Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Trickle down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

I think about this image a lot

Cori Bush said what needed to be said, and I'm glad she said it

So these discs were my first ever experience with Linux. I was 14 and took a summer class on coding that was also an intro to Linux. We got the book that came bundled with these discs, I don't remember what came on them besides Fedora (which I should probably pop them in and find out). But this is what started my long term love hate relationship with Linux.

You are one baton from a cop from becoming Disabled. One car accident away. One eviction gone wrong, one violent attack. You able bodies are one workers accident away but on an inevitable course of time to join us. It is time you began studying including disabled bodies.

“We've arranged a society based on #science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

- Carl Sagan, in his last interview to Charlie Rose https://charlierose.com/videos/9094

LGBT abuse

if you've ever messed up a dimension or a hole position on something you're building, don't be too hard on yourself.

at least you're not the Cisco design engineer who caused an entire product line recall by placing the mode button (which resets the switch if held) directly above an RJ45 port.

I honestly don’t get the whole excitement about “on Mastodon, admins can read your DMs” or “DMs on Mastodon are totally different from Twitter”.

They’re not. Did people honestly think that their Twitter DMs were “private” in any meaningful sense?

Jesus F. Christ.

I’ve had a lot of people ask me recently why not stay on Twitter and fight.

The reason is because Musk controls the algorithm. He could ban you tomorrow, and he could also just deprioritize every one of your tweets so no one sees them.

You can’t fight and win when the opponent has complete control over the field of conflict.
#TwitterMigration

The thing about the US lack of adequate train infrastructure is that things like Visit Family For The Holiday are very difficult outside of very narrow geographic regions.

It shouldn't be a problem to run a spine train between Cour d'Alene, #Idaho, and #Spokane, WA, with regular, efficient, bus routes going upwards to hit each suburb.

So here I am in the car dealership getting the Climate Murdering Tool serviced. Sigh.

We should be able to have cheap and effective #transit.

How can it be that those "genius" billionaires are so incredibly stupid at the one thing they claim to be good at: Running businesses.

Zucks lost 60% of FBs value just this year and lays off 11k facebook employees.

Musk bought a platform worth 13B for 44B and runs it currently into the ground.

This FTX dude stole the billions invested into his company by everyday people and sucked at this crypto thing he claimed to be an expert on.

I get the impression Billionaires are fxxking dumb.