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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Often times the services have a fleet of accounts, they have them do reposts of old popular posts with titles and some content rephrased, then some of the rest of the fleet copies the top comments and rephrases those and posts them below.

    This builds a history of realistic and semi popular looking posts in a way that is fairly easy to automate . Anyone who looks closely could potentially figure out a given account, or even cluster of accounts, is farmed, but it takes effort and time to prove it, more effort and time than it takes for them to spoil up another batch of bots.



  • For me, I try to focus on buying stuff that will keep well, things that I can use a lot of ways, or things I have an immediate plan to use all of.

    Or multiple of those things at once. Like if I get a crown of broccoli, it will only stay good in the fridge for a week or two, but I don’t need to eat it all at once, I can just take a bit at a time and add it to other things, like a soup or a pan fry, to get some green in. Frozen veggies solve the only lasting a week or two thing also.

    On the other hand there’s things like canned tuna, there is only really one way I’m gonna use that, but it keeps forever in the cabinet, so no wasting fridge space, and the cans are usually small enough I can use it all at once.

    Like, if it doesn’t keep well, you you wouldn’t use it all at once, and you’d probably only use it for one thing, just don’t bother.

    Also, like, look in to how certain things should be best stored, some things can last a lot longer if you figure that out.


  • Lmao, two idiots fighting. This seemed kind of inevitable, they’re not compatible personality types to work with each other.

    Elon definitely thinks he has more influence with trump’s crowd than he actually has, but I also think his position at twitter makes him dangerous to trump by undermining his ability to reach a lot of people who haven’t fully crawled down the maga conspiracy pipeline.

    I don’t think he’s going to be able to shift much support to Vance ether. Vance and his ilk are just to weird for most trump supporters.


  • Yah, installing a fixed on-sight back up should be permitted and regulated. And I think they are in the jurisdiction of the facility, hence why they’re using mobile generators, the kinds of things normally used on construction sights.

    I was referring more to like emission regulations on them. Dumping a bunch of particulates and exhaust products in to a local population’s air is really bad, but it’s not a huge issue if it’s temporary, like say on a construction sight or to deal with an occasional power outage. It’s another thing entirely when it’s the primary power source, or the power grid is failing so frequently that they’re being run all the time.

    That situation in Texas sounds very much like them trying to do something to address public concerns about the grid failing by making it easier for people to “take personal responsibility” by installing backup generators. Clearly they do not want to annoy the private companies running the grid by forcing them to spend money on repairs, upgrades, and maintenance. Like, they’re unwilling to address the core issue, but public outcry means they have to do something, so instead they create a new safety issue that they can deny responsibility for.


  • From what I’ve heard about the power situation, they’ve been using mobile generators that they occasionally move around, since those are not regulated. It makes sense to not regulate emergency back up generators since the point of them is that they’re supposed to be temporary and not run for very long, but these aren’t emergency backups, these are the main power source.

    Now they’re pushing for permits for permanent generators, probably because the mobile generators are inefficient and expensive.

    Honestly the whole situation stinks of incompetence, like they built the facility in a rush without checking if they could get the power they would need, and then tried to build their own power, but saw how hard permitting would be, so they went with the loophole mobile generators because it was expedient, now they want to build proper generators because the mobile generators are too expensive, but are running in to having to face public scrutiny now.






  • I think the current Russian leadership has this detached fantasy of what America’s far right are like, this idea that they’re homebody rural folks who just want to keep to them selves and that if they’re in charge the US will disengage it’s self from the rest of the world, leaving Russia to treat Eastern Europe as a playground for their imperialism.

    But the thing is, it ignores the agency of the eastern Europe to oppose them, and it ignores the fact that the the US far right is fundamentally narcissistic and egomaniacal. Ultimately the far right of the US will stay engaged in eastern Europe because they will perceive Russia telling them to get out as an insult and a humiliation. The only way the far right would disengage would be if they could frame it as them “winning” and that framing would be perceived as an insult and humiliation to the Russian leadership, so they won’t allow it.

    So they will come to genuinely hate each other. I don’t think this will lead to the US far right suddenly deciding they care deeply about the well being of eastern Europe, but they also aren’t going to disengage completely.



  • Yah, that’s why people call them tankies. Any criticism of the USSR, or even acknowledging why people criticize it, is a banable offense.

    The term tankie get’s thrown around a lot, to the point of dilution, but the origin of it comes from western communist who defended the Soviet Union putting down the 1956 Hungarian revolution, notably using T-54/55 tanks. It later came to mean western communist that would ignore or downplay any criticism of the USSR, as “propaganda”. These days it could even be applied more broadly to “People who call them selves left wing or communists but who will defend the actions of any authoritarian regime so long as it is notionally in opposition to the US and it’s allies” IE people who defended Assad and Putin.

    I think hexbear fits even a fairly narrow older definition. Which is why most major instances are defederated from them.