Baconmancer

I HAVE NO KEYBOARD AND I MUST SHITPOST

[argumate]

Up to 60% of Argentina's population—over 25 million people—claims Italian ancestry. This profound heritage stems from two massive waves of immigration between 1870 and 1960. Italian roots are woven into Argentine food, dialect, architecture, and traditions, creating one of the largest and most vibrant Italian diasporas in the world.

huh does that impact the language at all

[argumate]

deadgenerations said: yes, Argentinian Spanish sounds like it’s being spoken with an Italian accent. the vocabulary is not significantly affected I don’t think

Spanish with an Italian accent... that sounds so plausible yet my grasp of both languages is so weak I can't really envision the details

[sysid-ace]

🌂 this message mary just posted on discord is like a fucking homestuck joke

[ashes2caches]

one time a guy friend told me he was quitting league of legends and literally two weeks later she was on estrogen. these events are intrinsically connected in my mind.

[eightyonekilograms]

There is still time [to stop playing league of legends]

[griffonatrix]

[argumate]

there's a particular breed of twitter/youtube account who has been posting RUSSIA IS SO BONED once a week since 2022 and their posting frequency has increased to every couple of hours in mid-2026

[argumate]

France Just Dealt Russia a DEVASTATING Blow Satellite Imagery Just Confirmed Putin's Worst Nightmare Russia Just Got Some TERRIBLE News The Situation on Crimea Has Become Truly Insane Russia is Now Fleeing the ENTIRE Sea of Azov (75 Ships Disabled!) Russia Has Gone Completely Insane Ukraine Just DELETED Russia’s Shadow Fleet Russia is Threatening to “Use the Nukes” Again (lol) Russian Society is Completely Unraveling Russia is Completely Folding Right Now Russia’s Military Has Begun Abandoning the Front Lines Putin's Closest Ally Just Betrayed Him Russians Are Now FLEEING Crimea in HUGE Numbers Russia's Propagandists are Panicking About Crimea Right Now Ukraine Just Warned ALL Russians to FLEE Crimea (while they still can) Ukraine Just Triggered a MASSIVE Fuel Crisis in Russia Something BIG is Brewing in Chechnya Right Now The Belarus Situation is Becoming a BIG Problem for Putin Russia Just Lost Their Most Important Leader (more important than Putin) Putin's Response to Armenia's Election Was Absolutely INSANE Putin is FURIOUS as Elite Russian Soldiers Flee Their Positions Russia is Preparing to Sacrifice 1,000,000 More Men The Situation in Crimea is Spiraling Out of Control The Ukraine War is About to Get MUCH Worse for Russia Putin Just Had His Worst Day of the Entire War Sweden Just Dealt Russia a DEVASTATING Blow Russia’s New War Strategy is Already a MASSIVE Failure Russia Just Made The Most Desperate Move I've Ever Seen

my man I know Russia is struggling but you have to pace yourself, you blow all these titles now and what are you going to have left when the war continues three more months, this is like those Iranians who kept posting AI videos of Tel Aviv in flames back in March, exercise some restraint!

[sequel2heaven]

Literally this

[argumate]

lol that's hilarious, and it doesn't matter if they were posted over one week or over five years, it's funny either way

[isaacsapphire]

It occurs to me that most folks who have “socialist/communist/leftist/eat the rich” attitudes in the United States would immediately change their tune if they had 1950s style socioeconomic prosperity and hope.

Some want to own houses, get better jobs, have improved prospects for their children. Others want prestigious jobs at colleges and news outlets and publishing contracts. They’d all support The Way Things Are if they thought the socioeconomic system was going to give them the lifestyle the boomers had.

[bambamramfan]

This is absolutely true, but in ways points to a deeper failure.

Capitalism depends on actually giving benefits to people, and if you just ignore it and let capitalism fuck up a generation (2008) so much they demand socialism, then the decision makers chose their greed over the preservation of the system.

And if they forgot that bargain, then getting worse is going to accelerate.

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

Time was Big Capital would actually say this out loud:

[bambamramfan]

Yes! I almost included that one theory is that through the 90's the capitalist country had to offer a better standard of living in competing ideologically with communism. This put some discipline on capitalists to not let all the resources go to the top, and when the USSR collapsed is when we started seeing ultra-capitalism take off.

