World News
[news] War on Gaza: Palestinians face 'deliberate starvation' by Israel, says UN expert
macabrett 3 days ago • 100%
How is this [unverified claim] true if [verified claim] is also true? I am very smart.
chapotraphouse
c/MurderedByJillStein
macabrett 5 days ago • 100%
Why waste so much time attacking someone who you think doesn't have any power? This is the second time I've seen AOC going after Jill Stein this month. Kinda pathetic.
chatmacabrett 5 days ago • 100%
agreed, I love this place
Asklemmymacabrett 1 week ago • 100%
Put whatever you want on a pizza, its a good delivery mechanism
I'm not a big hot sauce ON pizza kinda guy, but I dip the crust in something like secret aardvark. Buffalo chicken pizza is pretty popular and that's basically a hot sauce pizza.
movies
Looks like we are seeing Fumble of the decade nerds: Sony reportedly scrapped most of the work that was finished on ‘SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE’ due to creative reasons.
macabrett 1 week ago • 100%
the people love to see capitalists get wrecked by blue cat people and whales, thats how (thats not actually how)
movies
Looks like we are seeing Fumble of the decade nerds: Sony reportedly scrapped most of the work that was finished on ‘SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE’ due to creative reasons.
macabrett 1 week ago • 100%
I still haven't watched Across the Spider-Verse because everyone said it ended on a huge cliffhanger and I decided I'd just wait until it was finished lol
chapotraphouse
People can subconsciously detect the lack of a soul
macabrett 1 week ago • 100%
I could tell because you've pulled out your phone to show me old pictures of animals with dumb text on them that you found on reddit
science
The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent: 'It’s not magic, but it’s still very powerful.'
macabrett 2 weeks ago • 100%
It doesn't work on humans because of that whole treaty with the romulans about stealth tech
chapotraphouse
I am a follower and admirer of Noam Chomsky
macabrett 2 weeks ago • 100%
It's not a feud, it's just two writers/lecturers and one is a socialist while the other is not.
askchapo
I wholeheartedly believe the ClA/NSA can hack into a smartphone and give its user cancer by emitting high radiation. This is based purely off vibes. Can any actual engineers chime in on this?
macabrett 2 weeks ago • 100%
why would they have to do that when everything about capitalism is already giving you cancer including the mass production of plastics, all of the food you eat, the train derailments, the underground garbage fires that are slowly heading towards piles of nuclear waste, the pollution, and the stress of needing a meaningless job to survive.
chapotraphouse
It's going to suck in 10 years when Gen Alpha start getting nostalgic for mobile games
macabrett 2 weeks ago • 100%
Is gen z not already doing this dance with subway surfer? It's through memes, but its always gonna be through memes.
macabrett 2 weeks ago • 100%
It was the best thing that could have happened to me
macabrett 2 weeks ago • 100%
I stopped playing online games after a group of children in Overwatch told me and my friends to go back to work and stop playing games because we were too old
I didn't have the skill to retort and now I'm 6 years sober from competitive games
a real success story
that was skill based matchmaking and they were wildly better at insulting and demoralizing their enemy (aka me their teammate) so I reject the notion that sbmm works
games
This game designed for masochists should be made easier for me, because I allowed peer pressure to make me waste my time on a game I don’t like and I want to fit in instead of playing a game I like
macabrett 2 weeks ago • 100%
huh?
macabrett 3 weeks ago • 84%
This is an indictment, not something to be proud of
chapotraphouse
Deeply embarrassed a liberal beat us to Isra-hell
macabrett 3 weeks ago • 100%
goddamnit the good version is harry potter isn't it?
covid
Janitor is uncomfortable spreading covid. Infection control nurse: Covid is barely spread via airborne transmission and wearing an n95 is basically futile without a Fit Test™. Just wash your hands!
macabrett 4 weeks ago • 100%
I go to a rheumatologist regularly that's in a hospital building that is MOSTLY rehumatology and cancer patients. Ya know, some of the most immunocompromised people out there.
There's one nurse that still wears a mask. She has a bunch of literature about mask wearing, its importance, and how it not only protects you but others.
