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Richard Oakes, born on this day in 1942, was a Mohawk indigenous activist and leader within the Red Power movement, playing a prominent role in the 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island from 1969 - 1971.

Oakes promoted Native American studies in university curricula and is credited for helping to change U.S. federal government "Termination" policies (policies regarding assimilation of indigenous people into the culture of the colonizer) of Native American peoples and culture.

In 1969, Oakes led a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island with LaNada Means, approximately 50 California State University students, and 37 others. On January 5th, 1970, Oakes' 12-year-old daughter, Yvonne, fell to her death from concrete steps. After her funeral, Oakes left the island.

In 1972, Oakes was shot and killed in Sonoma, California, by Michael Morgan, a YMCA camp manager. Allegedly, Oakes violently confronted Morgan, and Morgan responded by drawing a handgun and fatally shooting Oakes.

Oakes was unarmed when he was shot. Morgan claimed he acted in self-defense, and was acquitted on charges of voluntary manslaughter.

"We do not fear your threat to charge us with crimes on our land. We and all other oppressed peoples would welcome spectacle of proof before the world of your title by genocide. Nevertheless, we seek peace."

Richard Oakes

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[–] blight@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I feel like it’s been a good while since we’ve seen a BMF post?

[–] Cigarette_comedian@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

World petition to remove elbows from human anatomy so I stop elbowing the headphone cord out of the jack on my 'puter

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One of the managers at my department is a jokingly fire you guy, and since I hate the job everytime I'm like "no but like what if πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆπŸ₯Ί"

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Econpmy's shit so I can't lose this job but like what if

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty good about not getting nervous in the gym and internalizing that everyone starts somewhere, etc. But man seeing the guy next to me, who doesn't even look that big, put up three plate squats while I'm at 65lbs was just a little rough.

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[–] RION@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So sad that mundane builds in DS2 got nerfed into the ground. Pretty much not worth using on anything compared to raw or regular scaling. So I'm basically running a hex build with worse weapons

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[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Lone Gunmen from the X Files are really funny now, cause the whole premise of them hanging out with Mulder, an FBI guy, and thinking his theories are way more wacko than anything they come up with, just screams that he's there to spy on them lmao.

Like these guys suck at being conspiracy guys, a fed is hanging around you while you brag about meeting the real badge man, and everything this fed says is nonsense to you, and you don't clock him as being there as a disinformation agent?

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

And then he also shows up with a hot female fbi agent out of nowhere? Only way that could scream honeypot louder is if Scully had a beehive haircut.

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

Bronze is such an interesting material. It's amazing how they were able to create it so long ago.

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

it is may 22 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago
[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Skyrim VR update.

I gave it a few days and came back to try again. Fresh install of everything, .deb version of Steam, SteamVR set to the previous version, Mod Organizer 2 installed the first time without a problem, and the base game running without issues. Dunno what's up with the most recent version of SteamVR but it appears to have broken Valve Index controller emulation, which is why I'm using the previous. Dunno what's up with the flatpack version of Steam but running the previous version of SteamVR on it made it extremely unstable despite that same version working fine a couple of weeks ago. Now I gotta download mods again - this particular step has never been the culprit for breaking everything, but you never know!

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Currently on attempt like... 4 to get CP2077 running. I don't even want to play the game, this is about revenge. I wish you luck in your modding, comrade. rat-salute-2

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I hope there are basketball fans who want to comment in the conference finals thread, or I'll just look like I'm posting only to myself like a weirdo

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

the past few months I've been thinking of getting a new phone because the max brightness isn't high enough, but today I realized the whole time I had "reduce white point" enabled (setting that lowers overall brightness), likely for several months, without knowing cowboy-cri

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

So this dog followed me home on a walk and I couldn't get her to go home

She's very sweet and chill but obviously belongs with someone else cuz she has a collar (but no tag aaaaaa) and is very clean and smells like shampoo

Gonna go back tomorrow and try to find her human companions cuz I really can barely take care of myself, let alone an animal, also 2nd paragraph

This situation kinda stressing me out, really hope I can find her home

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

taking-restraint not posting a bit that would have been in extremely poor taste

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The armor in CP2077 is weirding me out. It's not 80s retro, it doesn't look like 20th century webgear. It's not contemporary sci-fi tactical armor, the kind of slick surfaces real-robot look that Blomkamp brought in to the forefront of cinema. What it really looks like, more than anything, is cheap air-soft gear from the early GWOT. Like there's no cool GitS, Appleseed, Captain Power, any armor that hits that stylish 80s Manga thing, nor is there any of the hypermodern, real robot, slick helmets with no visors stuff for V to wear. As near as I can tell there's just these aramid vests that look like crappy 90s flak vests. And all the tactical gear is weirdly out of place. Like again, it's not 80s webgear, but it's not modern webgear either. Everything is heavy stitched nylon, velcro, web straps. there's none of the slick face, laser cut, positive retention gear you see in high end modern tactical kit, or any attempt at doing a futuristic version of that. It's super weird. It's all archaic, but not archaic enough to be stylish so it just looks, idk, dorky.

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[–] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

some nerd cries about me picking mundo bot lane because he ignored my pings that my HP was low, proceeded to gank, died despite my involvement, and called me a troll

game ended with a loss, fun, but I did 18k damage, everyone else did 12k or lower

but yes ADC MUNDO LOST THE GAME!!! lol

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

Seeing a phd project more interesting thaj my job and considering writing an email to ask if I could do it as an underpaid employee rather than phd student lol

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thinking about it like maybe culture is supposed to die, the right wing notion that culture is supposed to be eternal, preserved and perfected is wrong.

Were clearly not doing anything ancient egyptians or mesopotamians did, i see no one crying over it even if somehow it was amazing we wouldnt know. cultures die and its probably a normal part of civilization.

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Every time I drink jamaica agua Fresca it’s always super good for the first 10 sips and by the mid point i never want to drink it again in my life

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