Thing about reactionaries, they tend to react

Not a car

ride a bike

Car based infrastructure

the stock market

capitalism

The entire Fuxing Hao network has been built in the last like 15 years. We could do that too if we cared to.

I said good, nothing good is on that cursed island

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

Wrong, good intercity high speed trains are so much faster that they beat cars even accounting for last mile trips by other methods

Most of what’s happening in politics is bad

Trains can go a lot faster than electric cars what are you talking about

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 devil doesn’t need more volunteer advocates, he’s got plenty of paid ones.

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.

Who’s ready for the Azov Taliban in 20 years?

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

Lots of uses of “AI” are so people can deny responsibility. They feed in their history of discrimination, tell the machine to replicate it, then go, “it can’t be discriminatory, it’s an AI”