Every other nurse looks at me weird for still masking. I already didn't trust the medical system due to how shitty I was treated while trying to get diagnosed with anything, but congratulations to the nurses for making it worse!
chapotraphouse
Preaching to the choir here, but Copmala is going to be a disaster for the left.
macabrett 4 weeks ago • 100%
true, its his turn! Joe deserves his shot at the presidency after serving as vice president the past 16 years!!!
chapotraphouse
Preaching to the choir here, but Copmala is going to be a disaster for the left.
macabrett 4 weeks ago • 100%
Electorlism is an addiction and should not be taken lightly. Vote for me and we'll have a Vote Exchange on every corner, so you can safely inject the votes directly into your veins without fear of illness.
chapotraphouse
Preaching to the choir here, but Copmala is going to be a disaster for the left.
macabrett 4 weeks ago • 100%
I don't know what you're talking about. I've been listening to the Democrats lately and it's clear to me that Trump has been in power for the past 4 years. We gotta vote blue to get him out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chapotraphouse
Anyone watch The Man in the High Castle
macabrett 4 weeks ago • 100%
Here's how the Axis Powers can win WWII and occupy America:
::: spoiler Star Trek Enterprise Spoilers Time traveling aliens can appear with the intention of using the Nazis in order to build a device that will allow them to return home (or something I don't remember what they were doing) :::
games
Back at it again with another top 3 hexbear favorites: this time your favorite top 3 mmorpgs.
macabrett 4 weeks ago • 100%
- Guild Wars
- Guild Wars 2
- Guild Wars Nightfall
main
Hexbear! You went to sleep last night and woke up to see that you ended up in the last videogame you played! How's life now?
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
He's off being less charming than my boy Laios Touden Van Arkride.
main
Hexbear! You went to sleep last night and woke up to see that you ended up in the last videogame you played! How's life now?
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
Yeah, I'm playing Trails Through Daybreak. I guess it's not the latest, but it is the latest to be translated to English. I kinda skipped Reverie, but I'll go back eventually. I just wanted to be beyond Rean after all four Cold Steel games lol.
main
Hexbear! You went to sleep last night and woke up to see that you ended up in the last videogame you played! How's life now?
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
Ya know what, you might be joking or you might not, but its a good point. I spoilered it.
youtu.be
Bad Moves has a new record coming out soon, I'm pumped. DC Power Pop that includes David Combs aka Spoonboy of The Max Levine Ensemble.
covid
Infections are above one million a day in the U.S.; 1/33 of the country currently has COVID
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
Nice, I'm glad you got it in. From studies, 2 weeks is right around the absolute peak of your protection. Good luck!
main
Hexbear! You went to sleep last night and woke up to see that you ended up in the last videogame you played! How's life now?
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
I'm apparently in the Trails universe at a point in time ::: spoiler spoiler where they're about to invent nukes ? ::: I gotta stop this
covid
Infections are above one million a day in the U.S.; 1/33 of the country currently has COVID
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
They haven't released the new boosters yet, so you'll be getting one based on an old strain no matter what. The most important thing is that you get a booster like today if you want to have protection, peak protection isn't immediate.
Introductions
Howdy, I'm UlyssesT. I've been away for a while.
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
Welcome back!
news
Germany issues arrest warrant for 'Ukrainian diver who played part in Nord Stream explosions'
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
"The ukrainian diver is russian" is the most dominant theory on Reddit and I'm not joking
never forget the boston marathon bombing and the geniuses over on that site
chapotraphouse
(CW: slop) If there's one franchise that just needs to stop, it's Ghostbusters
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
Covenant was so much worse than Prometheus. Prometheus still had some scenes where it was like "alright, hell yeah this is wild" but I can't think of a single memorable thing from Covenant other than David playing flute with himself.
chapotraphouse
(CW: slop) If there's one franchise that just needs to stop, it's Ghostbusters
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
I love those first two movies (and still enjoy the third one) and I'm getting psychological damage every time they put out a new one.
I'm kinda interested in Alien Romulus because it seems like Ridley Scott is completely uninvolved? Kinda just looks like a horror movie on a space ship? idk I'll probably be let down again
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
I swear this is the first riff every new guitar player learns (I learned it and I had never even heard the song until that moment)
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
I'm not the biggest fan of their music, but they did shape a lot of what bands/albums/music would be and I think that's worth some rating.
chapotraphouse
Hexbear has been around for FOUR YEARS!!!
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
when's the chapo.chat anniversary vs the naming it hexbear anniversary?
chapotraphouse
Hexbear has been around for FOUR YEARS!!!
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
that struggle session was something
chapotraphouse
When did we start saying ”profile picture” instead of ”avatar”
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
Believe me, I was not being ironic
chapotraphouse
When did we start saying ”profile picture” instead of ”avatar”
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
retvrn to phpbb
macabrett 1 month ago • 93%
They REALLY don’t want you voting for Biden
Don't worry about all these people bud. I'm doing my part and voting for Biden this November.
chapotraphouse
I'm 100% sure that there is some sort of Zionist Anti Muslim propaganda campaign going on
macabrett 1 month ago • 100%
Yeah the reddit atheist movement has always been Islamaphobic, but I saw a post today about someone who feared Muslims coming to Europe. Deranged levels of bigotry out in the open. Highly upvoted and in full agreement. It may or may not have been astroturfed, but that sentiment is certainly being promoted and spread via astroturfing.
store.steampowered.com
I played the demo and it was a lot of fun, definitely going to check it out later.
