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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.

when your tests are hermetic it's all "attaboy," but when your api docs are Hermetic suddenly it's all "you are scaring the QA testers" and "you are getting DMCA takedown notices from Alistair Crowley"

listening to some Graham Kartna music right now because im lovin that weird sound

UK Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are workers
bbc.co.uk/news/business-561236

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singing "teenage mutant ninja turtles" but to the tune of the DB: Super theme song

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

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Sonic_Hedgeblog/st

Can't believe this article came out two years ago and they're STILL DOING IT. propublica.org/article/turbota

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.

Food mention 

The existence of doughnuts implies the existence of doughbolts

the amount of empathy I have for the mars rover: exponential
the amount of empathy I have for anything boston dynamics makes: fuck those war machines

Oh yeah that's right, NMS has pets now!

and they're friggin adorable.

...also I think they updated the fauna generation too because I'm seeing entirely new fauna I've never seen before.

enjoying all the replies and votes on this poll i made. ^^ \o/

curiousity has grabbed me:
regarding buttons (as in ones you physically press or touch to do something or activate/stop/whatever some function on a device):

Which do you prefer?

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 ^.^ :bob_ross: #MastoArt #ArtTips

do you have access to a screenreader other than talkback and two minutes to check something for me? 

please go to en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t 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:

cwc.im/rocketstove

Please circulate.

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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.

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