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  • the public demands ANSWERS

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  • Yep, I've also gotten responses pretty reliably from professional artists, including those I'd assumed would be far too busy to answer (including the directors and writers of famous tv shows).

  • the public demands ANSWERS

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  • Are you looking for the Animal Smoothness Scale?

  • [US General Strike January 30th, 2026] How to call or report strike day to employer?

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  • I would like to join the single-day general strike that is being called for the US this Friday, January 30th

    What backing is there for this strike? For example, are there any labor unions, community organizations, and cultural leaders involved like in the recent Jan 23rd Minnesota strike? [Edit: the answer is a pleasant yes! https://nationalshutdown.org/home#endorsers ]

    Take a sick day regardless, unless you're going to use them all in the future, but if it's just a few social media posts saying "general strike now!", of which there have been hundreds of attempts over the past few years, without any institutional backing, then temper your expectations. Worker unions exist for us to organize us! So if it's a real strike you want, unionize, and push the union to act.

  • If everybody at ICE protests showed up with masks and a gun would there be more or less violence?

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  • It's worth acknowledging that superior firepower hasn't directly resulted in success for the US military. Guerilla armies like in Vietnam and in many countries in the Middle East such as Afghanistan have repelled US invasion, and wargame simulations (including US on US wargames!) have repeatedly shown this.

    Add into the mix that there was a serious degree of military revolt (complemented by homeland revolt) in the Vietnam War (and other later wars too). While this was largely boosted by it being a conscription army at the time, I still believe an internal US war would make the military similarly vulnerable to internal conflict, and even external sabotage by citizens.

  • If everybody at ICE protests showed up with masks and a gun would there be more or less violence?

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  • We saw ICE disarm and shoot a citizen who had a gun. A lesson from this is that a weapon is only threatening if we create an environment where it's a credible threat, like outnumbering them with armed citizens.

    Masks? I could go either way on this. Masks can be protective, and can also be seen as alienating from the community. That alienation is not some unchangeable truth, it's just a result of how they're perceived in our cultures (often associated with crime). For a counterexample, look at the Zapatistas who regularly wore masks to protect them from cartel and state violence:

  • Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse

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  • "Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse"

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  • We have always been allied with Eastasia.

  • [no fedposting] what are we doing here?

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  • The US has not started accomplishing that sentence yet. Maybe they’re on the B of build, if I’m being generous.

    With the compounding situation in places like Minneapolis and large peaceful demonstrations, I think there's a decent chance of the dress rehearsal coming. So we gotta do what we can to prepare for it.

  • [no fedposting] what are we doing here?

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  • ‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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  • veterans, such as myself a former Navy Nuke Instructor

    A bit off-topic, have you heard either of the Wake-ups episodes[1][2] from the Eyes Left podcast? And if so, do they resonate with your experiences in the force?

  • [no politics] You have been given the chance to make a short PSA broadcasted to your entire community, or region, or country. What problem will you fix?

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  • Stop throwing trash [...] because it ends up in the dirt thus the food.

    This reminds me that most of the anti-littering ads I've seen are more about shaming or about dying wildlife than about direct impact to all of us. This is an issue that could be simple to illustrate with a video PSA, following how littered trash contaminants find their way into our food chain and to our mouths. Makes it more personal and hopefully icky enough.

  • Man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown, National Guard activated

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  • Daggers in a select few hearts may be enough to shift things.

    If you're proposing what I think you are, it's sounds like something we tried in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Our lesson was that this tactic won't solve a systemic problem, at least in isolation. Action without a surrounding social movement is lost. Just ask Luigi - despite the widespread bipartisan approval of their action, there weren't many copycats nor long-term changes in our conditions. And, if you saw much of other Lemmy instances at the time of that event, you may have seen various people denouncing it as 'adventurism', despite how cathartic it was.

    So, many of the socialist organizations aim to develop the surrounding movement needed to cause systemic change.

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    no politics

    You have been given the chance to make a short PSA broadcasted to your entire community, or region, or country. What problem will you fix?

  • What do you think of loss32?

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  • I wonder if this has any practical benefits over running a Windows OS in a VM...

    edit: piping, or easier collaboration between, Win32 and Linux programs could be an example. The creator mentions creative and gaming applications.

  • What do you think of loss32?

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  • Win32/Hurd when?

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • I've willingly learned Calc (LibreOffice's open-source spreadsheet tool) because I've made spreadsheets for my own needs. But to "become employable"? No way.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Our cogs do not feel amplified.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • For an extra answer, GrapheneOS is based on stock Android, in contrast to the Linux-phone options they mentioned. Since it's only (officially) supported on Pixel phones and focuses on security and privacy more than other customization, it's actually the most stable and easy transition I've made, coming from an Android phone already. Installer is super easy compared to other phone OSs I've tried, you can do it by connecting the phone to a computer, opening https://grapheneos.org/install/web , and just pressing buttons to do all the normally-complicated steps. I was very impressed with that.

  • How do you discover new music while avoiding AI generated ones?

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  • It's much easier to find organic art in a community, outside the art industries.

    Sure, unless you set up a lot of subscriptions it won't just come on a consumption conveyor belt, and some people might want or expect that, but it's much better to be in a place where you're actually interacting with artists.

  • the pedophile billionaire ruling our country isnt acting in regular people's interest??? someone tell me how Russia is to blame

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  • i use adguard to block ads on most shit on my phone but reddit ads still show

    Ah, I didn't realize adguard doesn't cover those.

  • Messing around with Lxdm & oops.

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  • This post just gave me flashbacks to when I was trying to make a custom Plymouth boot logo on QubesOS and kept having to restore from backup after bricking.

    But hey, at least eye strain won't be an issue for your lxdm now

  • memes @hexbear.net
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    Two wrongs don't make a ri-

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Are there countries/territories where copyright law is truly unenforced?

  • Communism @lemmy.ml
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    What are some anti-socialist arguments you hear which were refuted a long time ago in a book or speech?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are some useful things to create with a typical 3D printer?

  • videos @hexbear.net
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    Finally, a good political Little Dark Age edit (Zootopia AMV)

  • bloomer @hexbear.net
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    "Positive Leftist News" video channel

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

  • music @hexbear.net
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    One Hour of Soviet Christmas Music

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    A friend likes the idea of a personalized "DNA artwork" but has privacy concerns. Any ideas for creating a unique marker artwork ourselves?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What power do citizens have to hold Mamdani, and other recently-elected social politicians in the US, accountable? What is needed to build such power?

  • badposting @hexbear.net
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    Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    How much do some mega-expensive things cost?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    ok, yes, sure, but, if they pull it off I'm still celebrating

  • Greentext @sh.itjust.works
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    Anon has concerns about America

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are you doing about it?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Relatable

  • Film, TV, and Media @lemmygrad.ml
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    Requesting /u/Anarcho-Bolshevik review two more South Park episodes:

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    The rise of progressivism led corporations to misappropriate progressive values and language. How did this manifest before?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    There was a post yesterday havin a giggle about low resource usage Linux setups, shout-out to LOW←TECH magazine's solar-powered site (running Armbian Stretch)

    solar.lowtechmagazine.com /about/the-solar-website/