daily.bandcamp.com
Some good music from Minneapolis
news.scihb.com
> When 24 patients who had recovered from COVID-19 had their whole bodies scanned by a PET (positron emission tomography) imaging test, their insides lit up like Christmas trees. > A radioactive drug called a tracer revealed abnormal T cell activity in the brain stem, spinal cord, bone marrow, nose, throat, some lymph nodes, heart and lung tissue, and the wall of the gut, compared to whole-body scans from before the pandemic. > This widespread effect was apparent in the 18 participants with long COVID symptoms and the six participants who had fully recovered from the acute phase of COVID-19. Add it to the pile of evidence
> O'Donnell: We would invite the President to come here and tell us > Reporter: If he’s awake > O'Donnell: That’s inappropriate this week has been a comedy goldmine
daily.bandcamp.com
Is this a kind of post that interests anyone? Bandcamp's editorial staff has introduced me to a ton of really cool music from scenes I've never been exposed to, so I thought I'd spread em around.
youtu.be
```txt It's not the killing that's inherently wrong It's that they're killing all the wrong people I keep cross-checking the names on my list Why are they killing all the wrong people? ```
Saw this screenshot going around and had to dig around to find the original source, which was hard because it's in Hebrew and I don't know Hebrew. I found it with translation tools: https://www.mako.co.il/news-military/2024_q2/Article-dce77e424313091026.htm https://archive.is/lza9y
www.youtube.com
okay which one of you is the primary songwriter in Mosin Nagant? here's a monologue near the end of the song: > I keep hearing these fucking idiots talking about these stupid fucking headlines, "Oh my god did you hear that Kim Jong Un fed his general to a pack of dogs? And then he fed his other general to a tank full of sharks." Jesus christ are you fucking stupid? Like, how do you believe this shit? And then there's all these youtube documentaries that go into how "brainwashed" the North Korean public is and how they believe that the Kim family descended from kings who rode unicorns and they just cite this bullshit, mistranslated press release from like, 8 years ago. It's insane. And don't even get me started on these North Korean defectors that get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars and hop on Joe Rogan and be like, "oh my god North Korean people are so poor and their infrastructure is so terrible they have to get behind the train car and push it to get to work in the morning." "In my village we only had one chopstick we all had to share and we called it The Chopstick, because it was the only chopstick." SUCK MY DICK. That's insane. FUCK YOU. Jesus.
for bonus check out this awful URL from the nypost about it: https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/us-news/hochul-open-to-ny-mask-bans-return-amid-rise-in-antisemitic-protests/
Original article if you love paywalls: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/health/long-covid-symptoms-recovery.html > “Long Covid can impact people across the life span, from children to older adults, as well as across sex, gender, racial, ethnic and other demographic groups,” it said, concluding that “long Covid is associated with a wide range of new or worsening health conditions and encompasses more than 200 symptoms involving nearly every organ system.” > The report cited data from 2022 suggesting that nearly 18 million adults and nearly a million children in the United States have had long Covid at some point. At the time of that survey, about 8.9 million adults and 362,000 children had the condition. > Surveys showed that the prevalence of long Covid decreased in 2023 but, for unclear reasons, has risen this year. As of January, data showed nearly 7 percent of adults in the United States had long Covid. > “Long Covid can result in the inability to return to work (or school for children and adolescents), poor quality of life, diminished ability to perform activities of daily living, and decreased physical and cognitive function for six months to two years or longer,” the report said. > But, the report said, “even individuals with a mild initial course of illness can develop long Covid with severe health effects.” And “given the much higher number of people with mild versus severe disease, they make up the great majority of people with long Covid.” > “Long Covid appears to be a chronic illness, with few patients achieving full remission,” the report said. I love living through a mass disabling event as a disabled person who feels like they wouldn't be able to function if they got a new condition on top of the current ones! /s
Original article if for some reason you like paywalls: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/06/covid-cancer-increase-link/ > It was 2021, a year into the coronavirus pandemic, and as he slid into a chair, Patel shared that he’d just seen a patient in his 40s with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and lethal cancer of the bile ducts that typically strikes people in their 70s and 80s. Initially, there was silence, and then one colleague after another said they’d recently treated patients who had similar diagnoses. Within a year of that meeting, the office had recorded seven such cases. > “We are completely under-investigating this virus,” said Douglas C. Wallace, a University of Pennsylvania geneticist and evolutionary biologist. “The effects of repeatedly getting this throughout our lives is going to be much more significant than people are thinking.” > “Covid wrecks the body, and that’s where cancers can start,” Tuveson said, explaining how autopsy studies of people who died of covid-19 showed prematurely aged tissue.
soundcloud.com
If you're immunocompromised, you should listen to this and know there are people out there who care about you and aren't heartless ghouls like the author of the NPR piece. If you aren't immunocompromised, you should listen to this because there are a lot of really good perspectives from the hosts that will help you be a better comrade.
