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I have escaped the burger riech!

I've found myself in the rather interesting position of it being cheaper for me spend my life backpacking the world then trying for any quality of life in the US. So for the foreseeable future that's what's I'm going todo!

I'll be landing in Prauge in a couple hours. I have no real itinerary so I'll probably be there for a week or so before i wander onto the next place. If anyone has some must see ideas Czechia let me know!

Book is Lightbringer, from the Red Rising series

Holy fucking shit it's like talking to a brick wall. These people are seemingly incapable of understanding who "pirates" and why they "pirate". I keep trying to explain that if I were to make a game, I wouldn't give a damn if people pirate because I just want people to enjoy the game. If people can afford it, cool, share among your friends!

I swear to god these nerds can't understand the corpo isn't "losing revenue" when someone pirates. They either weren't going to buy the game anyway or someone is just trying it out...

These people are just corpo bootlickers

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Hell yeah.
Neighbor of two weeks approached me for some plumbing repair work at his house recently. We got to talking about a lot of things; where he immigrated from (he is Viet) general outlook on the neighborhood, that sorta shit.

Talking to him, i could sorta tell where his politics lie, but he was hiding his power levels i think because of how i present visually- beard, overalls, gray hair; i look like a old guy who listens to fox news probably.

I took a chance and just told him, my politics are not fleshed out well, but i lean further left than democrats. We talked some about his girlfriend who plans to immigrate to the US if she can (she is in Dagestan), which brought up more conversations (he speaks english, vietnamese, and some russian) i listened to him talk about his upbringing, leaving Saigon when he was six months old.

I hold no fantasies of creating a neighborhood cabal or anything like that, im just so thrilled to have a neighbor who holds similar outlooks to myself. I might have sqealed at some point i was so stoked. He has a much better grasp on theory than i do, and i look forward to asking stupid questions of him so that i can flesh out how i view the world.

I just wanted to share this somewhere.

One commonality between the spaces that exist in the back rooms are ones that emulate doctors offices, malls, corridors, pools, playgrounds, etc. all of these are either public or pseudo public spaces (like big box stores). Also there is a nostalgic quality to them, they all exist in a “built in the past” sort of context.

I haven't seen the libs this cringey and amped up since covfefe or whatever. Talking about having a taco truck festival in front of the white house. Fuck outta here.

It’s 3 AM and this makes perfect sense, but it might not after I sleep. Idk I feel really strongly about this part right now, probably need to bring it up in therapy but very curious if it’s at all relatable

I think the racist tenant might actually be gone???

Because of what happened in the case of his last odd absence (which lasted for about 2 weeks and then he popped back up out of nowhere), I tried not to get too hopeful or celebratory this time around because I kept thinking that I'd be disappointed again, but, bro, it's been at least 27 days, and I haven't seen him at all. Not a single sign of his presence, and believe me, when this guy is here, you'd know.

None of his weird mumbling noises, none of his going-in-and-out-of-the-door-a-billion-times-for-whatever-reason moments, none of his obsessive hovering on the kitchen, which is why I was finally able to cook this

Even on a weekend night, I never see the lights on in what is supposed to be his room. He's definitely not in this house.

What gets me is this: if he lives here, he'd have to be paying rent. If he's paying rent, he'd have to be going to work. And if he's not commuting to work from here, then how is he getting to work? I know his work isn't giving him some crazy generous vacation time or shit like that...

I just like to force myself to believe in the theory that he got mauled by a pack of wolves or something like that.

Either way, there's still a part of me that is skeptical (I don't want my hopes shattered), but I don't think it seems likely for someone who'd be staying at a place to basically have two unusually long absences in such a short time span apart, especially if the second absence has been going on longer.

Although, somewhat recently, about 2 weeks/14 days into when I've been counting his absence, the lndlrd sent a group text, and his number was still included. However, obviously, this could just be a mistake or an instance of him still being "officially" on the lease while not actually being a tenant anymore for whatever reason.

