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Hegar

@ Hegar @fedia.io

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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

  • Grumpy Trump Sues Poll Because His Popularity Is Plummeting

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  • tiny, deformed, cheeto toadstool from mario of a penis.

    As reputable sources have informed us.

  • What's the worst game you've ever had the misfortune of playing?

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  • Monopoly. Literally designed to be frustratingly unplayable to represent the frustratingly unplayable user experience of capitalism, but people insist on playing it anyway.

    AD&D 2e. Insists it's a game about exciting fantasy adventuring, then all the rules are about painfully slow tactical minutiae. The combat mechanics are taken from a game about modern naval warfare, hence bigger Armor Class means easy to hit. It's unclear why anyone thought ships with guns was a good model for medieval sword fighting. Entire sections of rules have to be ignored - hello encumberance - and gameplay regularly has to stop to look up charts, tables or niche rules like grappling.

    Screamball. Like ping pong, except the point goes to whoever screams the loudest during a volley. We made it up as teenagers. It was awful.

  • What are some good media that un-glorify conflict?

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  • Generation Kill is a very watchable look at a recon unit in the lead up to the 2nd (iirc) iraq war. It's by the guy who did The Wire. Excellent dialogue, plotting and acting.

    It uses a soldier's eye perspective to examine the systemic issues in the military - casual racism, war crimes, adult diapers and the constant incompetence of officers all come up.

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    Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

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  • There was a hilarious study the other month showing that on r/conservative, 30-60% of posts on any given day are 2 posters, who posted every single day - except the day that ukraine strikes knocked out power in moscow.

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    I’ve hit a wall with tech.

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  • That sounds like a reasonable and healthy attitude to take.

    I've started buying 2nd hand physical games, got a cheap record player, buy books from little bookshops, clothes from goodwill and don't shop online. Not ready for a dumb phone yet.

    I grew up in niave 90s with 'internet will set us free' thinking. But oligarchs turned the things i liked into poison, so i avoid drinking the poison as much as i can.

  • Dem Lawmaker Introducing Bill to Abolish ICE: Agency Is ‘Beyond Reform’ And Commits ‘Murders’

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  • The fascists don't care about consistency or fairness. By definiton they're opposed to that.

    They will without a doubt block anyone else from doing exactly what they are doing.

    Killing multiple regime members on the court or expanding the court are the only two options if we want a supreme court that's capable of upholding the law.

  • An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams

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  • I doubt there were that many voters who oppose project2025 but were swayed away from kamala by thinking it's not real.

    About 30% of us adults voted R. 30-35% is about the maximum support that fascism can muster. Voter suppression won the election, not any particular policy or lie.

  • UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’

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  • They're fucking nazis and they're doing violent nazi shit.

    “ominous historical overtones” my ass. Call it what it is.

  • An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams

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  • 50% of the population wasn't saying that, a widespread disinfo campaign funded by our corrupt oligarchs was spreading that talking point.

  • Democrats go all in on affordability in bid to turn voters against Trump

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  • Affordability AND anti-corruption would be better.

    That would give them a mandate to go after regime insiders for their many openly committed financial crimes.

    But the Dems would rather let fascism win if the alternative is jailing the rich for their crimes.

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  • Coprolite makes a great insult. I'm sure we can all think of some prominent fossilized turds.

    Of course real coprolites are wealth of information and a welcome find, unlikely the fucking coprolites who seized control of the US.

  • TIL about “Second Screen Viewing” and that Netflix pushes writers to make scripts and dialogues simpler to keep viewers who are on their phones engaged

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  • This style of writing predates streaming, though i'm sure it's more prevelant now.

    Plenty of pre-internet shows have characters ham-fistedly repeating or summarizing the situation after ad breaks, or telling rather than showing their feelings, or telling you what's at stake.

    Stupid characters who have to have the plot point explained to them in case the audience still hasn't gotten it are everywhere too, it's super common in sitcoms.

  • What should I do if my violent brother is threatening to kill my parents (who I financially depend on and live with) and they aren't taking it seriously?

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  • It sounds like you and your parents are in danger. If your brother has military training and has killed animals, he is a threat. It sounds like you know that is true.

    For domestic violence at least, the most dangerous point of the cycle is after the escalation, after the explosive anger, once it seems like the situation has returned to normal - that's when deadly violence is most likely. So stay aware and trust your gut.

    Where i am, there are mental health groups that can provide things like a dedicated employment specialist to help find work.

    Get in touch with someone who can give you real, expert advice.

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  • Bono was briefly into these.

    That's right, U2 grew a shrew loo.

  • How many Musketeers?

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  • Ah yeah fair enough, tbh i was worried i got the SW characters wrong, i saw phantom menance and decided i didnt really need to see the other two prequels.

  • How many Musketeers?

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  • I didn't know that the three musketeers were really Quigon Gin, the Sheriff of Nottingham from prince of thieves, Anakin Skywalker and Matt Berry.

  • Why I didn't win the Powerball

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  • I love all the desperate apologetics over this passage. The lackeys of the rich always try to talk about how this means the rich need to unburden themselves before getting into heaven, like a laden camel passing through a narrow city gate.

    But "camel through the eye of a needle" was a fairly common idiom at the time used to mean impossible - the equivilant of "when pigs fly".

    The intent of this passage is crystal clear: "the rich will never ever get into heaven".

  • xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet

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  • Wooo! IEC type I! Shoutout to the greatest!

  • My mom says that people who don't have "value" don't deserve to live and that "depression" is just an excuse for laziness. What's is your rebuttal for it?

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  • You can't argue a person out of an irrational view.

    Explaining brain chemistry and how dopamine works won't do it.

    A belief like that is a way of signalling membership in an identity that the individual thinks benefits them. It's unlikely to change until that identity stops looking beneficial.