life is unfair
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.
Among Marx's best-known texts are the "The Communist Manifesto" and the three-volume "Das Kapital", in which he set out to define and explain the behavior of the capitalist mode of production.
Marx's political and philosophical thought have had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
Marx's critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.
Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.
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The last bootleg feed I knew of for Trueanon (jumble.top I believe) seems to be down. A sad day when I can't get podcast slop for free but there's no world in which I am paying $5 a month for Trueanon, a podcast. Easy come easy go.
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Question for the people that are actually not afraid of talking to others. How should I ask people if they want to hang out? I haven't seen some friends in almost 7 months and I want to see them again. Should I just ask them if they want to get lunch or dinner somewhere? Thats what I think I might do tomorrow if I don't get so scared of talking
If they're friends you can just ask if they want to do something, yeah.
Just be aware that there are plenty of reasons to be unavailable so the chance of attendence is like 40-70%. It's not personal at all and if it was there'd be signs. The yes and no have little to do with how you present the idea so I'd just be clear with date, time, location, and purpose in the invitation
How about just telling them that you'll be somewhere, and letting them know they're invited if they want to join you?
Is anyone else familiar with the experience of having people around you who love to hear you talk but don't actually give a shit about what you're saying?
It's the most infantilising thing. They'll go through the active listening motions but I can tell from their tone that they've checked out. Why the fuck did you ask me about the book I'm reading, or ask me for my take on world events, if you're just going to mhmm your way through the conversation and start folding laundry or whatever? Sometimes I just trail off midsentence and they don't even notice - they just respond with an, "...interesting!" a second later.
I put a lot of work into a tech political project recently, and in the early stages I had scraped a pile of politician's speeches in order to do some word analysis. I described it to a political friend who also works in tech and was met with, "I don't really get the point but it's really cool to see you so excited about something!"
Sometimes I find talking to strangers so much more validating because they have nothing to respond to except what I say.
/rant
A lot of people just love small talk for some reason. I think they like the protocol of it more than the content. Do they go around telling people the same new story about something? The people in my life like that do that too, where they get a nee topic/event/story and repeat it to everyone.
Eh doesn't quite feel like that, as it's only people close to me who do this, and they rarely do any talking themselves. It really feels like they're just trying to show me love or be close to me in an abstract way, and not realizing that their disinterest in the subjects I care about is invalidating that.
It would be fine but it wastes my time and it's a big emotional letdown if I don't clue in soon enough and let myself get excited about something.
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I'm at my city's annual hanami event and for some fucking reason for a good while there was just what sounded like generic movie trailer music blaring from the festival ground, who booked this shit
Edit: there is now Japanese music, sanity has been restored
Jesus Christ I just got jump scared by my neighbor irl lmao. In my kitchen there is a window that faces there house and they also have a window at there kitchen so I accidently made eye contact with one of them at fucking 1 am and I really hope I didn;t scare them as badly as they scared me lmao
Them: 
You: 
Them:
You:
I think I'm gonna pin up a towel or sheet on that window so that doesn't happen again lol
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How about, when we colonize Mars, instead of making factories and Martian corporations, instead of all that we could just have a little rave. Earth could be for animals and crops, the moon for mining, and a non-stop dance party on Mars.
Dance parties at 1/3rd G sounds awesome.
Was at partner's family's house for taco dinner and they were offering crunchy shells... uncooked.
Is this why so many people hate crunchy taco shells? Because they're eating chewy, gummy-ass uncooked shells??
You have to cook them? Ive always had ones that are hard like a tortilla chip
yeah im very confused too, you either have tacos made in soft flour/corn tortilla or have hard ones i thought
You bake the hard shells for a couple minutes to make them crispier and less tough
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Did they fire the "hey have a plan before escalating shit" guy in usaid/cia it seems every other day an asshole in power decide to just crashout/go postal sloppily.
Woofs
Goth wolves! What will they think of next?
I know measles is spreading in the USA (sth like 11 states and 1k cases) but where is birdflu at rn?
I wouldnβt necessarily mind overtime but I wanted to play some vidyas after the leafs game.
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i think this is what people in kenya feel like when the US is about to invade somewhere. something terrible might happen that will affect us all. i have no fucking clue what can be done about it.
I have a really dumb question, one which I assume has been answered somewhere before, so feel free to either link me to that answer or copy and paste it here.
Whenever the subject of Substack comes up -- like when someone I follows links to their Substack page -- someone always mentions that "Substack supports Nazis". I don't usually read things on Substack and I haven't written anything on it, so it never became a dilemma for me, but what are people referring to when they say this? Do they actively support Nazis financially, while suppressing non-Nazis? Or is it that they allow Nazis to use their site instead of actively removing them? Do their policies, or the enforcement of their policies, disproportionately favour fascists?
As long as I'm asking, what are people using as an alternative to Substack?
Here's their right-wing response to "you're making money from fascist propaganda on your site".
Dudes rock
Jokic made all the other players earn their paychecks for once. Very entertaining game.
@Lussy@hexbear.net talked with my old neighbor who just got back to the island after a NYC trip and she was talking about how she hadn't eaten rice in a week. Asked her why she didn't try eating Chinese, sushi, Indian food, or anything that should've been available over there. "Nah, a mi no me gusta la comida rara" ??? Why even travel?
Itβs a disease with us. We have great food but our palette for foreign food is even more retrograde than that of even Americans.
There used to be an Indian restaurant in the island during the 00s in Old San Juan. It was actually ome of the best ones ive ever been to. It went out of business because noone showed up.
A little pain never hurt anybody
andor s02e08 spoilers
"who are you" is so funny this show is so good
I should've paid someone to build this fucking computer 
But if everything eventually turns out well I will feel very proud
What if General Zod was one of us?
Just a hexbear mod like some of us?
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Every time there's police violence or overreach or corruption or just plain old harrasment, you hear the chorus "it's just a few bad apples." Mother fucker, what is the saying about a few bad apples in a bunch. Is it "a few bad apples does nothing to the bunch actually" do we keep a spoiled bunch. Why has did it enter as an idiom to say a few bad apples for thin blue line types when cops do something horrible
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