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Feels like this would be a prime topic to look at through the lens of foreign debt, nationalism, wealth transfer, etc.

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Are there any well sourced works regarding the Kronstadt Rebellion?

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Will my medicaid cover both the eye exam and the glasses and or contacts, whatever I decide? I haven't been to the eye doctor in years and I never used medicaid for it, last time I went I paid out of pocket since I had some cash.

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Apparently the last outreach was unsuccessful, because while a few people showed up to the attempted screening on Tuesday another user decided to invite everyone except for me to an unplanned screening of The Sopranos.

I like The Sopranos, but the anime night had already been planned. Why this user decided to do this is still left unexplained. Nonetheless, I would like some feedback on when the right time to watch this excellent show is, along with some clarification of how Hextube scheduling works.

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Bonus points if it’s the funniest instrument possible for that particular song. Singing is an instrument for the purposes of this post, idk what the actual musician consensus is on if vocals are an instrument or something else.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by assyrian@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 
 

one day last year I was in the gym and went to the lat pulldown machine in the middle of my workout. someone had it on 200 lbs or something, so I pulled the pin out of the weight stack, and the entire attachment fell on the back of my head. this was a really heavy metal attachment, must have been like 20-30 lbs fell on my head. I got really dizzy for ~30 seconds and had a big bump on my head, but that was somehow all that happened.

to this day, I'm kind of scared and cautious whenever I change the weight on those machines.

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This is a question primarily for the queer comrades but of course any of yall can comment.

Recently I saw some criticism of the symbol's use because so few of those who wear it ever had to actually experience it.

Personally I wear it on my jacket, and have worn it for several years. I don't think I'll remove it, but I was curious about other people's thoughts.

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Asking for a friend

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Hi Mx. Chapo,

I'm looking for advice about reporting labor law violations in California, USA. A good friend of mine works in the medical field, and they (and their coworkers) are routinely victims of wage theft. "Overtime" is policed to the extent that it is normal for them to clock out at exactly 8 hours, but continue working for 10-15 minutes.

My friend is annoyed by this, but is afraid of retaliation, and generally likes the job. Can anyone tell me how to report this anonymously? Cursory internet searches make it seem like the reporting party has to be identifiable.

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Pasta is made from dough consisting mainly of flour and water. So essentially pasta is a other form of bread.

Lasagna is most commonly made from alternating layers of pasta, tomato sauce, veggies, cheese, and meat.

With all of that in mind, does this mean a big Mac is a lasagna? Does this also mean deep dish pizzas are lasagna?

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asking for a buddy

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Discuss

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by PointAndClique@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 
 
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Spoiler

About 80 % of students thought this was a swanky straw hat from the 1950s. Truth is that it’s the oldest Roman grasswork "Panama hat" extant, from Fayum in Egypt. In 2017 they radiocarbon dated it to 420-568 CE. Turns out the “Dark Ages” was really more about cool shade (Pitt Rivers Museum, UK) 🎩

https://bsky.app/profile/sarahebond.bsky.social/post/3kkzbnbwt762n

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Zuzak@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 
 

I'm going to an event soon and the last time I was there there were some of those awful street preachers with megaphones shouting bigotry. They're a nuisance and nobody wants them there, but it's a public festival and evidentially they're allowed to be there.

I tried looking online (reddit-logo)and most of the advice was stupid lib shit, ranging from, "Call the cops and tell them they're violating statute blah blah blah" or, "Just ignore them, you can't change their minds and engaging just feeds their persecution complex." Obviously the cops do nothing, I don't care about changing their minds or what they think I just want to shut them up. But I also don't want to get arrested and if possible, it'd be nice to avoid disturbing the other people further.

Most likely, I'm just gonna have to endure it, but I thought I'd raise the question for brainstorming bc it feels like a common enough situation that other people will encounter it too. Best I can think is screaming something back at them emilie-shrug

UPDATE: I ended up just wearing a bunch of pride stuff and then they weren't even there lol

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I'm sorry if this is an incredibly stupid question.

I usually use an app for Lemmy-ing, but I've poked around on the browser interface as well, and I just can't figure out how to look at my sent DMs. How do?

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For years I thought "Bring Em Young University" was a joke about the mormon practice of marrying girls to old men. Come to find out the religion was started by a guy "Brigham Young" after whom an actual university is named and nobody thinks that's weird at all.

I thought "Joe Mansion" was some kind of bizarro world "Joe the Plumber". Maybe joking about rich conservatives putting on affectations of being working class. He is actually a politician and his name is spelled "Manchin" and some people seem to think he's on the left.

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This actually has a real-world purpose. I'm going to get a custom baseball jersey made with the player name "KINSEY" and player number "03" to wear during pride events this coming june. I just need a good team name for it.

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Like diamat is just a method of scientific analysis. Any action compelled by that understanding is compelled by personal beliefs external to the diamat analysis? Is this right?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by sharkfucker420@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 
 

I know their use case but I have no idea what it means for a region to be autonomous. Just how independant are they? What rights do they have? How are they still part of this state? How are they different from something like a canadian province or US state?

Wikipedia was little help as usual and prolewiki doesn't ever define an autonomous region afaik

I'm specifically referring to the modern day autonomous regions of china

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