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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
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Leavers, you voted for this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-55576018
#brexitshit
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#MartinRowson on #DonaldTrump supporters storming the #Capitol — #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian
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Find a GNU/Linux distribution just right for you! https://distrochooser.de/en/
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This could be the year we say NO to the Corporations that oppress us by not using their software or products.
Here is a great site to find free software alternatives: http://switching.software
OS/2's WPS is still the best UI I've used. This is an entirely subjective observation, and I'm not like most people. Windows (pick any edition) is the worst UI I've ever used. Mac UI seems to be the most user friendly for the average person. i.e., not someone who wants to dig under the UI. *nix has always had the best command line.
It would have been interesting to see what Atari or Commodore would have evolved into in a world without Microsoft's anticompetitive monopoly.
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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. https://twitter.com/STOPSpyingNY/status/1345807138254430209
Georgia Senate Runoffs: GOP Has ‘Galvanized’ Turnout By Blocking ,000 Checks, Stacey Abrams Says https://basicincometoday.com/georgia-senate-runoffs-gop-has-galvanized-turnout-by-blocking-2000-checks-stacey-abrams-says/
Green groups have a racism problem. Waterkeepers are trying to solve it. https://grist.org/justice/green-groups-have-a-racism-problem-waterkeepers-are-trying-to-solve-it/
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
#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
