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  • Awoo Awoo 9 minutes ago 100%

    I'm joining the nothing ever happens crowd on Iran's counterattack to the assassination. I don't think it's ever happening.

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  • news news Bulletins and News Discussion from September 16th to September 22nd, 2024 - This Megathread Is Dedicated To The Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan - COTW: Afghanistan
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  • Awoo Awoo 21 minutes ago 100%

    I'm so confused. Are they saying that these institutions all use Cloudflare and the only way to block X would be to block Cloudflare?

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  • greentext > Greentext Supportive dad
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  • Awoo Awoo 54 minutes ago 100%

    If they say they were made trans by life circumstances, I would tell them that that is likely not true, but I would never dictate someone's gender.

    I think it's worthwhile remaining open to this but not really valuable to trans people to like make it part of activism or anything. There are enough instances of people saying things like their sexuality has completely shifted for me to be open to the idea that what gender we're attracted to can change. I don't think we know enough about being trans to be certain one way or another, trans people however have a very understandable defensive reaction to this because we don't want it to be weaponised against us as "fake" or whatever.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Teamsters Presidential Poll: close to 60% choose red Hitler over blue hitler
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  • Awoo Awoo 59 minutes ago 100%

    Really shouldn't have posted results, or polled at all. That information is only likely to make workers less likely to join, whether it leans one way or another it's likely to make the other side less likely to join. I would not join a union that is full of tories, full stop, I know most well-meaning libs that support labour wouldn't either. But I also know that tories wouldn't join a union if they knew it was like all lefties or whatever.

    It's just not a good way to organise. It's publishing information that you know will cause division.

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  • comics Comics Johnny Storm exploring new horizons
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 hour ago 100%

    Cute

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Any fellow olds remember when sexting was called "cyber sex" and it's slang was "cyber"?
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 hour ago 100%

    They stopped using sexting ages ago and call it ERP (erotic roleplay) now. Sorry grandpa.

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  • games games There won't actually be a Sims 5 because EA is going to 'disrupt the sequel model' by shoving The Sims 4, Project Rene, and two other games into one 'massive Sims platform'
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    inzoi

    Yeah as long as they nail it there's going to be a huge reality check for EA.

    The issue however is that Korean gamedev culture is MUCH WORSE than western gamedev culture and I am not convinced that their monetisation model will be something the audience will be pleased about.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Teamsters Presidential Poll: close to 60% choose red Hitler over blue hitler
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  • Awoo Awoo 4 hours ago 100%

    The end of that basically says "Harris is better but we're afraid of upsetting our members so no endorsement".

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Teamsters Presidential Poll: close to 60% choose red Hitler over blue hitler
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  • Awoo Awoo 5 hours ago 100%

    It makes sense for a union to say "this candidate is better for our workers". They're not revolutionary parties.

    It makes no sense for a union to have the members decide that rather than the union leadership fully immersed in working out which is best.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Teamsters Presidential Poll: close to 60% choose red Hitler over blue hitler
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  • Awoo Awoo 5 hours ago 100%

    This is the stupidest fucking thing a union could do because it's going to cause internal conflict and deter people from wanting to work with teamsters. It could even deter people from joining it.

    I wouldn't want to join a union if I knew 60% of the membership were fucking tories.

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  • Awoo Awoo 5 hours ago 100%

    Those mods are on loverslab

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  • the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank King Bazinga presents some poetry about how we actually need Supply-Side Cultural Christianity.
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  • Awoo Awoo 6 hours ago 100%

    Capitalists have begun realising that if they want to make conditions considerably worse for people then they need ways to offset that.

    Musk is too stupid to be subtle about it.

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  • news news Bulletins and News Discussion from September 16th to September 22nd, 2024 - This Megathread Is Dedicated To The Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan - COTW: Afghanistan
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  • Awoo Awoo 10 hours ago 100%

    Some of these must have been through airports already though and not been noticed by the security.

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  • Awoo Awoo 11 hours ago 100%

    This is not the case though. It's simply a shipment to Lebanon that Israel filled with bombs. The whole "they're all hezbollah" shit is identical to the "everyone is hamas" shit Israel have always pulled. Children were injured and died in this attack.

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  • Awoo Awoo 12 hours ago 100%

    You could therefore produce a battery w/ explosives including a detonator which looked like a normal battery, and it could be triggered over the regular battery connector. You wouldn't see anything, not even extra wires, unless you opened up the battery itself.

    This sounds like the most practical method. All you have to do is swap out the battery that was supposed to go in the device with your bomb battery. It won't be possible to tell by inspecting it.

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  • news news Bulletins and News Discussion from September 16th to September 22nd, 2024 - This Megathread Is Dedicated To The Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan - COTW: Afghanistan
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  • Awoo Awoo 12 hours ago 100%

    Right but I need news articles or the like.

    Right now the prevailing message people are getting is that this was targeted and only hit hezbollah members, when what it actually sounds like is that this was an indiscriminate attack against anyone using a batch of pagers that israel managed to fill with bombs. I'd like to contribute to cutting into that narrative but am failing to find suitable reporting.

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  • news news Bulletins and News Discussion from September 16th to September 22nd, 2024 - This Megathread Is Dedicated To The Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan - COTW: Afghanistan
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  • Awoo Awoo 13 hours ago 100%

    A lot of rumours going around that the pager attack was indiscriminate and that it was 5000 pagers? Any confirmation of this anywhere that could be lib-friendly?

