Someone in another thread recommended the book “dying of whiteness” and it’s absolutely horrifying. We all know conservatives vote against their self interests. Well, they know too. Many of them know. They’re happy to die for their beliefs if it means no {slur} gets anything nice.

People may have heard of these things, but I don’t think most people could give an accurate description of what they are.

They’re just so… unimaginative. There are so many things other than coal and mining people could invest in.

I’d like Amazon broken up.

I haven’t ordered from them in a couple years, I think. They make a stupid amount of money from AWS so me spending $10 elsewhere isn’t a big deal, but it feels worthwhile.

Also, I live in a livable city. A lot of things I can just walk outside and get in under an hour.

They’re bad people and too many folks are pretending they’re not.

If you think paying labor leads to stagnation you’re in the wrong community

You’re missing the point, so yes you do seem stumped.

What does that have to do with the ownership class extracting value from labor?

And you think that costs more than the productivity gains from having the computer?

If that was true, if it was a wash to get the new tool for the owner, they wouldn’t do it. That’d be silly.

Upgrading someone from pen and paper to a laptop with LibreOffice is probably going to dramatically (let’s say 4x) increase their productivity, without a corresponding 4x increase in maintenance cost.

I want more people to think though

“If this tool makes me produce double, and I get paid the same, who’s keeping all that new value?”

I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.

It’s kind of funny that because most of us are nice, no one just beat the shit out of trump or worse. Assholes are kind of like parasites taking advantage of kindness.

I had a conversation with a coworker a while ago where he was like, “Well I just wouldn’t buy the swill milk.”

I was like, "How would you know??

The utter hubris of that kind of person thinking they’re going to like spin up a whole chemistry lab to check the quality of everything they buy. The insanity of thinking that’s a good world to envision.

I feel a little guilty by not skipping work entirely, but I have the legal minimum of paid time off. So I’m technically on the clock, but I’m not doing any work.

Meanwhile, the sheep and the goats part just gets ignored

34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

I’m sure they’ll do some backflips to say “the brothers only mean people I like”, but then there’s the “who is my neighbor?” part.

29 But wanting to vindicate himself, he said to Yeshua, “Then who is my neighbor?”

30 Yeshua replied, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. He was attacked by robbers, who stripped him and beat him. Then they left, abandoning him as half dead. 31 And by chance, a kohen was going down that road; but when he saw the man, he passed by on the opposite side. 32 Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the opposite side. 33 But a Samaritan who was traveling came upon him; and when he noticed the man, he felt compassion. 34 He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. Then setting him on his own animal, he brought him to a lodge for travelers and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[b] and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him. And whatever else you spend, upon my return I will repay you myself.’ 36 Which of these three seems to you a neighbor to the one attacked by robbers?”

37 And he said, “The one who showed mercy to him.”

Then Yeshua said to him, “Go, and you do the same.”

But they’re not sincere, so the text doesn’t matter.

I assume management is free to do what they want with their phones, so they can fuck all the way off.

I don’t know a lot about how fingerprinting works, but some of what i’ve read is pretty insidious. Some things could probably be obfuscated, but some of what the trackers use has legitimate purposes as well. Your application may serve different content based on the screen size, or fall back to an older library if such-and-such API isn’t supported.

Personally I’d rather make targeting advertising and tracking illegal, and gut the whole thing to avoid the arms race.

So you’re going to make it illegal to call getBoundingClientRect and then pass that information to fetch through any mechanism?

You’d have to kill a lot of JavaScript and CSS for that to work, and then a lot of legitimate function goes away.

Done much web development work?