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On this day in 1898, the Battle of Virden began when armed members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) surrounded a train full of strikebreakers and exchanged fire with company guards. 13 people were killed, dozens more wounded.

After a local chapter of the UMW began striking at a mine in Virden, Illinois, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company hired black strikebreakers from Birmingham, Alabama and shipped them to Virden by train.

The company hired armed detectives or security guards to accompany the strikebreakers, and an armed conflict broke out when armed miners surrounded the train as it arrived in town. A total of four detectives and seven striking mine workers were killed, with five guards, thirty miners, and an unrecorded number of strikebreakers wounded.

After this incident, Illinois Governor John Tanner ordered the National Guard to prevent any more strikebreakers from coming into the state by force. The next month, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company relented and allowed the unionization of its workers.

"When the last call comes for me to take my final rest, will the miners see that I get a resting place in the same clay that shelters the miners who gave up their lives on the hills of Virden, Illinois...They are responsible for Illinois being the best organized labor state in America."

Mother Jones

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[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ugh im so sleepy but weed man said he should be by in like an hour like an hour ago

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Weed is legalized where I live and yes, it becoming dominated by corporate interests is an issue, but I do NOT miss putting up with dealers. Gotta hang out for an hour and toke if I just wanna buy an eighth or "oh yeah I'm just around the corner" sent 45 minutes ago

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Learning an old banjo song and when researching the composer I got this sentence that was sort of a mental flashbang:

Ragtime is regarded as musical slang by the bighbrows, but their attitude towards it would be different if they didn't have to give the banjo credit for securing a monopoly of praise in that field. When you want real syncopated rag, well done with plenty of gravy, have it served hot on a banjo!

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

I always like when right-wingers pretend they aren’t right-wing and say things like, β€œcalling right-wingers bad is insulting to centrists like me who are called that just because we don’t believe in your leftist Marxist agenda.” Said agenda is some of the most mild soc-dem policies.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

What they don't teach you in driving school is floor cookies you find in old cars are free calories, the effort you expend searching for and scrambling for them cancels out the cookie from your daily intake

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Can we bring back door-to-door vacuum salespeople under communism? I want to bring comrades the gift of a nice, clean carpet. If not, can I be the sole vacuum salesperson responsible for the entire Sozialistische Weltrepublik?

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Been a little bit since I was factory-gameposting here but @WhatDoYouMeanPodcast you should check out Dyson Sphere Program. It doesn't have the same sense of personal scale and locality that Satisfactory does, it's third person and just doesn't really capture that vibe of building something larger than yourself, but it does capture the sense of scaling up and seeing your creation come alive. You start small, then make your way to harnessing the power of entire solar systems, easily taking all the resources a planet has to offer by deploying legions of drones and transport vessels. Then you'll have entire planets covered in rocket factories, then launchpads.

The best part is the one where it is the most like Satisfactory: slowly coming to see your custom Dyson Sphere designs take shape. It might take you several days, which makes the truly massive spheres slowly fading into existence and having each part of their form become visible so much more impressive and awesome. It's the feeling from delivering a phase in Satisfactory, except it continuously happens over a longer period of time and is a much more massive process than piping items into an elevator. You can make some really, really neat sphere designs too.

[–] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Simulation theory becomes a lot less interesting when you have rudimentary kubernetes knowledge.

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[–] someone@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My latest ship in No Man's Sky, the "April O'Neil".

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it's crazy how hexbear is megathread

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Tomb Raider 4 (Last Revelation), 5 (Chronicles) and 6 (Angel of Darkness) are getting remastered. Does that mean they will actually finish Angel of Darkness and it will be actually playable?

[–] blight@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Crushposting:

I know their phone number is correct, because we did a test call when swapping. I know they have low days. I know they struggle with answering messages. Either of these reasons is valid enough on its own, and should calm me down.

…But there are also other possibilities: that they stood me up, or that they got into trouble. In both these cases there’s nothing I could do. (Except of course to have been a better person all along so nobody would stand me up, or to constantly be by their side to help them out of trouble 🀑)

It’s probably just a low day, and I sent them 2 short messages and attempted 1 call spread out over like 5 hours, which I hope is not too clingy or annoying.

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[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

almost over this head-cold, but I still have an annoying headache all day

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

fuck landlords
fuck cars

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Me a couple years into Kamala enacting Project 2025 to reach across the aisle: "well this bisexual erasure is coming in clutch."

[–] Yor@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Test testing how fast can i type having to correct every word?

[–] Woly@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

tURNS OUT YOPU CAN TYPE REALLY FAST IF YOU DONT CORRECRT ANTHYRTHING

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[–] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

My popos Linux PC has been booting into busybox for a week and I've been too lazy to fix it even though I want to play games online

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