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star_wraith [he/him]

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  • The parenting comm has the best banner/pfp combo on Hexbear, CMV

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  • Likewise, if not for Hexbear I would living in a bubble of people roughly my own age and completely cut off from younger people, who (especially but exclusively comrades here) are very cool and good. I despise when older people hate "the youth" and have promised myself I will never become like that.

  • The parenting comm has the best banner/pfp combo on Hexbear, CMV

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  • Ooooh dang, that's pretty good.

  • God I fucking hate Chuds you have no idea. Biggest milk drinking cowards in the world.

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  • Earlier today, I was reading an abstract of a paper that showed there was a relationship between being an overly fearful child and eventually becoming a conservative adult.

  • Pentagon finds accounting error worth 2$ billion under the cushions for Ukraine

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  • And on top of that, they can always write down the value further due to “impairment” like obsolescence. For example, maybe a specific missile costs $1 million and it is straight-line depreciated for 5 years. After 3 years the book value is $400k. However, they can just say “we have a new missile that’s better so this old missile is obsolete, the value should only be $100k” then they can write down the book value even further.

    Also, if they use FIFO inventory accounting, only the oldest stuff on record is used EVEN IF IT ISN’T physically the oldest stock. So if the costs of the equipment get more expensive every year then what’s counted as being given to Ukraine has the lowest value, even if in real terms they are giving them the newest stock.

  • Pentagon finds accounting error worth 2$ billion under the cushions for Ukraine

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  • 8.9k upvotes. If there was ever a comment that convinced me Reddit is astroturfed / an op, this is it. Because they are objectively wrong. Or at least intentionally misleading.

    They’re focusing on the fact that the valuation equipment changed and ignoring what that actually means. Sure, by itself it doesn’t affect US taxpayers. But the point is, the military says they overvalued it by $2, so that allows them to send $2 billion more worth of equipment. That’s additional stocks of weapons that ostensibly have to be replaced, which is paid for by tax dollars.

    And while it’s not provably corrupt, it strains credulity to think this was not done in order to ship more weapons. Revaluations of this kind are much much more likely because someone wants it revalued, i.e. corruption.

  • Happy Anniversary Hexbear!

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  • I don’t remember why it took me a like a week to sign up. I kept checking the lifeboat discord for news. I think I missed it by a couple days. I made an account but didn’t like the name so I came up with this one.

  • Pictured: Biden 2024 Electoral Strategy

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  • This was Obama’s slogan, because he would always call out issues but then act like he was powerless to do anything.

    Biden’s strategy is to act like problems don’t exist and actually it’s the people who are wrong, the economy is doing great. To say otherwise is to imply you actually support Trump.

  • Beating the market

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  • Because the market processes all information at a speed that makes regularly beating the market impossible; and literally every investor on earth is looking for an “edge” at the same time. The stock market is “efficient” from the standpoint of, any profit you can make by trading on new information vaporizes in a nanosecond.

    I use quotes around the word “efficient” because I’m NOT implying the stock market is efficient from a Marxist or resource allocation perspective. Just that today’s stock prices reflect the sum of all information that we have about a given stock up to the moment.

    The outperformance of index funds is largely due to their lower expenses and the fact that money managers, just by trying to beat the market, often do the wrong thing.

  • Supreme Court appears to side with an Oregon city's crackdown on homelessness

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  • I would call them “workhouses” but Americans have no idea what “workhouses” are and how horrific they were.

  • 300 bodies found in mass grave at Gaza hospital

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  • Death to Israel and death to America.

  • Biden signs bill criticized as "major expansion of warrantless surveillance"

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  • grossly mismanaged the pandemic (killing a lot of people), did horrible stuff for the environment, passed a bunch of shit laws, including repealing net neutrality, deported a bunch of ppl for no reason, and he supports isreal

    All that is literally and precisely what Biden has done, too (except net neutrality I guess, but you’re also leaving out Biden signing off on the biggest expansion of the surveillance state since the Patriot Act).

    He fucked over queer people in the us

    Lots of queer people on Hexbear, ask them if the barest crumbs Democrats throw to queer people (i.e. doing nothing to stop anti-queer actions, but not being the ones to propose the laws) is worth supporting genocide.

    increased the federal debt by 7 trillion

    Imaginary number doesn’t matter.

    You seem well-meaning, so let me put my cards on the table: I don’t believe in validating the invalid dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by voting for anything beyond the local school board and various propositions, so it’s not like I’d be voting for Biden anyway. But what I don’t get about when libs push leftists to vote for Biden is… at what point does someone committing heinous acts mean that not voting for them is the only moral action? If Joe Biden murdered my daughter, would I not be in the right to say I wouldn’t vote for him? Even if in this weird scenario Trump also would have murdered my daughter… at what point do we measure someone by what they do and not what the other person would have done? And it doesn’t matter if my kid isn’t actually involved, I have seen enough death and sadness from parents and children in Gaza that the fact that it’s not my kid is totally and completely immaterial to me.

