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  • Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans

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  • Let me just state the obvious: They fired her due to the current US administration. She got harassed in the first place because of the current US administration.

    Trump is effecting corporate decisions without even making in specific executive orders as well bolstering the common rightwing individual's boldness in harassing people.

  • Apparently a right-wing deacon said this

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  • Look, on many things, we probably agree. Maybe even more important things.

    And I don't even love this comic, its just, fine, its whatever.

    That said I upvoted this comic to spite you and your comment here, because I don't like your sentiment that people can't like and share things that they like because your hipster instinct kicked in.

  • Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

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  • I apologize for the late response, I only use this account during breaks/lunch at work and I couldn't help wanting to continue the conversation.

    Your response tells me you have a ways to go before decolonizing your mind. First you must acknowledge your inadvertent participation in the bullshit.

    I'm going to try some extra effort to internally translate what you probably mean and respond to that from both a personal and meta perspective starting with the personal if only to hear your thoughts on both and sate my curiosity:

    On a personal level: I'd be willing to listen to any counter arguments of any ideological belief I hold. I thrive on challenging my own and other's belief systems through discourse. Its a major reason why I spend time on Lemmy (and used to spend time on Reddit writing novelas in response to other novela sized posts). If one's argument is compelling enough, I will change my views (and have had my views changed in the past via this very method.)

    On a meta level: What I think would be unreasonable to expect of anyone is to tell them they must believe in anything in order to live somewhere outside of some very basic things. On a systemic level it would be authoritarian and draconian otherwise.

    That said, if I were to interpret your words here less charitably, it sounds like almost like you are asking people to repent for the sin of having been born and raised in the US regardless in order to take refuge by going through a re-education program or something.

    I keep seeing “don’t blame me” posts from USA folks who don’t want to take any responsibility for the society they live in… and they want to bring that attitude here!

    Individuals are not responsible for the society they are born in and are raised in, regardless of context. People don't even choose to be born in the first place, let alone where.

    As a Canadian I would not move to Bolivia, because our mining companies are neocolonial blights on their economy… unless I could be clearly employed mitigating that colonialism.

    Are you as a Canadian, directly responsible for the neocolonial blights in Bolivia because you are a Canadian citizen?

  • Almost as annoying as the windows evangelists

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  • The average “not a computer person” does not own a computer at all, they use their smartphone for literally everything

    Absolutely. If anything, this reinforces my thought towards many Linux evangelists. Hell, I am arguably a Linux Evangelist myself, but I know realistically the biggest group of people Linux has a shot at getting on board (that aren't already) are the "middle group". People who are semi-techy who insist on having and using a desktop but still want to be able to do things as easily right up front as they could with a new Windows OS. And this is the group many Linux users seem to aggressively despise for a lack of purity.

    This group in particular is made up of a lot of "casual enthusiasts" and PC gamers, which is probably why the Steam Deck represented such a huge bump in linux usage.

  • Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

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  • This is just anti-immigrant sentiment disguised as anti-colonization rhetoric.

    That said, I am curious about your thoughts. What if one thinks culture itself is just window dressing and don't care? People who identify as part of an in-group and hate the out-groups are insufferable, and being attached to a regional culture is just a form of that, cultivating hatred for the 'other'.

    Admittedly, I dislike the very region of the US I live in and think the culture here is a combination of intellectually vacuous, sexually puritanical/traditionalist, and generally boring nonsense. I view the individuals who attach themselves to my local culture as kind of pathetic. My feelings towards them somewhat mirror Emil Cioran's negative view of his own countrymen. I have no desire to spread this culture, I'd like to escape it: I'm functionally culture-less as one can be.

    I've just been chronically too broke to escape. The election has lowered the bar for what I'm willing to put up with in my escape, but unfortunately so have my resources been somewhat lowered, slowing me down.

  • Almost as annoying as the windows evangelists

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  • I use both Windows and Linux. I also mess around with github programs here and there and they almost all require use of a command line to install or manipulate. And because a command line intrinsically is going to inform you way too little or way too much about what you are doing I end up having way more technical issues because I don't realize I'm missing a dependency or I glazed over an error that popped up in a sea of text during installation.

