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
@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)
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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'
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
