Skip Navigation

queermunist she/her

@ queermunist @lemmy.ml

Posts
7
Comments
6206
Joined
3 yr. ago

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

  • Microsoft stock plunges as Wall Street questions AI investments

    Jump

  • With some light searching I found that the total amount of nuclear power capacity on Earth today adds up to 371.5 GW

    Meanwhile, China built 315 GW of solar capacity in the last year. Solar panels don't charge at night, obviously, which is why China is also installing base load in the form of grid-scale battery storage and already has 215 GWh online today with plans to surpass 721 GWh by 2027.

    While we wait 10-15 years to build more nuclear power plants, China is just going to keep pumping out more and more solar panels and base-load battery stations faster and faster. I'm entirely soured on nuclear.

  • Drawing by a 5 year old girl at the ICE Children’s Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX. This child turned 5 in detention & has spent almost 20% of her life jailed along with 4 of her siblings

    Jump

  • ICE murdered Renée Good because she was among neighbors that were standing guard due to ICE activity and acting as a legal observer. It was retaliation because she put her body on the line, because not every USAmerican was waiting for a white person to die to do something about ICE. Her murder, and then Pretti's, definitely woke a lot of people up and the fact that they didn't care before should be part of the discussion. Don't erase the efforts of all the people who were protesting before, though.

  • Featured

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

    Jump

  • With that much sloshing around I fully expect a majority of it to be lost due to fraud, which is probably the point.

  • Does anyone else feel the same way?

    Jump

  • I was fine with baking until I started baking vegan. Egg substitute is juuust different enough from bird eggs that it throws every recipe off slightly and you have to relearn everything.

  • Days since the dems caved: zero. The GOP pinky sweared that ICE/CBP might have "guardrails".

    Jump

  • The opposition (don't laugh!)

  • I have trouble seeing Trotskyism as a real ideology

    Jump

  • True, they're also basically oppositional defiant ideology. They're just against everything that is, no matter what.

  • Kentucky moves toward ban on cell phone use while driving

    Jump

  • Are you under the impression that the US doesn't have laws against using your phone while driving?

  • Featured

    Lancer - Trans Megathread from January 26th through February 1st, 2026

    Jump

  • I take tablets sublingually, but they take a long time to dissolve so I just go to sleep with it under my tongue.

  • I have trouble seeing Trotskyism as a real ideology

    Jump

  • As far as I can tell, Trots are just kinda impatient? They want every revolution everywhere all at once and will not accept strategic considerations as a reason to not do permanent revolution. Anything other than full communism NOW is revisionism.

  • Featured

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

    Jump

  • The design was to create a special category of outlaws to whom international law doesn't apply. A "terrorist" was distinguished from regular armed forces specifically by being irregular and operating outside of any nation's laws. Anything could be done to them because they didn't exist within the framework of the so-called Rules Based International Order.

    This had the benefit of protecting regular armed forces that regularly use terror tactics to achieve their aims. Anytime anyone tried to argue that the IOF or ICE were terrorists, smug liberals could loftily explain that "terrorist" only applies to non-state actors.

    If they're going to start designating regular armed forces as "terrorists" it defeats the whole purpose and undermines the value of the label. I think this comes from the old order collapsing, now there's no function for the label as it was designed. They have no need to designate groups as outlaws because there is no law.

  • Featured

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

    Jump

  • The concept of "terrorism" is complete gibberish. If it meant anything at all (dubious) it was supposed to refer to non-state actors. If they're just going to start declaring official branches of national armed forces to be "terrorists" then the term has lost whatever meaning they were pretending it had. Now it's officially just "designated bad guys" with no technical meaning at all.

  • Incredible writing from CNN

    Jump

  • People will actually defend this, too. They'll say that Maduro was just making stuff up before and frame it like a boy-who-cried-wolf situation, and actually, Maduro must have given Trump the idea to attempt a regime change operation etc etc

  • Reddit media literacy dot jaypeg

    Jump

  • There's definitely the group you're talking about, which Sartre pretty accurately described. They're just amusing themselves by deliberately defacing media because it's funny to them. "The anti-Semites have the right to play" and all that.

    They're a minority. The majority are just "wow cool future!" when they see a piece of media like Starship Troopers. They're very susceptible to that minority of reactionaries, but I think they can just as easily be swayed away from a reactionary reading of media by the very next person that talks to them. They don't really believe anything, they'll just adopt the last thing they heard.

    Unfortunately, reactionaries have way more time to talk about movies and video games.

  • Reddit media literacy dot jaypeg

    Jump

  • They have elementary literacy. Sure, they can technically read, but they can't comprehend themes, metaphor, subtext, or satire.

    This isn't just a fascist thing, it's pretty widespread. Critical analysis is something people do a few times in school for books they hated (and probably never fully read) and then avoid doing it ever again for the rest of their lives.

  • Kentucky moves toward ban on cell phone use while driving

    Jump

  • Decades ago? What are you talking about? As far as I can tell distracted driving detection software is an extremely recent technological development that's been adopted in a few countries in the past few years. The UK was first I think, in 2021. France and Germany only upgraded in the last year. I don't need to be mocked for missing out on the latest and greatest in traffic enforcement technology, and I don't appreciate being talked down to like I'm fucking stupid or the butt of a fucking joke.

  • Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency

    Jump

  • Naw, we're in a recession, they're just reassuring investors that there's nothing to worry about.

  • Choose wisely

    Jump

  • There are a lot of elements of the firewall that are something Europe should consider emulating, because it's also keeping US slop out of the country and protecting domestic industry and stopping US meddling through electronic warfare. It allows for China to develop its own internal economy rather than be hollowed out and made dependent on Silicon Valley. It's tech sovereignty.

    Imagine if Europe replaced Facebook, Instagram, Xitter, and Youtube with its own internally developed and regulated platforms. No more tech dependency! China made the right choice and it's becoming more clear as enshitification ruins the internet.

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

    Jump

  • Okay, but that goes back to what I said before, the bosses are oblivious to how poor this technology actually is and are sleepwalking into a disaster. They're trying to replace their workers with something that can't replace them and this will have serious consequences, not just for the AI companies, but for the entire economy.

    That's why we need to make sure they don't escape on their golden parachutes.

    In the meantime, the workers could organize and demand the bosses stop trying to replace them.

  • Society is Limited by Wage Slavery

    Jump

  • If I have no money how do I get a plumber under capitalism? There's no social infrastructure for the poor.

  • 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?