UniversalBasicJustice

Did you even care to read that article?

What do you think “investor-owned electric utilities” means? My WHOLE FUCKING POINT is that “competition” and “investor-owned” in the context of public utilities and services kills people.

Here, have a Wikipedia article;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Exactly my point. We (royal we, referring to a large proportion of US inhabitants) pay a privately owned corporation for services essential to living. They are allowed to extract profit via rate hikes and service cuts and are additionally allowed to develop monopolies. Dead people are a sacrifice private industry is willing to make in pursuit of profit (see: American death ensurance).

The “separate but equal” Texan electrical grid is a textbook example of why utilities management should remain under the purview of a publicly-accountable governing body. My quip is dark because people died. Its also true. Its meant to quietly challenge the concept that a government levying taxes is tyrannical.

Are the water-based drones launched from land-based drones? Are the air-based water-launched drones capable of air-launching additional water-based drones?

Youre thinking FinnTech, easy mistake to make.

Pop Yellowstone like a pimple and we’ll call it a two-fer

I have had news for you; it’s all steam. EVERYTHING is steam. 🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀🌚

Even you and I are just steam in liquid and solid phases.

What’s the difference between Texas and taxes?

Taxes keep you warm in the winter

Couple things.

Firstly; just because they are well-paid does not imply they have the means to survive without employment. In fact that places them far closer to you and I than to somebody capable of living solely off the labor of others. Additionally, large tech companies utilize H1B visas as a form of coercion for both the visa holder and the other employees.

Secondly; you open your first paragraph with

Nobody working at facebook has any illusions

But open paragraph #2 with

Many are starting to wake up

Those two statements contradict each other.

That’s not my point, though! My point is; blame the goddamn reptilian tech bro billionaire and the shareholders. Blame the government that allows Meta to exist at all. Blame the dysfunctional and cancerous-at-best socioeconomic systems that allow either to exist.

Or, to put it more succinctly; don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Which is why Ukraine will decide when the war is over.

Same backend, different frontend

I’d throw in a Hail Satan for good measure tbh

Elementallis has the same art style as well. Just came out, also incorporates some Golden Sun-like elemental puzzle solving. Havent played it but keeping my eye on it.

Pelagic by Covet

Absolutely recommend, very chill instrumental math rock.

Does that price include the Pepsi cans?

Is it “ICE detainment camps” or “American concentration camps”?

Hell yeah

Last Tuesday I picked up DCC #1.

Last night I walked to the library for #2. All five of their five copies were checked out with two more copies on order. The hold list was 43 people long. I asked about #3; same deal.

So I walked to a local bookstore. They too were out and they too also had more on order. However, when the clerk checked on the ETA he said the order was still pending at the distributor level; likely an even longer wait than the library due to the need for a 2nd printing.

Finally as a last resort I hit B&N. They had a hardcover, which I purchased and am now halfway through. As much as I love real paper, I think this series will require my kindle and a visit to my friend Anna.