Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Retired old people who aren't just ... busy being sick and dying give back to their communities in HUGE ways. We had someone's grandpa come to our robotics competition to cheer the team on. The old people in my building do all the serious political organizing and man the polls. I'm too busy working being in my 40s and all that.

Lowering retirement ages takes away more than just "retirement" ... it makes everything harder.

Far as I'm concerned it should be 59.

A complete stranger took my Kitchenaid mixer on, fixed it, and delivered it back to me, all for a $20 tube of degreaser and some thanks.

Repair Cafes are amazing, and they're all around the world -- look in your community for a Repair Cafe for things you can't fix.

I'm so thrilled. It was a gift from my stepmom and my brother did an idiotic job of packing it when he shipped it to me, which broke shit.

Dude not only repaired things, but fabricated a new knob for me.

Most humans are good.

There has not been a single example of a war on drugs that has worked. Not one.

And I come from a country that hangs drug traffickers.

For folks around Ōtautahi, the band I'm in, 3kg, is playing at A Rolling Stone (Colombo St. by end of Welles St) from 8pm this Sat night (10 Feb). Rock, funk, mod, swing. Covers & originals.

Niki Haley wants to raise the SS retirement age to 70.

Life expectancy for African American men in the US is 62.

For men in general? 73.

Enjoy your negative 8 and 3 years everyone.

“My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here, and have a part of it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?”

— Paul Robeson

#blackhistorymonth #books #bookstodon

Leaving this sort of thing to proprietary, profit-motivated interests is just fundamentally broken and entirely unjust.

That I've seen no governments funding #libre/open source accessibility software in order to provide equitable access for people with disabilities demonstrates how entirely wrong-thinking governments are about technology. Someone please correct me if I've missed some exception to this damning statement.

Does anyone know how to get WPA3 working on Linux? I don't know if it's a general Linux problem or if it's a specific implementation of Linux but I do know it ain't working on my laptop and it's a problem. :-/ My google fu brings up lots of posts about how it isn't working but nothing that looks like a fix or a workaround...

In addition to the bazillionty things I said I would do this week, I need to get my astrobiology students to pick their final project topics: they have to evaluate a work of scifi on the plausibility of its aliens using what they learned from my astrobiology course.

I've asked here before, but I'll ask again: what are some scifi works that have really great aliens and/or alien worlds?

My list so far:

Huge SUVs and trucks should be taxed at a far higher rate than regular passenger cars, because they're doing by far the most damage to highways -- and they are deadly to people in smaller vehicles. https://slate.com/business/2024/02/car-safety-guardrails-bloat-electric-vehicles.html

The Linux desktop is a house owned by an amateur DIY home improvement person. Floor boards squeak, the back door doesn't latch unless you close it a certain way, you have to jiggle the toilet lever, and there's tape on a light switch controlling an outlet that needs constant power.

The homeowner doesn't fix these things, because they know to jiggle the lever, how to close the door. Working around these flaws has become second nature so they don't even realize they are doing it.

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#Comics

Check out Pulp Lit Bazaar in Salem, MA on March 22nd at Die With Your Boots On.

This book-centric event is part market, part stage show, part party, and 100% a killer time. FREE admission!

Join us and learn more at https://www.facebook.com/events/974873074364452/

As someone who lives in a rural, sometimes very cold, place hybrids always made more sense to me than full EVs. I'd never consider a Tesla, but I drool over a Prius.

https://www.thedrive.com/features/toyota-is-right-we-need-more-hybrid-cars-and-fewer-evs-heres-why

Trump, Populism, and the Republican Establishment: Two Graphs From New Hampshire

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/trump-populism-and-the-republican-establishment-two-graphs-from-new-hampshire.html

Folks promoting Bluesky on the fediverse is like the three little pigs doing public relations for the big bad wolf.

But, hey, clearly some folks still haven’t gotten the message that VC and billionaires are bad and that non-corporate spaces have to be protected from corporate ones.

I guess something has to keep the folks who write “what went wrong/if only we’d known” articles in business.

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Dear companies,

please don't make having access to Google's or Apple's app stores to use your products a requirement.

This locks so many of us out because we either don't have a compatible device or the device doesn't have the software to access these services (like google play services).

#WebNotApp

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Huh, who would've thought: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2223228/microsoft-edge-is-stealing-chrome-tabs-for-some-users.html the Microsoft Corporation acting entitled and a bit evil. Mostly because it's an entitled and evil corporation, as all corporations inevitably become if they last long enough (and aren't bought/hollowed out by Microsoft first).