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long ramble about my econ classes in college, labor abuse, wage disparity, death 

Thinking about my old econ professor from college. He was a man who turned milking labor and capitalism into a science; literally. He had the appearance of it too-- having that classical ghoulish look and demeanor to him. He was in his late 50s, wore weird earth tone dress shirts and ties. He spoke with a booming gruff voice and has a dry sarcastic sense of humor. More importantly he was all business and never really editorialized or discussed the material.

Except one day in Econ 101 he came in, sat the book down, sat on his desk, and said "I want you all to understand something. This entire track we're going to be talking about lassiez faire and how the market will self-correct. Well keep in mind that while markets self-correct slowly, people die quickly". Then he just picked up the book and continued.

I dunno why he said that. I dunno what happened to him or went through his mind that morning before he got to class, but I needed to hear that. Suddenly everything made a little less sense to me.

I needed to hear that because, until that day, all of this stuff about money and economics and labor and markets was all on paper, devoid of any attachment to people, to lives, and safety, and well-being.

It came up today, *cough* years later, when someone coldly stated the Great Resignation is due to the devaluing of labor in the age of automation bringing about a price disparity. So clean, so clinical and devoid of the body count of that statement.

Nevermind that statement is just flat wrong.

Anyway, I guess I'm toasting ol' Prof Vic today. I learned more on that one sentence than the rest of my Econ Minor.
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Today is #IntersexAwarenessDay. This is a good chance for you to inform yourself about what being intersex means and what problems intersex people face (hint many).

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Sea urchins like to pick up shells and rocks and wear them as "hats"; the reason isn't well-understood, but it may protect them from predators or help weigh them down so they're less likely to be washed away during storms. So some aquarists have taken to making tiny hats for their sea urchins, which the urchins voluntarily pick up and put on:

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onto the final castle of sicari remastered? can we finish this today?

twitch.tv/darkwitchclaire

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Good morning to everyone but especially low poly fox from Mega Man Legends 2

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I want to live in a world of extreme body polymorphism. I want a world where someone can be a human, or furry, or elvan fae, four legged wolf, giant dragon, a collective of foxes, small box robot on wheels, hive of nanobots, copyright infringement, abstract geometry...

I want a world where any conceivable thing can be considered as a form, to have "personhood", and efforts are made to allow all those types of being to exist relatively in the same culture, to the best of our efforts.

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Most JRPGs stop at having us attack and dethrone one god. Fantasian dared to ask "but what about second god?" and in the middle of that, I have a goddess to attack and dethrone too. Join me for the continuing adventures of Leo and Friends: Deity Slayers!

twitch.tv/LadyLenalia/

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One year after coming out my Mother In-Law still deadnames me 😢 redd.it/qdq7bv

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sometimes kids are weird and loud and sticky and gross and get in your business and let me tell you

that describes like 90% of the adults I know too

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the problem with right click downloading NFTs is i have never seen an NFT that is actually worth taking up space on my hard drive

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Hackers somehow got their rootkit a Microsoft-issued digital signature: zdnet.com/article/hackers-some

"In order to stay safe, we recommend that users only download software from the vendor's website or from trusted resources." ... Um, isn't that why code is signed, victim blamer?

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wasted an evening figuring out why trees were rendering too big in this game; turns out they were using log scaling

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doing a lot of killer sudoku has given me a knack for partitioning numbers into smaller ones that sum to them. maybe if we made puzzle games that required you to learn math concepts to play them at a high level, early math education would suck less. replace times tables with something fun that, as a side effect, makes you learn times tables over the course of doing it a lot

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Enjoy a little kobold, just trying to help their depressed dragon and bring a little smile to their face. :heart_pink:

An idea for a game that I'd love to make. Not sure if getting there, as this level of detail, would be a *lot* of work for an idea intended to be simple.
#UlvraArt #Art #Pixel

Inspiration came from watching @maxine stream pixel art on parent's Friday, showing off a random character.

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