A part of me really, really, really does not want to seem hopeful, even if the odds seem in my favor. It's also worth noting that when I talked to the lndlrd one time, she told me that he wants to leave and actually is looking for a new job to make money to do so quicker... so on that note, we have another sign: he wants to leave and has stated plans for doing so.

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You should assume that large employers are running your name through some software to see what things you’re posting online. You should at the very least think about public posts and comments under your legal name. Not sure what other services are out there, but I’m sure there are some that can dig deeper than that e.g. attempting to find social media not registered under your name but linked to a known email address. This is the consequence of your data being sold by the Fuckerbergs of the world.

They're a charity who fight against factory farming. If you sign up to donate at the moment, someone is matching the donations, so your donation will be worth double.

https://animalequality.org.uk/donate/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_rjc0G1qWXA

Discuss.

I picked up a bike someone left out with a “Free” sign taped to it and put it online. Finally after a couple weeks someone bit on it. I’m picking it up from my storage unit and meeting the person tonight. I could make $100. Lowest I’ll take is probably like $75 unless there’s a good reason for a lower offer (like the brakes being fucked off or something).

I wish I could make selling stuff online into more of a hustle but idk. I suppose I could try doing what my father used to make me do with him: go to yard sales on weekends and buy things that can be upsold.

Yay.

Starting mid June, SUPER stoked to finally have a job that does good work. Been over 18 months since i lost my last job in the tech field, so this feels SO fucking good!

I use YouTube without an account most of the time either through a browser (incognito) or NewPipe or PipePipe (Android), which means that the algorithm doesn't adapt to me.

So, every time I see a video, I know that the recommends are unadulterated algorithmic rage. I may be watching a gardening video, there will be some "Women are Evil" type of video, or "random guy talks about why [thing that women do] is wrong, bad and immoral." I am even seeing a comeback of those "sjw cringe compilation" videos - what's this, 2016???

There are also A LOT, and I mean, a fuckton lot, of trad Catholic content being pushed. Mind you, I even set my YouTube to different countries and languages, and it's being spilled that way too.

Fucking nightmare.

I don't want to end it in a low note, so I will also acknowledge that there's quite a bit of left, openly socialist, communist content, too. 10 years ago there was none of that, the right could roam free (I even identified as one, lmao). Contradictions of capitalism, I guess.

First two paragraphs of 18th of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is one of the most if not the most insightful works of sociology.

Hegel remarks somewhere[*] that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Caussidière for Danton, Louis Blanc for Robespierre, the Montagne of 1848 to 1851[66] for the Montagne of 1793 to 1795, the nephew for the uncle. And the same caricature occurs in the circumstances of the second edition of the Eighteenth Brumaire.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Thus Luther put on the mask of the Apostle Paul, the Revolution of 1789-1814 draped itself alternately in the guise of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and the Revolution of 1848 knew nothing better to do than to parody, now 1789, now the revolutionary tradition of 1793-95. In like manner, the beginner who has learned a new language always translates it back into his mother tongue, but he assimilates the spirit of the new language and expresses himself freely in it only when he moves in it without recalling the old and when he forgets his native tongue.

Here Karl Marx also humanistically describes the root problem of production of processes in general. The problem of the cumulative error. While Marx is describing the production of history that is a productive force, it is also in a class of meta-productive forces. These are productive forces that do not directly produce material goods but affect the productive forces that do create physical goods and services.

This is literally the same metaphor as tech-debt. Software has many parallels because the production of software is also a meta-productive force. It produces an immaterial good that is productive force in itself and produces other immaterial and material goods. Tech-debt is the effect of inefficient cycles, that weighs on future cycles.

This is similar to the educational concept of Wittigenstien's ladder or lying to children, because learning itself is a meta productive force. In essence as a productive force, learning is cyclical. In order to understand how atoms function, we teach children models that are technically incorrect such as the Bohr model so they can understand approximations closer and closer to the truth. These are all productive cycles that compound on each-other.

In all these cycles the most important thing is that each future cycle must trend more strongly in the positive direction (a better understanding, better materialist outcomes, software that is cheaper to build maintain and is more resilient), rather than accumulating errors, which will eventually self-reinforce to middling and negative results and eventually collapse.