    EDIT: Also if you have a phone, walkie talkie or pager it might be worth opening it up and giving it an inspection for anything that weighs 20grams that looks out of place. I assume it will likely be touching the battery as it requires heat as the trigger mechanism. The explosives used in these devices were 20grams of PETN.

    EDITEDIT: Another thing I'm not understanding is how the trigger mechanism works actually. The temperature detonation point of PETN is 4230°C

    EDITEDITEDIT: My guess is they are connected to the circuit. So there must be electronics added too. The energy needed for direct initiation by electric spark is 10-60 mJ.

    EDIT4: Another question that needs answering is how the trigger was delivered to devices simultaneously. If the devices were triggered via the pager's own network transmissions then the pagers that are turned off would not have exploded, meaning there's tonnes of unexploded ones out there. However it might also have electronics added that are independent of this and pagers that were off may have also exploded. I suspect this is the most reliable explanation.

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  • videos videos The Silverlake Spankologist
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  • Awoo Awoo 13 hours ago 100%

    Shared this with my discord group. They were confused.

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  • news news Democrats banned RT, African Stream and Red. from Meta and Google platforms
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 day ago 100%

    I like African Stream a lot they literally just post marxist stuff, fuck amerikkka.

    I assume they'll be banned on reddit soon then, they've been personally posting to /r/greenandpleasant and a few other leftist places. Super successful on tiktok as well.

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  • askchapo askchapo Hey old people on Hexbear, remember those "Don't Worry, Be Happy" stickers, buttons, and so on?
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    Keep Calm
    
       And
    
    Carry On
    
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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Footage of the titan submersible wreck has now been released
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 day ago 100%

    and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or terror

    It's not sorrowful., Could be disastrous so I'll give it that. It neither elicits pity nor terror though.

    You could only make a disaster/comedy about it.

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  • news news Dozens of Hezbollah members reportedly hurt by exploding pagers
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 day ago 100%

    Yeah most likely. I wonder if anyone went through any airport scanners or security with these pagers. If they ever did which seems likely then these bombs may have consistently passed through airport scanners. These bombs were also very clearly significant enough to blow the doors off a plane cockpit to get to the pilots.

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  • news news Dozens of Hezbollah members reportedly hurt by exploding pagers
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 day ago 100%

    Yeah I saw the video too. 100% explosives

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  • askchapo askchapo The last emoji you used on Hexbear before reading this will define the rest of your day. How's that day going?
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    xi-cooking

    Explain my emoji tarot reading pls

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Footage of the titan submersible wreck has now been released
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    The first image of the Titan submersible sitting at the bottom of the ocean following its catastrophic implosion last year was shared by the US Coast Guard on Monday as investigators opened a hearing into the tragedy.

    Tragedy?

    Lmao fuck off CNN don't tell me how to feel about a billionaire killing themselves.

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  • news news Ukraine Has A Problem: 20 out of 31 M1 Abrams Tanks Have Been Destroyed
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 day ago 100%

    They should have sat on them all and used them in the Kursk offensive primarily on roads instead of having them sink in soft soil across Ukrainian fields where they get wrecked by artillery and drones.

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  • fediverse fediverse Mozilla is shutting down their mozilla.social mastodon instance
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 day ago 80%

    presentation should be unified

    This is basically the "All" sort on lemmy isn't it? And since Lemmy devs are responsible for the algorithm that functionally determines what shows up there they have ultimate control over what rises to the top and what does not.

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  • dredge_tank The Dredge Tank "Politic is when Gay or Black!"
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 day ago 100%

    These people literally just stare at the screen open mouthed and understand absolutely nothing.

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  • movies movies New Star Wars lore.
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    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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  • dredge_tank The Dredge Tank Greta Thunberg named ‘Antisemite of the Week’ by "StopAntisemitism" after latest arrest at anti-Israel protest
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 day ago 100%

    They have completely turned this phrase into meaningless drivel.

    This is annoying because it gives real antisemites free capability to say so much more than they ever could before.

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  • news news Dozens of Hezbollah members reportedly hurt by exploding pagers
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 day ago 100%

    This is going to be the subject of a hundred different youtube hacker videos theorising how this was done

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Assume the Victory Position
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  • Awoo Awoo 1 day ago 100%

    They don't really, the last guy was just a kook while this guy is a turbo liberal.

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  • technology technology why are 3d printer-brained MFs so bad at design engineering ?
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  • Awoo Awoo 2 days ago 100%

    Why isn't that kickstand foldable? Wtf is that. That should fold out it's so ugly.

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  • technology technology why are 3d printer-brained MFs so bad at design engineering ?
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  • Awoo Awoo 2 days ago 100%

    Wtf was wrong with the snap on design? How often are you going to take it on and off to gouge out the hole? The decision to use magnets was fucking stupid.

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  • dredge_tank The Dredge Tank Star Citizen true believer believes that the reason there's still no concrete details about the 10+ year late single player "Squadron 42" is that its story is going to be the ultimate murderfuckfest.
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  • Awoo Awoo 2 days ago 100%

    let him cook xi-cooking

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  • askchapo askchapo How do I shoplift stuff?
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  • Awoo Awoo 2 days ago 100%

    Back in my shoplifting days I didn't care about the cameras. They're there but it doesn't mean someone is watching you, what matters is not being physically stopped. Most of what I did was robbing extra stuff from the supermarket while buying other things. If they're onto you they would send someone to tail you around the shop who'd stand at the end of the aisle and lurk glaring at you. Self checkout is the easiest, since you look totally normal carrying around stuff to go to self checkout. If you learn to keep an item you're not paying for off the scales (most have a starting scale and ending scale) you can just not ring it through.

