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@ queermunist @lemmy.ml

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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!

  • Thoughts on the renewables boom?

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  • What if, instead of prices continually going up because oil resources are declining (the "peak oil" scenario), prices collapse below the point where unconventional oil resources remain profitable? The US became an oil exporter only because prices were high enough for shale, and that's basically doomed in an environment where oil prices don't keep up with inflation.

    Unless oil production is actively subsidized we might end up with kinks in the oil supply chain.

  • Caption this.

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  • Newsmaxxing

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

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  • It depends on the historical context, doesn't it?

    English nationalism is fucked because of English colonialism and English chauvinism, but not every nation needs to be built from one specific ethnic group. If we look at China as an example we can see them successfully creating sovereignty by welding a large nation together from different ethnic groups, rather than atomizing every ethnicity into individual nations.

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

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  • Well he just shit himself last night and they had to turn AF1 around to get new pants, he's probably tired. 😞

  • I get the feeling somebody should've taken a long hard thought about the implications before hitting the print button here.

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  • I doubt it could fit over someone's head. 🙄

  • What, exactly, is fiat currency?

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  • Imperialism is necessary for a transnational currency to flourish, like how the dollar is used for global trade and especially for oil trade. Fiat national currency only really needs the government of a particular polity to have a monopoly on violence, and this creates a stable internal market for currency as well as an exchange market for buying other national currencies.

  • We have to isolate terfland until we figure out what is wrong with them

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  • I don't understand George Orwell.

    He basically wrote about his own country in 1984, but somehow it was supposed to be a critique of socialism??

  • I get the feeling somebody should've taken a long hard thought about the implications before hitting the print button here.

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  • The shirt is toddler sized.

  • Let's say hypothetically, you just lived the plot of the Truman Show, escaping a bubble where your life has been broadcasted for the entire world to see. Now that you're free, what's your next move?

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  • I would never be sure that this isn't just another season of my TV show, so, revenge or suicide. I can't let them get another season.

  • AI "educator" is mad at people for stealing prompts

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  • Right, because you don't believe art has value or requires thinking. It's essentially worthless to you.

    What people with a critical eye for art can tell you is that the art also has well-defined tasks with explicit perimeters and rules, and generative AI produces uncreative slop that looks amateurish if you have an eye for art. It's pretty typical for people to believe generative AI is better at tasks that they, personally, know nothing about - it's a Dunning-Kruger machine.

  • Rich people are a threat for democracy, Oxfam finds

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  • Again, let's focus on problems we can solve first. That means taking the beam out of our own eye before we go around criticizing the motes in others, or however that parable goes. We have far worse problems in our own home.

  • Rich people are a threat for democracy, Oxfam finds

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  • Racists like to compare President Xi to a yellow animal.

  • Schumer says he's focusing on "five buckets". Spoiler alert: None of them is fascism. [More inside]

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  • Because pillars are Maoist.

  • The more I think about it, the more I feel a deep, existential distrust of carnists.

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  • But actually, they aren't okay.

    The people who actually do this grisly work for a living face the same kinds of traumatic stress symptoms as any soldier or torturer would. They do have empathy for non-human animals and it eats them alive. They have to fight themselves constantly to overcome the barriers that prevent us from hurting and killing and mutilating others. That's why the people coerced to work in this industry consistently face higher rates of depression, self-harm, addiction/overdose, every violent crime you can think of, and suicide.

    The vast majority of carnists have never killed anything bigger than a cockroach. They get neat little packages of decontextualized red goop on the store shelves and don't have to spend even a second thinking about the suffering that went into making it.

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    Trans Megathread from January 19th, 2025 to January 25th, 2026

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  • Okay so 3 days out from getting fraxel, the swelling is gone but my face looks like I got a really bad sunburn. It's peeling and gross.

    At least the factory should be cool all week.

  • Rich people are a threat for democracy, Oxfam finds

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  • Rich people are a very solvable problem, so let's focus on problems we can solve first okay

  • Schumer says he's focusing on "five buckets". Spoiler alert: None of them is fascism. [More inside]

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  • It's gonna be Abundance isn't it? 🤡

  • I don't understand why libs eat this shit up

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  • I'm aware. Hence, we're ignoring the fact that it's make-believe nonsense.

    My point is that the punchline of the joke is in contradiction with the presumed intention of the joke. The joke just kind of feeds into Trump's intentions, rather than poking fun at it.

  • I don't understand why libs eat this shit up

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  • Well then we're in agreement - the premise of this joke is feeding into Trump's idea to buy Greenland.

    My point is that it's in contradiction with the intention of the joke, which is clearly meant to say the opposite.

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  • No I'm not? I'm painting anyone who is a doomer as a doomer, as in, specifically the people who think AGI will kill us all. They don't care about valid issues, they care specifically about this stupid nonsense that they read about on lesswrong.com

    This is a real subset of people and the meme is making fun of them, because they're just feeding into the AI hype bubble.

    No one is saying that the valid issues surrounding this tech bubble aren't real, but that has little to do with the doomer cohort.

  • News @lemmy.world
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    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
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    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
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    ‘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
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    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
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on How She’s Changed - The New York Times

    ghostarchive.org /archive/c8b8b
  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    What the hell is this horror show shit that keeps showing up in Pocket?