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@danielst @agx @purism thanks. Makes sense...to a programmer. A non-technical user would probably prefer to just scale off of "normal" view. (Probably with huge, big, normal, small, tiny resolutions.)

Electronic Frontier Alliance member @STOPSpyingNY have their own podcast, 'Surveillance and the City'. In the most most recent episode they recap the biggest privacy and surveillance stories from last year. twitter.com/STOPSpyingNY/statu

@agx @purism What is the scale measured against? i.e., why is 200% considered ideal (default)?

@lwriemen This is the same junk ive seen come out of the entrepreneur space for a while. Its like collectivising for rich jerks. You help me i sell you my coaching program for 600 instead of 3000.

Just ran into the oxymoron, "Cooperative Capitalism". A lot of entrepreneurs seem to be excited about it.[sic] Sounds like an "embrace, extend, and extinguish" effort.

So ready for the faux "We are in this together" messages to go away.

I wonder how many divorces have been generated by people being made to work from home? Especially among the people who use work to escape home responsibilities. Those ones who use the fantasy of being so necessary at work that they can't take time off. The ones who brag about how much vacation they didn't use. The fools who work for free and are the building blocks of exploitive capitalism among the salaried workforce.

“This Is Why We Don’t Drink the Water” - Fracking threatens drinking water on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. inthesetimes.com/article/frack

2021 isn't going to be the year the citizens of the USA wake up.

In 2020, oil producers evidently faced problems on multiple fronts. Geopolitical and meteorological disruptions combined with investor squeamishness and policy shifts to produce a bad year for them economically.

On the other hand, our fossil fuel economy hasn't changed in any fundamental way, even with people traveling less. Oil is still fundamental to modern life, and the reportedly accelerating energy transition is a drop in the bucket compared to the changes that actually need to happen to halt climate change.

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This NPR piece suggests that oil-producers would have had a rough year, even without the pandemic. This is *very interesting*. It would be a mistake to celebrate, though: this is a signal that it's time to fight harder.
npr.org/2020/12/31/951470056/t

We also need to jettison the Christian mythology and adopt Holocene Era years. Happy 12021!

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