    Linux's leaning on CLI is good for extremes: ultra-techy programmers and perfectionists and the exact opposite: people who just want internet and a word processor (who will install like basically nothing anyway so CLI wont bother them and probably keep them from breaking something in a GUI settings page).

    People in the middle who are semi-techy end up annoyed because if they want to do some middle of the road changes to their system they have to use a command line or even code something themselves. Instead of just using a search engine to find the 1 out of a billion different little windows based applications that already exist to do the small yet very specific thing to a "good enough" level. Which just requires a minute or two of internet research, clicking download, waiting a bit, then installing a thing. Some of those tasks you can do while doing something else.

    Or yes, maybe they end up needing to edit an ini file or a registry file (very rarely in the latter case).

    Basically I'm talking about tech users that always use the path of least resistance rather than the most advanced or custom. People who want to do 20% of the work to get 80% of the results.

  • Canadians overwhelmingly oppose becoming 51st U.S. state: poll

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  • Surprised its only 78% that oppose. What the hell are the 22% smoking?

  • Real

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  • Buy a Steam Deck.

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  • Man I don't exactly love two out of four of those genres myself, but this thread has a few commenters that seem to want to pretend they're the adults in the room but in reality they're just a bunch of miserable cunts that either hate music or only want to listen to the same fucking popular shit over and over.

    Like, popular music is fine to be clear but so is wanting to listen to weirder stuff.

  • Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Breakthrough: A Single Shot That Could Protect You From COVID, MERS, and the Common Cold

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  • Vaccines could theoretically be used to train the immune system to essentially attack cancer cells in much the same way we already use immunotherapy. Though as far as I understand it, we have yet to fully develope one.

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    Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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  • Dude, I can see your post history. You shouldn't be talking. All you do is whinge and moan.

    Also you're basically a reactionary walking along the border of just calling me a degenerate. So just do it.

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    Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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  • I think you are jumping the gun. I'm a soft anti-natalist (because people do not choose to be born), don't believe in free will, and I kind of resent being born myself and the expectations that come with it. I've not loved life much and one of the main reasons I've not killed myself is that I am terrified of dying now that I'm alive.

    By my own ethical analysis, I don't owe the world anything on an intrinsic level. I did not choose to be here and I've not forced anyone else into the world. Like sure, I'll help in a pretty conventional emotional/empathy sort of way for people around me in the present. And can empathize with kids in terms of feeling bad about how screwed they are though what with the state of the climate. Not my fault though.

    If I had brought a new human being into existence I'd probably be in a perpetual state of anxiety over the responsibility of giving them a good life since I'm the one that fucked up and brought them here. Luckily for me that's not happened and probably wont with my plans to get a vasectomy once I have the cash and a full vacation day or two for recovery.

    But yeah, fuck you. I guess we're just mortal enemies or some shit? Get your stick out of your ass. You aren't morally superior.

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    Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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  • I don't have any kids and I believe when I'm dead I wont be conscious of anything so I really struggle to care unless its something that can be done faster.

    That said, I kind of actually do think its physically doable within my lifetime, it would just require some technological advancement in automated construction and energy production.

  • Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF

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  • My understanding is the existing Jewish population was integrated into Israel.

  • Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF

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  • Do you think that they'd displace other Jewish people if they were living there already? I'm pretty sure its the religious fanaticism fueling this.

  • Pete Hegseth denies texting war plans to journalist

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  • I don't think we're ignoring that, so much as there is an overwhelming amount of bad shit to talk about stemming from this single incident.

    And to be honest the bigger issue revealed here isn't the failure to protect classified information or that they're bombing Yemen (In a vacuum at least) right now but the fact that they are violating the law also by using an app that destroys documentation of their conversations. This has implications not only legally or militaristically but also that they know they want to do shit that would be illegal and evil enough that they don't even want to use standard classified channels, not just bombing of Yemen but probably more future evil shit.

  • Trump gave ‘green light’ to Israel before Gaza bombing that left ‘400 dead,’ report says

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  • Was Einstein complicit when he fled? I intend to try and leave, or take refuge somehow.

  • Trump gave ‘green light’ to Israel before Gaza bombing that left ‘400 dead,’ report says

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  • Ask them what?

  • Trump gave ‘green light’ to Israel before Gaza bombing that left ‘400 dead,’ report says

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  • Individual people are not their government.