    If you look like you have other shopping with you then you can just drop stuff in your other shopping bags.

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  • games games Are gamers really that much of a baby that they need to be told to not pre order games from trash studios lol
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  • Awoo Awoo 2 days ago 100%

    The calculation people make is "this game might be good" and "I want the exclusives". They determine that the risk of it being bad is worth paying on the offchance it's good and they won't get the exclusives.

    It's annoying but it absolutely works on much of the audience.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Are there any places online where cishet men do the "omg a pretty girl looked at me and I forgot how to exist" memes that you find in some lesbian spaces?
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  • Awoo Awoo 2 days ago 100%

    This exists. It's guys that have formed an active relationship though. It's pretty common for guys to shed that manly attitude and be complete and total dorks in love through the honeymoon 1st year of the relationship. Doesn't get posted online much though other than dorky stuff where entire comments sections of people say "you should marry her" over and over and over.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Britons would generally choose communism over fascism
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  • Awoo Awoo 2 days ago 100%

    Yeah they're very good figures we just need to work on educating more and more people on the definition but the figures are excellent.

    That 29% are basically going to form the immediate base of literally any new party effort once it finally goes into action. We are a third of the country.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Britons would generally choose communism over fascism
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  • Awoo Awoo 2 days ago 100%

    This is from 2023

    29% of the UK support Communism

    53% of the UK support Socialism

    39% of the people asked to define Socialism define it correctly

    cat-vibing

    https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/new-poll-finds-strong-support-for-socialism-in-the-uk

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    art Awoo 1 week ago 100%
    Hicaru Tanaka - Outlaw Star's end credits artist (images in the post) https://youtu.be/H6ojLNsoi0w

    cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3434343 > *Right click and view images in their own tab for higher res. The site makes them a bit smaller on page.* > > *** > > The art in Outlaw Star's ED is by Hicaru Tanaka who is something of a mystery on the internet - he barely exists online. > > Because of this I did sleuthing and found a few things. I wanted to put it all in one place so the next person that tries to find stuff about this dude has what I've already found. > > Who is Hicaru Tanaka? He's an illustrator from Tokyo who has apprently won the Hayakawa Award for science fiction art three times. He's been on the cover of S.F. Magazine (the most popular scifi literature magazine in Japan), and he did the art in the above ED for Outlaw Star. > > On top of that he’s also painted box art for Star Trek and Aliens but I've been unable to find these online. > > *** > > **Here is the art from the Outlaw Star ED, it has literally nothing to do with the show itself. There's probably an artist's reason that they're all specific unique colours but I won't pretend to have a clue why:** > > > ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/9a4a62cb-8ba1-4542-b29c-22efc8e85cb0.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/b33cdb0b-a224-45e2-a1c9-5894025f851c.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/950bb379-c3c5-477c-8ae4-7104244aa6cb.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/063811b2-9c6a-4519-9e06-69a9d7cfee89.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f8bf1425-d15a-404e-a24a-2b40bf930194.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/a605e450-e96b-4f97-99ce-8eb322e64fd0.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4e45d61d-8e04-43df-9866-9bd17220c26f.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6d63f295-e56d-4c60-b2ee-c5af91fde220.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/dc5759f2-f274-4bff-99bc-b57b91244052.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/01196691-8f78-44d8-abe4-99b3e3ffceeb.jpeg) > > *** > > The following is "Tea Girl" and was used to promote a 2007 convention. It is also on the cover of this magazine: https://fanac.org/conpubs/Worldcon/Nippon%202007/Nippon%20PR%201.pdf > > ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/752446da-6de8-4578-a4f6-bac24d68a93c.png) > > *** > > This last one is from an archive of his website, which apparently no longer exists online. The only archived page is here: https://archive.md/i0ywc > > ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/0d881c80-51dc-40ed-85e6-ba47cca51be6.jpeg) > > In case that page disappears at some point in the future (very likely), here is a screenshot of it: ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/1f2b54e8-8dc5-4393-98e0-5ddfa755887b.png) > > I like his work, I like the themes he has of combining traditions with scifi. It feels very grounded and human. Ok he's also guilty of ![awooga](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/12dc28f7-b63c-4d62-a1ff-6e3cd6e73c28.png "emoji awooga") but I don't think any scifi artists aren't guilty of that. > > This thread was a pain in the ass to make because of the rate limiting preventing me from uploading more than 6 images in an hour. > > *** > > EDIT: > > There are 3 known book covers here: > > The first is Asimov's Pebble in the Sky. The second is called "The 81st Q War". The third is "10,000 Light Years From Home". > > ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/88bd7cd8-7268-4e6a-b7fb-7582e6737772.webp) > ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/b43c3e7d-ec0e-47f6-ab7e-92b9c307af1e.jpeg) > ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/68fe1dc8-ac6c-4004-a5c5-f2eead173b3e.jpeg)

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    memes Awoo 1 week ago 100%
    On a mission

    https://xcancel.com/lowgradef/status/1833535916700537193

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    anime Awoo 1 week ago 100%
    Hicaru Tanaka - Outlaw Star's end credits artist (images in the post) https://youtu.be/H6ojLNsoi0w

