KoboldKomrade [he/him]

I’d respect the VC grift of “rich people give us way too much money and we do nothing with it and become moderately well off” if it didn’t cause so much damage.

Like, its basically the idea of paying people to do stuff that might not be “productive” but gets them to try things out. But there is no oversight, no regulation, no incentive to care what happens as a result in 3 years time, let alone 50. We should be doing it, but with like restaurants and FOSS programmers and engineers. Move landscapers to public lands to clear out invasives. Move the spacex dorks to nasa and work on an actual 50 year plan to get men on mars in an actually smart way. Have the ‘AI’ dorks actually work to resolve problems that COULD be solved with neural nets/LLMs. Pay them to just do something weird and unique that might not be the “best” but employs them and offers something unique to the community.

Instead, its ultimately grift, useless movement of capital and resources to appear as growth, fumbling about blindly hoping to hit the next dotcom bubble. Real “Useless jobs” when actually productive meaningful work exists, with the same skills that these people have, but isn’t “good” enough for the demons of capitalism to invest in.

I was a dem soc in 2016, border line “Bernie Bro” or whatever, and still voted Clinton in Florida and the best progressive options I could down ballot.

I got blamed for her losing Florida.

I voted Biden despite this. Even though I was a real leftist is 2020.

Somehow, I’m still to blame.

I ain’t falling for this shit this time. They want to piss and cry and fart that I’m a problem. But they won’t work to get any of the 50% of eligible voters that are disengaged, only to blame the 0.3% that protest vote. Controlled opposition is too nice, they’re just opposition at this point.

Because a few movies did “tragic villain” decently, audiences liked the switch-up, and the talentless hacks took it to mean that ever villain has to be “complex”.

Funny, I was going to say Americans probably know what a cabbage is because of slaw.

If elected president, I will do nothing but push for a phonetic alphabet.

And Fash are in power in France and Britianland right now.

Whole lot of effort to convey the idea of “We’re going to meet up, go to some guys house to harass them, then if they say no, go get a lawyer”.

American, with vested material interest in the status quo.

It can’t fucking happen fast enough for me to be happy.

Best resource outside of local (weather) news would be https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc. I relied on them, Tropical Tidbits, and checking local when a local hit was likely when I lived in Florida.

Looks like I see 3 cells, 1 named, 1 likely, 1 possible.

I hate all batteries that can’t be replaced by a wired connection.

Batteries are good and ok in things that have a good reason to have them. Other times, its pure laziness. I got a fish auto feeder so I can go away for a few days without starving my friends. Sucker requires 2 AAs. There are already 6 other wires, if they just let me plug in a USB C or micro or whatever, it could last forever. Instead, I gotta throw in 2 batteries.

Or like why the hell does my garage opener use a button cell when a AA/AAA would take up like half a centimeter more, last probably 20x longer, and be MUCH easier to replace…