[-] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

No

meow-knife-trans but a fan of the emotes

[-] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

This is timecube level of not conveying a message well

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

What I would give for a Band of Brothers style show about Soviet soldiers on the Eastern Front or about Chinese Communists in the Civil War. I know that the amount of historical war movies that Hollywood puts out is part of the propaganda machine but I'm such a sucker for it. Maybe as Chinese cinema hits its stride in the next few years we could get something to satiate me

[-] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago

I'm not one to go on about how great presidents used to be because they all suck in different ways but goddamn this Biden drama has reminded me of this Abraham Lincoln quote. Like just imagine any president in the last 50 years saying anything close to this coherent:

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

Like that goes hard and actually uses poetic language, meanwhile politicians now can barely form a sentence

[-] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You can see the ever-given there too in Mar 2021. Looks like the volume has actually been reduced close to those levels which is crazy

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I know I know kill yr heroes and all that

[-] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago

Canada is having difficulty hiring diplomats to work in the United States as unions cite increased violence and lack of access to medical care in the United States as reasons for why diplomats are choosing to take posts in other countries and avoiding working in the Great Satan

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

The section of URLs after the ? Is usually a tracker that tracks who the link is copied by and who clicks it. Allowing the website to build a web of connected users outside of direct actions on the website

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Cuno would get me too high and then tell me I was gonna feel like that forever

[-] [email protected] 88 points 8 months ago

The Toronto police have charged a man with a hate crime after he waved a PFLP flag at a protest this is pretty unprecedented and blatantly biased considering how often you see chuds flying Confederate flags in rural areas of the country with no one stopping them

[-] [email protected] 85 points 8 months ago

I have to live to see the collapse of the evil empire, I need to see the end of all the death it brings. Remember the third world is just around the corner

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Disclaimer: I know nothing about modern tanks

Are the RPGs they're using powerful enough to damage the tanks Israel uses? I would assume the blast would mostly be deflected by the armour

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So the Canadian government passed a law in June that would require Meta and Google to pay news organizations for news content that is featured on their websites. Essentially acting as a kind of "link tax" for tech companies, justified by the use of content from these news organizations that appears on Facebook, Instagram, and Google (thumbnails, bylines, etc). In response Meta has blocked all Canadian news from appearing on their websites along with non-news websites from Canada like The Beaverton and Walking Eagle News (The Canadian and Indigenous versions of the Onion). You can read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_News_Act

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/44-1/c-18

So I can see potential pros and cons of this legislation.

Pros:

I hate Google and Meta and this will make them lose money which I'm always a fan of.

This could help news organizations that have more leftist or more Indigenous focused reporting fund their work, considering those organizations don't have much funding to begin with in Canada.

The current blocking of news on Meta could help move people away from getting their news on there from sites like The Rebel

It will help ensure the survival of Canadian based news and help stave off even more American corporate and cultural hegemony over the country

Cons:

The majority of the money from this program will go towards the Postmedia owned news networks and further entrench their neoliberal worldview

What do you think about the bill?

[-] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago

The idea that media companies in the the west are subservient to the interests of capital and the military industrial state isn't even a "tankie" take on the left. Similar ideas have been espoused by many people across the left, the most famous of which being Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky.

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I'm treating this like adult Pokemon and my friends aren't getting my excitement when I find a new bird.

Also I've been checking in on some juvenile Bald Eagles near me here's a picture I could get of one:

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This is some tumblrinaction level humour

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