30 days! in 30 days Israel beeeettter get its act together! we're getting tough 10 days after the election! just you watch! now you've done it!
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 5d ago 100%

    i'm so tired of libs (especially "leftists") saying things like this are a win, or even that this is a "pretty significant shift in the status quo" (literally quoting one of them) because they might consider restricting arm transfers. another one i saw mentioned potential domestic military raids as a reason not to vote for Trump. the american left is fucking cooked. willing to vote for a genocide to save themselves is pure cowardice.

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  • Beginner texts to philosophy?
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 1w ago 100%

    the process, in brief, goes something like this:

    1. you write something (if this is the first time through this sequence for this work, it will definitely be bad. that's ok and expected)
    2. analyze that, which will reveal some significant flaws
    3. figure out some ways that may help with those flaws
    4. go back to step one with your improved understanding

    this can be very frustrating to begin with, but after a few tries you will start to see some improvement, and maybe even something you actually like.

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  • So inspirational, thank you Kamala!
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 2w ago 100%

    unfotunately, you have once again overestimated the morons. i know at least one who responded to this with "she's being quoted out of context".

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  • 'No Quit Program'
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 2w ago 100%

    this is how you get no-call/no-shows

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  • there's a guy that i'm mutuals with on other social media who's on the young side, like just out of college, and he's figuring out what he thinks about politics. he's pretty smart and hangs around cool marxist(-leninist) people, but he's definitely trying to figure out stuff on his own, which is really cool and he's critically engaging with stuff well. however, it seems like he's seen a lot of patsocs and ACP members bring up weird corners of Marx's writing to try to justify their positions. the particular case he brought up recently was about an ACP guy on twitter using the productive vs unproductive labor distinction to call baristas (you know, people who make coffee for usually really low wages) enemies of the working class because they are unproductive labor. my friend was worried that this kind of weird nonsense argument was necessary for marxists in general. me and some other people explained that no, the ACP guys are picking weird bits of Marx to try to justify their reactionary bullshit and we actually mostly focus on class and not this other stuff. so like no harm done here, but it makes me wonder how often those kind of things go unchallenged in other people's experience.

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    Ladybird browser update (August 2024) (Makan: What does everyone think of this browser?)
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 1mo ago 100%

    the lead dev has gone on the record that using singular they in the documentation is putting politics into his project, so i expect it to be possibly technically interesting (emphasis on possibly), but no effort put into accessibility and with a fucking horrendous dev community.

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  • 'In four years, you don't have to vote again,' Trump says | REUTERS
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 3mo ago 92%

    i think the way they want it to be understood is "if elected, i will so thoroughly address all of the issues you care about that you don't have to vote on them again", which is kind of reasonable until you try working out how that would happen

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  • I don't understand the obsession to make sure Olympic athletes aren't fucking in their downtime.
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 3mo ago 100%

    clearly foreign adversaries are trying to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids

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  • Elon rate limited Kamala's account so people couldn't follow her.
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 3mo ago 100%

    i know at one point they were quite proud to have a federal (DHS i think?) cybersecurity department on there. like, there was an announcement. this was a couple years ago, so i guess stuff may have changed since then, but i don't trust like that.

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  • Elon rate limited Kamala's account so people couldn't follow her.
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 3mo ago 100%

    infosec dot exchange. they gleefully welcomed feds on there

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  • Is it copium to hope that Trump will change for the better as a person after the attempt?
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 3mo ago 100%

    in a week he'll be talking about how the woke communists tried to kill him and we need to return the favor to them

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  • I know we're tired of hearing about project 2025. BUT the full 902 page PDF is fun to explore
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 3mo ago 100%

    from what that link says, it sounds like the rule was made mostly to get around employers saying "this part of your paycheck is a bonus, not a wage, so it's exempt from the time and a half rule"

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  • 362 billion user-SECONDS per day!
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 3mo ago 100%

    nah, that's a load bearing personal fantasy. once you put it in, it's never coming out.

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  • The man simply cannot stop making new unforced errors
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 4mo ago 100%

    i know i'm not the first to make this comparison, but everytime another one of these embarrassing misstatements comes out, i remember the dean scream

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  • Mothematician post
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 4mo ago 100%

    so, start with:

    x = 0.999...

    now multiply each side by 10

    10x = 9.9999....

    now we subtract x from the left side, and 0.999... from the right, which is fine because they are equal:

    9x = 9

    and from there it should be fairly obvious that x is also equal to 1, which means 0.999... is also equal to 1

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  • A Wearable Worksurface - Core77
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 4mo ago 100%

    that's an ergonomic nightmare. the keyboard is too high and the screen is too low. if you use that for more than a couple minutes at a time your shoulders will hate you.

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  • Being against colonialism=wanting an ethnostate
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 4mo ago 100%

    i think this is the link to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultraleft/comments/1dii2hl/leftoid_ethnostate/

    i have a hard time reading the conversation as anything but pro-colonial

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearSH
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    On the anarchist "r/youthrights" group
  • bestmiaou bestmiaou 4mo ago 100%

    a "fun" game i like to play is when i encounter an anarchist writer i'm not familiar with is to search for the author plus age of consent/majority/adulthood/etc. this pretty reliably brings up a good reason to disregard their entire body of work.

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