Dave V. ND3JR @ND3JR@octodon.social

Look, I try to keep politics under a cut, but I need you all to know that Trump's team is putting together what they're calling the "Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act", and I think it just speaks to this President that he hasn't noticed or doesn't care that it's the FaRT Act.

"The thing about being a kid in the American public school system is that every day at least five things are going to happen to you that, were you a grown adult, would result in criminal charges or at the very least a written warning from the human resources department, but as a kid you have to just sigh and go to algebra."

Hey, Democrats! This is the platform you're looking for.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/27/its-a-shame-that-were-relying-on-28-year-old-latina-waitresses-to-do-all-the-work-of-saving-us/

Forbes: "Millennials aren't having kids, and this is a problem for baby boomers' real estate and retirement"

Me: [looks at state of the world]

Me: "..."

Me: "Fuckin' serves you right."

sorry for bringing it up it has been weighing on my mind for so long. everyone knows someone who has done this and it makes me upset that people don't hold a culture of overwork responsible. leave people time to be bored in the company of others. fuck the idea of always-on productivity

I'm not pretending to know the magic bullet but I do think there is a link between work culture and mental health. I lived in Japan for two years and it happened in *high schools* because kids had one hour to themselves a day before bedtime and doing it all over again

@tomasino thank you for mansplaining laziness to me. This is definitely what a discussion about systemic ableism, classism, and academic elitism needed.

"If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making [it] difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed."

https://medium.com/@dr_eprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01

Friendly reminder that the original Pride was a riot started by a black trans woman who threw a brick at cops. Never forget Stonewall.

I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
But we use the metric system here
So in kilometers that's 804

HAPPY Pride Month!

#straightbutnotnarrow
#prideallyhugs

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This is how NASA writes software:
https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

I want the software driving cars around my family to be held to the a similar standard of quality. In the context of self-driving cars, "Move fast and break things" means "Half-arse it and kill people."

Humans in the USA manage 1.16 fatalities per 100,000,000 miles travelled. Uber's software couldn't even get to 3 million miles before it killed someone.

We do this properly, or not at all.

move aside Roomba, we're not done here

Fuck class action lawsuits AND arbitration. #OrganizeAndStrike

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/business/supreme-court-upholds-workplace-arbitration-contracts.html

#MondayAnarchy #Anarchism #Cats
Disillusioned by the toxic culture of the Left
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/why-this-radical-activist-is-disillusioned-by-the-toxic-culture-of-the-left-a6895211.html
'If you’ve ever worked with oppressed groups, such as people who are homeless, abused, addicted or suffering from mental health problems, there's one thing you learn straight away. They usually don't frame their worldviews in terms of academic theories students learn in gender studies classes in university...they tend to not analyse their experiences in terms of systemic power and privilege...'

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Please try to avoid student loans. Go to community college. Go to in-state public college. Take one class at a time while working. Don't get suckered into a fancy college. Do whatever you have to. Avoid student loans.