AstroStelar

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[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

(I knew it that people would make fun of the Dutch UI...)

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by AstroStelar@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net
 

(in hindsight, c/slop would have been a better place to post it)

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The pager in the second image has the Hezbollah flag in the background, it isn't the specific pager that was given.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From what I can tell a lot of Israelis are anxious about having a "Jewish nose", so combine that with general social media toxicity and the bougie, superficial nature of Israeli society and you get a relatively high number of "nose jobs", though plastic surgery in general is prevalent too.

So they kind of become a representative of the superficial and toxic nature of Israeli society and its defeatist, ass-backwards approach to antisemitism.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Geez, this place is a mess...

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

yea Me checking my post be like:

Ironically though, it seems I now know out what's going on: lots of individual users holding grievances against each other or staff as the resut of struggle sessions or mod actions.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hi, I read some of the resources that were linked in the replies. I was taken aback by your claims at first and the medical journal article in particular gave a good explanation of the points about weight loss and ties to racism you made.

I stand on the opposite end of the spectrum: I'm naturally thin, work out and basically follow intuitive eating without realising it. So I felt a little awkward witnessing the mess down there, because I know that I have this privilege, that I still have prejudices inherited from my social upbringing and that biology is messy and often counterintuitive.

I probably will get things wrong from time to time, but I'll try my best not to, and to respond well to criticism if I do.

I guess what I want to say is thank you for making the post.

 

First a call-out of fatphobia (https://hexbear.net/post/4189552) that ended up proving its point, then the stuff about "he/hims" (https://hexbear.net/post/4187781) ". Apparently a mod got banned!?

I am not very active and I never look at the megathreads, the number of comments in them scare me away from them. Is that where it's happening? I feel confused about what this community is like now.

I, uh, don't really know what my point is. Maybe someone can explain what the state of the site is? Especially on the he/hims thing. Maybe that's the main point of this post.

I feel sad for people that got hurt by this.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If I thought like one of those companies I would say:

  • Making room for a bigger battery, bigger cameras and stuff like a wireless charging coil that reliably gets good reviews,
  • Not enough people using them, so "a sacrifice I'm willing to make" to lower costs of production and reducing phone variants,
  • Declaring those features outdated and deciding that now is the time to force people to "upgrade" to built-in storage or cloud services,
  • Upselling built-in storage and wireless devices, establishing a walled garden and creating a more steady source of revenue,
  • Dumb shit like wanting the sides to be as seamless as possible

I find it ironic that AES gets lampooned for its lack of variety in consumer goods, meanwhile corporations are continuously killing off their more niche variants and reducing consumer choice.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

On 21 September 2023, Telia, DNA, and Elisa, Finland's major mobile carriers, halted the sale of Xiaomi Technology products due to the company's ongoing business activities in Russia. This decision reflects the company's commitment to maintaining its operations in Russia despite the Ukraine invasion.