Thing about reactionaries, they tend to react

ride a bike

Car based infrastructure

the stock market

capitalism

Know what’s better than a battery that charges fast? A train with a catenary that never has to charge at all

Most of what’s happening in politics is bad

Well, There’s Your Problem, a podcast with slides about engineering disasters which is, itself, a disaster.

It’s been five whole years and this teenager hasn’t defeated all of global capitalism, what’s she even doing?

It even gets historicized according to that old trick. Luddite is now used to mean reactionary against new technology, but the original Luddites were just against how the bosses were using new machines to disenfranchise and impoverish them.

No, it’s not a battle between workers and technology. It is, as ever, a battle between workers and bosses. The technology is only a problem because the bosses own it.

The American pro-Israel lobby has a lot more to do with evangelical Christians looking forward to their apocalypse than it does with Jewish people.

It’s the final form of artificial scarcity, scarcity alone without even a thing to be made scarce.

I use popOS on a 2-in-1 laptop with touch and stylus input, it works fine.

Octoprint is great, connecting the printer to somebody else’s computer is crazy

It might confusingly offer a choice other than neoliberal or fascist

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds

I think you may have replied to the wrong comment

But it’s not an employee, and they’re not getting the $100. It’s an independent contractor gig worker getting a fraction of that and the rest is going to a vampire.

Schrodinger’s douchebag but as a moderation policy

That’s how bosses have to phrase being anti union. “Oh we’re a family here why do you need a union” shit

This is the kind of thing a union (which Linus, of course, has said he’s very against) would help with