I am waiting for the memes about Charlie Kirk's small face to cause the AI to think that faces should randomly change size between pictures and often be less than one tenth the size of the head.

3d ago

Go ahead, spell it, you heard the man

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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

I hate every ruling class from bourgeois-A to bourgeois-Z

2w ago

THE MONETARY-ENERGY SINGULARITY: How $22 Trillion in Fictitious Claims Will Trigger the First Thermodynamic Financial Crisis

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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2w ago

This has nothing to do with thermodynamics except that we are talking about energy. He just things that word makes him look smart and scientific.

It is just fossil fuel getting more expensive and available reserves getting harder to extract. Also, mostly ignoring non-fossil fuel sources. So the problem according to this is ESG and potential future global warming regulations causing underinvestments in fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure, leading to long term increased energy costs.

2w ago

[CW Self harm] California delenda est

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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2w ago

If this somehow works, I really need to start getting into really unethical grifting. "Actually, I can't be liable, because my TOS says no criminal behavior should be engaged with by the user while using this service."

2w ago

Schumer Faces Pushback From Newly Formed 'Fight Club' Caucus

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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Chuck Schumer only finally realizing at the last minute that the Baileys were his imagination and not his two co-Senate Minority leaders.

2w ago

Campbell’s soup stock crashes over alleged ‘3D printed meat’

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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Wasn't this just some dumb stupid shit the CEO said, just describing reconstituted meat (like chicken nuggets)?

2w ago

Scientific Exposure

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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2w ago

What field were you in? Journal fees should either have been paid by your advisor's funding or they should be the one paying.

2w ago

Which one of you vegans did this?

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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Sorry, I just wanted to make smut in a Troll 2 extended universe.

2w ago

if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before...

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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Yeah, the point is that there needs to be some material or structural change that would buy people into a movement and motivate them to focus their efforts into some political project. Not that chiding individuals online, hoping people spontaneously thought and acted different or just getting more people to vote would magically fix things.

2w ago

if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before...

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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Arguably, if the US voter turnout would just perpetually remain high, the Democrats would be incentivized to be even worse. Then their strategy of always moving right and throwing minorities and rights under the bus to win over "moderate Republicans" since they couldn't alienate poor or non-white voters because "what are they going to do, vote Republican!?!?! HAHAHAHAAHA! We're the lesser evil!" might work.

2w ago

if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before...

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radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Sure, but places like Australia with mandatory voting shows that forcing increased participation doesn't solve or really improve things. You would need to create conditions where a leftist/progressive politics could actually push forward a real policy after getting elected. But even that is hardly possible except under extreme catastrophe or duress in a capitalist system. The causality is that the major parties being undemocratic and out of step with the nation creates low voter turnout rather than the other way around.