videos Chronicon • 4d ago • 100%

Anyone know what happened to the First Thought video on Bangladesh?

It was here yesterday, and had been out for a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajNmukQmR4k but now it's privated. I didn't watch it yet

chapotraphouse Chronicon • 5d ago • 100%

C. Derick Varn is fucking with me personally

www.youtube.com

"huh that video title/description sounds kinda interesting..." \*clicks\*  

videos Chronicon • 6d ago • 100%

Humans should not go to Mars... Yet - Cody'sLab

Hoping this would be more based, but its still decent edit: okay the part about the nuke is cringe

askchapo Chronicon • 1w ago • 100%

Anyone know a way to get free or cheap access to ArcGIS?

had an inquiry from a comrade, and who has $700+ dollars for that shit

covid Chronicon • 3w ago • 100%

Just had a friend get their insurance denied for fucking VACCINES

Death to america, of course

The Dredge Tank Chronicon • 2mo ago • 100%

Chyna having human backup drivers for their robotaxis means they're inferior! (It couldn't possibly be a different risk tolerance)

Holy shit I hate STEMlords sometimes "just use AI to supervise the AI" "why don't they just let it get stuck or crash like in murica?"

music Chronicon • 2mo ago • 87%

Mustafa - Gaza is Calling

Been hearing this a lot and honestly only haven't posted it here because I was assuming it already had been posted a bunch when it first came out. from the artist, in the comments: >Gaza is Calling is about my first experience with heartbreak in friendship. I was 11 when I met this boy from Gaza. We were inseparable. With him I shared one of the deepest loves I’ve ever known, he grew up alongside me in a housing project in Toronto. And not even this love was a match for the violence we were up against; the one in our new home, the one that followed him from Gaza like a cold wind. In the end it was all the bloodshed between us that didn’t allow us to see each other without tears appearing, and one of the last notes he sent to me was about how we would continue on in another life. > >The string sample is the Arabian nostalgia that we share, the autotuned Arabic I sing is the balance we tried to reach being boys of cultural empires in a small hood, and the Oud is the instrument of our homelands, Sudan and Palestine.

urbanism Chronicon • 2mo ago • 95%

Are car break-ins and catalytic converter thefts actually a good thing? a la "popping off a few rounds to keep the rent low", plus in terms of transit adoption

semi serious question. I stumbled onto my local metro area's reddit while trying to look up some historical photos and stared into the abyss for a few mins. I resisted the urge to leave libreddit and make an account just to reply but, I ran into this post that is basically complaining about having a car in one of the most central neighborhoods in the city, and asking for advice on getting off street parking (in reality, anything that isn't an overpriced surface lot that offers no protection is going to be quite a hike away from their apartment, there's no way this will work out). They claim they work in X first ring suburb where "there are no buses" and that's why they have to have this car, which is hilarious because they could one seat ride to half of that suburb in under half an hour from a bus that leaves from their front door. the other half it'd be a 2 seat ride but still under 45 mins, and obviously way cheaper than a car. There are also plenty of neighborhoods they could move to that would have less breakins and cheap off street parking, but they seem convinced that's not the case. But I digress. The fellow ers in there commiserating about how horribly expensive off street parking is (in a neighborhood that is basically *in* downtown) got me thinking... If we can't get city governments to do shit about on street parking and massively unsafe roads, is allowing the street to be so unappealing to park on that people have to actually pay for their giant waste of precious urban land, a viable option to improve things? this expectation that you should be able to just leave your 2 ton death box lying around in public anywhere for any length of time and nobody will so much as touch it doesn't apply to any other kind of property (just look at bike theft), and it really fucks with people when you violate that. I feel like that's a usable weapon, in a way, against gentrification and car dependency and traffic violence. Were kia boys doing praxis?

From the perspective of someone who sometimes has some cash to redistribute on here, I just want to provide some feedback on [the semi-recent rule changes](https://hexbear.net/post/2803644?scrollToComments=false) in this comm. I don't think all of them are working and I think this comm needs just a little bit more attention to rectify the situation! First, and I hope least controversial: the sidebar desperately needs to be updated to reflect the actual updated rules. Second, similarly uncontroversial, the rules should generally actually be enforced. Not enforcing them consistently is worse than not having them in some cases. This ties into several other issues. Third thing, clarity is needed on whether or not payment details are allowed in the form of not (immediately) personally identifiable usernames. The rule rn says PII/opsec leaks aren't allowed and that payment *links* aren't, but usernames seems more gray. I thought that usernames weren't allowed at all until I re-read the post, and judging by the variety of different approaches to providing payment details in recent posts, I'm not the only one unsure. Fourth thing, I think that strongly encouraging people to update their posts when they receive aid is a good thing for helping spread the community's limited aid resources around more where they are needed most. That's good guidance and I wish everyone did it! Fifth, **and to me personally, one of the most important**, I am less likely to send money, if I have to effectively dox myself to the poster to do it, and when I have to ask for payment details over DM, that's basically what I'm doing (its trivial to correspond who I am by timing and payment method, even if multiple people do send them money, doubly so over multiple different posts over time). It's one thing for them to know my name or my venmo or whatever, but when they can tie that name to a *specific* hexbear account I start to go from "keeping the risk in mind" to "I don't think that's a risk I'm willing to take". So while I can understand the urge to not have posters dox themselves, the reverse is also true. Sixth, as a result of having to DM for payment details (both because of the doxing risk and just the extra steps for both parties), mutual aid posters are currently incentivized to violate or skirt around grey areas of the rules if they want to get more aid. Combined with the lax enforcement/unclear rule, this creates a really sucky situation where people in need are punished monetarily for trying to follow the rules. Seventh, related to #2/maybe #1 and others, I am of the opinion the comm probably needs another mod or two, it's pretty active and can be a fraught topic when there are disputes, and currently there only seems to be one active mod? A further revision of the rules to explicitly allow non-doxxing payment methods to be published, followed by an update to the sidebar, would be greatly appreciated tbh. Or something like that. I appreciate all the work done to keep this site safe and functional and such, but these little issues have been nagging at the back of my mind for months now and needed to get out. Thoughts?

