Capitalism rewards innovation (sometimes), but consistently punishes robustness.
Capitalism tends towards tiny margins. Systems will be stretched to the absolute limits daily and are completely incapable of coping with anything beyond that.
Robustness include redundancy and spare capacity. No robust system can compete in the 21st century free for all of unregulated capitalism.
Meanwhile, neoliberalism demands that every system essential for human life be removed from governments and given over to capitalism. We call this democracy, but it seems more like a Divine Right of Oligarchs.
UK Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are workers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56123668
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theyre all going "EYYYY IM WALKIN' 'ERE"
RT @Sonic_Hedgeblog@twitter.com
Bendable Sonic figurines developed by Toy Island. Photo from a catalog scanned by @abelmunizjr@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Sonic_Hedgeblog/status/1362506731193065473
Can't believe this article came out two years ago and they're STILL DOING IT. https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes
Shared that link with someone who was still waiting for their second stimulus check and who wanted to file taxes but was waiting for a parent to loan the use of their tax software because they had student loans and therefore "didn't qualify" for free filing.
Did you know that you can use mediums like Liquin (produced by Windsor & Newton), Gamsol (produced by Gamblin), and walnut oil to significantly reduce the drying time of oil paints?
Have you used them (or any others), and what's your experience? Walnut oil, for example, creates a glossy sheen that some painters dislike but others are fond of ^.^ #MastoArt #ArtTips
do you have access to a screenreader other than talkback and two minutes to check something for me?
please go to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Codl/sandbox&oldid=1007492688 and let me know if, in the table, "Yes (african)" and "No (european)" immediately follow each other, or if "Hirundindae" comes inbetween
Learning that people suffering from the storm and blackout in Texas were using the guide in our book Recipes for Disaster to build a rocketstove with which to heat food and water, we've put the directions online here in their entirety:
Please circulate.
if your music is glitchy, cutesy, chill as fuck, has good complex melodies, has a good beat, or is any combination of all of these qualities, chances are I will like it.
This is prolly why I like vaporwave music unironically. And also this new Weirdcore/internetcore style that the ENA Videos have.
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.