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

I think the issue(that ironically this post is also exhibiting) is that communists have convinced a significant number of people that

We currently live under unrestricted free market capitalism.

The only alternative to what we have now is communism.

Neither of these things are true. What we have is not capitalism(or at least not what most self-described 'pro-capitalists' would call capitalism), but rather an 'expert' managed economy. One where the people at the top(government, investment class and megacorps) work together to hinder the functioning of capitalism for everybody who isnt 'one of them.'

The US hasnt had true, unrestricted capitalism since before anybody living today was born(and one could even argue we never really did). But it has gotten further and further from that over the last century. So its not a coincidence that things have gotten worse for most people.

As for the second statement the alternative to both communism and the 'expert' managed faux capitalism we have now is...real capitalism. To get rid of the managerial class and let people create and build freely. Its what built American prosperity. And moving away from it is how we got to where we are now.

[reach-one-moment]

Without getting too deep into the weeds on this, because random people arguing about the economy never changed anything: there’s an issue with this particular piece of libertarian orthodoxy. The types of regulations that prevent monopolies and encourage economic competition are also strongly opposed by libertarians.

EG, without anti-trust I don’t see how you keep the entrenched tech firms from choking everyone else out via economies of scale, but every libertarian I’ve personally discussed this with seems to think that the FTC are the front line soldiers of Bolshevism, harrying our poor job creators.

And we’ve seen the consequences of limited environmental regulation first hand, the clean air and water acts of the ‘70s were passed because the air in LA made you sick and rivers in the Midwest were actively flammable from chemical runoff.

I agree that there’s a lot of regulatory capture, and no perfect system, but the closest eras to unrestrained capitalism were not good times. Late 19th century food safety and workplace safety standards (specifically the lack thereof) also spring to mind.

Total freewheeling laissez faire might work in Adam Smith’s world where there are 1/10th of the people and few firms bigger than a master craftsman and a few apprentices, but we haven’t lived in his world for a long time. The capital-intensity of starting up in certain industries naturally bends the situation towards monopoly conditions, for example.

Frankly, although there are many parts of their system that I dislike, the example of China suggests that managed competition with an eye towards long-term thinking wins out over the “maximize quarterly returns” ethos of the US system.

I won’t even get started on Ford V. Dodge Brothers of 1919, we’d be here all day haha

anyway, I hope you are having an excellent summer. At the end of the day, we all want the same stuff, just can’t agree how

[isaacsapphire]

There’s also the whole issue of military and other government spending is such that it shapes the economy substantially. If government contractors have to do X to their employees across the board, big companies that want lucrative government contracts are going to do X. If the military spends taxpayer money training guys to do Y, the civilian labor market is going to operate by taking advantage of that government funded training (eg pilots, nuclear power). If the government hires a lot of workers to do Z, the labor market for people doing Z is dominated by government hiring practices and qualifications.

[isaacsapphire]

It occurs to me that most folks who have “socialist/communist/leftist/eat the rich” attitudes in the United States would immediately change their tune if they had 1950s style socioeconomic prosperity and hope.

Some want to own houses, get better jobs, have improved prospects for their children. Others want prestigious jobs at colleges and news outlets and publishing contracts. They’d all support The Way Things Are if they thought the socioeconomic system was going to give them the lifestyle the boomers had.

[bambamramfan]

This is absolutely true, but in ways points to a deeper failure.

Capitalism depends on actually giving benefits to people, and if you just ignore it and let capitalism fuck up a generation (2008) so much they demand socialism, then the decision makers chose their greed over the preservation of the system.

And if they forgot that bargain, then getting worse is going to accelerate.

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

Time was Big Capital would actually say this out loud:

[collapsedsquid]

Several major news broadcasters will not carry President Trump’s speech on Thursday evening, spokespeople for these networks confirmed.  ABC News, NBC News and CNN will carry the president’s remarks on separate streaming platforms or editorial live updates. 

Tried to bait the news networks by leaking that he might declare the Georgia senators illegal but they knew that Nothing Ever Happens and didn't fall for it.

