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towhee [he/him]

@ towhee @hexbear.net

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  • Elon is going full Kayne!!

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  • The chapos also say this, like the past few years the project has been to make some Jewish people into uber-whites, a gated community within a gated community. Jewish supremacy and even just the validity of racial consciousness generally has been a big shift the past few years which is super fucking dark.

    The way he says it here is weird and I don’t know what angle he’s coming at it from.

  • The Atlantic: Neurodivergent students are faking it and have it too easy

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  • Being uncharitable to myself, this basically describes me. Back in the day my parents paid a few thousand bucks to send me to a neuropsych in my final year of college because I was struggling hard. I was gunning for that adderall scrip - had copped a couple from friends and they made me seem like the superhuman scholar of my dreams (the first hit is quite something!). Then the neuropsych came back with a report that was like "surprise actually you are autist" and I was like wtf. These days of course I could have had a 20 minute zoom call with a pill mill and got my amphetamines. I didn't get my drugs but it did give me extensions on some assignments, even extending a couple months past the end of the formal school year. Sometimes I still have nightmares that there are assignments I have yet to complete before they'll give me my degree. Anyway without that advantage I definitely would have just failed out.

  • Rising Prices Are Bad, but Plummeting Prices Are Worse: Americans may envy China’s deflation. They shouldn’t (CW: The Atlantic)

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  • One of the funnier things to say to libs here in the US is "real estate prices should drop by 90%" which forces them to confront one of their basic contradictions, which is gesturing toward "affordable" housing while wanting their house to continue going up in value.

  • I am not happy making music anymore

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  • Don't beat yourself up about it. 7-8 years is a natural amount of time to devote to a serious hobby and you are well past that. I thought I would rock climb forever until it became a slog to convince myself to go and then I stopped. Now I have a different hobby and am very happy. Anything you don't do as a job should ultimately be done for joy, play, and experimentation. You are not doomed to do the same thing for the rest of your life after becoming good at it, and certainly not because you've spent a few thousand bucks on it.

  • Best E-Reader for pirating now that Kindle is difficult?

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  • Well now Pine64 has done a second run of them and there are two possible images to choose from, Debian and Arch. However neither are particularly stable and easy to use. That being said, if you want a linux e-ink tablet you'll get a linux e-ink tablet - with all that entails. Personally I love mine and would consider buying another if it dies, although the remarkable is very tempting.

  • Best E-Reader for pirating now that Kindle is difficult?

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  • Spouse has a kobo which they like for ease of use reasons. It isn't jailbroken but that does not seem to matter, they get epubs on it just fine.

    Personally I like large-format e-readers so if I were to buy a new one I would get a remarkable. Another alternative is the PineNote but that is well into 17 torrents territory.

  • Hey guys, as a Venezuelan ...

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  • A few of them are definitely Eglin AFB but some people that have moved to the US will really be like this. A friend's coworker liked to tell everybody how good Pinochet was for Chile. Fundamentally they won't be affected by all the bombing but their family is wealthy enough that they can move back and set up shop in the ashes.

  • A chud wrote the worst university essay ever and their trans teacher failed them, but then she went to cry at TPUSA about wokeness and the teacher got put on administrated leave (cw: transphobia)

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  • 650 words lmao I post harder than that after drinking a particularly strong coffee

  • Musings About Israeli Ex-UFC Fighter Natan Levy

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  • People have a margin of subjectivity on top of the material circumstances they are born into. If we judge them by that alone we get a sort of sports-like VAR (Value Above Replacement) analysis, which sure whatever. Unfortunately I think that is too limited. If you’re born into a maximally genocidal settler society I don’t want to see or interact with you. Only those fully transcending their circumstances and joining the other side, like Franz Fanon, are worthy of respect.

  • When a cancelled performer reënters the culture...

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  • truly the umlaut elevates this to the rarest heights of fart inhalation. they should keep that house style and never change it.

  • What even makes for good gamefeel?

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  • This made me think of Star Citizen where they spent like two years doing "physics-based movement" for player characters before scrapping it and rigging everything because it just felt like absolute garbage to play.

    To me it illustrates that feel can only come from an iterative process of exploring & trying new things, not first principles.

  • STEM nerd here to remind you LIBERAL arts students to suck it up and get DEFUNDED

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  • Famously market-oriented fundamental particle physics research. Except this STEM dork wouldn't have a problem with that for uhhhhhhhhhhhhh [SIGSEGV noise]

  • Not uniquely American tbh

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  • Thankfully the most boomer ass opinion my dad has is that electric cars are bad. Except he hates them because they’re not gasoline cars and I hate them because they’re cars.

  • Do you think people like Elon, Trump and Bezos just truly hate humanity and want people to suffer out of spite?

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  • I have had the misfortune of knowing very severe narcissists in this life, one of whom in a relationship afflicted me with a similar mindset. The basic mindset is this: when things go your way, it is because you are brilliant and chosen and an example to those around you. When things don't go your way, it is because people have let you down by failing to recognize your inherent superiority; thus they must be punished, and you will use your talents to become a plague upon the world.

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    Conflicted on what to do about my schizo? boss

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  • Spouse who is a psychiatrist read your post. Says there is not really enough information to go on but uppers do have a lot of dopamine which can induce/trigger psychosis. It is admirable you want to help your boss after they have helped you. Unfortunately if they don't want help voluntarily the only other option is helping them involuntarily, i.e. involuntary commitment and the rules on that vary by state/country. In typical psychiatrist style they don't want to say much more than that without having direct information about the situation.

    (My own analysis now) I agree going to their boss is a risk that can go either way. Their particular online environment also actively denigrates therapy that curtails their ideas as being Jewish/liberal psyops to keep people from understanding the truth. The general extreme zionist alignment of the current US admin also provides a constellation of objective facts they can plausibly hang their hat on, not to mention the whole Jeffery Epstein thing. So you're operating at the level of competing narratives now. And frankly even us on the left haven't coalesced around a comprehensive counter-narrative yet. Just a few weeks ago there was a struggle session here about whether the US/zionist relationship is reciprocal or one way (driven by the US) which resulted in a long-time user getting banned. I don't want to really start a struggle session but this is a larger issue we need to figure out our story on because ZOG conspiracists are eating our lunch.

  • Campbell's fires executive who was recorded saying company's products are for 'poor people'

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  • Any advice on getting into the Gorpcore aesthetic for beginners?

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  • breaking the bit to relate that GORP stands for "good ol' raisins & peanuts", referring to a simple & cheap trailmix evoking a minimalist/oldschool approach to enjoying the outdoors

  • Any advice on getting into the Gorpcore aesthetic for beginners?

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  • your life starts to revolve around giardia. if there is a life action you could take that increases your probability of contracting giardia you have to take it. see a puddle? drink from it

  • What gives you hope that a communist revolution will happen in our lifetime?

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  • Covid, big as it was, did not have the scale to actually trigger a revolution I don't think. I don't mean to dismiss the scale of suffering and death. But I think an event on the scale necessary to trigger a revolution would probably have to directly imperil and permanently, drastically change the lives of upwards of 25% of fighting-age people.