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[–] dead@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The new agreement between Russia and DPRK includes building a road bridge over the DPRK-Russia border.

The agreements were signed between the governments of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation on building a motorcar bridge over the River Tuman on the DPRK-Russia border and on cooperation in the fields of public health, medical education and science.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/f8b605dd8138953cff78bf29e179e369.kcmsf

[–] dead@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://nitter.poast.org/Pal_action/status/1533135671585546240

https://nitter.poast.org/Pal_action/status/1746896745022312593

In these 2 tweets, Palestine Action write that they have solidarity with Just Stop Oil.

These groups are not mutually exclusive. They are not competing. One person could be in both groups.

The way that your post is written is anti-solidarity. You can't say fighting climate change is more important than protecting Palestinians, you also can't say protecting Palestinians is more important than climate change. It's not comparable. Both causes are very important.

Your post is anti-solidarity. Shame on you.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just Stop Oil released a press statement on their website.

One of the protestors said:
"We’re living in two worlds: one where billionaires live in luxury, able to fly in private jets away from the other, where unlivable conditions are being imposed on countless millions. Meanwhile, this system that is allowing extreme wealth to be accrued by a few, to the detriment of everyone else, is destroying the conditions necessary to support human life in a rapidly accelerating never-ending ‘cruel summer’. Billionaires are not untouchable, climate breakdown will affect every single one of us."

The other protestor said:
“Over the years, I’ve had to realise that even working in sustainability provides me with essentially no ability to make the necessary changes to prevent the complete collapse of our natural systems. I have to take desperate measures to make my voice heard. In 2024 we all have to be considering what we can do each day to change the course our society is on. We need an emergency treaty to stop the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.”

[–] dead@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When I search what you wrote, it says that even though CEF gave money to JSO in the past, Trevor Neilson left CEF in 2021 and condemned JSO as only disruptive in June 2023.

What you wrote doesn't seem up to date. It would seem that JSO went in a different direction.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/just-stop-oil-extinction-rebellion-donor-climate-activists-counterproductive-b1090030.html

Also this article from from November 2023 says that JSO only received 2% of it's funding from CEF. That doesn't seem as significant as your post claims.

https://time.com/6334072/just-stop-oil-climate-change-activist-group/

[–] dead@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toQ5LdpLzPk

In the video that was published by Russian media, it shows Kim and Putin taking turns driving the car. Feels like a dudes rock moment. The car is an Aurus Senat.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some drugs actually do come from China and Mexico.

However, you shouldn't accept the reactionary framing of the drug narrative. Availability of drugs is not what makes people do drugs. Americans are doing drugs because the quality of life in America is hellish. People are doing drugs as a form of escapism from the shitty existence of American life.

Reject the premise that stopping the flow of drugs will make less people do drugs. Less people will do drugs when they have a better life, access to healthcare, higher wages, safer workplace, solidarity with other workers, etc.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

they literally can though. US politicians are famously buyable

This is the most absurd, ahistoric line of magical thinking that I've read in weeks. Why does pornhub simply not just buy politicians at the politician store? A real head scratcher, I'm really thonking now.

The answer is so simple. In the states that pornhub has blocked, the religious lobby and christian nationalists have more political power and capital than the porn industry. Every one of the states highlighted in red has a long history of sexual repression.

In Utah, a 1973 law made it illegal to have premarital sex until 2019, punishable by a misdemeanor and $1000 fine.
In Texas, it is illegal to buy or sell any dildo or artificial vagina sex toy.
In North Carolina, it is illegal for a man/woman couple to live in the same house if they are not married (cohabitation).

These are only a few examples. The states colored in red on the map have long history of discrimination against LGBT people, laws limiting or banning abortion, laws making it harder to divorce an abusive spouse, etc.

Here's a map of states that have banned access to gender affirming care for transgender people. It's literally the same states that have been blocked by pornhub. This map shows that 25 states have banned gender affirming care. 10 of the 12 states which have been blocked by pornhub also have banned access to gender affirming care.

https://www.hrc.org/resources/attacks-on-gender-affirming-care-by-state-map

Here's a map of states which have banned or heavily restricted abortion access. The map shows 21 states have banned or highly restricted access to abortion. Oh it's the same map again. 9 of 12 states which have been blocked by pornhub have banned or extremely limited access to abortions.

https://www.cnn.com/us/abortion-access-restrictions-bans-us-dg/index.html

Here's a map of states where gay marriage is prohibited by the state constitution, although protected by federal law (for now). Same map again? What are the odds? 11 of the 12 states which have been blocked by pornhub also ban gay marriage in their state constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_law_in_the_United_States_by_state

[–] dead@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not sure what you're not understanding about "all 50 states have different proprietary ID designs". Proprietary as in, secret, as in unknown to the public, as in you can't just make the software yourself. As in, each of these states are intentionally hiding the information because they don't want pornhub to be able to actually ID visitors. The answer to your question is "no". No they can't just pay the government for that software.

As I said, they already worked out a system with Louisiana. Louisiana actually cooperated. The other states are not cooperating. The other states are right wing dominated states that are being obtuse on purpose.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A government ID is a proprietary information of each state. If someone showed you an ID from Montana would you know what each number and feature on the ID meant? No, you wouldn't because IDs are a way for the government to ID a citizen and not everything known about an ID is available to the public. In order for a website to be able to scan an ID, the state needs to provide the website with the appropriate software. If you buy alcohol at the grocery store, the grocery store uses state-issued software to scan the ID.