videos Chronicon • 2mo ago • 100%

Descendants Honor 90th Anniversary of Ancestors’ Militant Labor Strike

On July 27, workers, descendants of the strikers, and the local labor community came together at Wabun Park in Minneapolis to honor the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Truckers’ Strike that brought Minneapolis to a standstill and served as a spark for radical and militant labor struggle across the country. The strike lasted about three months, as Teamsters Local 574 truckers demanded a fair wage and official recognition of the union. The trucking companies had the support of the Citizens Alliance, an anti-trade union organization that sought to break the strike. The strike’s impact reverberated throughout the city, bringing much of the Minneapolis economy to a halt. After reaching an agreement, the trucking companies did not honor the terms and workers returned to the streets. On July 20, 1934, the Minneapolis police attacked and opened fire on picketers in the streets of the Warehouse District. Police shot 67 strikers and killed two, Henry Ness and John Belor. The deadly police attack became known as “Bloody Friday.” On July 24, 1934, about 100,000 people lined the streets to honor Henry Ness’ funeral procession in Minneapolis. Unicorn Riot heard from two grandchildren of Henry Ness and other descendants of the 1934 strike during the anniversary. More: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/the-90th-anniversary-of-the-1934-truckers-strike-honors-minneapolis-militant-labor-history/

the_dunk_tank Chronicon • 2mo ago • 100%

Bonus urbanism dunks: East Berlin in 1980s, everything looks so gray - r/UrbanHell

redlib.northboot.xyz

These fucking dipshits lol, its winter, so the trees are missing leaves and there's coal smog on everything, which was in wide use in the west just as it was in the east because it was cheap and domestically abundant. The reason it held on longer in the east after reunification is because the east was economically hollowed out and coal continued to be cheap compared to retrofitting in modern heating. Here's a picture from the late 60s(?) that's not in winter (though it unfortunately frames out the large trees that are visible in the foreground of the reddit OP): 

askchapo Chronicon • 3mo ago • 100%

(CW: animal death) Anyone have any experience with rat infestations in homeless encampments?

One near me is having an issue with rats. I think really they just need better trash pickup mainly, and better shelters in general, but they've specifically asked for help getting rat poison. Would bait boxes with poison even make a dent in an outdoor environment like that? I can't singlehandedly improve the cleanliness of the camp or get everyone rat-proof shelter obviously, but I feel like just going straight for the poison could have adverse consequences and not be effective, potentially.

chat Chronicon • 3mo ago • 100%

Anyone else ever just get sad that they can't just enjoy life and do cool stuff?

Please don't be a dick, I'm genuinely feeling pretty down. For context, I'm a massive nerd about like electronics and technology, and some other things (less enthusiastic than I used to be because of burnout and capitalism and surveillance and such, but still), and I'm reasonably well off, as long as I can hold onto this job anyhow, but not 6 figures or anything (USD). So I see videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J38kDEsVZ3A and I just am so sad. It is so up my alley, it looks so fun, but I just don't feel like I can justify devoting that much of my life to hobbies and events like that just to make me happy (and showing up empty handed and burned out to events like that with no projects to show off or even talk about isn't that fun either). I'm probably too busy with work, and even if I wasn't, how can I justify it when my comrades are starving, freezing, homeless, etc. and fascism is looming, I need to be organizing and learning and preparing, not making fun toy projects and getting drunk in the woods with a bunch of cool, queer, but ultimately pretty white upper class leaning people.... I know communism isn't when No Fun, but I just don't feel like I can square the circle of living life to the fullest, doing the things I know I must, politically and morally, and working for capitalists to survive. Instead I sorta half ass all three and am happy with none. Sometimes I feel like I'm just treading water and getting more and more cynical...

urbanism Chronicon • 4mo ago • 100%

How Breaking Rules Could Create Better Apartments

youtu.be

reinventing commie blocks from first principles with five-over-one characteristics I'll still take it

askchapo Chronicon • 5mo ago • 0%

Best way to talk to lib friends about Taiwan?

Somewhat reddit-brained lib friend of mine sent this article which triggered a whole discussion of geopolitics: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmcs-euv-machines-are-equipped-with-a-remote-self-destruct-in-case-of-an-invasion He said that would reduce the chance of an invasion and I was like (paraphrasing): "really? does it? the generations-long and unfinished business of the chinese civil war and all the history there is outweighed by the thought of losing one chip fab that they've already proven they don't really need after all the sanctions? They aren't going to invade unless their hand is forced, there's literally already US troops on taiwan-held islands, if they were on the brink of invading they would have done it already, but they aren't." He basically argued that the majority of people there wanted to be independent therefore its simple self determination and the US should help them, etc. I said the no capitalist state gives a flying fuck about self determination and asked if texas has the right to secede, or perhaps more relevantly, if texas settlers had the right to secede from mexico and join the US in the first place? because its not like the nationalists that took over the island were its native inhabitants, who are now mostly dead, flooding a low-population place with "settlers" doesn't mean you own it... we went back and forth a bunch and he stopped arguing when I pointed out the inconsistency of supporting palestine but also taiwan, when they (while not the same, taiwan wasn't settler colonialism) have kind of a similar arc, what with israel's "majority", both having invaded and largely displacing the prior inhabitants. I don't feel I had all the best arguments at my disposal, though overall I feel good about my responses.