  • BREAKING: Jew 'doesn't feel unsafe' at Columbia University Campus

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  • I, as a German-American, feel very unsafe when people around me say things like “Nazis are bad” or “The Third Reich was genocidal”.

  • libs move on from harry potter to LOTR

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  • While I do like the LotR movies, the worst thing about them is one very specific directorial choice made by Jackson that isn't in the books: to show the "good guys" as being reluctant to fight and downplaying the threats faced.

    Theoden is portrayed as unwilling to fight at first. I can't count the number of times I've seen reactionaries on Twitter reference Aragorn's line about "open war is upon you, whether you would have it or not" when talking about tRaNsGeNdEr iDeOLoGy or something. Theoden has to be convinced to fight. Likewise, Treebeard and the Ents initially refuse to fight until Merry delivers his Sorkin-esque speech about how they're a part of the world, so they have to fight for it.

    But none of that is actually in the books!

    Theoden and Treebeard are not indecisive. They immediately join the fight without hesitation. Everyone recognizes the threat posed by Sauron and they join in. The Hobbits, while they are Little Englanders, are more in an isolated bubble far away from trouble, so it's more that their courage is never tested until the Scouring. They are unaware of what's happening in the world, not that they know about it but don't want to fight.

    This seemingly small change has been latched onto by liberals and chuds alike for 20 years now. Because no one reads books anymore, we just assume the movies are the books. I doubt Ferguson has read the books any time recently.

    And for as long as LotR has been published, everyone wants to interpret their own allegories into the story. It was very popular to read Mordor as Nazi Germany, which Tolkien had to always push back against. While Tolkien was the first to say things like his experiences in war and his religious faith influenced the books, he absolutely and in no uncertain terms was NOT writing anything to be allegorical to the real world. And to any fan of the books, it's offensive to try and read allegory into it when you understand that act of story telling and world building - and not allegory making - was central to the writing process for Tolkien.

  • So it seems like people have started noticing Hexbear/Lemmy's "backend" (corpo term) doesn't actually enforce that you have pronouns and that you don't change your username

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  • So it seems like people have started noticing Hexbear/Lemmy's "backend" (corpo term) doesn't actually enforce that you have pronouns and that you don't change your username

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  • I was there when it all happened, “revisionism” is absolutely the word for it. So many cissies trying to weasel out of just doing one little thing to support trans comrades here. 100% behind patching this.

  • China if it was a democracy and not an autocracy oppressing all its citizens

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  • The typical American probably thinks that, outside of Hong Kong, everyone lives in extreme poverty in shacks. Or at best, in very small apartments in massive plain concrete buildings that look like prisons.

    Just last week, I was talking with a coworker who didn’t realize South Africa had paved roads.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star

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  • Thanks! That alone is pretty helpful information.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star

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  • I really feel like my knowledge of Algeria is lacking, given their successful anti-colonial fight, and that at least at one point they were a socialist country in some regard.

  • The annual salary a single person needs to live comfortably in the US is $89,461 (median across all states).

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  • Yes, though where I live that number isn’t relevant due to both state laws and market conditions. There are entry level jobs at places like Target, Amazon, McDonalds, etc that pay around $17-$18 per hour.

    But even that is still about HALF of the minimum salary needed to live comfortably. Incredible because it doesn’t feel like it was that long ago where there was the push for $15/hr as a living wage (because it was back then).

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    The annual salary a single person needs to live comfortably in the US is $89,461 (median across all states).

    www.cnbc.com /amp/2024/04/16/salary-a-single-person-needs-to-live-comfortably-in-every-state.html
  • parenting @hexbear.net
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    Am I teaching my kid about race the right way?

  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Most insightful libertarian analogy maker has a meme for us…

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    On it’s worst day, Cuba is a better country than the USA will ever fucking be

  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Imagine getting triggered by… colors on a flag

  • chat @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Whatever happened to Lee Carter?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    After 25 years I’ve switched from boxers to boxer briefs, AMA

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    I think I've figured out what bugs me so much about Christmas

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Today, we honor our brave heroes (shown here). Thank you for your service! Happy Veterans Day! ❤️🫡

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Let’s get a BDS list going

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Of course I don’t condemn Hamas

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Without fail, it is ALWAYS the same map

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    I’m starting an “Over 40 Years Old” Hexbear club

  • chat @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Americans are absolutely convinced their narratives about Soviet history are correct despite never actually learning anything about Soviet history

  • parenting @hexbear.net
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    Leftist Parenting 101

  • parenting @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    Advice for parents-to-be: if you enjoy the personal time you have when you poop, make the most of that time now

  • parenting @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    It's shocking how masc-coded toys for boys are

  • parenting @hexbear.net
    star_wraith [he/him] @hexbear.net

    How do I talk to my white kids about the cops?