Texas as example passed a law which said that people are now allowed to sue pornhub for not scanning IDs and yet Texas did not give pornhub the necessary software to scan IDs. The intention was purely to manufacture a scenario for people of Texas to sue pornhub.

In the instance of facebook, I'm not sure that facebook actually scans the id, they just store a picture of it. Do you want every porn site to store photos of every ID of every visitor. What if the website gets hacked?

[–] dead@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

How do you say that as if it is so simple to scan the ID of every person who visits your website. First and foremost is that the US doesn't even have an actual citizen ID system. It has a patchwork of different government programs which are meant to be different things that it uses for ID. A driver's license is meant to say whether you can drive, it's not supposed to be an ID. Secondly, every state has a different driver's license design, which also doesn't make any sense. Why doesn't the US give people a national driver's license?

Thirdly how is a canadian company supposed to have the technology to scan american drivers license. In real life when you buy alcohol or cigarettes it kind of makes sense because the gas station attendant can like look the id and then the person and then shrug their shoulders. Do you want the website to also scan the face of every visitor to compare it to the ID? How can the website know that the ID is not counterfeit?

Porn websites do not have the technology to scan government IDs for every single visitor. Logistically it is not possible. What would be needed is a third party website operated by each state government that can scan each ID and then signal the verification back to the porn website through API. Each state knows this and they don't care because their intention is not actually requiring IDs to be scanned, it is to obstruct porn sites from existing. Also since each state is going to individually have to operate their own ID scanning service, that means each state will also be maintaining a gooner database.

In fact, Lousiana was the first state to require porn sites to ID every visitor. You will notice that Louisiana is not colored in red on the map of the OP. That's because Louisiana provided pornhub with the technology to scan IDs. The other states did not provide pornhub with the necessary ID scanning technology and thats why they got blocked. Louisiana is not blocked.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

The origin of this thread was that the D*stiny subreddit had suspected that Hasan Piker had gone on a date with Paris Jackson, Michael Jackson's daughter. LiberalSocialist often reposted threads from the D*stiny subreddit. LiberalSocialist was a very obvious wrecker from the start.

Paris Jackson was 19, almost 20 at the time. Hasan Piker was 26. Paris Jackson was also incredibly wealthy at the time. This was before Hasan had money or fame, it was before he even started his twitch channel. If there was any power dynamic in this situation, it was the multimillionaire heiress who had the power. I don't think a romance was ever even confirmed. Also I think they are still friends who keep in touch.

https://nitter.poast.org/ParisJacksonMX/status/949823837335531522

[–] dead@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Do not use Tixati or uTorrent or Bittorrent. these are proprietary software.

Deluge, QBittorrent, rTorrent, and Transmission are all fine options and I think they each excel in different ways. Most seedboxes use Deluge or rTorrent.

I never really like QBittorrent because I don't like the libQT interface. It's probably fine to use.

Deluge is the preferred client by seedboxers who seed new torrents. For torrents that are less than 48 hours old, deluge seeds much more than any other torrent client. Deluge also downloads more aggressively than the other clients. The drawback of Deluge is that it loses performance at around 500 active torrents.

I haven't noticed Transmission being offered by most seedbox companies for use. It is a fine client. In my own experience, it is limited to around 2000 active torrents seeding before it loses performance. I've known people who seed more than 2000 torrents and they run multiple instances of transmission with different torrents seeding in each.

rTorrent is the best in terms of long term seeding. It is the most lightweight out of the clients. I've has up to 6000 torrents active seeding in an rTorrent client. I would guess that it fails somewhere around 10000 active torrents. The web interface will fail long before it reaches this point so you have to figure out how to control it by command line.

 
  • right-to-work repealed
  • prevailing wage reinstated
  • expanded abortion access
  • banned discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • banned conversion therapy targeting LGBTQ+ youth
  • universal background checks for all gun purchases
  • safe storage requirements to keep guns
  • "red flag" law enabling courts to temporarily order the removal of guns from those posing an imminent risk to themselves or others
  • public schools will no longer be ranked using an A-F letter system
 

I'm posting this ironically. Nikki Haley is extremely anti-worker. This song is bad in a funny way.

 

"I urge Congress to come together and swiftly pass this bipartisan agreement," President Joe Biden said, also praising the migration measures in the bill, which took months to negotiate.

However, House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson declared it "dead on arrival" if it reaches his chamber.

the bill includes a provision barring its funds from going to the U.N. agency for Palestinians, UNRWA.

 
  • 3600 boys and men were polled in London
  • 16 percent said that feminism was more harmful than good
  • one in four said that men said that being a man was harder than being a woman
  • one in five said they view Andrew Tate positively
  • 32 percent said they view Jordan Peterson positively
  • 37 percent said that "toxic masculinity" is an unhelpful phrase

Professor Bobby Duffy, director of the Policy Institute, said the opposing views of some young men and women is a surprising trend. "This is a new and unusual generational pattern," he said.

The reason for the contrasting views of young men and women could be the result of social media consumption. That's the view of Rosie Campbell, Director of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's. She said: "The fact that this group is the first to derive most of their information from social media is likely to be at least part of the explanation."

 

yes, the song feature ben shapiro rapping

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