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That’s true dedication to shitposting.

I can’t really add any further tips, but to say that I always, always ride like the people in cars are trying to kill me. It’s the only way to keep in the right headspace to ensure you’re paying full attention to what they’re doing.

Using this now, and yeah, it’s really lovely.

As good as wefwef/Voyager is (particularly in helping to transition from using Apollo to access Reddit), it kinda falls apart on a desktop browser because it’s built around swipe gestures, and lives squarely in the middle of the screen. So Alexandrite for desktop, Voyager for mobile seems pretty sound.

The second season was co-written with John Finnemore, so I think we’re safe. Finnemore has a similar vibe to Pterry.

Thank god for that. I was worried about the poor fella…

To my dying day, I won’t understand why anyone (who doesn’t benefit from it) could think that privatised utilities are a good idea. The last forty years have seen a steady decline in, well, every aspect of formerly publicly owned industries in the UK, but stans for capital still wang on about how publicly owned utilities in the 70s were crap.

Crap, maybe, but a damn sight fucking cheaper.

This is a very difficult thread for me, because you’ve immediately started it from what feels like an insincere position of insisting on the polite debate of a system that has actively harmed innumerable people. And continues to do so.

While I don’t deny that polite debate is preferable to flame wars and anger, you’ve come in here to try and debate a subject that raises passions.

And the reason I say this from the outset is because of comments like this;

Environmental devastation is an externality because the rules haven’t been defined properly-- if the rules of capital ownership around environmental concerns were clarified (through some system of carbon emission limitations and carbon credits), then I’m sure capitalism could optimize for a good environmental outcome. A bad thing, to be sure, but not the fault of capitalism.

The ‘rules’ in this case have been defined. Most countries have rules in place to govern the environmental impact of industry. But companies led by capitalists ignore those rules as far as they can, which is how we are where we are.

Here in the UK, we have record breaking amounts of sewage and pollution in our rivers, because our water companies are run by capitalists to turn a profit. The fines from the government are ultimately paid by those of us who pay our water bills. The people in charge continue to pay themselves and their shareholders well.

And this is where capitalism fails miserably, in my opinion. As noted in another comment in here: capitalism is built for profits, not for human comfort. Businesses who pollute know full well that they should reduce their emissions, clean up their waste, and be better global citizens, but left unchecked, they won’t. You admit yourself in that quoted comment, that capitalism needs a set of rules around carbon credits and such to address the problem. They know there’s a problem, but are waiting for governments to force them to clean up their act.

That doesn’t make me feel that capitalism is the kind, loving economic system we all need. Quite the opposite.

Weekend At Bernie’s.

Rats are ace.

As I type this, there’s one scuttling about in his cage next to me. It pains me that he’s alone, but his brothers have all passed away now, and we aren’t planning on getting any more once Wilbur’s shuffled along. He’s getting old now, so it wouldn’t be fair to rehome him. So he’s a grumpy old bachelor boy who still loves his Cheerios and stealing my toast in the morning.

Very much a car built to a price point to serve a purpose. I once drove a Cross that was much the same. Kitted out to look sporty, had the pulling power of an asthmatic snail. Absolute shit.

But cheap enough for most people to be able to use one to get to the supermarket.

Sadly, those glory days came to an end with the rise of internet porn and the very poor sales of the Ford XHamster.

The older I get, the less surprised I am by liking stuff that doesn’t fit the story of who I am. Because when you break it down, music is just movement of air, and how can different varieties of air speak to who you are.

So the music I like is just the music I like, and that’s fine with me.

People shit on Dancing Queen because of its ubiquity, but that track is an absolute masterclass in how to write a beloved three minute pop song. Benny & Bjorn know their shit.

Because there’s low trust, and then there’s looking at everything Meta/Facebook have done over the past 15 years and thinking “yep, they’ll be alright”.

While Ben and Jerry were still running the joint, they had a policy that the highest paid employee would never earn more than five times that of the lowest. B&J have always been based as fuck.

I mean, just read their Wiki article; a 50% of it is about how socially conscious they are/were as a company.

“what machine did you think they were raging against?”

The one that George Soros uses to print all those cheques, obviously.

Oh man, that’s pretty!

I guess I don’t really watch too many ‘bad’ movies because I don’t have many in my head, but the first thing that springs to mind is Velocipastor.

But is Velocipastor really a bad movie if it did exactly what it set out to do?

Bubbahotep

Bubba Ho-Tep is a fucking masterpiece and you’ll sit in the corner and watch it as many times as you need to to change your way of thinking.