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bananon [he/him]

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  • Israel but for Trans People

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  • I have an story idea for a post-collapse USA with deseret as one of the regional states, not because the Mormons are powerful, but because we have so royally fucked over the ecology of the desert that it functions as a badlands, and the future mormons function as nomadic marauders.

  • U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars

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  • I tried answering to the best of my car knowledge

  • U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars

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  • The problem will come from sales tax and import duties when you try to register the car in your home state. In most states, you need proof that you've already paid the sales tax when you bought the vehicle (and import duties if the car is foreign), and if you haven't paid enough to match your home state's limit, you will pay additionally to match. This is why people from Alaska get so pissy when they move to the lower 48, because Alaska doesn't have a state sales tax for vehicles, and all of a sudden they're paying thousands of dollars just to register their car in fuckin Idaho.

    Technically what you're thinking about already exists on the southern border, plenty of people will buy Chinese cars in Mexico and then drive them up, and they're able to get around the blanket import bans that the US has. However, they then will still have to pay any outstanding sales tax, plus the insane import tax on Chinese vehicles, making the car more expensive. However, given how cheap the Chinese cars are produced, and the relative weakness of the Mexican Peso relative to the USD, it may still come out as a cheaper option, though I'm not well versed in the Mexican auto industry.

  • Bit idea: what if I was French?

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  • Is Hexbear still hosted in France? If so then in a way we are all French

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  • Perhaps the single most baffling thing to me in all of this is that these people coordinate their criminal sex crimes... over gmail on their smart phones.

  • bit idea: dedicating a couple years of my life to learning Chinese up to HSK 5 and then applying to go get a Master's in Marxism at Tsinghua University

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  • State of Mozilla (RIP)

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  • Ooo time for my Firefox rant.

    For months now my mobile Firefox has had a glitch where the enter button on web searches does not work. Sometimes it takes upwards of 10 seconds to process, sometimes it doesn’t process at all. But weirdly the suggested searches work perfectly, so I’ve been forced into the habit of clicking on those instead, much to my chagrin. This is just annoying enough to bother me, but not annoying enough to make me change browsers, because it’s also what I use for school and work and the desktop version doesn’t have this issue.

  • I am halfway across the world and yet still encounter American liberals

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  • They're presenting like...I don't know the word for this kind of modern men's fashion. It's when they've got skinny khakis, the pencil mustaches, slip on loafers without socks, and round glasses. Is there any even a word for this or are they just grad students

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  • Petite bourgeois decadence.

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  • Put that kid to work

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    Decent Free VPN?

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  • Believe me I know, Swiss banks even make you pay a fee to open an account it’s insane. But given the free restriction it’s the best one I’ve seen.

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    Decent Free VPN?

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  • I like ProtonVPN, it’s by ProtonMail so some opsec conscious people here might be more critical of it than others, but I’ve had a good experience with both services. The VPN has a free version that you can upgrade later, so there’s limited features, but importantly no ads or insane data tracking. For any normal web surfing, I find it more than enough.

  • Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, prime minister's office source says

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  • “Probably Thailand”

  • [cw sexual assault] Democrat House Oversight Committee releases 70 Epstein-related photos including Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky

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  • :manufactured-consent:

  • The Anti-Mamdani media blitz

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  • Orientalist forensics on how he eats dinner

    The looking down on eating food with your hands is so strange to me because it’s probably one of the most cross cultural aspects of eating. Do these people eat burgers with a knife and fork?

  • VP JD Vance says that Hasan Piker shocked his dog

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  • There’s a German movie called Look Who’s Back about Hitler time traveling to modern Germany and becoming popular again as a comedian. Ultimately the only thing that makes him lose some support is him shooting a dog.

  • Amazon systems are down nationwide

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  • Brb gonna go run crypto miners on the stoplights before they’re reinstalled

  • Amazon systems are down nationwide

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  • The Verge is reporting GLOBAL issues.

    I can confirm this, it's happening in Europe as well. Even the automated crossing walk lights were down in my city.

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  • First job I had out of college was part time at a local government office. They had a pretty good pension plan and would match me. After a year of working there my retirement fund has… 53 dollars lol

  • Trump continues to work miracles on the world stage. After 5 years of no connectivity, India and China to resume direct flights as early as next month.

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  • Lisan al Graib

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    bananon [he/him] @hexbear.net

    We should make theory copypastas for propaganda

  • politics @hexbear.net
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    Interesting post from a Chinese gamer on the recent video game ban