Privatize the good news. Socialize the bad news.

~ Carl Markets, 1984

This comic is ablest. Bikes are ablest. Anything walkable is ablest. Arguing with me about it is ablest. Downvoting this comic is ablest. Everyone but me is ablest.

No, I will not talk about wheelchair accessible infrastructure ever.

Often a better link than the original, since Wayback is better supported and not prone to the whims of a billionaire oligarch.

But it isn’t mandated nor is it integrated with Wikipedia.

Sooner or later, fascists try to invade Russia.

Okay, but don’t we hate Russia?

Evers definitely one of the few good ones still out there. No idea how you elected Scott Walker and then found this guy. Wisconsin is a land of contrasts.

Wikipedia is very good, but ALWAYS look for more than one source.

Wikipedia is a terrible source, but it’s a great source for other sources.

One of the biggest problems with the site is that it doesn’t archive the linked material. So you can have a bunch of dead links to older historical entries, which undermines the value over long terms.

This is pretty much identical to South African apartheid and American First Nations reservation systems.

Palestine is done. Nobody inside the territory has the capacity to survive, much less resist. Only a handful of minority groups and insurgent factions outside the territory care to defend them, and the police/military have declared open season on Palestinian liberation as a movement. The rest of the world seems content to allow the Holocaust to play out undeterred.

It’s not just “no scruples”. Lots of people run these scams. Only a few of them succeed.

Easy to forget that Bush and Reagan also had these Faith Based Initiative and religious themed cabinet positions. And they were also primarily about funneling state money to religious demagogues. And then Clinton/Obama kept them around because they didn’t want to offend the religious extremists.

The large network of Crisis Intervention Centers that effectively exist to abuse young people with poor grades, substance abuse issues, and non-conforming gender/sexual preferences were all originally bankrolled by Reagan/Bush Era pilot programs and church kickbacks.

He’s in an intra-party dust up with Doug Ford, brother of the infamous crack smoking Toronto Mayor.

So its possible we’ll get a porn ban if Poilievre comes out ahead. But we could alternatively get pole dancing as an elective and weed in the school cafeterias.

They won’t ban them. Half the German police are members

Christ, I knocked over my home theater system when I tried to transition to Mint and absolutely did spend a night sleeping on the couch over it.

You can just recompile your gender. There’s nobody who can stop you.

I’m talking about the automation of the widget manufacturing process. Building the factory and machinery itself is not yet an automated process.

For a specific peculiar type of widget, sure. But then someone comes along and demands a slightly different kind of widget, and that’s where all the money and manpower goes.

And I know that from the outside, modern factory automation looks super complex and surely it would take an expert to maintain. But trust me, the vast majority is actually hilariously simple.

More that everything is very specialized and difficult to adapt in the face of supply chain problems or swings in raw material supplies or downstream demand. But I’ll concede some of the stuff is pretty straightforward. We have these enormous boilers that were bought off the collapsing USSR. And… pretty much just “heat tube, collect output” is the extent of their function. The trick is to build something sturdy enough to handle all the changes in temperature and pressure.

We’ve got much more advanced equipment with more sensors and regulators. Great when they work, but it’s an enormous job getting in to fix things when they don’t. It’s not something you can assign a couple of day laborers outside Home Depot to address. You just have these teams that are intimately familiar with the hardware and how to identify and address problems quickly.

The problem with automation is that when you think you’ve gotten rid of the need for some number of these professional staffers, you’ve put yourself on a clock. Once a step in the process fails that you didn’t document or have someone on hand who understands, you’re way up shit creek.

We took all the difficult and complex processes from humans and gave them to machines a long time ago.

We really haven’t. Automation just adds layers of complexity, often with extra rigidity, so everything becomes hyper specialized.

That said, we’ve capitalized the process such that the real estate and machinery necessary to do the work are fabulously expensive and in an extremely limited number of hands. So a lockout of the labor force can cripple wages, even in a very sophisticated field.

It helps if you recognize that factory labor is quite difficult and complex, while slapping your watermark on someone else’s art is incredibly easy.

NPR was doing long form interviews with Steve Bannon not two days ago. PBS has been running Trump hagiography for weeks.

These networks have been crawling with conservatives since the Bush Era, at least. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was stacked with corporate shills and right wing appartichiks straight back to the Reagan Era. And the privatized funding model it adopted after Carter became dominated by all the same corporate revanchists that have gutted investigative journalism at the WaPo, the WSJ, National Geographic, 60 Minutes, the hundreds of local papers and broadcasters, etc, etc.

Trump’s not even putting nails in the coffin. 90% of the revenue for these public broadcasting companies was already private.

Toxicity is self-concentrating in really anonymous online spaces.

The cause of and consequences of The Man-o-Sphere in a nutshell. People get drawn in by the promise of gamified easy answers to relationships (via PUA community, evangelist trad-life influencers, and other self-help gurus). But it’s a bait-and-switch, with “advice” drifting from “how to find an easy relationship” into “why women are awful and you should hate them.”

If it isn’t carved into a sheet of limestone using the Mayan character set, I don’t want to read about it.

Upset we didn’t get a “Half a score, two years, two months, and four days ago…”