A communist should be able to change a diaper, follow a trail, tend a farm, raise cattle, criticize a political manifesto, drive stick, teach a child, play an instrument, resolve disputes, organize a union, bind a wound, care for the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, read a map, mend a garment, gather mushrooms, hack a computer, and cook a tasty meal. Specialization is for the bourgeoisie.
I don’t think this is the final nail but I do think that it is a dividing wall. The internet has always had a way of siloing people off into separate communities and that’s just going to get more explicit with the mainstream platforms being totally owned and controlled and the people who are more enthusiasts getting more and more separated from those mainstream communities.
old capitalists:
only the wealthy should enjoy life
current capitalists:
i’m not enjoying my life and neither should you
I’m assuming they weren’t his only copies since he had to upload them from somewhere but losing his Google account is probably really bad because you imagine how many things you have tied to your Gmail address or whatever and how much you might lose access to
something something rave culture
I have a pretty high tolerance for jank personally, so I guess I’m in camp 2
that stock photo on the right
In the US it’s not so much about lyme disease being denied as it is about chronic lyme disease being denied. People who catch the disease sometimes experience long term symptoms that don’t go away after the initial treatment which can be debilitating.
That said the “denial” doesn’t come from the medical establishment (our CDC has a page talking about it that’s pretty informative), it comes from insurers who refuse to cover long term treatments and doctors who aren’t up to date.
The joke is that America is the child with the fake steering wheel.
hel yea my thinkpad t480 is a little younger than that but it’s top tier, had to reimage a bunch of windows laptops today and got reminded just how slooooooooooooow corporate hardware can be i can’t believe people work with that and just accept it as the way that computers are
Physical stuff. Electrician, plumber, HVAC. I do IT and networking primarily on the physical side which is an option. I wouldn’t suggest buying fully into the “trades make lots of money” propaganda but once you’re established you’ll be comfortable and they’re all jobs that can’t be automated or offshored.
Be realistic about the pay drop though if you decide to go this route. I would kill to be a slop dev because it would pay like twice what I’m getting right now, but I’m still pretty junior in my field.
kobolds: a hole is a hole
I haven’t tried in a while but I could not get DCS + VR to work on Linux the last time I tried. For a while I was dual-booting Windows just for that one particular game.
Sometimes steam tinker launch works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes bottles works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes lutris works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes extracting the mods directly into the game folder works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes a game has a bespoke github project with a script that you can run, and sometimes that script hasn’t been updated in years but it still works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
would love to do something but my rent is due tomorrow and i got a lot of ground to cover so
It’s a slippery slope. Soon you’ll be using Vim and ordering thighsocks on the Internet.
that’s the joke, since most numbers aren’t prime, this function is technically highly accurate despite being completely useless.
Here’s a shorter, smaller one:
in this one the gradient is multicolored because it shows the direction that gravity is pulling, I’m getting these weird patterns that I can’t quite explain, but they’re neat.
Currently programming my “cellular automata with n-body gravity” in rust.
The white gradient is formed by the “gravitons”, the tan stuff is sand. Right now I’ve got the gravitons reproducing and passing directional data between each other, what I’m trying to wrap my head around is rotating indices for each simulated cell so that i can make them dynamically “fall” towards the nearest gravity source, rather than always falling towards the bottom of the screen as they do now.
We should split the difference and make the slogan “Death to Amerikkka” that way nobody will be confused about what we’re referring to.
ITT: introverts (I’m one too)
People who are extroverted genuinely feel exactly the opposite of what you’re describing, being in a social situation is relaxing/easy for them, and being alone is what’s draining. I could go on and on about capitalist alienation and modern isolation and those are definitely factors but IMO the introvert/extrovert split predates the economic system, the main thing now is that if you don’t like dealing with people instead of being a hermit you spend ages on the Internet.