[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 73 points 1 month ago

How are things looking in terms of the US build up for a surprise attack? Does it still benefit Iran to wait for the US to strike first rather than take the initiative and preemptively destroy tons of US aircraft currently sitting out in the open at various air bases within range?

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Haven't actively listened since 2020 but I think I remember they had good takes on Trump's murder of Soleimani

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by cosecantphi@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

I don't even use a VPN. It still allows me to view subreddits and my own account, but this happens when I try to enter a comment section. Fuck reddit, I hardly ever post there these days, but damn it I do need access to the information in their comments sections pretty often for a variety of reasons.

What's more, it's only happening on Firefox. I downloaded and installed chrome and everything is normal on that browser.

Edit: Clearing cookies fixed it. Leave it to reddit to give you a page that's like "lol fuck you we banned you piss off" whenever their site has a bug and shits the bed

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Every laptop I've ever owned has been at the 500USD or less price point, and every laptop I've ever owned has had some kind of catastrophic structural failure in the chassis that causes the entire thing to gradually disintegrate after about two years, like clockwork.

Like, that must absolutely be something they do as an explicit design goal that forces you to buy a new disposable laptop just after the standard warranty expires, right? It's not just me being bad at computer or something?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cosecantphi@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Literally did it on impulse without even thinking about it so I wouldn't chicken out, so I blurted it out.

I said "I'm bisexual. I like both men and women. No more anti-gay stuff from you, ok?".

He said, "oh go away, you don't know what you like". I think he'll understand eventually, he needs time to think.

EDIT: Showed him this thread.

I said: "Look, this is what I said to you, these are my online friends who are happy for me that I came out as bisexual."

He said: "Oh you don't know what you're talking about, you've never had sex with a man or a woman before, until then you'll never know."

And yeah, I am still holding on to my v-card at 26. I was insecure about that years ago in high school, but I'm honestly glad I've waited to mature first.

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Like what is the ultimate fate of the voyager probes and others on escape trajectories? My understanding is that space is far too sparse for these things to ever hit anything by coincidence, so their eventual fate is probably to be ejected out of the galaxy at some point.

They are then unlikely to be moving fast enough to actually cross intergalactic distances quickly enough for the expansion of space to not outpace the distance covered, leaving them in this void forever.

How long would they be recognizable as technological objects before the eons worth of stray hydrogen atoms erode everything away?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cosecantphi@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

From where I'm sitting, it looks like death should not be the end in that case.

You can't perceive the passage of time when you are dead, so you're just going to experience dying and then immediate rebirth after the countless eons pass for that rare moment where entropy spontaneously reverses to form your mind again.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cosecantphi@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

I'm not at all exaggerating when I say this. The bar is so incredibly, incomprehensibly low everywhere else that I'm about ready to call literally anyone who can join this community, be genuine, and still not get banned an actual saint.

And that's no diss at the admins for being ban happy or whatever, that's literally just how you create an online community full of good people and somehow Hexbear has been the first to realize it

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Assume you never get tired of the pleasure in heaven, and you never get used to the torture in hell.

Lmao this is such a stupid scenario, but I love putting incomprehensibly large numbers in absurd contexts like this. Like yeah, no brainer that infinity is vastly incomprehsibly largererer than Graham's number, of course nothing is worth going to hell that long for.

But uh, Graham's numbers is a lot of years. For all intents and purposes it's just never coming compared to the characteristic time scale of human thought.

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Is it really possible they'll find an entire dozen people who've never been fucked over by health insurance to preside as jurors over this case?

It's my understanding that the defense and prosecutor both must agree on the selection of jurors. In such a high profile case where the defendant is clearly in the right, is it really possible they'll find the requisite 12 people who've not only been living under a rock these past couple weeks, but also have what's essentially a "neutral stupid" character alignment?

Luigi himself seems to be on this same train of thought given he turned himself in. He had several days to destroy the evidence, but instead he went to McDonalds while cosplaying as the Adjuster, carrying the gun on his person. Surely this implies he won't take a plea deal, right?

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 95 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

With all the other shit going on in the world right now, watching this guy just get away with executing one of our rulers on camera and totally finessing the cops on his way out has been such a glorious and singular ray of hope. I hope our guy is doing alright, wherever he is now.

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 83 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Given the circumstances I'm sure he's a nervous wreck right now, but I hope the widespread celebration of his deed is at least taking the edge off for him.

