Washburn

Homophobes and transphobes should be censored and canceled ☺️

Materially improving people's lives is authoritarianism sweaty it needs to be balanced against legalizing violence against marginalized people

But also the marketization and commodification of everything.

Basic necessities like housing and food that there's more than enough for everyone made or being made, being denied to people to keep the price of those commodities artificially high, is not normal. Food being destroyed with bleach and housing being kept empty while people go hungry and sleep under interstate overpasses is not normal.

we do a little trolling

A welder who works on metal storage vessels, sometimes called tanks.

Boomers waging a protracted people's war from their winter homes in the everglades

Wow. I Didn't Know That. You're Telling Me Now for the First Time

I got out of construction this year. I was on jobsites for basically the entire shutdown for Covid.

Outside of disease, there are a lot of physical health hazards in construction that you're just expected to work through. Working at all on a coal-fired power plant, you're going to breathe in coal dust all day long for your shift, which for me was up to 16 hours a day not including travel time.

Edit: I originally wrote this when I first woke up, and was more combative than I should have been.

When I worked in construction they didn't give a fuck lmao.

I do physical and digital notes both, just so that information is available in as many places as possible. I need a number to refer to a thing in an email? It's in a word doc, on a post-it note on my monitor, on my physical and digital calendar probably, and in a spreadsheet. No matter what, I can find the info I need.

And I feel like the actual act of handwriting helps me remember what I'm writing. I'll take notes during a meeting or a class, never look at them again, and remember the important info. If I don't take notes, I might as well have not been there lol.

Pop OS has native drivers for nVidia GPUs even 😎🐧

In an ideal world where there was a good-faith international actor or organization who could take the role of moderating a referendum, and the outcome be respected by all parties, that would be ideal. However, no such organization exists. The institutions of the so-called "rules based international order" serve the interests of western hegemony. That is why, for example, Catalonia is not able to have an effective referendum for independence from Spain, and that is a perfectly fine state of affairs; just the way things are. Maybe a diplomatic complaint gets filed somewhere, maybe someone calls out how awful it is that police were interfering with the referendum in 2017, and they're not wrong. But ultimately, nothing fundamentally changes, and that is the point.

Should people just accept the way things are until an ideal situation allows them to improve their lives in a way everyone finds acceptable? What should people do if things are only getting worse, and there are no effective, good-faith actors to mediate the best possible solution?