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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

  • Today, as the Cartel attacks Mexico, it's worth remembering that a DEA agent and a CIA agent were arrested in December for a $12 million money laundering and arms dealing operation for the cartel.

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  • I should finish reading The Fort Bragg Cartel

    Seems relevant.

  • Contingency Folder

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  • I don't think the politics of the porn can actually address the root problem, which is that we're seen as inherently pornographic. It's probably less bad for the porn to have good politics, but I don't know if that's actually the best solution to the problem. We need a lot more non-pornographic representation, but we probably also need less pornographic representation along with it.

    The politics of the porn might even be irrelevant to the problem, because the problem is that our existence is X-rated. Whether the porn has good or bad politics won't actually change whether or not they believe we need to be kept away from children.

  • ["On land slave ship" news] Proposed ICE concentration camp "mega-center" in Georgia designed to house 7,500 to 10,000 people.

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  • That won't work until the next census, right? I don't think representatives are allocated based on a live running tally of the population.

  • Dice Time Out

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  • Need a mock execution set of my dice to remind them of their place.

  • Contingency Folder

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  • The right-wing wants to ban us from public life because they believe a woman having a penis is inherently pornographic, because that's literally their only exposure to us. It's not just about the euphemism treadmill, the way porn portrays us is actively making our lives worse. We're overly sexualized to the point that they believe they need to protect their children from us. It is dehumanizing.

    Porn doesn't have to be this way, but to fix it there would need to be a total transformation of the entire industry and media landscape. It's a serious problem and no one wants to confront it, because they like their porn and don't want to give anything up.

  • I think Lemmy in general is very against AI. I'm rather new here, is it like a fediverse group thing or is this even based on reality?

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  • I'm against the LLM bubble. They're gobbling up all of our compute, electricity, water, and basically all investment capital while not even generating productivity gains or improving anyone's lives. Internet search is now dead, all my fan communities are just full of slop instead of art from artists, and the piggies that own the data centers are destroying all culture to feed their autocomplete machines. LLMs have accelerated the decay of civilization in a way that we might struggle to recover from when the bubble pops. Half the time it's not even AI, the real work is just outsourced to some superexploited workers in the Global South.

    There are some legitimate use-cases for LLM technology, but the way they're trying to cram it into everything is actually just wrecking everything. It seems like they're destroying the world for a worse calculator that can pretend to be your girlfriend.

  • Mexico kills Nemesio Oseguera, ‘El Mencho,’ the world’s most wanted drug lord

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  • They have a fundamentally comprador character too, because the CIA/state department/special operations cohort uses them for plausible deniability and to launder money. You could say the function of the so-called "war on drugs" and this new focus on "narco-terrorism" only exist to create cartels and mafiosos, who can then be used to further imperial ambitions.

  • Beans and brew on a first date is always a good idea

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  • I suspect between the tomatoes and the vinegar and the citrus it's more acidic, which hits some tummies different.

    Although the only pepper to ever really hurt my tummy was bhut jolokia. It's just so sweet and delicious!

  • What's he writing?

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  • "I, Charlie Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."

  • Beans and brew on a first date is always a good idea

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  • You just aren't eating enough chilies and beans. Once you eat as many as I do your body just gets used to it.

    If my date isn't used to eating a diet that consists mostly of chilies and beans it probably isn't going to work out. 😔

  • Going back to the same bar from Friday I need Karaoke suggestions.

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  • I'd just do anything from the Vice City soundtrack, because I think I memorized every radio station as a teen lol

  • Featured

    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-26th of February 2026

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  • I have made more tortillas!

    Letting them sit a little longer to hydrate seems to have helped a lot, as did letting my pan heat up more. Unfortunately my pan now has a bunch of burned dough crusted onto it and is going to have to soak for a while before I scrub it. Might have gotten it too hot?

    They're really good, and don't seem to flake apart or crack anymore when I roll them!

  • I think blaming CHUD fascism on poor education is just cope

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  • Even if they can't articulate these material forces in words their education gives them the correct sense of their place in the world. This cohort can correctly identify that they benefit from the empire, even if they wouldn't describe it in those terms.

    Call that indoctrination if you like, but what this means is that further education can not fix them. Making them more educated will only make them more loyal to the empire because they'd have an ever better understanding of their own place within it.

  • I think blaming CHUD fascism on poor education is just cope

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  • There's two kinds of fascists.

    There are the people who become fascist because capitalism and imperialism and colonialism are in their material interests. These people need to defend the empire from decay, and they range from educated to very educated. They know exactly what they support because it benefits them, materially. They're petite bourgeois, they're settlers, etc. I think we can assign some determinism here, their beliefs are just a product of their social class and material conditions. Education can only help so much here.

    Then there are the people who become fascists because they have false consciousness, and these people range from poorly educated to miseducated. They have no idea what they support, they don't understand their own material interests, and they simply fell into these beliefs because of social conditioning from the first group of fascists. In some cases, the material conditions themselves will force them to rise above their social conditioning because they'll educate themselves, but usually someone else needs to step in and educate them. They really do benefit from education, though, because they just need to be informed.

    I don't know if culpability is ever actually useful to discuss in either of those cases. It doesn't really change what we have to do.

  • JUST IN: Advanced AI Models Refuse Military Queries at Alarming Rates, New Report Finds

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  • Yeah, we're not going to see LeninGPT either. I suppose "good" might be assigning too much moral weight to being peaceful and nice. It's not "good" when people settle for an unjust peace to avoid conflict simply because it's mean to fight back.

  • JUST IN: Advanced AI Models Refuse Military Queries at Alarming Rates, New Report Finds

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  • I think what this actually shows is that humans are, on average, good. It makes training an evil chatbot difficult.

  • Trump: I am sending a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many sick people.

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  • He absolutely does, but he thinks it's bigger than South America because it looks big on the map projection.

  • This boy loves napping on his owner's exercise bike (pic credit: Skylar Marie)

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  • At least somebody's using it!

  • I think "North Korea bad!" is the final boss of American liberal brain-worms. It takes a lot of deprogramming to unlearn this truism. The country's survival and growth should be an inspiring story.

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  • Here's something funny I saw:

    In 2004, Paula DeSutter, the-then United States Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance stated that “we want to have lessons learned from [Libya's disarmament] because we want Libya to be a model for other countries.”

    Yeah, we all learned our lesson. Don't ever give up your nuclear program.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Biden considering executive action to close southern border, sources say

    www.cnn.com /2024/02/21/politics/biden-considering-executive-action-to-close-southern-border-sources-say/index.html
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them

    www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/israel-says-ground-forces-operating-across-gaza-strip-offensive-builds-2023-12-04/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    ‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded

    www.theguardian.com /world/2023/nov/15/all-men-16-years-and-above-raise-your-hands-how-al-shifa-raid-unfolded
  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    A recent argument forced me to see that "genocide" has been turned into an imprecise word, and I don't know what to do about that?

    www.un.org /en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza? | Financial Times

    www.ft.com /content/95c5fcf1-c756-415f-85b8-1e4bbff24736
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on How She’s Changed - The New York Times

    ghostarchive.org /archive/c8b8b
  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
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    What the hell is this horror show shit that keeps showing up in Pocket?