[collapsedsquid]

He mad

[argumate]

nobody hates market competition more than capitalists, which is why ironically there's more of it in China, at least between provinces; maybe America could fix capitalism by funding an east coast rival to every west coast tech firm and a west coast rival to every east coast financial firm and bring back an actual competitive market.

[goatsgomoo]

I dunno if that's enough, it might take a communist revolution to save capitalism.

[argumate]

the only thing that can save America is China, and vice versa.

[fuck-customers]

[magnetictapedatastorage]

I Watched a 55-Year-Old Law Break the AI Hiring Industry — And It Was Overdue

The Eightfold AI lawsuit exposed what happens when companies treat employment decisions like ad targeting — and why the fix requires enginee

a bit more context

[guerrillatech]

[shutupsavannah]

ID: a circular cycle around the wheelchair disability symbol.

the cycle is labeled “The Inaccessibility Cycle”

the steps are inaccessibility ➡️

disabled people unable to participate ➡️

disabled people not visible in public ➡️

disabled people seen as outlier/rarity ➡️

‘so there’s little/no need to consider them’ ➡️

and the final arrow leads back to inaccessibility, creating an endless loop

[i-wear-the-cheese]

This is a very well described explanation of both why visibility is a key factor in fighting inaccessibility and also why it is so hard to achieve

Why is why so many demonstrations by disability activists are so "go hard or go home" because it's like... yes those are currently the options thats the point!

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[argumate]

ladies, as you were

[eightyonekilograms]

> start a war with no plan

> immediately lose

> call your troops low-T pussies

I wonder who the highest-ranking officer in history to ever get fragged was, Hegseth might be gunning for the record.

[argumate]

testing the T-levels of tomahawk cruise missiles

[creatingblackcharacters]

"On April 10, without his consent, and five days before setting his broken bones, military physician Joseph Howland injected [Ebb] Cade with 4.7 micrograms of plutonium- forty-one times the normal lifetime exposure. The man-made element plutonium is a "fiendishly toxic" radioactive substance, one that Cade's body would harbor forever: the half life, or time it takes half a dose of plutonium to disappear, is 24,056 years.

...Wright Langham, the chemist who devised the human experiment, justified the toxic injection by explaining to Manhattan Project physicians that "the subject was an elderly male whose age and general health was such that there is little of no possibility that the injection can have any effect in the normal course of his life." But Cade was only fifty-three and held down a grueling job hauling long trucks. Except for a cataract, he enjoyed excellent health.

Before they set Cade's broken legs, AEC doctors completed higher priority tasks. They extracted bone chips and pulled offer of his teeth to measure Cade's newly elevated plutonium levels; only then, five days later, did they set his broken bones. Six months later, Cade was still in the hospital, and in a September 1945 letter, Capt. David Goldring M.D., of Oak Ridge informed Langham that "more specimens and extracted teeth will be shipped to you very soon for analysis."

But before he could lose more teeth or bone, Cade slipped away. One morning, the nurse opened his door, and he was gone. Morgan recalled, "They were surprised that a Black man who had been expected to die got up and walked out of the hospital and disappeared." They were also disappointed: Doctors had hoped to autopsy Cade's body, because the purpose of the injection had not been to treat Cade, but to experimentally calibrate the plutonium's physiological destruction."

Chapter 9- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington

[starcut-sand]

the thing about Tangled is that this is a story geared towards little girls (even if it's "fun for the whole family," it's a disney princess movie, it's geared towards little girls), and it says, "here is a girl who is naive and doesn't know anything about the 'Real World' or how to navigate it safely and correctly. now pay close attention: the good guys are the ones who help her grow and explore new things while still respecting her own perspective and feelings, not making her feel stupid. the bad guys are the ones who tell her that she is too weak/immature/naive to do the things she wants to do, because she is fragile and needs protecting." and I watched this when I was nine years old and it resonated deep in a part of me that I couldn't articulate with words yet.

[femmenietzsche]

I don't know if you're familiar with my SoCal-imperialism posting but when the US falls apart the northern barbarians will be pacified.

Oh no, I hear you're building a mighty railway to transport arms and troops north at unprecedented speed, as soon as that's finished we're done for

[parkchanwoohoo]

[infizero]

im going to like throw up or something