And the fix for the sudden but inexplicable plummet in video performance, especially pixel shaders?
Roll back the system to three days prior, before I installed the Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable.
Damn it all, #Microsoft, if installing such a major component of your own can do something so apparently unrelated as that to Windows 10, why does the OS let me install the damn thing at all?
*sighs* Still, technically better than Windows 7 and 8....
scarcity is absurd
we have all the logistical data and infrastructure necessary to provide for the material needs of all people, full stop. we could abolish prices on every survival commodity and we wouldn't run out of anything. food, housing, medicine. supply systems are documented and understood. demand is tracked and calculated. we could just drop the price tag and go on like nothing else had changed. we are that productive. scarcity is that fake.
The U.S. market value of a heartbeat.
Our leaders say:
At 18 days of fetal development, we have heartbeats, and thus are precious beyond measure and should not be aborted; we are human life.
At 18 years of age, after trying our very best to overcome mental and physical barriers we were worthwhile enough to be born with, some of us are incapable of doing enough work that other people want to buy; we are _not_ owed basic human living.
The message? They don't consider us human.
Fuck capitalism.
universal basic income
If I got free money (like the US$16k/yr the article mentioned) I know I'd use that stability to faff around a bit, but I'd also poke around, try harder to find something I like to do and is beneficial to society. That's very hard for me to do right now. If I could pursue that with an easy safety net, I'd be overjoyed.
universal basic income
I believe in the idea of a universal basic income, as it would give a no-strings-attached floor of economic stability to everyone. Yes, there's social services to help the poor/needy, but they're often insanely bureaucratic, degrading, and overly punishing of mistakes.
universal basic income
News story about a program in Iran which paid out basic money to everyone finds that, on the whole, people didn't immediately get lazy.
https://theoutline.com/post/1613/iran-introduces-basic-income
#fractal rendered in Mandelbulb3D. Called this one 'autumn'. ^.^
#MastoArt #CreativeToots https://mastodon.social/media/s3yCGzMGb2ppIyY9L-k
http://alexis-royce.tumblr.com/post/157579506390/glitterarygetsit-profmeowmers-my-bros-i-have
Okay, this is one of my new favorite WWII stories: how to fuck with German intelligence when you're just a rando Spaniard. Via @typhlosion
Here's a post with a bunch of links to all the planned parenthood locations that will rx you HRT (with financial aid!)
What ADHD is really like (for serious): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JowPOqRmxNs
As seen on birdsite from superhappy:
I finished this ol' comic
https://twitter.com/superhappy/status/857833198130036736 https://awoo.space/media/WEeAYI5nc3Q5p-YpLCE
I should make this clear:
When I complain about capitalism, I'm not attacking business owners and such. I genuinely understand the the mental gymnastics necessary to balance one's own comfort with the desire to not sink anyone else's lower.
When I confidently say the words "Smash capitalism!" in the context of person or persons to be censured, I speak of the ones who hold sufficient power to steer us in a better direction, yet continue to make everyone else's situation worse. Fuck those guys.
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