Amazon made an explicit internal statement that they would never permit import cost listings on their main ecommerce platform.

This was only ever in consideration for Amazon Haul, their Temu clone, and Bezos immediately killed it after a phone call with the White House.

Media circus bullshit, liberals want you to think there are some "woke" capitalists fighting back against Trump, but it's not happening.

This is grim. Water fluoridation was one of the biggest public health victories the US had gained.

Keep your teeth safe, comrades. Try a fluoridated oral rinse if you have difficulty with consistent brushing.

Chabad-Lubavitch

Every fucking time.

I swear to god, I'm about 5 seconds away from distributing Abraham Geiger Apology Forms.

Me with a time machine at the Hamburg Temple disputes:

איך טראַכט אַ קינד מוז זײַן נאָך אים הייסן, אַבְרָהָם.

אַ קלאָג

I think it's definitely not as well written or produced as Jordan Peele's films, and that tracks with his involvement being mostly as presenter. It's definitely better than the 2002 TZ reboot.

If you like Black Mirror, you'll have a good time with it. Worth the price of admission ($0, but probably like 10 gigs of torrent downloads)

why are there so few cis women?

The explanation that used to go around was that it was because we started as a lifeboat from a subreddit. Reddit has disproportionately few cis women who are disproportionately likely to only post in female-majority subreddits.

However, it's been way too long since we were a subreddit for that to still be the reason for the underrepresentation on Hexbear, especially considering that there have been multiple large user influxes since then.

I have some kinda complex thoughts on this, but I think it's site culture related and there's been a lot of user pushback to change in that regard.

Several months ago, one of my local weird stores (crystals and witchy supplies) suddenly burst into flame in the middle of the night, didn't do any damage to anything outside of its store, and the local Fire Department completely slapsticked their response like a Three Stooges movie until the fire put itself out. Firefighters were slipping and sliding down the icy sidewalk and per the local news the fire truck slid away down the street with a guy on the ladder, something that shouldn't be possible.

There are scorch marks on the still-standing walls that once separated this store from its neighboring stores in the same building. Even the burning roof put itself out before it got to either of the adjacent stores. It screams of insurance fraud, but the ATF sent a bunch of arson investigators that looked into it for like 5 months, couldn't figure it out and turned it over to some other agency. Literally an actual X-file in my own back yard.

Through the forces of innovation, Microsoft found a way to force Todd's inflation fetish upon all of our hard drives.

Bloomberg Money | Apr 13, 2025

Niche French social media platform Hexbear.net to acquire US Postal Service

"Basically, what we want the world to hear is that we're going postal," site representative Lyudmila Pavlyuchenkova told CNN's Jake Tapper. With the Press Secretary position once again unoccupied, the Trump Administration has again muddied the water by posting wildly different accounts and conflicting information to supporters on Truth Social and X (formerly Twitter), reflecting a phenomenon the White House has repeatedly refused to comment on following the rumored rift between the Musk and Trump camps within the administration.

I think California leaving is a net positive in that it is a net negative for both California and the rest of the US.

I will not give him a star sticker.

He's not even on the reward chart for our class.

He goes to a different school.

"Why are my favorite treats out of stock?"

"They went extinct."