    *Right click and view images in their own tab for higher res. The site makes them a bit smaller on page.* *** The art in Outlaw Star's ED is by Hicaru Tanaka who is something of a mystery on the internet - he barely exists online. Because of this I did sleuthing and found a few things. I wanted to put it all in one place so the next person that tries to find stuff about this dude has what I've already found. Who is Hicaru Tanaka? He's an illustrator from Tokyo who has apprently won the Hayakawa Award for science fiction art three times. He's been on the cover of S.F. Magazine (the most popular scifi literature magazine in Japan), and he did the art in the above ED for Outlaw Star. On top of that he’s also painted box art for Star Trek and Aliens but I've been unable to find these online. *** **Here is the art from the Outlaw Star ED, it has literally nothing to do with the show itself. There's probably an artist's reason that they're all specific unique colours but I won't pretend to have a clue why:** ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/9a4a62cb-8ba1-4542-b29c-22efc8e85cb0.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/b33cdb0b-a224-45e2-a1c9-5894025f851c.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/950bb379-c3c5-477c-8ae4-7104244aa6cb.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/063811b2-9c6a-4519-9e06-69a9d7cfee89.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f8bf1425-d15a-404e-a24a-2b40bf930194.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/a605e450-e96b-4f97-99ce-8eb322e64fd0.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4e45d61d-8e04-43df-9866-9bd17220c26f.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6d63f295-e56d-4c60-b2ee-c5af91fde220.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/dc5759f2-f274-4bff-99bc-b57b91244052.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/01196691-8f78-44d8-abe4-99b3e3ffceeb.jpeg) *** The following is "Tea Girl" and was used to promote a 2007 convention. It is also on the cover of this magazine: https://fanac.org/conpubs/Worldcon/Nippon%202007/Nippon%20PR%201.pdf ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/752446da-6de8-4578-a4f6-bac24d68a93c.png) *** This last one is from an archive of his website, which apparently no longer exists online. The only archived page is here: https://archive.md/i0ywc ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/0d881c80-51dc-40ed-85e6-ba47cca51be6.jpeg) In case that page disappears at some point in the future (very likely), here is a screenshot of it: ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/1f2b54e8-8dc5-4393-98e0-5ddfa755887b.png) I like his work, I like the themes he has of combining traditions with scifi. It feels very grounded and human. Ok he's also guilty of ![awooga](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/12dc28f7-b63c-4d62-a1ff-6e3cd6e73c28.png "emoji awooga") but I don't think any scifi artists aren't guilty of that. This thread was a pain in the ass to make because of the rate limiting preventing me from uploading more than 6 images in an hour. *** EDIT: There are 3 known book covers here: The first is Asimov's Pebble in the Sky. The second is called "The 81st Q War". The third is "10,000 Light Years From Home". ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/88bd7cd8-7268-4e6a-b7fb-7582e6737772.webp) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/b43c3e7d-ec0e-47f6-ab7e-92b9c307af1e.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/68fe1dc8-ac6c-4004-a5c5-f2eead173b3e.jpeg)

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    askchapo Awoo 2 weeks ago 100%
    Leftist media sources - what else would you add to this?

    **World** * [MintPress News](https://www.mintpressnews.com/) * [The Grayzone](https://thegrayzone.com/) * [Geopolitical Economy Report](https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/) * [World Socialist Website](https://www.wsws.org/) * [Al Mayadeen](https://english.almayadeen.net/) * [Monthly Review](https://monthlyreview.org/) * [ZNetwork](https://znetwork.org/) * [Uncaptured Media](https://www.uncaptured.media/) * [Marxist Left Review](https://marxistleftreview.org/) * [Pearls and Irritations](https://johnmenadue.com/) * [In Defense of Communism](https://www.idcommunism.com/) * [teleSUR English](https://www.telesurenglish.net/) * [ProleWiki](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Main_page) * [Consortium News](https://consortiumnews.com/) * [Caitlin Johnstone](https://caitlinjohnstone.com/) * [The Tricontinental](https://thetricontinental.org/) * [CovertAction Magazine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/) * [People's World](https://www.peoplesworld.org/) * [Working Class History](https://workingclasshistory.com/) * [History is a Weapon](https://www.historyisaweapon.com/) **US** * [Jacobin](https://jacobin.com/) * [The Intercept](https://theintercept.com/) * [Liberation News](https://www.liberationnews.org/) * [Democracy Now!](https://www.democracynow.org/) * [Accuracy.org](https://accuracy.org/) * [Seymour Hersh](https://seymourhersh.substack.com/) **UK** England * [Declassified UK](https://www.declassifieduk.org/) * [Novara Media](https://novaramedia.com/) * [Morning Star](https://morningstaronline.co.uk/) Wales * [Nation.Cymru](https://nation.cymru/) **Palestine** * [Electronic Intifada](https://electronicintifada.net/) * [Palestine Chronicle](https://www.palestinechronicle.com/) * [Mondoweiss](https://mondoweiss.net/) * [Oct 7 Factcheck](https://www.oct7factcheck.com/) * [+972 Mag](https://www.972mag.com/) ​**Canada** * [The Maple](https://www.readthemaple.com/) * [Breach Media](https://breachmedia.ca/) * [PressProgress](https://pressprogress.ca/) * [The Canada Files](https://www.thecanadafiles.com/) * [Canadian Dimension](https://canadiandimension.com/) * [Ricochet](https://ricochet.media/) * [The Tyee](https://thetyee.ca/) * [Canadian Anti-Hate Network](https://www.antihate.ca/) * [People's Voice](https://pvonline.ca/) * [Communist Party of Canada](https://communist-party.ca/) * [New Democratic Party](https://www.ndp.ca/) * [Policy Options](https://policyoptions.irpp.org/) * [Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada](https://cpcml.ca/) **Haiti** * [Haiti Liberté](https://haitiliberte.com/) **Australia** * [Red Flag](https://redflag.org.au/) * [Independent Australia](https://independentaustralia.net/) * [The Guardian](https://cpa.org.au/the-guardian-archive/) * [Green Left](https://www.greenleft.org.au/) * [Solidarity Online](https://solidarity.net.au/) * [Australian Communist Party](https://www.auscp.org.au/)

