[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

This, but with Gundam or Lego kits (for me at least)

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, it doesn’t.

On top of that, the military tends to have a lot of immigrants join due to the fact they can fast track naturalization by doing so. This being the California National Guard, I wonder how many of these soldiers have friends and/or family who have been kidnapped, or are under the threat of being kidnapped, by ICE.

I suspect morale is completely in the shitter for these people right now.

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’m sorry but this article really rubs me the wrong way. The example used (the intro to Bleak House by Charles Dickens) doesn’t seem like it would have a whole lot of cultural relevance to the sample of students tested who were from public colleges in Kansas. If you’re the kind of person who already reads Dickens and/or watches British period dramas like Downton Abbey, you’ll probably perform much better in this exercise, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you are functionally illiterate or lack reading comprehension skills in a general sense. If the reading sample in question was something like Trainspotting, would it mean that Scottish readers have a unique talent for reading that others don’t have? Of course not. It just means the others aren’t Scottish.

A better example imo would have been something more universally difficult, like… A Clockwork Orange or Finnegan’s Wake, but in reality it’s hard to remove cultural bias completely. Or… You know what? Fuck it. Everyone should just be forced to read Hegel and be considered illiterate unless they can completely understand each and every sentence. How does that sound?

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

“Buck Williams”?? That’s a real name in the book?

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

We should drill a hole in his skull so the worm in his brain can escape

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think we were right to defederate at the time, but I would love to revisit this and see if we can work out these issues for the greater good of the trans fediverse.

Also I think Ada should just reopen 195 on blahaj and put hexbear mods in charge of it.

sicko-yes

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

I absolutely LOVED these games. They are probably my favorite VNs that I've finished, though they are really VN + puzzles. The characters are generally great imo and they're very queer friendly games. I personally like the humor, but it's extremely horny (the humor, the game is SFW) just as a warning, since that might rub some people the wrong way. The anime Punch Line was also by Uchikoshi and shares some of the same themes (scifi, identity/reality-bending, queer-friendly, extremely horny jokes), so if anyone here has seen that I'd say there are a lot of similarities, though I like the Somnium Files games better.

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Lucy Parsons was unfathomably based and we really should talk about her more here.

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There are sharks they’ve found that are 400 years old. I’m telling you, when sharks get larger brains and opposable thumbs, humans are done for. transshork-happy

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

yes-hahaha-yes-l

:sicko-fem:

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