orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

It’s a fantastic evening in the neighbourhood, and you are a bubbly persian cat.

video game graphics review channel but the reviewer thinks it's all practical effects

RT @AnneWHilborn@twitter.com

Growing up in the 80's, bread lines in communist countries were used to convince kids like me that capitalism=superior.

I now work at a university food pantry. Graduate students line up for veggies, pasta, canned goods because under capitalism they aren't paid enough to live. https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1189265096817725440

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/1189296515606630400

How to fix the world step 1: forget the Alamo

@andi @Spacedrake @cenobite_party_bus like as cyberpunk transformed into just an aesthetic without an inherent political mindset, we started getting more genres called "whateverpunk" that also just describe different aesthetics without a clear politic behind them

I’ve been quiet for too long and it needs saying: there’s absolutely nothing punk about solarpunk

alvin and the chipmunks are the mcelroy brothers' fursonas. not going to elaborate on this

every now and then i remember that Google Books basically scanned every written document in existence over a decade and with a few keystrokes we could release all of that knowledge to everyone in the world but instead we have lots of dumb complex DRM and other revenue schemes

boomers for literally my entire young adulthood: millennials and their selfie sticks!! get a job!!

millennials after a decade of this: ok boomer

boomers: *pops an artery from rage*

the thing is that everyone understands that economies are planned when they're going about their daily life, but it's only when they're asked to think about it that they go into this mode where they regurgitate the propaganda they've been taught in school

every single libertarian nerd who goes on about the virtues of the free market and the evils of central planning has a PNG saved to their hard drive that describes the next ten years of Marvel movies

capitalism likes to pretend that it's this emergent phenomenon, where you leave people to their own devices and then magically the economy grows and people's needs are met, but this ignores that the market isn't free of influence, companies are constantly planning their own growth over time, marketing exists and influences decisions in irrational ways because human beings aren't perfectly rational, huge monetary and power disparities exist and these determine the influence any individual can have on the whole economy, goods with inelastic demand are prone to price gouging, the huge advantage of economies of scale in cornering markets, the natural interest that powerful entities have in maintaining and expanding their own power, and the financialization of capital away from use into money-generating abstraction

but if you ignore all of those things then yeah it basically just shows up on its own and does a pretty decent job