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carpoftruth [any, any]

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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

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    Check out this pecan pie i made | Trans Megathread for the Week 2025-12-01 to 2025-12-07

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  • damn that's a good looking pie. bake 'em away, toys

  • Grifter sells gullible techbros cordless landlines, makes $120K in 3 days

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  • amazing

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 1st to December 7th, 2025 - LIBRE vs Fascism - COTW: Honduras

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  • Yes I agree, military stuff is pretty important in geopolitics but the nerds that get into the weeds are mostly right wing. I'm not aware of any leftists who regularly discuss this kind of thing with regularity outside of hexbear. radio war nerd sometimes but they seem more left amenable than anything.

    Anyway, I wanted to know who amerikanets is because 1) I'd like to know if they are reliable in the first place and 2) I'd like to know if this is a source that could be shared with pro-NATO libs in my life without giving them a tummy ache. the name amerikanets suggested no, and if they're also in the same part of the infosphere as RWA then I think no, regardless of how accurate anything they say is.

    I fully support discussion of this kind of thing on the comm, but I'd rather that 'posts of the week' focus on content generated by the community rather than turn into 'good articles of the week'.

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  • Do you know who the author of Amerikanets is or their background?

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  • With limited but generally positive feedback, my takeaway from this so far is that the newscomm should more or less stay the course. Please provide any other feedback by the start of next week's newsmega. From there I will incorporate any feedback in a draft revised sidebar text that will be shared here before finalization.

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  • Noted, I'll read it first and add it later today.

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  • in a shocking display of historical revisionism, this subthread has been downgraded from the posts of the week and is now for discussing explicitly leftist military analysis in the anglosphere or lack thereof.

    really, all the discussion under this thread would have stuck with the top of the thread sticky and would have cluttered the thread the rest of the week.

  • "After Baldur's Gate 3, I didn't think we'd be in this position": The team behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 can't quite believe they've matched Larian's award wins

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  • oh right it's

    jaheira

    that makes a comeback in bg3

  • "After Baldur's Gate 3, I didn't think we'd be in this position": The team behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 can't quite believe they've matched Larian's award wins

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  • oh that's right too. did she do voice acting for dynaheir in bg3 too?

  • Material conditions x vibes: theory lite for noobs

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  • his hell's angels book is worth reading, as is the great shark hunt as well. in the HA one he rides with a gang for a while before getting stomped and bailing. the great shark hunt is a series of long form articles about the Caribbean and Latin America. the titular story is about his coverage of a big fishing competition and is as close to fear and loathing in las vegas as anything else he's written

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  • 1.6 is noticeable to me, yes. I have a pretty mid PC so it makes a difference in decade+ colonies, though I can't quantify it. I play with about 100 mods fwiw. And yes, oddysey is great, definitely the best DLC of the bunch.

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  • Try escape from duckov. I've heard good things.

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  • I had a 16-17 year old colony that is started just after oddysey came out. It was pretty sweet, with a big boxy porcupine of a gravship housing a couple royal vampires. Eventually I made a home base castle to go along with it too. Now I'm waiting for more of the vanilla expanded gravship mods to come out to play more.

    Meanwhile, I've been playing monster train 2 a fair amount. It's a good one. The art and overall aesthetic are pretty goofy but the underlying game is solid. Underlegion and Lazarus are my favourites, but I still haven't cracked covenant 10.

    I'll probably finish off the Hades 2 revised ending over holidays. I finished it already on the release version but the revised ending is good so far.

    If we get some good snow I'll check out frost punk, but that game seems wrong to play if it's warm out.

