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[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

Why are so many people just dickheads online? Like, you can have a fun talk with someone about a topic you enjoy only for people to show up and be dicks. I had talk about the city development from my home town like I did in this thread with someone on a different outlet only for someone to show up and say: 'ugliest city I visited'. Like, okay? That's not what we were talking about you psycho lol. Who behaves like that? Imagine joining a conversation between, idk, coworkers with the sole intention of being a dick.

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

My parents are in a Basque village, and they told me there are a lot of Basque and Palestinian flags hanging from the windows. Gotta love the Basques.

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 13 hours ago

Funny how the media attention for Bob Vylan just turned "death, death to the IDF" into a popular slogan. It wasn't common before, but I was at a Palestine demonstration yesterday and we chanted it a couple of times. It felt so good to chant.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Still fighting my sticker war with the local Nazi. I keep removing his stickers and placing my own antifa and commie stickers. Today I found that he placed his stickers on top of mine.

But the way he did it was telling me the guy is just a little chicken shit lol. They were half assed and you could peel them off easily. Some of them even had the paper back still partially on it. I just hope one day I can catch him in the act.

[–] starkillerfish@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Be careful peeling them because nazis often put razor blades under their stickers

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

Seeing how much of a pussy this one is, that is probably not a problem here

[–] Onewhoexists@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what are his stickers?

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Stuff like: Hand in Hand, back to your own land (made by neonazi org Voorpost)

'Culture dies where multiculturality begins'

Pictures of Filip Dewinter, Belgian nationalist.

I counter it with a cat accompanied by a hamsic and text: 'there used to be a racist sticker here but not anymore' and a sticker with 'Forever antifascist' and a sticker with Tinky Winky of the Teletubbies holding a socialist flag. Oh and one of Mark Rutte, nato leader, with clown make up and the text 'we live in a society'

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

‘Culture dies where multiculturality begins’

Pictures of Filip Dewinter, Belgian nationalist.

One would think people would not be so dense, but alas.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

I think that Jack Dorsey shouldn't be trusted with meshtastic technology.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8611451

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

lol kinda crazy how awful the internet is without pihole + browser adblock (ublock origin).

using a friend computer i went to website i normally use on my home setup without any problems for streaming sports, got like a billion popups and shit, didn't realize how protected from this crap i am on my home network.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It really is wild. I don't know if I could deal with using much of the internet regularly without a thing like ublock. Especially like youtube, I'm pretty sure I'd just stop using youtube if I could not block ads. And like, I understand there would be less videos made if people were not making money off of the platform, but it doesn't change how awful of an experience ads are inherently, having distracting crap shoved into your brain so that you'll buy shit you don't need and never wanted. In general, I think it's bad for society how much of capitalist mode of things depends on ads and the way they abuse knowledge of human psychology. Organic in-video "sponsorships" are almost worse in this way because the personable figure who you might enjoy as an audience member now becomes the sales person and they get to abuse that liking of them to get you to buy something, not unlike how multi level marketing schemes work.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Even through multiple layers of abstraction, it all boils down to commodity production.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was running both pihole & ub0 for the last two years, A few weeks ago I disconnected from the pihole and it made no difference. Turns out it was redundant.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

Pihole covers all devices on the network tho.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Decided to be bold and apply for my dream job of gardener without any of the necessary papers lol

Shoot for the moon y'all don't let nobody hold you down

[–] Oppo@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago

You got this

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I used to get see a post or 2 on my social media feed about Gaza but suddenly it is flooded with politicians and news organizations saying that Gaza is a genocide and we need to end it. Is this a sign of the beginning of the end?

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

It's only a matter of time before the big ideological break between the rulers of our countries and the people in them. The question is whether or not they want Israel to be that breaking point. I think serious debates are going behind closed doors.