youtu.be
marxism is cool ```txt Slept on a death bed of nails Sipping on Molotov cocktails Cock out Screaming Fuck the world Cops tripling up the Body count Automatic weapon in the mouth of a beast Celebrities singing about peace Im singing about physical blood that we bleed Armored vehicle ATV They just wanna yell about the kids being PC Pepe the frog Drawn on a machine gun Don’t nobody wanna admit the Dreams done Martin Luther king Was Martyred for the sin of Believing in humans Even those that hated him Pigs couldn’t watch him win Truth is he would even forgive them Sold as a saint Head on a plate Holiday & Street name Face On a stamp By the same state & clan That planned an attack Many years back Never let him live To see everything he did It seems We’ve been fucked too long like Sting Seen bright eyes turn green This could be the first day of our lives i think probably gonna ruin it quick It seems We’ve been fucked too long like Sting Seen bright eyes turn green This could be the first day of our life i think Probably gonna ruin it quick Open an Umbrella to protect from the tear gas Tears still roll down fast Every time we see another innocent killed People cry over broken glass Open an Umbrella to protect from the tear gas Tears still roll down fast Every time we see another innocent killed People cry and forget fast Every time we see another innocent killed People cry and forget fast We’re so famous No one’s even working Selfie flashing won’t shut up or Focus On a bigger picture All is jokes And temporary goals And It feels hopeless Never had their Macro lenses open So reaction trumps it all I notice Scream at each other While the boss in the back Counts racks & bones of those who died from covid Marx had Called it long ago Monopoly capital grows too large to control Neo-liberal Saviors try to ease it But will never make a vaccine For Corporate Diseases Please Feel free to disagree But we see history repeats Consistently Fisticuffs came and went The system Ripped us up And left the left For dead bodies and brains And creativity Drained For the profit and gain Of a slave master Paying the minimum wage Natural disaster, Cancer, Get the fuck out of my face I don’t got an answer But they’re acting Like it’s a privilege To sit and speak In this country That wouldn’t even flinch or weep For innocent teens Shot In city streets By these obscene cowardly police Dancing and celebration can be the physical manifestation of a scream Burning down a police station may be the physical manifestation of a scream ```
youtu.be
```txt oh, rise the proletariat red banners unfurled let’s mend the failures of history and the manmade world let’s mend the failures of the profit system let’s rewrite the law books quit following the path of least resistance cuz that’s what makes the river crooked ```
From a CBS news reporter, recieved via email https://tinalexander.github.io/notes/2024/05#cdc-spokesperson-on-end-of-the-bridge-access-program
youtu.be
```txt This complication of job culture We condone its ingrained course Why we hold so dearly this raping By the fossilized ethic of pride through work We carry the concrete on our backs The worn out basis of capitalist grief We struggle through days of poverty line pay & laborers pain Caustic reminder of lost days We struggle, at war with good wealth Turning our minds in constant turmoil The world seems closed & conceit infects Can't channel the anger & nothing resets except the days Look to vacate, but duty condescends the freedom to act Paycheck insults A wage for a dog Driven by industry & the collapse of thought The clocks & alarms can't awaken the fog Extermination through labor is all you can afford Only satisfied by the familiar We prepare the death costs unquestioningly We retire in 5 & die in 10 Lie, buy, rape, sty An exercise in futile strife ```
https://twitter.com/wsbgnl/status/1776748045977489508/photo/1 Thanks @sovietknuckles@hexbear.net for an explanation of how to get to the data: [Direct link](https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiMDQwODFjZWMtNzM0ZS00MDFmLTkyOWYtZDhlYTFhZTdkNDc1IiwidCI6IjljZTcwODY5LTYwZGItNDRmZC1hYmU4LWQyNzY3MDc3ZmM4ZiJ9&pageName=ReportSection0cb4e9ac52aa7dc2ec39) (from https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/resp-net/dashboard.html) To get the same visualization in the screenshot: - Change *Weely Rates* to *Cumulative Rates* - Change season to *Select all* - Change pathogen to *Combined* only
www.thegauntlet.news
> Most of all, no one relishes watching their loved ones react with annoyance and anger rather than solidarity and empathy as they attempt to survive a new normal designed to infect them. It is painful beyond imagination that so many- even close loved ones- are perfectly happy to cosplay normal even if that normal involves vulnerable groups’ long-term exclusion from public spaces. It is grief on top of injustice on top of dangerous physical harm.
time.com
This one is unfortunately an exception to the whole "Betteridge's law of headlines" thing
youtu.be
THE DAY I ROB A BANK'S THE FIRST DAY I'M NOT LYING TO YOU OR ME ABOUT WHAT I BELIEVE