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    anime Awoo 3 weeks ago 100%
    Aniwave / 9anime is now gone

    Looks like a string of sites have shut down over fears about being unmasked and legal action being taken against fmovies, who were running most of the sites. https://kaido.to/home is being discussed as an alternative. I am unfamiliar and can't vouch for it at this time though. https://4anime.gg/ still exists and works too.

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    Greek statue avatar guys

    ^(also^ ^applies^ ^to^ ^leftist^ ^discourse^ ^lmao)^

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    NEW PROLEKULT: For Land | Part one: Capital as extinction https://youtu.be/f-P479d1-KE

    Prolekult's long videos are extremely worth your time. I promise.

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    technology Awoo 4 weeks ago 100%
    Are there any image translation extensions for firefox?

    I want to right click an image and click a single button to send it through google translate or yandex. I don't really care which they're both good. Does this exist? If not, why? :( I can't find shit

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    ThErE aRe No SkElEtOnS aLlOwEd In ChInEsE gAmEs https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/cb6417ef-df06-4166-9965-115a3329fb66.png

    ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/fec573d3-3363-4c13-b2d8-a1c1d0dab03a.png)

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    Taiwan banned Black Myth Wukong. Taiwanese 18-25 year olds now:

    Chinese soft power created through entertainment can and will climb if they support these industries.

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    Transcripts of known Stalin resignation attempts

