quarrk

joined 3 years ago
[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago

Cuomintang v Maomdanists

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

h3h3 is that one friend you smoked weed with in high school who was kind of a dumbass but fun to hang out with sometimes.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 34 points 6 days ago
[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago

Also half the people who voted for Hillary were pissed off Bernie supporters who still voted for Hillary despite hating her. They did it because Bernie asked them to. They didn't forget how she and the DNC did him dirty less than a year prior.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

The USAmerican population needs some small wins like this in order to break the spell we’re collectively under. The one that says mildly leftist policies are mythical pipe dreams. Some small victories have a chance to snowball as it’s proven that the government can actually provide for its people, if it chooses to.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I genuinely think he would have a shot. He has charisma I haven’t seen from any politician since Obama. All of the young people like this guy, TikTok has fallen for him

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

The land was settled in order to extract resources back to the home country. Only the schmucks and undesirables actually went out to live in the colonies. To the extent that bourgeois settled too, it was for upward mobility, and they deemed themselves entitled to wealth for bracing the so-called savage lands.

After centuries of settlement, and after the formal end of colonialism, the descendants of the original white settlers have lost connection with their own history. They must make up a new one which imagines that capitalism is natural, that the settled land was pristine before they arrived, and that the country was founded on principles of liberty rather than exploitation and genocide.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

I don’t deny that Israel has autonomy. I mean that the US has already gamed out the outcomes with that factored in. Trump is not actually surprised by Israel’s behavior. It is in the US interest to scapegoat Netanyahu, and Netanyahu himself is fine with playing that game.

It’s the most transparent thing that Trump does in every situation. When it was Tariffs, he slapped on some tariffs and then melodramatically posted that everyone should play nicely now, as if he hadn’t just flipped the table.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

He’s just playing dumb like always. Everyone knows it’s not Israel calling the shots

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish I could go back to 5 minutes ago before I learned who that is

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Novara are clueless British trots with little to offer to the working class

 

Additional Link to Hegseth’s directive to the Secretary of the Army is partially visible here (pdf didn’t archive well; you can visit the .mil link if you wish)

Hard to tell if this is more DOGE-inspired nonsense or a serious effort to clean up their act. Probably the latter. Hegseth is a true believer and really wants war with China

 

@VexLoser on TikTok (previous account @LexL0s3r was banned)

 

@wode_maya on TikTok

 

English has so many words that I have encountered probably hundreds of times and never looked up. I just skip past them or use context to understand.

What the fuck is a cantilever? What is a yeoman? And why do people insist on bringing in Fr*nch words like rapprochement?

So if I’m still learning English, despite decades of practice… then I shouldn’t be embarrassed about learning a language that I just encountered a couple years ago.

I felt relieved to realize that no one 100% masters a language. You just reach a point where some % of mastery is enough for what you need to do. So I don’t need to worry about being fluent, if that even has a precise meaning. Every little improvement helps.

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Although the "but at what cost?" attitude is funny.... I think these brits are genuinely marveling

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You literally can just long press the normal hyphen on the iOS keyboard, probably similar in Android


So, you saw an em dash in a sentence and immediately screamed “AI!”? Hold up. That long, dramatic line — yeah, that one — has been around way before ChatGPT slid into your DMs. Writers have been using em dashes for centuries to spice things up, create vibes, and break the rules in the coolest way possible.

Here’s the tea: the em dash is a tool, not a tell. Just because an AI uses it doesn’t mean it’s some secret signature. You know who else uses em dashes? Literally every author who’s ever wanted to sound clever, casual, or just a little chaotic.

So next time you spot an em dash, don’t panic. It’s punctuation, not a personality test.

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