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#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
Showtime Documentary Proves Trump Is the 21st Century Reagan https://theintercept.com/2021/01/04/trump-reagan-showtime-documentary/
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@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.
Drilling and mining companies got a holiday gift from Trump https://grist.org/energy/drilling-and-mining-companies-got-a-holiday-gift-from-trump/
Biden’s “Cabinet of Firsts” Betrays a Cynical Approach to Diversity https://theintercept.com/2020/12/31/biden-diversity-cabinet/
“This Is Why We Don’t Drink the Water” - Fracking threatens drinking water on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. https://inthesetimes.com/article/fracking-wastewater-drinking-water-contamination-fort-berthold-reservation
2021 isn't going to be the year the citizens of the USA wake up.
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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.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/31/951470056/the-oil-industry-had-a-rough-year-even-if-you-ignore-the-pandemic
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Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Broke Into Its Source Code
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-solarwinds-hackers-also-broke-into-its-s-1845974783
We also need to jettison the Christian mythology and adopt Holocene Era years. Happy 12021!
Why doesn't a year begin at the winter or summer solstice? Would seem to make more sense as a basis for a solar calendar.
Civilization is the product of greed. Civilization requires a tame workforce to construct edifices to it's greed and pathways for it's greed to continue. This is clearly laid out in large cities where the tame workforce and it's byproducts aren't allowed to mix with the holders of wealth except in a subservient manner. Even the faux progressives talk about good (i.e., wealthy) schools and neighborhoods and try to live there.
Being called civilized means you know your assigned place in society.
"Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph." - Robert E. Howard
After McConnell blocks k House bill, Sanders, Markey, and Brown commit to filibustering defense bill to force vote in Senate https://basicincometoday.com/after-mcconnell-blocks-2k-house-bill-sanders-markey-and-brown-commit-to-filibustering-defense-bill-to-force-vote-in-senate/
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When does the infotainment media not call a politically motivated suicide bomber who takes out a critical emergency telecommunications facility a terrorist? When do the police with specific foreknowledge of his bomb making and intentions do nothing to stop him?
When it is a white male conservative QAnon fanatic.
"Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago, report shows"
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Seed saving movement calls for #seeds to be publicly owned | #UK news | The Guardian
#PublicOwnership #Agriculture #Horticulture #Food #Vegetables #Fruit #Patents #GeneticModification #GMO
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Michigan police solved a murder with recordings of the suspect's voice stored on the victim's truck infotainment system. Michigan police pull data from cars "sometimes two to three times a week." #privacy https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/snitches-wheels-police-turn-car-data-destroy-suspects-alibis-n1251939
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
