3 months of consistent weight training, down! One of my big goals this year was to gain the functional strength necessary for my coming stages of life, and I'm proud of myself for managing to make a serious habit out of it!

I think I’m running into vibe coded stuff more often now. I keep using apps and sites from fairly large companies where either very basic stuff doesn’t work, or almost nothing works. It seems like the type of stuff AI would get confidently wrong, like all of the checkboxes interaction windows being slightly off from where they’re rendered, or you’d get a 2FA popup with no code sent out and if you just close it it logs in successfully. How did capitalism manage to make enshittification worse?

Its not a sexual thing, but put on the Maid outfit

idk who to tell this to, so I'll say it here: I felt a panic attack coming from browsing linkedin and shut the tab before it could escalate

I appreciate this place, even though its online, as a space for people who are sane and and can see through the capitalist bullshit veneer on top of society for what it is

This thread prompted me to finally start on Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth. It’s looking like the perfect thing to read for me right now, having just completed Camus’ The Rebel. The topic is very similar but they’re starting from different attitudes: Fanon, the colonized; Camus, the French Algerian settler. The disgusting conclusions Camus draws are, I think, inextricably linked to his settler background.

Consider the way Camus develops the concept of rebellion:

What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion. A slave who has taken orders all his life suddenly decides that he cannot obey some new command. What does he mean by saying “no”? He means, for example, that “this has been going on too long,” “up to this point yes, beyond it no,” “you are going too far,” or, again, “there is a limit beyond which you shall not go.” In other words, his no affirms the existence of a borderline.

and later (emphasis mine):

The act of rebellion carries him far beyond the point he had reached by simply refusing. He exceeds the bounds that he fixed for his antagonist, and now demands to be treated as an equal.

Compare with Fanon (emphasis mine):

To dislocate the colonial world does not mean that once the borders have been eliminated there will be a right of way between the two sectors. To destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist’s sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory. Challenging the colonial world is not a rational confrontation of viewpoints. It is not a discourse on the universal, but the impassioned claim by the colonized that their world is fundamentally different.

Fanon considers the colonized rebel and draws a conclusion opposite to Camus. Rebellion, rather than asserting equality according to Camus, instead asserts difference.

Fuck work. Fuck what it does to your psychology. I'm fucking tired. I got home after 11pm last night after delivering ~400 packages. I went to bed within the hour and woke up within an hour of having to leave again. They're offering 'voluntary time off' but it's still fresh in my memory a couple weeks ago when I had to take time off for injury AND they cut me a bunch such that I was in the red for a month. I 2/3 want to take that time off and just whine internally.

spiritual edit before posting: I took the day off. Literally the first time in almost 2 years I took a day off 'just because.'

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Does anyone else feel communism has sort of saved your sanity? (If you are a liberal lurker screenshotting this to dunk, you're friends don't like you and your mother wishes you would call more) But with everyone's brains being broken by media, Chatgpt, and huffing pure ideology, having a material orientation of looking at the world feels like it kept me from going down a darker path.

unironically used burgers as a unit of measurement in a meeting today because my manager couldn't understand anything else

You think one bird ever starts to suspect that all the baths and feeders are... built for them somehow, and the other birds are just like "Yeah okay grandpa"

Natalie Wynn, also known by her online handle "Deathsquadpoints",,

I remember a struggle session of times long past. I can't remember what started it, but it ended with people calling for mod elections, and then one of the mods called this idea a "colour revolution manifesto". It was so funny. People used to take this site way too seriously

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Sitting in the emergency vet parking lot cuz my little buddy stopped eating food and started shitting blood

Worked late last night. Got home at 12:30 am. Didn't sleep until 5:30. Woke up at 2:30. I have to leave in an hour to go to work again. Fuck me. I get stressed from my job, so I can't sleep at night, so I get zero time to actually be a human being between shifts.

I believe humans can reincarnate into bears now

The wastewater COVID data closest to me definitely makes me feel pretty good, each spike has been a fraction of the size of the previous since like 2022, and while the data doesn't go all the way back to COVID's start, our current numbers seem comparable to pre-lockdown wastewater in other locations.

claims to be against colonialism

is literally called France Fan 1

Lmao bozo

Honestly we get most of the lame ass rich crackers if we just imported the REI membership list into the Death Note.

