Yes this is a good one, thank you.

wow, what a life. thanks for bringing him up.

one was a specific personal attack aimed specifically at another user of the site. the other isn’t.

I reiterate: there is currently no site wide policy with respect to comments about masking or not. I am not going to unilaterally set site policy in this thread. There is currently a code of conduct thread where literally this exact topic is being discussed. I encourage you to advocate there.

Sorry but I’m not going to revise site policy unilaterally to protect someone’s “right” to tell another user to go fuck themselves. Since we just had a big struggle session where users were complaining about mods doing exactly this type of unilateral decision, I encourage you to take it to the code of conduct thread and advocate for what you would like to see.

this is not comradely. being adamant about masks is appropriate, but this is just rude. if you would like to see hard rules about COVID measures on hexbear, go chime in on the code of conduct thread as I saw this subject raised there. In the meantime, express your disagreement in civil terms.

I have never before seen grown-ass adults demanding to see the corpses of dead children before

I remember this during the discovery of unmarked children’s graves in Kamloops several years ago. A fair amount of my job involves Indigenous issues and it’s wild how much people turn into treatlerites when seeing the mildest pushback. even land acknowledgements, among the least meaningful efforts towards reconciliation that can be made, are contentious to some. when there is potential attack against the bedrock of canadian society, residential property values, then yes there will be more frothing and seething.

her attitude towards partners seems like she’s assuming your partner isn’t very well aligned with you. no kidding that would suck, but that’s a skill issue - pick a better partner. having a partner that is somewhat misaligned with you is good though, they can teach you things, share new perspectives, encourage you to grow, and generally help you be better. I am definitely a better person because of my partner’s presence in my life and I think they would say the same.

kids are different. they’re a lot of work and cost a lot of time, money, resources, and emotional labour. being a responsible parent means you’re signing up to put a child first for a long time. that necessarily means making sacrifices, buying diapers, having less sleep because you’re up doing feedings, accounting for child’s needs when planning activities, etc etc. all this is an investment in the future of both yourself, your family and your society, but the hardest work is front loaded. Pregnancy/adoption/infancy are all particularly hard. It wasn’t until my child hit about 5 that they were consistently sleeping through the night, not needing diapers, not having inexplicable meltdowns, not constantly on the verge of hurting themselves because of poor balance/recklessness. Yes there were truly wonderful moments during those first years, but by and large it was a sacrifice. Some of that sacrifice can be covered with money and absence of money makes those sacrifices harder.

all that said, my child is older now and we get to do a lot more fun and satisfying activities. the nature of emotional labour has changed and there are still parenting costs of time/$$, but I love that I get to teach, learn from and share hobbies with my child.

This article on the BC Cowichan land claims issue is one of the first that actually talks about the judge’s actual finding, props to the journalist for being able to read. I don’t think CBC is ever paywalled but please let me know if anyone hits a wall.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cowichan-aboriginal-title-land-ownership-9.6965257

This piece talks about the original theft of land from the Cowichan in the first place (it was theft even by colonial standards), spends time talking about how aboriginal title and fee simple title can overlap, and spends more time on the difference between individual land owners vs institutional land owners like the city, the province.

I still intend to put together a more involved post about this subject but it will have to wait until next week.

This right here is why carnist chuds get so defensive about veganism

We discussed that last week in this subthread, this was one of the effort posts of the week

https://hexbear.net/comment/6630281

hot take but if a worker wants to do something dumb they should be allowed

No, this is bad. Workplace safety is a good thing and it’s everyone’s responsibility. There are no libertarians in OHSA.

Alexander Mercouris thinks that it was an attempt to extract some VIPs from the encirclement, and that the helicopters may have been piloted by US soldiers, who Russia decided not to attack. Not sure if I believe it fully, but it’s an interesting theory.

this is ridiculous. there’s no possible way a “VIP” was left in pokrovsk. this encirclement hasn’t been some trap rapidly swinging shut. any ‘VIP’ caught in the front lines in this salient is definitely not actually valuable or important, evidenced by them getting caught holding their dicks with a bunch of AFU placeholders

damn thanks for reminding me about hold your color, that’s a phenomenal album. I haven’t listened to sirens of the sea before but it’s cool so far

John Helmer on Russian central bank policy and inflation measures, with commentary from Russian central bank head Nabiullina and her critics.

The focus of the article is how neoliberal ideology on interest rates and inflation may drive Russia into a recession in 2-3 years.

Make better/more ladybug habitat in your yard if you want them on your plants. If they’re around your house in the winter you’re on the right track. Leave dead/dry vegetation up instead of cleaning everything. They like nesting/hibernating in leaf litter, so don’t rake it up. Leave it in piles and drifts out in the yard. Include umbrelliferous flowers so ladybugs have good places to perch and hunt from.

Note that in the springtime its their larva that eat the most. Don’t buy ladybug adults, they can be invasive and mostly just fly away. Ideally you want to create ladybug habitat and encourage generations to live in your place. If you’ve got them and aphids in the area, you’re on the right track.

Also keep an eye out for aphidoletes, they’re absolutely voracious aphid hunters.

Holy shit the LargePenis Iraq breakdown dropped.

Noted, I’ll add it soon. Also, this is a good site tagline.

However China is the big outlier, they are not part of such bilateral cold war treaties.

this really is a problem with existing arms control systems. so many were set up when it was just USSR vs USA. they don’t reflect geopolitical reality anymore. maybe a new nuclear arms control regime could also provide some accountability for israel as well

Trump’s attention flitting towards Nigeria isn’t a sign of some broader withdrawal from the Caribbean. The neocon eye of sauron has been pointed at Venezuela for more than a decade. It’s not going to stop over the whims of one man. Rubio’s personal actions are a much better proxy for how badly the neocons want to do a war in the western hemisphere.

Air launched antiship missiles are fraught. I sincerely doubt Venezuela will shoot first, so their airframes are vulnerable to any opening salvo from the US. American ISR and F35s and formidable against Venezuelan fighters, regardless of how finite they are.