ICE has secretly trained civilians to use firearms, conduct surveillance, and simulate raids on immigrants. New revelations show this controversial program has been ongoing in over a dozen U.S. cities
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    God damn, a screenwriter would be scolded by their editor for being too heavy handed if they went half as far as this article says.

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  • Hate when that happens
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    We woke up one morning and farded a little further down
    For sure as the valley of death
    I open up my wallet
    And it's full of poop

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  • Western "nations" join forces to break China’s grip on critical minerals
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    Last time they did this, China dumped all over the market and killed all the competition after they invested a ton of money.

    I don't think it will come to that. The investors will spend a lot of money and everything will be way over budget and years late

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  • "the concept of America is Progressive"
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    Well damn, here I was thinking its greatest sins were slavery and genocide.

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  • LEAN
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    Leanis

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  • Strip down and squat for me
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    Hold on, the camera won't focus right

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  • China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows
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    As I just posted to Yogthos, it's the downtime that will be costly here. The mirrors and prisms can be made cheaply enough when you take China's supply chain and large scale manufacturing into account, but the loss of production will have to be reduced somehow. Lasers require incredible precision; the difference between just barely touching the allen wrench and not can make the beam go from centered on target to completely off the detector. This translates to hours of tedious adjustments to get the beam back on target, even with alignment pins.

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    I mean, as-is with much lower power lasers, it's written up as a cost of operation. What used to be parts that were installed once and then never touched are now regular maintenance tasks.

    I don't think the mirrors and prisms will be the expensive part in the grand scheme of things, but the downtime to shift spots and replace components will be expensive.

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  • China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows
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    An EUV laser blasting at 1 kW is gonna absolutely chew through optical components. I hope they're making some serious advances in materials science. Contemporary components like mirrors, attenuators, filters, etc start degrading when you blast them with more than 1W of DUV.

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  • [CW MEAT] Well I got pasta and meatballs again for dinner, god I'm pathetic.
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    Day 56 of willing myself to become Italian. I have eaten pasta for every meal for 56 days straight. My hands can finally do the 🤌 thing

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  • Landlords are scum.
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    Call it an application fee. Landlords do that shit all the time

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  • Landlords are scum.
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    Ask them to pay a deposit to be considered. Ghost them immediately after they pay.

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  • Skip Hall, Mayor of Surprise, AZ is a prick
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    The whole state is just Greater KKKingman, but some spots have a lib veneer.

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  • Hey Hexbear, I'm having a bit of an issue and I'm hoping someone can help me out with some medical advice
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    🎶 Caressing, bent up to the jug again
    With sheaths and pills invading all those stills
    In a hovel of a bed, I will scream in vain
    Oh please, Tim Kaine, leave me with some pain 🎶

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  • In celebration, I'm going to post here.

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    Get to work, drink some coffee, suit up and hit the dick sucking factory floor. After a while, I get bored, pull out my phone and... hmm, weird, it's not loading. `H-T-T-P-S-COLON-SLASH-SLASH-H-E-X-B-E-A-R-DOT-NET` Ugh, fuck! I can't believe they took it down like they said they would!

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    *deleted by creator*

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    What, with all the excess CO2 bringing down water pH levels

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    Just saw the new Fred Flinstone vid about pumpkin spice lattes. He had this kind of aside about not drinking PSL (along with another one against drinking flavored coffee drinks which just seemed needlessly pedantic). I was really surprised, so I tried looking further, and he linked some aggregate in the comments which leads to a podcast and a huge google doc with a bunch of links to different criticisms and summaries of Starbuck's sugary coffee drinks from late 2020 or so. Covering up how bad their coffee actually tastes with sugar and artificial flavors and apparently Fred Flinstone going on a misogynistic rant in some Hexbear posts. And generally a very anti-femme theme. Anyways, I was just wondering what the Hexbear take is here. Was it a group of misogynistic posters? Just one weirdo with a Hanna-Barbera fetish? I was considering trying a pumpkin spice latte when they come back this fall, but maybe it would just spike my blood sugar.

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    > Can you love me > The way that I love you? > An endless ache

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    Uhh, let me chill here

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    I'm going to try keeping this as anonymous as possible, so I won't be going into where I am, of course. An IRL comrade told me several years ago that the only way ahead in political organizing where I am is to start something myself. I disagreed at the time and I've spent the intervening years trying to find an org that was doing something and not handicapped by a poisonous national committee. The benefit to that was that I've found some good IRL comrades from various shitty orgs that would be worth joining with in the struggle, but that first comrade was right and I hate it. I want democratic-centralism. I want political education. I want praxis. So, I come to you with this question: How do? More specifically, regarding political education, **does anyone have a good, well-ordered reading list?** Like, from babby's first socialism to contemporary political analysis. I'm much less worried about the praxis side, as the majority of my experience is in labor organizing and the other comrades I want to propose this idea to have experience in other community organizing.

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    I'm gonna make a post here to celebrate! ![posting](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/d9009e45-6cde-4f80-b3f1-21586caac472.png "emoji posting")

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    WashedAnus [he/him]

    WashedAnus@ hexbear.net

    OF COURSE THIS IS A BIT ACCOUNT rage-cry