These cycles represent real risk in the real world. For example one of the most difficult things about the way we develop technology is that its not deterministic. The classic black swan scenario of solar flares causing a strong EMP would result in chaos. This is not just because would have to rebuild everything. The simple reason fact is we cannot "rebuild" the world ex nihilio because we don't have clear knowledge of certain steps along the way. Sure we could figure it out, but that's a different process. That's the process of technological discovery, not the process of applying technology.

You can think of it as rebuilding a neighborhood being hit by a bomb. The neighborhood is gone and we don't have floor plans of some of the key buildings. But it's actually worse than that. We don't have plans to the buildings that lead to the creation of those buildings. We don't have a university, but to build a university we need a foundry, we need a printing press, we need a quarry, we need a brick yard, etc. We don't have some of those, or some of the inputs to some of those. It's actually more complex than that because each of these "functions" also scales and has dependencies at different levels of scale. So we might be able to build a brick yard, but that brick yard won't be able to produce bricks that meet modern specifications until we build a smaller university to research brick making.

I literally think about these daily during the course of my software job:

• the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce
• Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please
• The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

There was a period of time where I played nothing but Dark Souls 1 and 3 (same theme) and thought about these.

I'm moving out to a shelter because I lost my job.

i read these stories from this ig account and i think it is kind of interesting so i am reproducing them here and would like to see what kind of comments they create

the post is more orientated to arabs, but i figure there may be some similar sentiments expressed in the hexbear lot

The car has been repaired! And I've been able to start wearing shoes as my surgical wounds have healed. I'll still always have mobility problems because of my stroke but at least I am not completely trapped indoors any more.

I made the mistake of telling the billing department "i haven't had work in two years, sorry, I can't pay this 700 dollar bill." They cut me off, and now im switching to a sliding scale place. Feel hopeful about the new doc i booked with, but its still frustrating that I have to go through all the stuff that comes with that.

I can get my records transferred over, yeah, but still. Death to Amerikkka and death to Amerikkkan health care.

I have had no energy today, I just want to use drugs and do nothing. I want to cook but I don't have the energy to, I just want to lay in bed. I tried forcing myself to do stuff with caffeine today but I just got overwhelmed by it and now I feel sick and want to lay in bed. Probably doesn't help that I got prescribed steroids today, and that's making me extra impulsive, but I really want to use today. Just hopped off a meeting and I feel better, but goddamn if the voice isn't loud today

In another life I'd love to be a float plane delivery guy, dropping off toilet paper and beer to people living in bum fuck nowhere, and maybe doing some lite smuggling on the side. I'd have a handle like "Buck" or "Otter" and have a big beard.

So you know how in American English, the word vase is often pronounced /vɑz/ when describing an expensive or elegant item, and /vejs/ when talking about something more everyday and cheapo?

Well when I was a child I did the same thing with sew, using the spelling pronunciation /su/ — which I perceived as fancier or more old-fashioned — when talking about expensive or elegant needlework or whatever, and the conventional pronunciation /sow/, which I frequently spelled sow, when talking about more everyday needlework. So I might've said a hand-{sewn|/sun/} dress for the fairy tale princess but a {sown|/sown/}-on button on my second-hand jeans — though keep in mind that these weren't necessarily strict and absolute distinctions, just overall tendencies.

My running theory for how I ended up inventing this distinction "out of thin air" is that I had conflated the words to sew and to sow: a seed drill and sewing machine after all both move over a flat surface to make holes in it at regular intervals, into which they quickly insert something, so people kinda do sow fields with seed in the same way as they sow shirts with thread. And then because I already believed these to be the same word, then seeing the same word with both a spelling that makes sense and a spelling that doesn't, caused me to rationalize the irregular spelling as representing some sort of archaic variant pronunciation — which I could then use when I wanted to sound fancy.

And yeah, once you make that sort of rationalization, then confirmation bias can take you a long way. But with time I did end up getting corrected and eventually I just stopped making the distinction.

Which is maybe a bit of a shame, because it would've been pretty cool to make that kind of distinction.