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  • you might get something out of hunter s thompsons writings. the feeling of change being in the air is something that comes up in his books, particularly fear & loathing in las vegas and fear & loathing on the campaign trail of 72. he was a pretty politically aware and astute man (see his prophetic take in his sports column on september 12th, 2001). he never invoked marx in his writing and I don't know what his awareness of theory really was, but he was generally on the right side of history

  • "After Baldur's Gate 3, I didn't think we'd be in this position": The team behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 can't quite believe they've matched Larian's award wins

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  • voice actors named jennifer are generally good. jennifer hale was the iconic femshep from mass effect. she was also Bastila from KOTOR and fall from grace in planescape: torment

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  • in a shocking display of mod tyranny, I had marked that one myself already, but it's an honor to be nominated

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  • Yep and I don't see that changing, insane real estate market notwithstanding.

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  • Yep, the statement that First Nations don't have a veto is common and generally true. This is an exception, though as this story illustrates, actually executing a veto is fraught.

    indeed, but this isn't a uniquely Canadian issue. I'm not aware of any state where Indigenous communities actually have a veto over large scale development. Usually it is a question of having more or less input on risk mitigations/governance and deriving more or less economic benefit.

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  • In Canadian Indigenous news, here is a story about the relationship between the Tahltan Central Government (TCG) and Skeena resources, owners of the Eskay Creek mining project, which is on Tahltan land in northern BC. This article is not written with a Marxist lense, but it is not hard to see the material forces at work. I encourage reading the whole thing.

    As Canada's role in the future world economy is likely to be driven by the resource sector, I believe these issues are worth understanding for news heads. This is where the rubber meets the road with respect to the political economy of Indigenous decision making. Canada is by far the most obvious location for friendshoring to serve American resource needs, and the vast majority of the Canadian resource sector falls under Indigenous consultation obligations.

    Questions are being raised inside a B.C. First Nation after $10,000 was offered to each member ahead of a crucial vote on the future of a major gold mine.

    Unlike other mines, Eskay Creek is subject to Canada’s first ever consent-based decision-making agreement with a First Nation. Signed in 2022 between the province and the Tahltan Central Government, the agreement explicitly states the project cannot proceed without the nation’s free, prior and informed consent.

    The nation's leadership stoked some members’ concerns even further when, on Nov. 20, it said it had negotiated a $40-million “upfront payment” that would be distributed in $10,000 payments to eligible individuals.

    The article goes on to describe different financial and ownership relationships between parties as well as potential conflict of interest.

    TCG has a lot of capacity compared to most First Nations governments in BC and are located in a highly desirable area for resource extraction, colloquially known as the Golden Triangle. TCG has a strong track record of negotiating agreements with resource extraction companies and the province which give them an unprecedented amount of say in project development, and implementing UNDRIP.

    Nisga'a Lisims Government, home of the first modern BC treaty from 2000 (The Nisga'a Final Agreement) and benefactor/partner in the Ksi Lisims gas terminal project is also in the same general area. See my previous post on Ksi Lisims from a few months ago.

    One of the key constraints to understand is the size of First Nations governments relative to the economic size of the projects in question. TCG is about 3000 people and Eskay alone is a several billion dollar project, which is one of several major mines in the territory, with more in development. The possibility for regulatory capture increases in these circumstances. It's the regulatory equivalent of the old joke that if you owe the someone a thousand dollars you've got a problem, if you owe someone a million dollars, they've got a problem. This issue is common to anytime a large industry player comes to a small jurisdiction (think of the sway Walmart has in a small town).

    There are also limits to what specialized technical expertise exists in a community of 3000. There is tremendous traditional knowledge in First Nations communities, but this experience does not extend to the detailed design and operation of large open pit mines, tailings dams, pipelines, or shipping terminals. It's easy to dunk on technocracy, but the reality is that if a community decision is made to support resource development in a Nation's territory and to use the economic activity associated to support the Nation's community, then there is need for people with a high degree of training to understand, regulate, and make decisions related to these complex resource projects. That kind of person ideally comes from the community itself, but there is a limited local workforce to draw from, especially Indigenous communities that have suffered from genocide, residential schools, poverty etc. in living memory.

    The Canadian legal system including the Indian Act is structured to support assimilation. It does so more softly than it did 100 years ago and there is less focus on cultural assimilation, but incentives for economic assimilation are just as strong as ever in a country founded to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.