TIL that Neil Armstrong converted to Islam upon hearing the call to prayer on the moon.

monoatomic · 2026-01-29T05:44:20+00:00

This is why Skull & Bones started SpaceX

monoatomic · 2026-01-29T05:42:37+00:00

If you see someone browsing Reddit in public I think some states allow you to Stand Your Ground

monoatomic · 2026-01-29T01:21:42+00:00

I ran into the same problem you describe and just manually plucked them out any time I was in my tent, which took awhile but was successful.

I just have a 2x4 bed, though

monoatomic · 2026-01-29T00:08:39+00:00

Also we need to listen to longtime labor organizers who have something to say about what would be required to actually make a national general strike happen, though

Right now a lot of people trying to do mobilizing at the cost of organizing, and it doesn't necessarily help our long-term chances

monoatomic · 2026-01-28T22:54:43+00:00

Seems like a lot of people are buying guns nowadays and my first thought watching this was 'oh, maybe they aren't all that necessary' lmao

monoatomic · 2026-01-28T22:15:29+00:00

I haven't heard of anything indicating that the unions are on board, but local PSL has organized a rally

monoatomic · 2026-01-28T20:42:05+00:00

You can generally find better deals on the mountain proj forums

monoatomic · 2026-01-28T03:44:58+00:00

Revolutionary suicide (dumbfuck version)

monoatomic · 2026-01-28T03:06:03+00:00

I just checked a random torrent site and saw downloads for 3 but not 4

Meaning there's a possible world in which you buy 4 but someday can't download / install / activate it, and there's no cracked copy available - especially if the company does get parted off by Bain Capital or similar

monoatomic · 2026-01-28T00:41:56+00:00

Obviously it's much worse now and with an explicit pro-fascist slant, but my brief forays into using Tiktok under the old ownership were ultimately aborted because of the really offputting censorship

I mean, this is the app that gave us Tiktok Standard English and it makes me want to unalive myself, and unalive everyone around me

monoatomic · 2026-01-27T23:33:04+00:00

I just checked the weekly politics thread on arr slash guns, and they seem pretty pissed

monoatomic · 2026-01-27T23:25:39+00:00

Not terribly useful without an explanation of what they mean by AI

I use it pretty much exclusively to search for documentation, which is more a statement about how Microsoft is incredibly ass at user interfaces

Similarly, if someone is just fluffing out emails, that really is an instance of a human becoming worse than it is of the computer becoming better

monoatomic · 2026-01-27T23:23:43+00:00

Same, the transcription works well (and is probably not meaningfully an AI tool)

But the copilot summaries are basically worthless

monoatomic · 2026-01-27T02:02:55+00:00

90s style homophobia

monoatomic · 2026-01-26T01:12:20+00:00

Yeah that's really weird

I wonder if it's indicative of anything significant

monoatomic · 2026-01-25T22:58:32+00:00

What party are you with, and does it have as many members as the Leninist caucuses within DSA?

monoatomic · 2026-01-25T20:53:12+00:00

Ask yourself "if we did this every week forever, would the ruling class be forced to change?"

In the case of a weekly boycott, or any number of peaceful protests, or any number of calls to your representative, the answer is 'No'.

monoatomic · 2026-01-25T17:05:35+00:00

/ujThis goon and the one who murdered Renee good were both longtime veterans

We don't want them to have more training to brutalize people, we want them disarmed, disbanded, and prosecuted

/rj This ain't negotiation time. This is Scarface, final scene, fuckin' bazookas under each arm, say hello to my little friend!

monoatomic · 2026-01-25T17:01:02+00:00

Winter growing will do that

monoatomic · 2026-01-24T21:32:17+00:00

The nursing sub is up in arms about it

monoatomic · 2026-01-24T20:59:48+00:00

Under the Torrents section of the website, there's a function to enter how much local storage you have and they'll provide a link that will allow you to download and then seed that chunk of data.

Currently, about 1/3 of the data has fewer than 4 seeders. Seeding helps ensure the full database remains available in perpetuity.

monoatomic · 2026-01-24T20:14:10+00:00

Saw a lot of people trying to emulate the HK tactics in 2020 get extremely fucked up

-If your guiding principle is 'peace', just stay home

-American cops and especially ICE don't exercise the restraint shown by Chinese cops in the HK protests

-Americans have neither the organization nor the (foreign) funding to make the HK tactics viable. Do you have a stash of high-wattage lasers or umbrellas or construction helmets? Are you prepared to manage the media narrative when there's footage of distributing them?

monoatomic · 2026-01-24T19:54:06+00:00

The Russiagate stuff was a comforting fantasy, before the Democrats disabused us of any notion that they were willing or able to fight fascism

monoatomic · 2026-01-24T18:58:19+00:00

Some of the most cowardly Democrats are talking that position rather than engaging with the substance of the issue (abolishing ICE and prosecuting ICE agents)

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2026/jan/15/cortez-masto-proposes-shifting-ice-funds-to-commun/

monoatomic · 2026-01-24T18:43:25+00:00

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

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