    I was asked for a source on this today. I couldn't find this on hexbear anywhere and other places that do have it have been slowly disappearing or becoming harder to find over time. So I thought I'd preserve it here. EDIT: Alaskaball has also made a series of comments with excellent book quotes referencing some of these attempts: https://hexbear.net/comment/5288072 *** **May 1924, 23-31** (*Marxist Internet Archive*, "The Trotskyist Opposition Before and Now") ( [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1927/10/23.htm#1](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1927/10/23.htm#1)) >It is said that in that "will" \[Lenin's Testament - ZB\] Comrade Lenin suggested to the congress that in view of Stalin's "rudeness" it should consider the question of putting another comrade in Stalin's place as General Secretary. That is quite true. Yes, comrades, I am rude to those who grossly and perfidiously wreck and split the Party. I have never concealed this and do not conceal it now. Perhaps some mildness is needed in the treatment of splitters, but I am a bad hand at that. At the very first meeting of the plenum of the Central Committee after the Thirteenth Congress \[Undefined date of this attempt, however, within the Thirteenth Congress and thus anywhere within the 23rd to the 31st - ZB\] I asked the plenum of the Central Committee to release me from my duties as General Secretary. The congress itself discussed this question. It was discussed by each delegation separately, and all the delegations unanimously, including Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev, *obliged* Stalin to remain at his post. > >What could I do? Desert my post? That is not in my nature; I have never deserted any post, and I have no right to do so, for that would be desertion. As I have already said before, I am not a free agent, and when the Party imposes an obligation upon me, I must obey. > >A year later I again put in a request to the plenum to release me, but I was again obliged to remain at my post. > >What else could I do? *** **August 19, 1924** (Grover Furr, *Khrushchev Lied*, p. 244): >To the Plenum of the CC \[Central Committee\] RCP \[Russian Communist Party\] > >One and a half years of working in the Politburo with comrades Zinoviev and Kamanev after the retirement and then the death of Lenin have made perfectly clear to me the impossibility of honest, sincere political work with these comrades within the framework of one small collective. In view of which, I request to be considered as having resigned from the Pol\[itcal\] Buro of the CC. > >I request a medical leave for about two months. > >At the expiration of this period I request to be sent to Turukhansk region or to the Iakutsk oblast', or to somewhere abroad in any kind of work that will attract little attention. > >I would ask the Plenum to decide all these questions in my absence and without explanations from my side, because I consider it harmful for our work to give explanations aside from those remarks that I have already made in the first paragraph of this letter. > >I would ask comrade Kuibyshev to distribute copies of this letter to the members of the CC. > >With com\[munist\] greet\[ings\], J. Stalin. *** **December 27, 1926** (Grover Furr, *Khrushchev Lied,* p. 244): >To the Plenum of the CC \[Central Committee\] (to comrade Rykov). I ask that I be relieved of the post of GenSec \[General Secretary\] of the CC. I declare that I can work no longer in this position, I do not have the strength to work any more in this position. J. Stalin. *** **December 19, 1927** (Grover Furr, *Khrushchev Lied,* p. 245) ([https://livrozilla.com/doc/796199/pelo-socialismo](https://livrozilla.com/doc/796199/pelo-socialismo)): >Stalin: Comrades! For three years \[Suggesting there could be more resignation attempts unbeknownst to me - ZB\] I have been asking the CC \[Central Committee\] to free me from the obligations of General Secretary of the CC. Each time the Plenum has refused me. I admit that until recently conditions did not exist such that the Party had need of me in this post as a person more or less severe, one who acted as a certain kind of antidote to the dangers posed by the Opposition. I admit that this necessity existed, despite comrade Lenin's well-known letter \[Lenin's Testament - ZB\], to keep me at the post of General Secretary. But these conditions exist no longer. They have vanished, since the Opposition is now smashed. It seems that the Opposition has never before suffered such a defeat since they have not only been smashed, but have been expelled from the Party. It follows that now no bases exist any longer that could be considered correct when the Plenum refused to honor my request and free me of the duties of General Secretary. Meanwhile you have comrade Lenin's directive which we are obliged to consider and which, in my opinion, it is necessary to put into effect. I admit that the Party was compelled to disregard this directive until recently, compelled by well-known conditions of inter-Party development. But I repeat that these conditions have now vanished and it is time, in my view, to take comrade Lenin's directive to the leadership. Therefore I request the Plenum to free me of the post of General Secretary of the Central Committee. I assure you, comrades, that the Party can only gain from doing this. > >Dogadov: Vote without discussion. > >Vorshilov: I propose we reject the announcement we just heard. > >Rykov: We will vote without discsussion...We vote now on Stalin's proposal that he be freed from the General Secretaryship. Who is for this proposal? Who is against? Who abstains? One. > >The proposal of comrade Stalin is rejected with one abstention. > >Stalin: Then I introduce another proposal. Perhaps the CC \[Central Committee\] will consider it expedient to abolish the position of General Secretary. In our Party's history there have been times when no such post existed. > >Voroshilov: We had Lenin with us then. > >Stalin: We had no post of General Secretary before the 10th Congress. > >Voice: Until the 11th Congress. > >Stalin: Yes, it seems that until the 11th Congress we did not have this position. That was before Lenin stopped working. If Lenin concluded that it was necessary to put forward the question of founding the position of General Secretary, then I assume he was prompted by the special circumstances that appeared with us before the 10th Congress, when a more or less strong, well-organized Opposition within the Party was founded. But now we proceed to the abolition of this position. Many people associate a conception of some kind of special rights of the General Secretary with this position. I must say from my experience, and comrades will confirm this, that there ought not to be any special rights distinguishing the General Secretary from the rights of other members of the Secretariat. > >Voice: And the duties? > >Stalin: And there are no more duties than other members of the Secretariat have. I see it this way; There's the Politburo, the highest organ of the CC; there's the Secretariat, the executive organ consisting of five persons, and all these five members of the Secretariat are equal. That's the way the work has been carried out in practice, and the General Secretary has not had any special rights or obligations. The result, therefore, is that the position of General Secretary, in the sense of special rights, has never existed with us in practice, there has been only a collegium called the Secretariat of the CC. I do not know why we need to keep this dead position any longer. I don't even mention the fact that this position, called General Secretary, has occasioned in some places a series of distortions. At the same time that at the top no special rights or duties are associated with the position of General Secretary, in some places there have been some distortions, and in all the oblasts there is now a struggle over that position among comrades who call themselves secretaries, for example, in the national CCs. Quite a few General Secretaries have developed, and with them in the localities special rights have been associated. Why is this necessary? > >Shmidt: We can dismiss them in the localities. > >Stalin: I think the Party would benefit if we did away with the post of General Secretary, and that would give me the chance to be free from this post. This would be all the easier to do since according to the Party's constitution there is no post of General Secretary. > >Rykov: I propose not to give comrade Stalin the possibility of being free from this position. As concerns the General Secretaries in the oblast and local organs, that should be changed, but without changing the situation in the CC. The position of General Secretary was created by the proposal of Vladimir Il'ich. In all the time since, during Vladimir Il'ich's life and since, this position has justified itself politically and completely in both the organizational and political sense. In the creation of this organ and in naming comrade Stalin to the post of General Secretary the whole Opposition also took part, all those whom we have now expelled from the Party. That is how completely without doubt it was for everyone in the Party (whether the position of General Secretary was needed and who should be the General Secretary). By which has been exhausted, in my opinion, both the question of the "testament" (for that point has been decided) and exhausted by the Opposition at the same time just as it has been decided by us as well. The whole Party knows this. What has changed now after the 15th Congress and why is it necessary to set aside the position of General Secretary. > >Stalin: The Opposition has been smashed. > >(A long discussion followed, after which:) > >Voices: Correct! Vote! > >Rykov: There is a proposal to vote. > >Voices: Yes, yes! > >Rykov: We are voting. Who is for comrade Stalin's proposal to abolish the post of General Secretary? Who is opposed? Who abstains? Noone. *** **October 16, 1952** ([http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1954-2/succession-to-stalin/succession-to-stalin-texts/stalin-on-enlarging-the-central-committee/](http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1954-2/succession-to-stalin/succession-to-stalin-texts/stalin-on-enlarging-the-central-committee/)): >*This article was taken from the Russian newspaper Glasnost devoted to the 120th Anniversary of Stalin’s birth, was the last speech at the CC* \[Central Committee\] *CPSU* \[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\] *before Stalin died. The text was being published for the very first time in the Soviet Union...* > >...MOLOTOV – \[Glasnost -\] coming to the speaker’s tribune completely admits his mistakes before the CC, but he stated that he is and will always be a faithful disciple of Stalin. > >STALIN – (interrupting Molotov) This is nonsense. I have no students at all. We are all students of the great Lenin. > >\[Glasnost -\] Stalin suggested that they continue the agenda point by point and elect comrades into different committees of state. > >With no Politburo, there is now elected a Presidium of the CC CPSU in the enlarged CC and in the Secretariat of the CC CPSU altogether 36 members. > >In the new list of those elected are all members of the old Politbiuro – except that of comrade A. A. Andreev who, as everyone knows now is unfortunately completely deaf and thus can not function. > >VOICE FROM THE FLOOR – We need to elect comrade Stalin as the General Secretary of the CC CPSU and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. > >STALIN – No! I am asking that you relieve me of the two posts! > >MALENKOV – coming to the tribune: Comrades! We should all unanimously ask comrade Stalin, our leader and our teacher, to be again the General Secretary of the CC CPSU. *** **Same attempt** (A. I. Mgeladze, *Stalin*. *Kakim ia ego znal. Strannitsy nedavnogo poshlogo.* p. 118): >At the first Plenum of the CC \[Central Committee\] of the CPSU \[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\] called after the XIX Congress of the Party (I had been elected member of the CC and took part in the work of this Plenum), Stalin really did present the question of General Secretary of the CC CPSU, or of the post of Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. He referred to his age, overwork, said that other cadres had cropped up and there were people to replace him, for example, N.I. Bulganin could be appointed as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, but the CC members did not grant his request, all insisted that comrade Stalin remain at both positions.

