happybadger

happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 4h ago

I would peel off the stickers immediately obviously. It would be themed after my dog's country and placed outside the door where he sits to track things he barks at. There's nothing cringe there.

happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 4h ago

paid administrative leave

We disapprove of your paedophilia, and to demonstrate that we wanted to give you lots of money and no work commitments to keep you tied to one place.

happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 14h ago

Random question:

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happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 24h ago

Come on Hexbear, can we come together and purchase one of these for my apartment because it looks cool?

happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

Maoist Purging of the Landlords Apology Form:

happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

They've built an entire gundam suit. Five North Koreas per arm and leg. Three as a torso and one big North Korea as the head. Another is a shoulder-mounted cluster missile pod. One has been stretched into a katana sharp enough to cut god in half.

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happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

Could those just be a civilian/surplus version? US rations are sold similarly on the civilian market and this seems to be the standard outer packaging for any of the PLA rations I can find online.

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happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

50 North Koreas, stacked on top of each other.

happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

I think it's blowback in the short and long term. The Saudis have been off-and-on hostile toward Iran for decades. It's been escalating with proxy wars, and then the Iranian support for their proxies is the basis for the aggressive expansionist narrative the west uses to make them a threat. MBS has also been cited as one of the people pushing Trump toward this current war.

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happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 3d ago

It's so disappointing to me that Steinbeck became more right-wing with time. This is the quote I use to sum up most of the elements of eco-Marxism whenever I make a presentation on it:

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 3d ago

I think there's this Ford Model T moment for ebikes where we'll see rapid mass adoption and induced demand for infrastructure. When you can buy a reliable ebike for 1/10th the cost of a reliable used car and that bike can provide a round trip to a city 100km away, it makes as much sense as choosing a car over a horse. For me that's $1000, where my current cargo ebike can travel around 80km for $1500 (upway price instead of manufacturer, which is $2000). If you can at least reach the next city and back without recharging, you can utilise mass transit options there which aren't available locally.

My bike's battery is around 250 Wh/kg, while BYD's prototype is rated at 350 Wh/kg in this article. That's a 40% gain of 32km for 112km of total range, without the fire risk/charge time/temperature limitations of a lithium ion battery. The only thing missing is the price point comparison. If they can incorporate these into a $2000 ebike I don't think it will make a real dent in adoption- that's 80% of a month's pay with my local minimum wage. If it's cheap enough to fit into a $1000 ebike, or that $2000 one has a dual-battery system to have range parity with current EVs, someone can justify that while paying rent. The socioecological feedback loop of mass adoption is already starting to play out locally and it's a beautiful thing to experience daily.

happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 4d ago

Honestly the fish miracle is a perfect example of how crypto can change the world. Jesus gave a man a fish and he ate for a day. If Jesus had instead given him a limited-run NFT of the same fish, its value would appreciate over time. The man could participate in the MiracleFish community or sell it to fund his own crypto projects and mog Christ.

happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 4d ago

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happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 4d ago

Doesn't matter. Cold storage wallets would allow the temple moneylenders to protect their digital assets against Jesus.

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happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 4d ago

do nothing

win

Operation Tankie Thunder was a success. Good job team. We did it.

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happybadger [he/him] @hexbear.net 4d ago

https://archive.is/v7513

Usually during the opening days of a conflict I keep an eye on military subreddits. So far, with 72 comments in that thread, I see one pro-war one (https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/1rgvv3w/comment/o7uf6pb/) which is sitting at -21 points and one positive reply versus three antizionist ones. Everyone else is having a similar response to comments I'd see on here. The Epstein Forever Wars, Iraq comparisons, "American geologists looking for oil" with US soldiers, war is a racket and why can't we build infrastructure instead, etc. Maybe the tone will shift over the near-future but currently commenters there are hostile to the war.

https://archive.is/wip/ecP6r

This thread covering the 5th Fleet HQ strike in Bahrain on /r/Navy is the most biased thread I could think of. Right now (12:00 UTC) that's the only specific airstrike against the west that's getting significant media coverage. There are a few more pro-war comments, but the sentiment so far with 99 comments leans anti-war. Some commenters are concerned for people they know on the bases, some are casually breaking OPSEC without mods cracking down yet (fun mission: archive all the military subreddit threads this morning and maybe you'll get some troops arrested), some are debating the strength of Iran's military, and the sentiment is openly anti-Trump.