Notices by Poloniousmonk (uair@autistics.life)

@skinnylatte

I think it was 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' that drew a sports analogy that stuck with me. Your offense is how much you earn, your defense is how much you save. And defense wins games.

@skinnylatte

You seem pretty successful. You remind me of the people I use to work with in Manhattan. They were global, good at what they do, and hopped jobs all the time. I dunno if it's still true, but in tech in that era you could get high pay or job stability. I think tech jobs came with an 18 month lifespan before your working conditions deteriorated.

I have a question. I grew up with absolute, total permission. Functionally, I didn't have parents and raised myself out of books. Yeah, that's a bridge too far but which style of society do you think produces a higher percentage of high achievers? A lot of the first gen Asian kids I grew up with flamed out from the pressure, but jesus fuckme christ does America seem to mass-produce bottom feeders. Look at ICE.

Any thoughts?

@Lana

$100 buys a class 4 laser pointer, which will cook any camera at close range.

Just sayin'

@futurebird @jwcph

I forget who keeps pointing this out--Thom Hartmann? Paul Krugman? Whoever, it's true that a stolen election needs to be plausible. Bush2 could only steal his election because it was actually close (after millions of people were disenfranchised in the red states, of course). This one won't be close by any measure. Flagrantly stealing it might be enough to rouse the white middle class from its privileged slumber.

@ErikUden

"normal" America is exactly what allowed things to get where they are now.

At root, it's 'cuz we're running the beta test Constitution, and deliberately sabotaged it to get the slave states to sign on. That's why 70% of our senators represent 30% of the country. If it were balanced, the first thing Americans would have used their democracy to do is free the slaves, and that couldn't happen. So we ended up with a traditional European feudalism sporting a superstructure of bullshit democracy.

The surprise is that the bullshit held together this long, rather than that it dissolved so easily.

@inthehands

Y'know, Paul--this has to be the fiftieth time this has popped up in my feed. Apparently it wasn't just myself that was impressed by it. Damn near everyone I follow seems to have boosted it, too. Well done.

@dimsumthinking @inthehands

"Kidnapping" works for me.

@jeffowski

I see this is tagged as tinfoil hat stuff, but I couldn't find anything in his wiki about his beliefs. He strikes me as someone who'd dive down the right-wing rabbit hole, but I don't want to judge on impressions. Is he a hater/ goofball?

@skinnylatte

Damn! Hitman2 is $0.89 but Steam just decided my card is dead and there's no way to update it. Oh well. Thanks for the recommend, tho. This looks like something I would have liked to play.

@Em0nM4stodon

The only secure data is that which was never collected in the first place.

I've been terminally online since the 90s and if you google my real name, you'll get nothing. I'm a ghost, and this is wise advice.

@privateshufti @Infoseepage

Musket balls were my guess.

@inthehands

I see them calculating the risk profile thus: If they had to succeed or fail in a fair marketplace, the risk is 100%. As they're now plenty big enough to wipe out the world economy with themselves, the odds of a bailout are about 100%. So I guess investors are expecting to earn off the bailout money. Probably rightly.

@blogdiva

Petrol is priced by the liter in Europe, and when I was there in the 90s, the per-liter price was higher than our per-gallon price. They used the revenue to build public transportation. I've been saying since then we should as well.

Start with a one dollar a gallon gas tax and increase it a dollar a year indefinitely.

@adammoe2022

Ahh, don't eat that crap. Junk food like that will clog your arteries and take years off your life :)

@jeffowski

Man, has this joke been popping up a lot lately. Something musta happened at the beginning of last year to make it go viral :)

Hey--does Alaska have any snakes? Or lizards?

It's pretty fucking cold there and they're cold-blooded.

Half of my fedi friends are working scientists. I bet I know someone who knows the actual answer to this question.

I love the fediverse.

You're fucking awesome. You can do language /and/ science.

And you're harder than a coffin nail, You got it all.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

@angelastella @punishmenthurts @emily_rugburn @arisummerland @hellomiakoda @Mux @me @autistics

Naaah, things are changing here. Biden pardoned a shit-ton of student debt. And the Trump-backlash era, which is coming, will be ferociously progressive.

@angelastella @punishmenthurts @emily_rugburn @me @autistics

I just make shit up, but I'm pretty good at it.

I've been doing my own thinking all my life. I've got a head full of state secrets, and nobody ever told 'em to me. I never signed no NDA. I just figured that shit out on my own.

@hellomiakoda

When I lived in a homeless shelter, I had a laptop and would connect an xbox controller and play.

It made that world bearable.

Homelessness fucking sucks.

I've been broke and homeless in Africa.