quarrk

joined 2 years ago
[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 8 points 10 hours ago

“Now the tech has finally caught up to my vision”

It’s hard to imagine a more smug statement.

Damn bro, you’re living in 3024 while the rest of us are wasting time not being as smart as you.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Many cis people make their gender their whole personality too, it’s just socially acceptable to do so

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Because these people think of the world in terms of LOTR just like liberals think in terms of Harry Potter

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

The political cum piss is actually shit

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stormy sends her regards

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

idk being a liberal was extremely frustrating for me. Anxiously following polls and election results, volunteering time and money, and even when your person wins seeing nothing change anyway — I don’t like the word but cuck is really the only way to describe it.

At least as a Marxist I can be disappointed but also understand wtf is going on

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

random chemical bullshit

yeah people way overestimate the degree of determinism embodied in DNA.

Gene expression (epigenetics) are half, probably more, of the story.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

I get what you’re saying but also disagree on the conclusion, if I’m reading right. Feels like a form of solipsism which is just … navel-gazey.

Imagining oneself in another’s position is simple empathy, an evolved trait foundational to human civilization. The point is not to be able to perfectly imagine that other life, or to understand it in full detail. The point is to recognize common humanity between yourself and that other person.

In empathizing, I make a basic assumption about another person’s experience, in its intelligibility to myself, despite not having experienced it directly myself. It is like how in physics, we can’t prove beyond all doubt that the laws of the physics are the same in other galaxies (although there is of course strong evidence, e.g. spectral lines). I am reasonably certain of a baseline humanity shared by all humans, and on that basis I feel valid in empathizing.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think they’re Trots or something. They do sometimes miss, especially on Ukraine. But overall yes they are actually communists.

One of their top viewed videos is Ash Sarkar on Good Morning Britain making Piers Morgan look dumb

I’m literally a communist, you idiot

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not to mention not all companies are publicly traded

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

I’m afraid you have left me no choice but to shame you with a photo of… one adorable kitten! 👹

 

Not exactly an obscure song, but even 20 years later this song + anime music video still slap.

 

Pro tip: don’t not be a white man if you try this

 

tl;dw he had a “flat affect” after his daughter died because he was autistic, not because he was a murderer

 

this is going to be extremely vague. I just have this melody stuck in my head and I can't figure out what it is from.

These four notes are the primary motif for the rest of the song if I remember right.

I think these notes are approximately right, going by this virtual keyboard: https://www.onlinepianist.com/virtual-piano

C2 (half note) E5 (half note) G4 (half note) F4 (whole note) repeat.

Or on the virtual keyboard, with "max keys" turned on, it's the keys 1-f-o-i

Anyone know what this song is?

 
 
 

Not to humblebrag but I’m not online enough to know the details of the likely struggle sessions that have already occurred relating to this (Hexbear or elsewhere)

I’m reading Racial Formation in the United States, and it makes frequent use of latin@. But to me it just seems really awkward/forced.

Just use latine? Or, if one insists on using a combo letter, maybe at least something like the Swedish å? Or instead of trying to change the language, just divorce any correlation between human gender and word gender by selecting either latino or latina to refer to all people.

I only have a basic American level ability to speak Spanish so if there are Spanish speakers here with better insight, lemme hear the roasts

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_events_of_the_20th_century#The_Russian_Revolution_and_Communism

Footnote 19: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1169&context=honorsprojects

The whole section of the Wiki article is regurgitated bad history, but citing a literal rando is low even for Wikipedia

 

Rather boring and unoriginal “here’s how the Democrats can still win” article

Third paragraph is a completely unnecessary Lenin debunking or something idk

“There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen,” Lenin is widely quoted as saying. In fact, he probably didn’t say it; please excuse my effort at fact-checking as a token pushback to our Leninist dialectic of exaggerations, deceptions and conspiracy theories that were all highlighted this week.

I’m really confused by the usage of the phrase Leninist dialectics here. Maybe someone smarter can parse it for me.

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