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    Is it accurate that China has a law restricting content to fictional people and places?

    I've heard this but can't really search for verification. Supposedly this law forces all Chinese videogames to be set in fantasy settings. Nothing in the real world. If this law exists I argue it should be removed. It's holding their industry back from making any culturally relevant content because nothing can be set in our world, about real lives, people or places. You'll never get a Death Stranding or Metal Gear out of China while it exists. They should untether their industry so it can produce more of cultural relevance. Can anyone verify?

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    Does anyone have IRA books/pamphlets recommendations?

    These have been posted on the site before but the search feature on Lemmy at the moment is dogshit. Searching for ira returns everything for "piracy" and "iraq" and so on. I would be able to find it if the search feature worked as it should but alas. I'm specifically looking for stuff detailing organisation, practices, and overall function. But everything is fair game please.

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    Invites for Valve's new game "Deadlock" here https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/72d1ac11-8ec3-44fc-9e9c-446416bf7c4e.png

    It's a shooter-moba. I have access and can invite. If anyone wants access, I will need to friend you on steam. You can post friendcode in comment or PM it, I don't mind. I will add people then send invite, they're not instant they get sent in waves. I have very mixed opinions on it. Edit: I need your friend code. NOT SteamID. Easy mistake to make. Editedit: If I missed you, poke me. Sometimes notifications are weird here. Editeditedit: Looks like some of these have started to go through!

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    Does anyone have the Pamphlets video edit of this song? Their channel is gone and I liked that version. https://youtu.be/8kGRnDIcwOg

    Title. Cheers. Their channel appears to be gone or I can't find it. EDIT: If it helps I think this is the dead link to the edit I'm looking for: <https://youtu.be/6EzcBNeoWh0>

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    chapotraphouse Awoo 2 months ago 97%
    Trump Buddha Statue by Chinese furniture maker Hong Jinshi

    ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/8e9e6e95-551a-49f6-8738-b66f2ead1501.png) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c9b57c47-e7f3-4e43-88aa-3a39b952894f.png) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6c263c29-abde-42f8-af47-41caf237e835.png)

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    anime Awoo 3 months ago 100%
    Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night was so good https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/024b1784-9c0f-4206-89ac-af9ec45eb30a.jpeg

    No flaws. 9/10 Maybe a little too subtle on the lgbt themes but I also kinda enjoy it in a "I can understand what that means!" kind of way that makes you feel clever. Could have developed more characters with 2 cours instead of 1. Should be compared to A Place Further than the Universe. I'd say Jellee's characters are slightly more mature and feel more real though. Loved it.

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    anime Awoo 3 months ago 100%
    Just edited [spoiler]'s wiki entry to be "male", now awaiting shitstorm

    Show is Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai - Jellyfish can't swim in the night Probably spoilers. Last warning. ::: spoiler spoiler Here: https://yorukura.fandom.com/wiki/Kiui_Watase I did this based on this scene from episode 11: https://streamable.com/oq226r [Comrade Kiui](https://hexbear.net/post/2585407?scrollToComments=false) is FtM. Not only that but his name "Watase" splits into "Wata" which means "crossing" or "ferry," often used in Japanese names to imply traversing a river or similar feature, hinting at transitions or change. While "se" meaning "rapids" or "change" is also another blatantly huge clue. I haven't worked out what Kiui might reference, it's written in Katakana and some think it's the Kiwi bird. I don't know if this is related or not, someone else might. ::: QED EDIT: Edit war has begun.

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    technology Awoo 3 months ago 98%
    What's the best torrent client these days?

    I haven't kept up with which ones turned to fuckery and which ones did not.

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    Look at this cool bird

    Japanese snow fairy

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    technology Awoo 4 months ago 100%
    Google AI is getting its recipes from reddit and telling people to eat glue www.404media.co

    ![agony-mescaline](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c2c86998-b98b-47de-8b1e-19bf83e1925d.gif "emoji agony-mescaline")

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    askchapo Awoo 4 months ago 100%
    Issues with replies?

    In the past few days I've had several replies that have not pinged a "unread" notification and do not show up in the unread page. They do show up in all on the inbox, but I never use that. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Is it a known issue to devs?

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMU
    mutual_aid Awoo 4 months ago 100%
    Not for me but a close personal friend of mine had their whole place burn to the ground...