This is a safe place for these feelings but what the Russians did to tsar and his family was a million percent justified and i hope one day the rich in the US get theirs too.

class-conscious kris

gnite yall

I hate the trope of protagonists withholding world changing knowledge from literally everyone in their lives. Like Im watching this The New Saga slop anime where the protagonist, KYLE, has been apparently sent back in time to before almost everyone he loved died. And then he doesn't say shit about it to anyone? Including some elf who he was bangin' and, consequently knew the true name of, like he blurts it out on seeing her which already reveals he has incredibly secret knowledge that he shouldn't have and instead of like, dumping his nuts on the table and telling everyone all this shit that's happened to him, he just like, tries to play it off

this shit always frustrates me like ughhh just tell them you're from the future or whatever, it's not like he can't fucking prove it

Baby, I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight

(I love cheap thrills)

Baby, I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight

(I love cheap thrills)

But I don't need no money

As long as I can feel the beat

I don't need no money

As long as I keep dancing

Cheap thrills is about third places.

How do people wake up and instantly start talking. Most conversations before my coffee feel like a hostage situation tbh

watched again tonight. what a good movie, the ending hits so hard.

also watched Mickey 17 last night. also very good. I find the trend of actors playing two characters at the same time very funny. why hire two actor, when one actor do trick?

being the NINTH emoji that comes up for :yea is a very thing

If this comment gets one upbear I will drink another beer, hopefully lose the last piece of my sanity

I know we have some King Gizzard and the Lizard Fans on Hexbear...

I've been working on an extended remix of their most recent album, Phantom Island. The original album has been met with mixed reviews, and one of the major issues with it was that it was artistically pulled between two dissonant directions: a broody orchestral rock album, and a fun and flippant country rock thang.

I wanted to put something together that was more focused and which took seriously the interesting orchestral rock angle, so I spent some time editing and rearranging the existing tracks and throwing in some original orchestral arrangements as interludes/segues. The final product has about 10 minutes of original stuff.

If anyone would like to give it a listen, here's a youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOJOFxk1cog

That 2-3 years where industrial music and looking like a matrix character was genuinely considered cool should come back. People were excited for the millennium and wanted to dress like the future regardless of cultural subgenre. We should all be studying mid to late 90s music videos for our looks

Not the worst part of the current administration and American culture, but a bunch of dumb hogs are going to make it so I can’t even go to a pub and mindlessly order fries without worrying it isn’t vegan aren’t they

Never apologize for being into hairy men.

Now I'm just a white guy who knows nothing about nothing. But it sure seems to me like UK libs are twisting themselves into knots to be mad at a black woman for saying black people experience racism in a different way to Jews, am idea that would be so anodyne so as to remain uncommented upon if it had been the other way around.

Vibes based analysis: I think there's a hell of a lot of tension building. Literally all of my friends, who are just out of college and we're mostly liberal, are now saying our loud that capitalism and profit is the root of societal problems. With barely any prompting from me. Pressure is building and in the next few years something is gonna pop.

I want to live in a cold country. I like jackets, please let me wear jackets I want more jackets but I will die in this burning country.

Someone just tried to phish me while I was driving for Uber. Called me up pretending to be support and told me that I was getting a $300 bonus. I was pretty suspicious and didn't tell him any information over the phone, then hung up when he wanted me to enter strange card information into my uber driver account. Then ten minutes later, as I'm trying to get connected to actual support to report the incident (in hindsight the idea that Uber Support would call you for any reason is red flag number one) and another driver comes by the same area, having been lured by the same phony ride request. (and as I've typed this, a third driver has arrived.)

Far as I can tell, his plan was to get me to add his card to my account, and then get me to transfer my funds to it under the guise that this was necessary to give me the bonus. Classic move.

Stay vigilant out there, friends.

edit: aaaand car number four! This scammer gets your number by putting in a ride request and waiting for you to call them and ask where they are, so I've just been telling everyone who comes down this out of the way road what's up.