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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Those are jobs that people were happy to work, but which they aren’t allowed to any longer. Those people are now out of a job.

    Happy to work starvation wages? Are you high? Desperate, the word you are looking for is desperate enough to work for starvation wages.

    I swear this supply side fanfic is so out of touch with reality it would be laughable if I didn’t realize people actually try to set policy based on it.






  • I feel the same, but find things getting shittier and shittier. I’m paying more and more for less and less. Then I stumble on an open source project that does all that I want and it’s free.

    Bitwarden vs LastPass Joplin vs Evernote A million different foss projects for all the shit Google has shut down…

    Sometimes spending a little time setting stuff up, ends up saving a huge hastle migrating away from the commercial project that is going to fail unless they fuck over their users.




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    11 months ago

    the story I heard (from an Indonesian dude) was the colonial plantations didn’t allow locals to drink coffee. They noticed the civits only ate the ripest coffee berries… bla bla bla, shit coffee was the only choice and it was really good?


  • I am an engineer. I love making things. I work in a heavily regulated industry (Med device), and it is a huge pain in the ass. I have to fill out obscene amounts of paperwork for everything I do. I live in the woods with a well and a septic system. I am hoping to disconnect from the electric grid in a few years.

    I bought into rugged individualism when I was younger, but I have come to realize it is a farce. I am really glad there is the structure and oversight for these things that can harm people. Complex systems require diverse areas of expertise and multiple layers of oversight and protection.

    The sentiment that it is some great burden to “obtain permission from men who do nothing” is a blatant strawman for what the processes actually are.


  • “Reactor production is limited during times of high heat to prevent the hot water re-entering rivers from damaging wildlife.”

    So it’s not due to any physical limitations but an environmental protection issue.

    Also in the article

    “… at a time when half its reactors are offline due to maintenance and corrosion issues.”

    So they are doing maintenance and found some issues requiring more work.