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muesli  

Oil price drops below $0

"US oil prices have turned negative, meaning that some producers are paying customers to take oil off their hands."

(CNN)

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Old Fucking Punk  

@fatboy Most GUIs get in the way of productivity; more designed for the common user than designed for any level of use.

OS/2's WPS has been the only GUI I was comfortable in using full time. Of course, it was fully configurable.

I've never been comfortable with Apple's GUIs (too restrictive). Microsoft Windows is just awful (always needs cygwin with X loaded). I find Gnome useable, but Linux has always been a command line first OS. The Linux GUIs are steadily improving, but...

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@byllgrim@mastodon.xyz Yep. It's hard to find interesting people here. Especially if your view of interesting is "punk rock" not "pop music" levels. ;-)

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@mkwadee I'm still seeing a check mark.

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@LeoSammallahti I believe I remember Bernie praising Germany's system of two paths post high school and talking about apprenticeships. Might have been in his book.

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Pops has moved instances!!!  

@animo Studies have shown that solar power is "contagious." When one house gets a solar roof, their neighbors all start wanting one. If you look at a map you'll see clumps of solar power where "outbreaks" have happened, not an even distribution at all

So I guess the answer is, lead the way! Show your neighbors how it's done, #solarpunk style :greensun:

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Old Fucking Punk  

I am always tempted to see what this tastes like.

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Old Fucking Punk  

Bernie endorsing Biden sends a message opposite his campaign message of "Us. Not me." If it was up to us, Bernie would run for President as an independent. In his book, he talks about how the anti-Trump strategy is a no win. Time to show more backbone .

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Joe Biden has been telling progressives to fuck off. We need to respond in kind. The Democratic Party's capitalist wing needs to realize that anti-Trump is meaningless to people who won't see their life outcomes improved.

Biden hasn't thrown in support for Green New Deal, so world outcomes aren't going to be improved either.

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Old Fucking Punk  

Reconnecting with my LP collection during work from home mandate...I discovered an insert in my Neil Young Tonight's the Night album. Never realized I had an original issue copy. Bought it used many years ago, when the only metric I used was free of scratches.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

The plan to create a “stewardship council” to protect nonprofit civil liberties if private equity takes over the .ORG domain is toothless, and won’t stop Ethos Capital from doing what it wants to do with nonprofits’ home on the Internet. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/eff-

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

If a surveillance law expires in the middle of a pandemic, does
anyone even notice? eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-

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Nemesis  
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@byllgrim@mastodon.xyz Sounds like domain pollution, or an underpowered system. In the former, GUI is intertwined with sampling, not separated (read asynchronous signals). In the latter, get new hardware or optimize all domains.

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@LeoSammallahti "The class society of early 20th century doesn't exist anymore." I have to strongly disagree with this statement. White collar and education don't define wealth disparity. I know a lot of college educated restaurant workers, and white collar jobs don't guarantee a middle to upper middle class income. (Maybe not even lower middle.)

I've been reading Toni Gilpin's book, "The Long Deep Grudge", and descriptions of income inequality in the 1920s sound like today.

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Leo Sammallahti  

One big shift in #coops is that in the first half of the last century, they were mostly set up by working class people who believed them to be more effective.

In the second half, it shifted to middle class people who set them up because they believed them to be more ethical.

First wave seems to be more successful. Early retail coops that sought to provide cheap and good quality goods are market leaders in many countries. Food coops set up to provide ethical and organic food are tiny.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Open access is a human rights issue. Potentially life-saving medical knowledge should not be restricted to those connected to institutions that can afford expensive journal subscriptions. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/embr

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Ben Trister  

Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner - Scientists found a “cliff edge” instead of the slippery slope they expected.
nytimes.com/2020/04/15/climate

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((LⒶMBDA GANG) . GNU/VIDAK)  
I'll level with you all

I'm lazy, and I cruise through a lot of my personal projects

I get bored easily and I put things down and I come back to them weeks or months or so later

And you know what, that's okay. Frequently I put things down because they're too difficult for my current skill level. It might take a few months or so to get over the self loathing of the fact I couldn't solve an issue

I agree with others on here: the only way to learn is to simply dabble around in the discipline area you're interested in, with absolutely no clue about what you are doing, until something starts to stick, and you run with that

I had no idea I actually liked programming until I discovered other languages than imperative ones like JavaScript, Java, C++ and C. By chance I stumbled, after not coding for ... 15 years, upon LOGO again after using it as a child, and then LISP, its granddaddy

Don't pressure yourself so much, and don't be a perfectionist. I keep having to tell myself that. EVENTUALLY I am going to finish the Atari 2600 game I have written in 6502 assembly. That project in particular fills me with guilt.

I have my whole life to finish all these projects - the one about the discrete transistor computer I started in 2013 after recuperating from a bad bout of psychosis. I designed the computer then, and it has taken this long for me to get the money in order to buy the components and understand how I failed over and over in its construction over the years.

Enjoy the journey, and always ask yourself if you at actually enjoying what you are doing. I need to keep reminding myself of this, as well. Just quit doing things that make you feel bad. Do something else. For me, the fastest way out it poverty has usually been a choice to have fun and be in poverty and dodge work that kills my will to live and be happy. I dunno if that actually makes sense, but I honestly believe that if the sale of your labour is making you waste your life away, as much as mine did, just simply don't do it.

You are not your achievements. You will grow tired of your achievements and will eventually forget them and think they are pointless. So just do what you find fun in the moment.

Blah. I hope this was useful to at least one person.
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muesli  

#showerthoughts

Any reasonably scaled Lego model is more expensive than the original it is trying to imitate.

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