ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
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After a review of Proudhon's journals it's been discovered that he only ever drank herbal tea
Because apparently proper tea is theft
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tired: running mastodon on a raspberri pi
wired: running mastodon on redstone in minecraft
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Websites get slower faster than browsers get faster
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If we could time-travel and run the browsers of today on the web of ~2010, that baby would *fly*
@natecull Currently it has three republicans (Pai, Carr, O'Reilly) and two democrats (Clyburn, Rosenworcel). Under Obama it had three democrats and two republicans (including Pai).
@natecull the FCC is required to have a minority nominated by the opposition party. McConnell picked Pai, just how Schumer got to pick a minority of the current members.
death penalty, punishment, justice
@Elizafox If we had a fairer justice system, where the death penalty was being applied to Hitler or Bin Laden or Mengele, sure. But our justice system sucks.
I buy that it's a waste of time to try to rehabilitate some people. But to me, the potential extra "justice" from death penalty rather than life in prison, even when warranted, is a lot less than the extra injustice from the death penalty being applied far too often.
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Bitten by a mysterious, feral, Stallman, they must once every month leave the presence of human civilization altogether for their safery and for the safetly of others. For they are ... ...
Sharewolves.
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"The Professional Sharer" by CGPGrey: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-professional-sharer
Published in 2014 but surprisingly prescient, given recent platform changes by Twitter, Patreon, YouTube, and others.
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I'm betting that @christi3k is exactly right about why Patreon has changed their fee structure this week in a way that, in my opinion, makes their business basically worthless. https://subfictional.com/my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be-a-money-services-business/
Especially since, OMG, "You can no longer use your Patreon balance to make pledge payments to avoid the per-pledge processing fee."
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The general consensus seems to be:
1) 20th Century Fox owns the "Alien" franchise.
2) "Alien" xenomorphs are born from a Queen.
3) Disney is buying 20th Century Fox.
Therefore
4) Xenomorphs are Disney princesses.
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No gods, no kings (joke post)
Fox only
Final destination
(I can't have been the first person to make this joke)
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Honestly I probably could have skipped my whole "why I'm leaving Twitter" blog post and just posted this comic instead. (source: http://www.listen-tome.com/wasted-hours/) https://toot.cafe/media/APuvNvSDKV4yyuCFL3k
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Considering an addition to the bylaws that prohibits donations of bitcoin under $100 on the grounds of being an environmental disaster
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God, these Russian dolls. I'm beginning to really hate them.
They're so full of themselves.
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http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Til-debt-do-us-part-UC-Berkeley-students-are-12405626.php
I wonder if anyone's put together a standard prenup for finaid marriages yet (to make them easy to dissolve, determine what to do if one of the students doesn't graduate within N years).
SOON: parents arranging their kids' undergrad marriages as part of the college application process, thinkpieces bemoaning that the kids aren't responsible for doing it themselves
http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/icarus-bryan-fogel-russia-doping-scandal-olympics-netflix.html Russian doping scandal article. This thing is... unreal to read. Wow.
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Lady rabbi, badass
https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/937359922978852864
<<If the Bible is so against systemic solutions to poverty, why is a jubilee year declared that releases people from debt to alleviate intergenerational poverty? What is leket, skikhah, pe’ah, and maasar if not taxes meant to create a safety net for those in need? 1/
Maasar. Not a voluntary contribution. An obligation.
Leket. Not voluntary, but obligatory.
Shikhḥah. Not voluntary. Obligatory.
Pe’ah. Obligatory. Lev 19:9. These are taxes, y’all.>>
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A random thought:
Measuring the quality of an economy via GDP is much like measuring the quality of a program by 'lines of code'
uspol, birdsite
Ugh, I really gotta stop boosting political stuff. I got fed up with birdsite because my feed there was all politics all the time (my own fault for who I followed, obvs). I cleaned that up, spend more time here now, but here I was ALSO getting into the habit of boosting political things and leading my timelines in the same direction.
Stopping that now. Only gonna boost genuinely interesting things about politics, not expressions of anger and outrage, however much I agree.
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
