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carpoftruth [any, any]

@ carpoftruth @hexbear.net

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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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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 2nd to February 8th, 2026 - The European Satrapies Are Revolting

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  • Those retail investors were the ones driving up the price of gold due to their critical mass, not the central banks, not China and not industry.

    I'm not sure that's the case. The retail goldbug has existed for a long time, at least 20 years through the GFC. I'm sure they've piled on in larger volume, but there has also been a fair amount of central bank buying in the last few years, especially China and Poland.

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  • (CW: harassment, sexism) Men are recording women secretly with meta glasses

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  • they call short influencers minfluencers

  • Canadian province of British Columbia ends drug decriminalization for personal use

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  • Decriminalization isn't working because it isn't wedded to other forms of social support to help people quit? Better recriminalize everything and dehumanize users, that'll do it.

  • Mexican president Sheinbaum cancels oil shipment meant for Cuba

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  • Booo

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 26th to February 1st, 2026 - A Powerless Ukraine

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  • Naturalizing bamboo is like trying to tame a hurricane. The shit is too powerful in places where there are no pandas.

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  • What's the video? Please link when you refer to a specific article/video/whatever in the newscomm, or if not, post in other threads/subthreads about this. There are a few about this topic in the current thread.

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  • I agree that the top post of this subthread is not very high effort and I certainly encourage them and others to post harder/better/faster/longer.

    However, stricter moderation is not the path to get there.

    1 it is not sustainable for the mod team. It's easy to say "oh this is low effort, it should be removed", but the act of reading everyone's posts, evaluating whether they are high enough effort, seeing if any subthread responses are worth saving, deleting or banning as appropriate, and then eating a bunch of shit from whatever fraction of the community thinks the mod team chose wrong in the above judgements, is too much effort for a small group of volunteers.

    2 I think carrot is better than the stick here. That's why I started highlighting good effort posts in each weekly, and why we revised the code of conduct to encourage effort posting.

    We absolutely encourage and support anyone to do effort posts, and even without truly putting in effort, we encourage community members to look at their shitposts as a karmic debt, to be paid back with effort in the future. In my opinion, the best way to build this culture into the community is not through mod action, it's when community members set a good example.

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  • The newscomm has a policy to remove fake news, but this one is a real banger and there's some good comments in the subthread so I'll leave it up.

    Please do not take this as a policy change. However, for others who may choose to post fake news, please allow at least two months for the comm's fake news ability cooldown to reset and also make sure any future fake news posted is at least as outlandish as this story.

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  • The strong effort post what they can, the weak suffer what slop they must. DM me to feature effort posts and good threads in the newsmega/newscomm here (including your own).

    @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net and @QinShiHuangsShlong@hexbear.net on at the buzzer with corruption and contradictions in China. They continue this topic in this subthread this week.

    @MelianPretext@lemmygrad.ml on the message of Maduro's kidnapping to leaders in the Global South: "...that there are also no true consequences to breaches of [the taboo against the personalization of geopolitics] against them and their loved ones."

    @CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net on peace agreement/ceasefire between the SDF and STG in Syria

    @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net is one step closer to earning their Hexbear-Tom Clancy branded aviator sunglasses and ball cap this week, continuing their excellent logistical analyses of US materiel getting moved towards Iran in one post after another after another, and a bonus procedural on missile loadout sleuthing.

    Previous posts of the week:

    2025: Oct 27 | Nov 3 | Nov 10 | Nov 17 | Nov 24 | Dec 1 | Dec 8 | Dec 15 | Dec 22 | Dec 29

    2026: Jan 5 | Jan 12 | Jan 19

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 19th to January 25th, 2026 - Squaring the Arctic Circle

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  • This isn't stripping copper, this is doing buyouts of projects elsewhere. The US can print a lot of $1.6B injections.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 19th to January 25th, 2026 - Squaring the Arctic Circle

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  • Repeated use of unprovoked is how the corporate media signals that supporting the empire on this topic is non-negotiable

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  • Kallas in the audience, reading rigorous notes while nodding

  • Sorry, it's over. I've depicted you as an owljak.

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  • "just" an owl? bullshit, AOABeautiful

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  • in a recent newsmega someone asked if the US could catch up to China's rare earth capacity. the answer is no, the above story is why

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  • next sentence: and now I'm going to pledge another $30b towards ukraine so they can continue to fight against putinitler

    that's sarcasm, but per the complete speech:

    We’re doing something else: to help solve global problems, we’re pursuing variable geometry. In other words, different coalitions for different issues based on common values and interests. So on Ukraine, we’re a core member of the Coalition of the Willing and one of the largest per capita contributors to its defence and security.

  • Sunday was gaming day, what are you playing weekly thread

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  • I continue to enjoy rimworld. this time around I've got a vegan supremacist base going. everyone gets pretty upset when we have to kill bugs, but that's life on the rim for you

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  • here come the mods to black bag you, this account is going to hexbear guantanomo and will never be seen again.

    actually no, the complex history vietnam has with china and the US is something that regularly and repeatedly comes up in the newsmega, including basically every time someone posts a 'who do countries in SEA fear more, US or china' poll. vietnamese trust deficit of china compared to the US seems pretty bizarre to those who are familiar with the US invasion of vietnam and not the history of china's own fucking around in vietnam, but learning is what the newscomm is all about.

    I can tell you confidently that no one on the news comm mod team is purging accounts to protect the fantasy that modern vietnam runs on ho chi minh thought. you're picturing the mods as the illuminati when the mod team is actually more like a bunch of nerds who have volunteered to be janitors. in the future, I request that you raise concerns about the mod teams in a respectful way instead of buried 5 levels down in a subthread. this paranoid victim style is backdoor wrecker nonsense and is not productive.