstracted, and how the CDC prioritizes representing deaths as an abstract percentage even as the official death count has been over 1,000 a week since August.

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Thermal paste is a scam, just use minty fresh toothpaste on your CPU

"this stuff absorbs heat...it probably tastes cool and refreshing?" (eying forbidden thermal paste tube)

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chemistry classes are hard and full of irrelevant bullshit because of Cold War hysteria about the USSR overtaking the West in science education

This guy is apparently a widely cited education scholar not an extremist Marxist or whatever: "You Can’t Get There from Here" Johnstone 2010 [PDF]: https://sci-hub.se/10.1021/ed800026d "capitalist competition makes us stronger and more innovative" sorry radlibs but there's a reason why 35% of students in your shitty designed STEM classes drop out, they aren't stupid for getting bad grades. *You're the stupid one* for being so ignorant that you've managed to fail to educate people for over 60 years. I take back everything I said about "western kids want to be Twitch streaming gamers lol they're losers", these families literally have not had access to a decent science education for three generations! >Are we still persisting in making our students sick of chemistry because “that is how chemistry is done here”? Who set the scene? How did it all come about? >The answer lies not with some malevolent group of people, but with a response made in the 1960s in the United States and throughout the Western world to combat the perceived threat of Russian scientific supremacy. ChemStudy and Chemical Bond Approach sprang up in the United States, Scottish Alternative Chemistry and Nuffield Chemistry appeared in the UK, and similar schemes were launched the PMC class of finance imperialism educators are a malevolent group of people, Jeffrey Epstein was a NYC math teacher  his suggestions for improved chem curriculum >Begin with the idea of the filter that is driven by what the learners already know and by what interests them. There is no point in beginning a course in chemistry with a treatment of atomic electronic configuration or bonding because the anchorages in long-term memory are not there. Without attachments in long-term memory, a student can only learn by rote methods. An approach to chemistry through acids, bases, and salts is unlikely to stir students with enthusiasm. Apart from common table salt, how many salts are in place in long-term memory to provide relevance and reality for the learner? On the face of it, inorganic compounds are “simple”, but are they? So many wrong concepts are introduced by teachers or constructed by the learners in this area of chemistry. A glance at a book of chemical data will show the absurdity of suggesting that sodium (or any other metal) is “anxious” to lose electrons and chlorine is “desperate” to accept them. It is too soon to introduce lattice energy or hydration energy to provide a rational basis for compound formation. The octet rule, with all its pitfalls for later study, tends to raise its ugly head here as a sort of rationalization. >The model suggests that we should begin where students are, with their interests and experience, and lead them into discovering new ideas among the familiar. An obvious starting point is in organic chemistry, with gasoline, camping gas, food, clothing, plastics, and drinks and so much more that is familiar. I know that it has been the tradition to keep organic for later, but are we taking a “monkey” point of view? Let us consider some of the advantages in starting here. >The long-term memory already contains anchorages for what we want to teach and the filter is primed and ready to go. The working memory is not in danger of overload. We can go a long way into organic chemistry with only a few elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and possibly sulfur and phosphorus. Most of these are familiar (at least their names are) to the learner. By considering the spatial arrangement of the four electrons around a carbon, students, using their fingers, can see that a tetrahedral arrangement is likely. Never mind sp3 hybridization. It is a cobbling together of atomic orbitals (isolated atoms in the gas state) to produce a tetrahedron. This is using unreality to arrive at reality. Pasteur knew about the tetrahedral arrangement long before atomic orbitals were conceived. >Using the simple tetrahedral idea, we can do a lot of sound organic chemistry linked to what the students already know, avoiding overload of working memory. Only when we reach organic acids do we have to reconsider bonding, but this can now be linked to the simpler ideas of covalent bonding already established. Another advantage of beginning with organic is that there is no pressure to use balanced equations. Practicing organic chemists do not bother, so why should we? >The model has led us to select a starting point that fits what is already in a student's long-term memory. The working memory is not overloaded because only a few elements are involved in making familiar compounds. The representation triangle can be used along its sides to build ideas of the relationship between the macro and familiar, with the molecular. The use of the representational is reduced, and no calculations are necessary. All of this provides a logical basis for an applications-led approach instead of a conceptual approach followed by a passing mention of uses and applications. >The troublesome mole can be rethought in the light of the model. It has been my sad experience to have graduate students who confessed their inability to do mole calculations. The very word “mole” left them uncomfortable. How could highly intelligent young people have such an aversion? They met the mole too soon, wrapped up in incomprehensible (and even totally irrelevant) calculations that flooded the working memory into a state of paralysis. In an earlier publication (4) I set out an analysis of a trivial (from my point of view) mole calculation. I saw it as a four-step procedure, which did not tax my working memory, because I already had tricks for grouping the processes, but students saw it as a ten-step task, which blew their working memory.

