It's absolutely not my "thing" but somehow I got really into watching parkour videos a couple years ago. I haven't watched for a year or so, so hopefully they haven't done anything horrible in the meantime, but for a while I really loved the lads that make up Storror. Toby Segar especially gives off really cool, compassionate, laid-back-person-I-wish-I-knew sort of vibes. He can do some truly amazing feats but he's so genuinely humble about it.

And still down 3 days later... They have been difficult slopless days.

I hope everything is ok with jumble and there's just some technical issues being sorted out.

Edit: It's working again!

Thank you, jumble.

Sounds like a Jean Claude Van Damme reference.

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Is it not pretty standard in most countries for literal foreign intelligence spies to be executed for treason and espionage? It's not like Awoo is singling China out as "those dastardly Asians" in the usual liberal way, just acknowledging that China doesn't treat CIA moles with kid gloves, nor should they.

Also, I'm not going to go digging around right now for non-western sources on this, but isn't it well known that China did execute a number of US spies a few years ago? It's been discussed here before.
https://hexbear.net/post/144648
https://hexbear.net/post/162097
https://hexbear.net/comment/2207952
https://hexbear.net/comment/4616457

I feel like Trump operates on the assumption that no one will react to counteract whatever strategy he implements.

Well, when his greatest domestic opposition is the democratic party, it's been a correct and winning assumption. The logic becomes "What's anyone gonna do, impeach me again?" On top of that, when most of the vassals fall immediately in to line when he says so, being good dogs for the US, and the strategy keeps working even with foreign policy, there's not much incentive to do otherwise. Fortunately China is not the Democrats nor are they Europe.

You had a bedtime at 18? How old were you when you moved out if you don't mind me asking?

That sounds a lot like my situation. Little firewood-burning stove was the only heat for the whole (albeit little) house, but the kitchen and living room were the same room anyway, just that the floor where the kitchen was was linoleum while the "living room" was where there was carpet. There were no stairs, but my doorless walk-in-closet bedroom was just an offshoot next to the single bathroom, both of which could be seen into from the living room/kitchen (though the bathroom did at least have a door lol). But it wasn't a big deal because it was just how things were. I only had one sibling who was a lot older and often not around, but yeah for me, I was still sleeping in my parents room quite a bit even into early double-digit years old.

I didn't get to have a door because my bedroom was actually a walk-in closet/storage room. I don't think it was that I wasn't allowed to have a door so much as that my dad (who installed the kitchen and all the cabinetry in the small house) didn't feel like taking off the molding around the doorway to put a door on it. I was always told it wasn't possible for some reason.

But when I was 13 we were able to move to a new place where I actually had a real bedroom with a door. I remember feeling like I had "arrived" and finally knew what it was like for the normal/rich kids (who were the same thing in my mind back then). That was a good age to finally get some privacy, for obvious reasons, but before that I didn't really mind not having a door, I had a lot of anxiety problems even as a really young kid and would often just go sleep on the floor next to my parents bed. Any desire for privacy was nothing compared to the fear of being alone and disconnected, and I thought a door would have made that worse.

Remember how she carries a bottle of hot sauce with her wherever she goes? Especially if that hotdog comment was said when she was campaigning, it was only because she thought it would make her more appealing to the lowly, unwashed masses. "See, I'm just like all you dirty poors!"

Lol, I have been reading theory for almost 2 decades now, kid. I even taught at a community college for a while.

Listen, this is clearly a case of "every accusation a confession" - that is to say, you are well aware of your own naivete and so you project it onto others as a defense mechanism. Fortunately, there is a cure for that sort of ignorance, and in large part it does indeed involve reading theory and exposing yourself to perspectives that may seem frightening due to your having been awash in a sea of propaganda all your life. Come join our Das Kapital reading group on hexbear (hosted by the awesome @[email protected]) and maybe learn a little something about the real world you're so painfully unaware of.

I want Russia to win (and it will) and I want China to win (and it will). My use of an LLM isn't going to make one lick of difference one way or the other, but if it did, I would help it in any and every conceivable way.

You are a fucking nerd for thinking you have more "privacy" to lose to China than to the profiteering, rent-seeking silicon valley bastards who are already and right now exploiting the fuck outta you.