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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 3w ago
Hey there! I dont use this account a whole ton, site mods tend to do most of the moderating. Since it came up though, I might refresh this announcement with a new title this evening. Thanks for the ping!

1mo ago

How long do you have to live in a place for you to be considered from there?

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 1mo ago

I think that approach fails to account foodie a lot of nuance!

1mo ago

How long do you have to live in a place for you to be considered from there?

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 1mo ago

I think this interaction was unfortunately abrasive, but both sides make sense here. I would like to see NYC culture do a better job of confronting that part of it's heritage, just as much as I want that for my [west coast] city.

Obviously you were just saying a typical perspective of today.

1mo ago

Which machine or technical sounds do you enjoy, which do you find annoying?

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 1mo ago

Diesel engines drive me up the damn wall

5mo ago

NATO the "Defensive" Alliance

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

If western countries valued peace, they would recognize that it would be more diplomatically stable to have neutral buffer States between the Russian border and the NATO countries. They also could have done more to economically integrate with post-soviet Russia in the 1990s. the reality is that NATO countries don't actually value peace, but rather their capitalist leadership would rather "contain" capitalist Russia than integrate, so NATO expansion it has been.

Ukraine is not Russian territory, but is extremely strategically important from a military standpoint. Any discussion of NATO membership is going to be perturbed as an existential threat to Russia, this is an obvious analysis from both sides. There is no "defensive" benefit to making Ukraine a member of NATO, unless the purpose is to mantain an existential threat toward Russia.

I can't confidently say that my analysis above justifies a Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Putin obviously doesn't care what I think. I wish it would not have happened, but I understand what brought everything to this point, and now the Ukrainian people must suffer for decades because western imperialist forces are not interested in building a strong global peace.

8mo ago

[Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - Feb 2026

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Funny! I played it last year on mine lol

8mo ago

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

I didn't actually see it myself, but I heard a lot of people thought it looked AI at first and that it was genuine (alternate angles and stuff like you said). It's good to check up on it (sounds like you actually put the effort in) so we can try to keep our facts straight, as hard as that is these days.

8mo ago

Creative accounting

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Epstein has always had close ties to MIT and there was a big scandal about them accepting donations.

It's also been own for several years that Chomsky stayed at Epstein's Paris home at least once, and publicly apologized for his association with Epstein iirc.

8mo ago

Mexico Defends Cuba Oil Shipments as Humanitarian Aid

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Do we know anything about why there was an announcement and then a reversal and everything?

8mo ago

At least we're not tankies

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

I sort of agree with you but if liberals acknowledged and understood class alignment, they wouldn't be liberals. I do think that the "opportunity for education" approach is more effective than outright hostility.

I find that online interactions about complicated topics can be quite frustrating, since snark and "dunking" trend to prevail. This is driven by corporate social media and spills over into other online interactions.

8mo ago

Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Just FYI to people that you can get remanufactured ink cartridges for a fraction of the price (around half) of OEM. They are sometimes modified to contain more ink in the same body. The company I purchased from included a prepaid bag to send used cartridges back for reuse.

Also while I'm in PSA mode "REDUCE, REUSE, and then recycle". Sometimes we skip over the first two steps since reducing is not marketable and reusing rarely is (although reusing printer cartridges appears to be a sustainable business).

8mo ago

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

I think that video was confirmed

8mo ago

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Just giving the app the CBS news treatment

8mo ago

let's hope

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Haiti
Vietnam
Ghana
Bolivia
Fiji

"Acknowledge and move on" is an extremely bad take if you know the facts about the genocide of American Indians (and Canadian First Nations) and how it is essentially ongoing in 2026. "Dark past" is not an accurate view of the situation. It is also unique to being a settler-colonial project, not something that is common to all countries.

It leads to an extremely unstable state as we can see from the three most recent presidential elections. The state wants to colonize itself because it ran out of other countries to exploit. That's what fascism is (ice raids and shit being a prominent symptom).

8mo ago

Minnesota State Legislature Special Election Results 2026

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

The entire concept of "for-profit news" is a conflict of interest.

8mo ago

let's hope

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

The founding ideal of the United States is unlimited "westward expansion" (complete exploitation of the land and the genocide of indigenous people). The United States has been incredibly effective at achieving this. This is not a fringe interpretation of history, it is relayed in the first episode of the PBS Revolutionary War documentary that came out last year.

"Freedom, equality, and liberty" or whatever may be your values, but in practice they never were intended for people who weren't part of the white, christian, landowning male class who founded the United States.

8mo ago

They're trying to take our guns!

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

One of the main purposes (arguably the primary purpose?) of the "well regulated militia" was to ensure that settlers could attack and exterminate American Indian tribes during westward expansion.

8mo ago

TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

It isn't though. "Propaganda" has fluid definition, so I was hoping to get on the same page so we could continue the discussion. It's always helpful to clarify terms before we just talk past each other.

I'm familiar with the comic, but it doesn't represent the situation here at all. Is asking any sort of clarifying question to someone who is directly in my replies "sealioning" to you? I thought it represented an undesired and obnoxious series of questions by a third party, but I'm one of the primary participants in this conversation.

8mo ago

TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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OrangeSlice @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

First part may be true, but I really don't think you can directly blame China for that. The app itself is a tiny factor is the rise of the far right which has a lot more to do with the "in real life circumstances".

I would also disagree that China gains much from a divided Europe. The argument could be made in theory, but it doesn't align with what i've observed From Chinese foreign policy in practice.

The approach of amplifying divisions in other countries is more of a Russian tactic than anything. Russia stands to gain more from a divided Europe, and it would be in alignment with their foreign policy in practice. That said, I also think the Russian influence on these matters is a bit overstated at times, to the point where the actually issues aren't being discussed. I notice it on the American side of things as well.