    Alright so my friend's place burned to the ground, literally. The fire started in the flat above and spread. Everything is gone. I care about this person a lot and it's incredibly lucky that nobody was killed. Please support in any way you can. They're very good people, I obviously wouldn't ask otherwise. This person has been involved in projects I've been involved with for almost a decade now. https://www.gofundme.com/f/aiding-the-hildebrand-famil-post-devestating-fire I can probably get alternative options if desired. EDIT: I should add that they're not expecting to get a new place for "up to 19months" according to insurance. Literally anything big or small is incredibly useful, this is an entire family. $600 is more than I expected from here, genuinely really appreciated. It will absolutely help and be put to good use.

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    Good epics based on stories?

    Suggest stuff please ![antelope-popcorn](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/b516dce5-087b-422a-8cfc-d352097bde1a.gif "emoji antelope-popcorn")

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    news Awoo 5 months ago 100%
    China democratises all workplaces by signing law requiring a "Employee Assembly" as an organ of all companies www.taylorwessing.com

    EDIT: Apparently Yogthos posted this in a couple places but Sino only has 8k subs whereas this has 23k so I'll leave it here. ![xi-button](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3472894d-896e-490a-85e8-b0841d8c99b5.png "emoji xi-button") https://www.taylorwessing.com/en/insights-and-events/insights/2024/01/employees-participation-in-corporate-governance-under-the-revised-chinese-company-law I posted this in the news mega the other day but it deserves its own post. This law was signed in December but was apparently missed by most socialists. It goes into effect on July 1st. Some snippets and explanations: >Article 17(2) of the Revised Company Law now stipulates that the assembly of employee representatives shall be the basic form of the democratic corporate governance system and that this shall apply to all companies. That means, regardless of whether a company is private or state-owned, whether it is a limited liability or a stock corporation. This is a notable development, as democratic corporate governance as a requirement for all companies is set out in national law for the first time. A new organ is required in all companies called the Employee Assembly. It is democratic in nature. >An enterprise shall decide whether to convene an assembly of employee representatives or an assembly of all employees according to the Provisions on Democratic Governance of Enterprises, relevant local regulations, and subject to the number of its employees. In general, an enterprise with 100 or more employees shall convene an assembly of employee representatives; an enterprise with fewer than 100 employees should convene an assembly of all employees. An assembly of employee representatives (or an assembly of all employees, the “Employee Assembly”) is an organ for employees to exercise their power of democratic governance of the enterprise. It is made up of all employees in companies below 100 members, or representatives are elected in companies above 100 members. >The trade union of an enterprise is the executive organ of its Employee Assembly and is responsible for the daily work of the Employee Assembly. Cool >An Employee Assembly shall be convened at least once a year, and more than two-thirds of the employee representatives must be present at the plenary session of an Employee Assembly. Elections and votes on relevant matters at an Employee Assembly require a majority of all employee representatives. Very cool >an Employee Assembly shall usually exercise the following powers and functions: > >(I) Listening to the reports from the main persons responsible for the enterprise on the enterprise’s development planning, annual production and operation management, enterprise reform and formulation of major rules and regulations, employment issues, conclusion and implementation of labor contracts and collective contracts, production safety, and payment of social insurance premiums and housing provident funds; and making comments and suggestions thereon; > >(II) Deliberating the rules and regulations or major proposals formulated, amended or adopted by the enterprise which may directly affect the immediate interests of its employees, such as remuneration, working hours, rest and vacation, occupational safety and health, insurance and welfare, employee training, labor discipline, and the management of labor quotas; and making comments and suggestions thereon; > >(III) Deliberating and adopting the draft collective contracts, the plan for the use of the employees’ welfare fund drawn down in accordance with the relevant national regulations, the plan for adjusting the rate and timing of the payment of housing provident funds and social insurance premiums, the recommendation of candidates for model employees and other important matters; > >(IV) Electing or dismissing employee directors and employee supervisors, electing employee representatives to meetings of creditors and creditors’ committees of the enterprise subject to bankruptcy proceedings in accordance with the law, and recommending or electing management personnel of the enterprise as authorized; > >(V) Reviewing and monitoring the implementation of labor laws and regulations and labor rules by the enterprise, democratically evaluating the leaders of the enterprise, and making recommendations on rewards and punishments; and > >(VI) Such other powers and functions as may be provided by laws or regulations. Powers = Having access to all information of the company at every level, which is very important to worker benefits and ensuring labour law is being followed. Also the dismissing of directors, supervisors, managers, and electing representatives to meetings of creditors. In companies over 300 employees elected-members of the employee assembly must be elected to the board of directors. *** China has made all companies worker-controlled. I would show this article to anyone that claims otherwise. This is worker democracy. China is still a dictatorship of the proletariat. ![xi-button](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3472894d-896e-490a-85e8-b0841d8c99b5.png "emoji xi-button")

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    games Awoo 5 months ago 100%
    The libs have moved slowly on this topic, but it's happening..

    https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1cbkstf/may_the_terf_wizards_die_unmourned/ I argued here that the whole HP shit was worth it because it was going to imprint in the consciousness and brew beneath the surface. Libs see it as tainted and that shit isn't going away. There are real moral concerns bothering them deep down. The long term effect is good.

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    games Awoo 5 months ago 99%
    Helldivers devs really went with satirising the "UNPROVOKED INVASION" language around the Ukraine war

    I'm genuinely impressed with their balls. Libs probably won't notice it but they've done this both on twitter and in-game.

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