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my camera keeps autofocusing on this section of wood floor like its trying to communicate to me that someone is buried there

"its probably fine and not haunted haha..." (I'm stuck living here for the next three months because of unavailable low rent housing)

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speaking of settler homonationalism: "On Power’s Doorstep: Gays, Jews, and Liminal Complicity in Reproducing Masculine Domination"

>This article explores the gender complexities of men caught between social power and powerlessness. Specifically, I consider the cases of Jewish men and gay men in the late modern West, two demographics with deep historic ties to both abjection and privilege. Such "in-between-ness” steers many, especially those who are white, cisgender, and/or otherwise privileged, toward what I term liminal complicity, a normative adaptation whereby men embrace manly ideals while disavowing femininity in themselves and others. >> “The logic of homosexual desire,” Bersani suggests, “includes the potential for a loving identification with the gay man’s enemies.” Indeed, Perez argues that modern gay subjectivity has, since the late-nineteenth century, been intertwined with sailors, cowboys, soldiers, and other hetero-masculine frontier icons, figures whose continued cultural salience is evident in their portrayal by the Village People gays love settler colonialism and fascism? Gorky was right! >>Gay men have worked to distance themselves from the stigma of gender deviance by various means, including physical fitness training, masculine self presentation lessons, male bonding, and militarization. psychotic steroid using Instagram neoliberal gays >To this day, liminal gays assert normalcy by disregarding fems as friends and partners. Liminal gays use similar contempt and condescension to distinguish themselves from women are fems friends?  >If liminal gays are so often denied, on account of their sexuality, the manly dominance promised to them in youth, wielding what limited power they have against others helps compensate for feelings of impotence. In the sexual marketplace, this involves sexually assaulting, coercing, and/or manipulating those marked as attractive while inferiorizing those marked as unattractive. Exemplifying the latter, Ayres’ (1999, 89) recounts the “overt belligerence [of] drunk queens who shout in my face, ‘Go back to your own country.’” Such verbal aggression, together with an “almost imperceptible feeling of exclusion” (ibid.), ensures that BIPOCs feel unwelcome in implicitly white settings, thus enabling white gays to maintain their implicit control over those spaces. >details how homonationalist discourses have increasingly brought white gay subjects and their Western nation-states together in opposition to “backward Islamic extremists.” Displacing anti-queer stereotypes of deviance and perversion onto Arab Muslims thereby facilitates imperial aggression in the Middle East with the implicit support of patriotic gay citizens. "patriotic gay citizens"  >Where assimilationist Jews challenged Aryan hegemony by pursuing equal citizenship, colonial Zionists would embody Western values from afar, embracing a tough, masculine, but ultimately unthreatening posture for Western elites. U.S. Zionists likewise elevated themselves by supporting both Israeli and U.S. projects of masculine dominance. In a similar vein, affluent white Western gays attained relative acceptance in the LGBTQ rights era in part by limiting their demands and making themselves useful to commercial markets and nation-states "making themselves useful" listen, twink,