I think you have the start of a good plotline for a sf comedy.

…unless you have watched Star Trek and the like.

Clown dystopia, that story.

The 5200, kind of a modern version of the classic original.

It was around $550 CAD, about $150 off at the time. Search the manufacturer’s website for “reconditioned”, and keep checking as the stock changes.

I bought mine refurbished directly from Vitamix and saved a fair bit. Daily usage, so I wanted the full warranty.

I inherited my cuisinart food processor, it’s from the early ‘80s or so, going strong. I do use a stick blender a lot more, though.

Dude, did you expect a military coup? Read some history.

It’s Whoville for nerds!

I live in rural Canada, our local (left coast) grocery has the palm-oil-free NZ licorice RJ’s, which is pretty good, and a specialty confectionery in the village nearby has some great icelandic licorice but it’s expensive.

But at 6K km I guess you are on the prairies, so good luck on the licorice hunt eh!

User LemmyKnowsBest publicly claims that all laws are just, fair, and reasonable.

Yes, we have a lot of wonderful adjectives in English. Swear, and be profane, for fun and profit. If you don’t want to use The Vulgar Tongue, then lean on the lexicon.

The black bar really adds no decency, it’s performative and viewed by many as a form of hypocrisy.

Since this is a textual medium run with adult behavioural standards, the rule that infantilizes profanity with absurd fucking censorship is cringeworthy and likely to be mocked or pilloried.

Yeah it’s great how the law is complex enough to criminalize any aspect of your life that is needed for persecution!!

This is a good time to mention how we have been propagandized about the Luddites.

This is precisely the issue they had with the newindustrial tooling up they were facing, it wasn’t the tools, per se, that they objected to, but the de skilling and Disenfranchisement of the way those tools were being deployed by industrialists.

Being a luddite was and is about ownership of the tools and abuse by capitalists on skilled workers, and the disruption of our important knowledge base and skill sets.

Arrr, we had the ships and sailors back then to make yer dreams come true, matey!

OK trankies are tiresome but the comment was on point.

I was once on a train in Italy and the train had a wildcat strike. It was just that train and only in that one location. Everyone on the train was resigned, because it’s part of the culture.

Italy has had a long history of radical communist and anarchists, actually having political status and pushing back continuously. Here we are, trying to make it part of our own local cultures. There’s a lot of work to do.

skill issue

lol at 7:10, a presentation slide in the background reads:

JOE ROGAN

CODE NAME: Uncle Fester

BRAIN SMOOTHNESS: warm pudding

CS grads are in the worst position ever. University is often mistaken for vocational education, however that would be a technical college.

I have spent a lot of time crossing between a practical education environment, aimed at production skills, and university, aimed at thinking ability and abstract skills.

Honestly, my experience is that students are much more capable in a production environment after a two week boot camp than after three years of university on a roughly parallel topic. However, the non-idiots in the academic case will be able to understand arguments about the context of what they are doing better.

The point is that a philosophy degree might be more employable than a CS degree in some situations. The dude who cofounded Flickr and Slack was working off of an english degree. Use your degree for understanding and some projects for knowledge.

I also have a humanities degree and work in IT, with a wide range of applied skills I learned from necessity instead of a prof.

So create the necessity for skills by making useful shit, or even just fixing things. Find friends and make a silly app. Volunteer at a nonprofit and improve their CRM database. Build a homelab that you share with roommates. Find the local permacomputing group and help them turn all those shitty win10 obsolete machines into sleek linux machines. Ignore money and employment as task criteria for a few years, or freelance IT gigs.

Solve real world problems for real experience.

Or, like, you know, they got bumped and it’s get a hotel or fly another airline.