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
Politics, economics
@Angle@witches.town universal basic income, universal health care, free education. Paid for by progressive taxes.
A lot of terrible consequences of our economic system would be ameliorated if people were really, truly free to leave jobs.
Holiday travel (?)
@jaycie wait, how does that work?????
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Politics, Facebook
As an aside, it's a dark year for the tech industry when a major news magazine can ask with a straight face whether one of the largest and most successful tech companies can be tried for crimes against humanity.
As Facebook is the #1 site on the web, part of my job on the Edge perf team is to make sure that Facebook runs fast. It's hard to find any corner of the tech industry that doesn't have blood on its hands. What a demoralizing time to work in tech.
@Gargron The scientists that could come up with theories like that and prove them were kept far, far away from a 22-million-dollars-a-year contract paid out to a friend of a high-ranking senator.
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Why the fuck did chiropractic get associated with mainstream med? That's not far removed from saying palm readers are legitimate hand doctors. Chiropractic is actually pseudoscience and has nothing to do with your muscoskeletal system.
USPol
@Azure Yep
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@wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net fscking hilarious
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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)
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