Really hope our guy gets away with it, without his identity the media won't be able to tear him down and smear him and spin this all as some sort of personal and isolated event. Escaping like a ghost is pretty much the best an adventurer can hope to achieve. If the guy is never found he'll likely end up a big inspiration for copycat cases.

Just really hope he didn't have his phone on him

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cosecantphi@hexbear.net to c/mutual_aid@hexbear.net

Trying this again at perhaps a more active time of day on the site, apologies for the repost. I know a lot of other people are also struggling very badly right now and spare cash is a finite resource.

I'm kind of happy I won't need to talk to my asshole piece of shit boss again, but also I blew this after just four shifts, haven't even received my first paycheck yet, and now it's that time of the month again where I need to pay to fill my Buprenorphine prescription.

I could also use some help paying for groceries for the week, even just a few dollars really helps in that regard. I'm currently flat broke, out of food, and hungry. My cashapp and venmo are both under the handle cosecantphi. DM me for zelle or paypal info.

(Also I'd eventually like to recoup the cost of the stupid uniform I had to pay for out of pocket, but I'll consider that a stretch goal lol).

As always, I intend to pay the favor forward here once I get my job situation under control. I thought that was going to be soon, which hurts, but I still have hope I'll get there eventually.

EDIT: 59% of the way there!

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 111 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

After this, I will never again fail to mercilessly dunk on any liberal who blathers on about how DPRK, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela are rogue, irrational states. Not while Israel continues to exist in any capacity other than as a terrible memory. This apex reactionary state is the perfect definition of everything liberals complain about in US state enemies, yet Israel's inalienable right to commit war crimes and genocide galore with US weapons and funding is forever unquestioned.

At what point does it become comical even to the unobservant libs who think Russia invaded Ukraine out of nowhere in 2022? How can one think that is a moral black hole beyond the point of no return, yet also apparently that the Israeli invasion of Lebanon is complex and nuanced?

I'm sorry, I hardly use non-Hexbear social media anymore, and day by day I get more incredulous that the garden variety western libs continue to exist like this with no sign of slowing down.

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 79 points 2 years ago

Another extremely evil move by Israel, but they can only really pull this trick once. Now Hezbollah is going to be thoroughly inspecting every vaguely electronic item that goes through their hands. For injuring a couple thousand random people, Israel has thoroughly burned their ability to infiltrate resistance organizations this deeply ever again. They could have injured the same number of people with conventional weapons easily, but they wanted their terrorism to be theatrical above all else.

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 92 points 2 years ago

Does the photographic evidence of this hog being a Nazi become fake just because it was posted by RT?

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 112 points 2 years ago

That tracks. A forum where most people speak English but have political views in alignment with a lot of the global south is nigh unheard of. Lately I've been thinking that we might start getting attention for it from the wider internet just because of how unique this place is

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 81 points 2 years ago

express extreme indifference

You must publicly cry and grieve for this man who we have been calling the reincarnation of Hitler for the past four years!

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 77 points 2 years ago

It's massively fucking infuriating to me that the very moment Palestine stops dominating the news cycle, liberals are going to fall straight back into accusing Russia and China of committing genocides in Ukraine and Xinjiang without the slightest hint of self awareness.

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 94 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

waking up in the morning and determining whether WW3 has started yet by checking how many new comments the news megathread has

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 88 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Seeing libs accuse Russia and China of genocide in Ukraine and Xinjiang respectively was one thing, but seeing libs accuse Palestine of committing genocide in Israel is just fucking horrific and monstrous.

I'm starting to think the western liberal tendency of calling all acts of violence they dislike genocide is a form of soft Holocaust denial. They've all seen the way outright Holocaust deniers are rightfully shunned and near universally derided. Now these disgusting opportunists call everything they dislike a genocide because they've gotten it in their heads that using the word genocide means no one is allowed to disagree with them.

In doing so, they continuously trivialize the Holocaust by implying the problem with Holocaust denial is that it is merely the denial of a claimed genocide and not because there exists a massive amount of irrefutable historical evidence demonstrating this totally unparalleled evil actually happened.

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 91 points 2 years ago

My interpretation of these people is that they actually don't give a shit about anyone who died in the attacks. They pretend to, but what they're really mad about is the fact that it was a successful attack on a widely recognized symbol of United States hegemony.

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