sicklemode [they/them]

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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • Personally what intrigues me the most about breadtubers is how they become mild and inoffensive versions of themselves after becoming popular/well-off. Like, what causes that? Is it that the societal problems they criticized no longer applies to them? Is it the allure of advertising money? Is it secret CIA threats? I really do wonder.

    The same exact cause for hungry as fuck “progressives” like AOC to settle and water down and tiptoe away from their original mission: They’ve switched classes and, therefore, their new class interests are in conflict with their original mission. What’s there to be hungry about anymore when you start being fed really well? Why continue trying to destroy the status quo when it’s benefiting you materially? This is why it’s important to maintain loyalties to class interests (in this case, the interests of the proletariat), instead of individuals who are susceptible to corruption. China does this very well and provides the blueprint.







  • Most people wouldn’t let the first person they stop on the street sift through their camera roll. They want their achievements, failures, and little life moments to be kept sacred. So after a decade of airing our most intimate moments in public, the pendulum is shifting back. People are more selective with their communities and are reverting back to an old-school way of interacting. It’s hard to know how the change will affect the online atmosphere over the long term — some evidence suggests the shift will create a healthier digital experience, but it also risks further dividing people into like-minded echo chambers.

    The collapsing of US state-affiliated social media platforms’ hegemony is finally upon us. They use these platforms for war (psychological warfare more than anything) and cheating, just like every other channel of influence, and working class people have had enough of being fucked over and manipulated, as well as being enslaved to doom scrolling. I’ve been patiently waiting for over a decade for this. Now, finally, people are pivoting back to high quality discourse and relationship building. We’re also increasingly seizing the means of communication (think Lemmy and other equivalents under the AGPLv3 license), which puts the control of culture firmly in our own hands.

    amerikkka sit-back-and-enjoy





  • Anyone claiming moral superiority over 9/11 jokes better have a fucking spotless post history.

    Damn right. I swear, it’s always these nazi types that attempt to present themselves as the fucking Buddha. Just endless concern trolling and bad faith arguments all around.

    Yours has links and emoji flavour, so brava for the extra effort.

    Thank you stalin-heart









  • Absolutely. Unlike liberals, who have no sense of direction or any clue how to move toward the future, communists actually engage in development, both self and collective. Thus, we have a future, whereas liberals stand still and let all of this just pass them by (like US infrastructure compared to China’s).

    Liberalism will always be doomed to fail, just as capitalism will always follow the trend toward common ruin. The pursuit of communism will always follow the trend of common prosperity and the revitalization of the people.

    Leave these relics of failed states to toddle off the coil while we continue to build a better future.


  • This is hardly a surprise. When you adopt an anti-communist stance, you pave the way for unhealthy social trends to takeover, which increases the moderation workload considerably, and forces you into an unsustainable method of operating. Perhaps the decay has finally reached a stage advanced enough to send them back to the likes of Silicon Valley centralized models.

    Hexbear has survived all this time because, like China, has been engaging in self-reform to address the problem of rise and fall. So long as Hexbear continues this path, it will continue to go the distance.

    The other big instances that are here today may not be in a few months, or years. Fascinating to see from a dialectical perspective.




  • Everything that crosses the horizon remains on the horizon in the form of a still afterimage that becomes increasingly redshifted until becoming undetectable.

    Some hypotheses suggest that hawking radiation could carry this information back out away from the horizon, but it’s only a theory.

    The light of the dying star has already long radiated away from the black hole. Once the star becomes a black hole, there’s no way for all that light that already escaped to just become captured. See this video here to get a short visual explanation, by the same YouTuber.


  • I always wonder if two observers were falling towards two different black holes that were the same mass, would they percieve each other’s clocks passing the same?

    It would be roughly the same phenomenon as observing from the ship. Both persons would perceive the other’s clock slowing down as the light has increasing difficulty reaching the observer.

    Presumably they wouldn’t be slowing down relative to each other, so long as they fell the same speed towards the same mass. Until at some they both cross the event horizon and shouldn’t be able to send signals anymore.

    You said two different black holes, so there would be time dilation experienced by both when observing the other party. If they were falling together side by side towards the same black hole, their clocks would be basically identical and would experience time in the same way. Even after crossing the horizon, they’d be able to see eachother and interact up until they were spaghettified. This is because light can still move upwards relative to us, and reach our eyes, even if all space is falling faster than light. This was addressed in the video when talking about the local scale of spacetime below the horizon.