[–] materialanalysis1938@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope so. But I’m sure there’s no resolution the U.S. or Israel agree to that doesn’t involve some kind of two-state solution. So it really won’t end I don’t think. Unless the U.S. cuts funding but that won’t happen

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A 2 state situation is not a resolution. The zionist entity is expansionist racist and genocidal in its very nature. There is no peace while it exists and thus no resolution. Even if they left the Palestinians alone they would attack the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Iraqis, the Egyptians because they are rabid fascists.

Agreed. That’s why I highly doubt an actual resolution comes any time soon. But you are correct, the Zionist project is continued colonialist expansion

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How true is this? The "996" thing in China?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lets just say that i wish my chinese suppliers worked "996", them mfers have vacations every other week. Still China is just way to big, i bet there are many places working under that schedule. That's thr thing with China, it's scale is so big that you can find literally cases about anything.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

That's a very good point, and I trust your experience as well. Yeah, any Western journo can find a case study somewhere.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

as of what i was told a few years ago:

  • used to be quite common
  • rare now in almost every sector
  • steadily disappearing from the few sectors it's still common in
  • it's mostly tech
[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you!

Yeah, I expected this.

My Chinese WeChat friends don't work this long.

[–] Jin008@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was officially made illegal in 2021, but yes many Chinese people still do it especially in tech like Horse said above.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Seems like mainly a company thing that did this, but yeah.

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[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One of the advantages of my home region of Eindhoven is that until the founding of Philips it had no historical relevance whatsoever. So there is no protest against building upwards. This has caused the city to go from this in 2007:

To this now:

With 19 70+ meter high buildings on their way. 5 of which will be 100m+, adding to the already 5 100m+ buildings in the city.

Not only does this result in a great skyline, it is also a far more efficient use of space. Only criticism is that living there is expensive.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It has been cool to see the city develop from a provincial town vibe to a more proper city. Especially once the larger building reaching up to 150m will be finished.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't know if this is true or not, just an anecdote I've heard from Dutch friends in the past, but it's it true that there was some sort of archaic rule that only very recently stopped being enforced, where buildings could not be built taller than the church spire of their town?

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

archaic rule that only very recently stopped being enforced, where buildings could not be built taller than the church spire of their town?

That is something common in most of continental western and central europe.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Some cities have rules like that for famous landmarks. In Utrecht for example it is a sort of unwritten rule to not build any higher than the Dom. Antwerp, where I live now, has the same rule for their Cathedral at a little over 100m.

I sort of understand rules like that. You want to preserve landmarks in a way. But honestly at the same time it limits your city. Antwerp is incredibly dense and crowded in the center and a few giant skyscrapers could really solve some housing issues we have.

I'm glad Eindhoven didn't cave to such narrow minded stuff. But that also leads to stuff like Eindhoven with 250k will have the largest building in the former duchy of Brabant soon, and that includes 2 million pop city Brussels and 560k pop city Antwerp, who are restricting their limits.

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Amsterdam has a similar rule but here it's about not building too high too close to Schiphol. But we're starting to build more skyscrapers in areas that are further away

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Brussels has the same issue with Zaventem, which is why Zuidertoren tops out at 150m just like Rembrandttoren in Amsterdam. Which is pretty small for cities these sizes lol

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Days after my rain post it started absolutely pissing down lol. I should make a communism please post.

[–] mjackxson@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Please do! Hahahaha

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Lebanese Journalist Laith Marouf has been arrested by the Lebanese military.

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[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Protest against gentrification in Mexico

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I spent more time than I want to admit trying to read that colorful sign in the middle. Here's what I think it says if anyone cares lol

Gobierno de México

la gentrificación no es

progreso si expulsa a quienes

han construido esos barrios

PROTEJAN NUESTRAS

COMUNIDADES

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

And you got it right! And I do care! Thanks for taking the time for transcribing it here.

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sunshine spills over the streets, tracing this city’s edges with warmth 🇰🇵

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Idk if that like mint green the DPRK uses in it's buildings is a certain material, or just a paint but it looks so good. Reminds me of how looking at green can reduce headaches and stuff. Probably because in nature we are meant to see a lot of green when in lush, and plentiful areas. So much nicer than the typical glass/cement coloring you see.

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