Well, even the pig is still a worker.

That’s why he’s a class traitor. He fights against and represses the working class, while being working class himself. Being working class while fighting against the working class is what makes him a traitor.

If he wasn’t working class, he would just be an oppressor like any other bougie, not a traitor.

When one of your political grift buddies owns a business that builds roundabouts…

Traditional conservatives are looking to conserve existing power structures. They believe that those in power deserve to be in power, and those without power deserve to be without power, and they seek to keep it that way. In the American Revolution, conservatives were monarchists. In the Civil War, conservatives supported slavery. In the civil rights era, conservatives supported Jim Crow and opposed equal rights, etc, etc, etc. They’re always looking to maintain and strengthen existing power structures. (Regardless of how unjust those power structures may be.)

But, again, modern ‘conservatives’ are straying more toward fascism, so that begins to break down. What they’re trying to ‘conserve’ now is an imagined golden era that never truly existed in the first place, where their in-group supposedly had even more power than they ever really did, and where out-groups didn’t even exist.

You know, looking into these, I did learn things.

Yes, I already knew about them, but I didn’t know all of it. For one thing, I didn’t realize where Ruby Ridge actually was. I used to live about an hour’s drive away from there, and I’ve actually been within 10 miles of there without knowing it!

Been playing a lot of (emulated) Pokemon Violet this week. Just getting into the post-game now.

(lol, get rekd, Nintendo. I’ll emulate whatever I want, and you can’t stop me.)

🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like the other 🎶

Well, yeah. It’s perfectly acceptable to believe in two of those things and not the third.

That just means you’re not a liberal.

(And really, since capitalism constantly corrodes democracy and personal rights, being a liberal is kind of a self-contradictory nonsense stance. Shame that so many people still are liberals.)

If you believe in democracy, personal rights, and capitalism … congrats, you’re a liberal.

(Though, given how much modern ‘conseravtives’ hate democracy and personal rights, a lot of them aren’t really liberal anymore. They’re fascist.)

Anon discovers caring about other people.

those who need help can’t “mutually aid” themselves. They don’t have resources to do so.

But they can often mutually aid each other.

Often, the resources that one person in need lacks, another person in need has.

(And, often, when done at a local level by volunteers, aid doesn’t require nearly as much resources as you might think.)

Bookmarks, people – use 'em!

Easier to search, more organizable, easier to transfer to new devices, more resistant to being lost, they don’t eat up all your RAM … the advantages over endless open tabs are immense!

Long overdue, really.

Hijacking like this is one of many reasons I’m running noscript these days.

I literally can’t remember the last time I ate any fish whatsoever.

Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.

Power corrupts. Our mistake is allowing power to be concentrated.

Real men pay $6/gallon for gas!

… I’m just impressed with the hexadecimal keyboard. Did you buy that somewhere or did you custom-make it yourself?

given how they’re consumed on use, etc

How’s that supposed to work, really?

Suppose I’ve used some of my labor to produce widgets. You want a widget without having to make one yourself, so you give me some of your labor vouchers in exchange for it. And then the labor vouchers you gave me just … go away? Seems like from my perspective, accepting labor vouchers as payment is worthless and I don’t get anything out of it.

I’ve worked on “mission critical” things, but that doesn’t mean I gave a shit about the “mission”. If I’m working for minimum pay, I’m putting in minimum effort. Which means closing the bug report faster and with less effort is always desirable.

If an LLM can generate 90% of a HTTP API correctly, why would you want to do it manually?

Because figuring out which 10% it did wrong and then fixing that will take longer and be more effort than just doing it from scratch myself.

Oh, it will ‘find bugs’ alright. And then flood FreeBSD’s bug report system with bullshit bug reports that turn out to be nothing, but require expert human review to discern that.

I find it works best when you give it a very small/simple task to do.

If it’s a small/simple task, why do I need help at all?