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znonymous [comrade/them, love/loves]

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  • James Van Der Beek, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star, has died

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  • All my homies hate Noam Chomsky

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  • "March For Billionaires" this weekend (this does not appear to be a bit)

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  • They will never in a billion years get a single billionaire to march and protest for their right to exist.

    If it really isn't about class, then why should everyone be a billionaire? Ignoring the obvious jokes about Zimbabwean dollar.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 5th to January 11th, 2026 - The New Old Colonialism (And Long Live Chavismo) - COTW: Venezuela

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 5th to January 11th, 2026 - The New Old Colonialism (And Long Live Chavismo) - COTW: Venezuela

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  • Pretty sure Nazi Germany powered their industrial base using locally sourced coal.

    Some Petroleum was supplied from Romania and Iraq, and eventually the Soviets after the pact (1940) until the German invasion in 1941.

    Petroleum supplies have always been a key weakness for German self sufficiency.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    znonymous [comrade/them, love/loves] @hexbear.net

    To all those who celebrate 🥂

  • It's a simple logarithmic relationship

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  • That graph in the thumbnail looks just like the divergence of productivity and wages in the US since 1971.

  • Florida Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick charged with stealing $5 million from FEMA - Salon.com

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  • You better make a post about the DeSantis crimes right now, and it better get at least as many upvotes as this post, or else you're in cahoots with Redumbplicans!

  • Serious question - what do you think will happen with the Epstein files?

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  • I think we are all just really curious to see how far the corrupted US elite ruling class can push that blatant corruption in our faces before the populists start agitating enough to get shot in large numbers in the streets by the goon squads.

  • mamdani less and less impressive to me

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  • OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

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  • That's right -- because no (or very few) actual "authors" will get any money from settlements or damage awards, only the publishers who own the copyrights.

  • How to build collective organizations despite ideological differences?

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  • Thanks! Will do.

    I doubt there are any such groups in my redneck of the woods. But I will try.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    znonymous [comrade/them, love/loves] @hexbear.net

    How to build collective organizations despite ideological differences?

  • Q: What do we do when the Rate of Profit has a Tendency to Fall? A: Make the Treatlerites pay ever more for their precious treats.

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  • But then again, Capitalism itself is not a good use of limited resources. Yet here we are.

    In a world where people can collectively raise and spend $500 million for a group of software developers to build and release a game like Star Citizen, perhaps game developers and people who enjoy playing computer games could have a chance at carving out something sustainable for themselves.

    But yeah, I get it's a pretty dumb idea. :(

  • Q: What do we do when the Rate of Profit has a Tendency to Fall? A: Make the Treatlerites pay ever more for their precious treats.

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  • Agree.

  • Q: What do we do when the Rate of Profit has a Tendency to Fall? A: Make the Treatlerites pay ever more for their precious treats.

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  • Would it be impossible or impractical to establish a non-profit trust to buy out Valve and be established with a simple clear charter: to sell games at a price pegged to a metric which at least modestly trailed inflation, and have that trust purchase, own, and act as a board of directors for Steam and Valve? The trust would be set up to have legal requirements to forever explicitly be operated for the benefit of independent developers and their customers. Valve would maintain its present flatter hierarchy.

    Is this not a possibility? I presume it would require some sort of benevolent wealth contributions. (Are there not at least a handful of very wealthy people who lean anti-capitalist or at least pro- co-operative enterprise remaining in the US, or elsewhere on the planet? Ideally such persons would also share a love for computer games, but maybe that's a unicorn stretch too far).

    Could not also such a venture be funded at least in part by crowd funding from successful indie developers and well-off customers? I mean, isn't SC funded to the tune of $500 million in this way? If an arguable scam company can be funded in such a way, why could not an organization with charter-codified explicit community benefits be carved out of this cesspool of a so-called marketplace?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    znonymous [comrade/them, love/loves] @hexbear.net

    Jerry Seinfeld compares ‘Free Palestine’ movement to KKK in surprise Duke appearance

    dukechronicle.com /article/duke-university-jerry-seinfeld-calls-free-palestine-antisemetic-compares-it-to-ku-klux-klan-20250910

  • Why is there a headless whale?

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  • beanising brainworms

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  • Correct. Deliberations are secret.

    However, if, during deliberations you argue based not on the evidence but solely on your disagreement with the law, other jurors may send a note to the judge stating that a juror is refusing to follow the instructions, and then, outside deliberations, in the courtroom, the judge may interrogate the jury and has the power to dismiss a holdout juror if that juror admits to ignoring the law.

    To try to avoid this, one should as a juror only discuss a not guilty verdict from within the framing of reasonable doubt. It's the better approach to never ever mention the idea or even concept of jury nullification at all ever. Not during jury selection, not during the trial, not during breaks, not during deliberations, and definitely not if speaking to the judge for any reason.

    Of course a single holdout juror (or really any non-unanimous decision) will only result in a mistrial which will result in a retrial in which you will certainly not be on the jury.

    IANAL

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  • You definitely have to pretend to not know about jury nullification. Don't ever talk about it in court or with other members of the jury. You can try to persuade other jurors that the specific law that the defendent is accused of having violated is itself an unjust law. But, you cannot talk about jury nullification, which is a not guilty verdict delivered by the entire jury, based on their agreed reasoning that the law in question itself is invalid.

    However, if someone reports you to the judge for attempting to persuade the jury to do that, the judge could interrogate you and use their discretion to dismiss you from the jury, declaring a mistrial, and retrying the defendent with a different jury.

    You could just simply hold out and insist that the defendent is not guilty, but that will often result in a mistrial if the jury is hung -- cannot reach a unanimous decision, which just leads to a retrial also.

  • [10/30] Rides to work for the week

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  • askchapo @hexbear.net
    znonymous [comrade/them, love/loves] @hexbear.net

    What's your opinion of legal positivism?

  • askchapo @hexbear.net
    znonymous [comrade/them, love/loves] @hexbear.net

    Amin al-Husseini

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amin_al-Husseini
  • badposting @hexbear.net
    znonymous [comrade/them, love/loves] @hexbear.net

    Between a hundred strongest fascist volunteers on one side and a hundred strongest communist volunteers on the other, who wins a match of tug-of-war?

  • askchapo @hexbear.net
    znonymous [comrade/them, love/loves] @hexbear.net

    Best org to send donations to help the people of Gaza?