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Hexday 2024, Happy 4th year anniversary nerds!!! - New General Megathread for the 24th-26th of July 2024 (hexbear.net)

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

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On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.

Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.

Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them garcia-cock-shotty , its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.

dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?

I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here

Megathreads and spaces to hang out:

📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube
🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread
⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread
✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread

reminders:

💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
💜 Sorting by new you nerd
🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

❤️Foundations of Leninism
❤️Anarchism and Other Essays

Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Local thai place has had a drop in food quality. I no longer support multiculturalism or immigration.

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[-] PaX@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What happened to this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honglaowai

Never heard of this before and all his videos are private now

Communist(?) investment banker in 2008 lmao

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Me realizing I was 2 days late to hexbear (formerly chapochat without which my name makes no sense) walter-breakdown

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[-] jimmyjohnsandwichsix@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

My brother is one of those dipshits about the new assassins creed game and it just upsets me

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[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

god this olympic opening ceremony is stupid as fuck nice louisfuton ad dorks

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

There should be a synonym for Thesaurus.

[-] blight@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

> “darkly-pureblack”
> look inside
> gray

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[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Chapo Roan

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I really can't stand all these liberals criticizing JD Vance when like 8 years ago they were all fawning over him and his book

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Its great to see all the nerds i follow in twitter hoxhaists, maoists, dengists, leftcomms, demsocs, anarchists, socdems all come together and dunk on the patsocs and their acp, evertime its great left-unity-2

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

I gotta get better at following my treat desires, my media impulses, special interests, autism stuff. I have spent like a month and a half unsuccessfully butting my head against random video games and stuff when it turns out, I just needed to be reading Nevada for the 30th time or whatever it is. But it took over a week to figure that out for some reason! Why can I not be in touch with what I wanna do on a minute to minute basis? Is this a bad interroception issue?

[-] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Sorry if I'm coming across as attention seeking,but venting about it takes my mind off it

That being said,I've come to absolutely despise these fucking things

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[-] PaX@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Love talking to various reactionaries in my family irl and hearing their takes

"The world is laughing at us [ amerikkka ]" (referring to Biden's cognitive implosion or whatever)

Okay so? Good, they should be laughing 9/11

In a very "unlimited destruction upon the first world" type of mood today qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

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[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Lmao they can't put Simone Biles' mom and Snoop Dogg in the same frame

[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

need some grass to touch me

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

DAY ONE CADRES WHERE ARE YALLLL

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

I'm gonna learn Bella Ciao before my next violin lesson, I'm vibing with it.

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Engineering rules of thumb: first order approximations used when it is a component not likely to cause a critical failure

Management rules of thumb: the fakest shit you've heard that someone made up once.

[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Its a shame they blocked this site on the company internet because I would use it so much more

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[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

on NPR they moved on from "full-scale" and referrred to Russia's "all-out" invasion of Ukraine.

[-] blight@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Crushposting:

They stood up to their stalker themselves and refuse to be intimidated. I’m super proud. They still have their fierce fighting spirit intact.

In other more mundane news, they made a silly mistake, and I bullied them playfully for it, whereupon they playfully and angrily threw a ball at me.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Funniest thing that regularly happens at large orgs is how they'll have enterprise licenses for most things, but for anything that requires individual user approval everyone uses the open source alternative because getting through the approval chain takes longer than the task.

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

vividly visualizing a :slammer: edit that goes like "KILL ALL UTILITARIANS" and has a shop of Ursula K. LeGuin drilling Jeremy Bentham with subtext like "if one of us is suffering all of us is suffering" or something along the lines of "'how many social amenities does a foreigner cost' instead of considering that you should consider the following:" and it's fuhrerbunker hitler

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[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Damn I've been on here for over a year! Happy Hexday y'all.

I this year I'm going to learn Rust and make some contributions back to Lemmy and by virtue Hexbear. Its the least I could do.

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[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

wow so apparently spotted lanterflies aren't even that harmful. got us all going from im-doing-my-part to john-agony . oh sure we were "just following orders." history has famously smiled on that excuse you fucking jackasses. way to squash beautiful & cute creatures for nothing.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yanks everytime they fail to contain a plague: "Akchually it isn't harmful, and you are a looney if you think otherwise, also,it was fascism to try to contain the plague in the first place"

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[-] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

wow its really been 4 years. I remember when we were all on r/chapo making terrible bernie would have won jokes and yelling at neoliberals. Good times.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

NSFW

(Not Safe For Worf)

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Some indigenous teenagers invited me to a barbecue and I thought it was nice of them until I saw they were eating a stray pit bull they hunted and killed. Actually tasted kind of good tbh.

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[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Just found my bike lock key after losing it for over a year! It's a really nice one too.

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[-] femboy@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

four years?? chomsky-yes-honey

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Cleaned and organized garage. Gonna put a work bench in eventually so I can, like, once again exercise the fundamental nature of my being by making stuff. First step to that was cleaning out and consolidating a whole bunch of stuff

Installed Linux on an old box, gonna try setting up Home Assistant eventually.

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Elliott Smith dying was like millennial 9/11

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

contextphobic mystery-emote chomsky-yes-honey

[-] asante@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

happy anniversary!! niko-dance club-penguin-dance pirate-jammin

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Okay look right, I love the free book websites, my uncritical support. However, if a free book website puts its dumb fucking url at the footer of every single chapter, that is nerd shit, oceanofpdf.