happybadger [he/him]

Someday I will fly it. My kids will email me back to say “We understand now. We respect you”. They won’t call me The Sad Man anymore. Nobody will.

I wonder why they even dedicated floor space to this. If I’m spending an obscene amount of money on a piano, it’s a surrogate penis to wag at guests. Bosendorfer is prestigious in the piano world but I can’t think of a time I’ve noticed it on a piano even though I’ve watched thousands of performances. Steinways can be bought at half this price and any random schmuck walking into your house knows the name. With this you’d have to explain that you spent $180k on a piano that isn’t a Steinway for it to be impressive to a non-pianist. Otherwise a concert pianist isn’t going to buy this at Costco. Music stores will at least set it up and tune it.

Agrivoltaics is great and should be a central feature of a lot of land. Most of my pollinator gardens would thrive if I had partial shade through the drought months, and it costs like $1000+ a month to power some of our larger parks. Watering those parks, especially near the seating areas with non-functional roofs or exposed benches, is another $1000+ a month. With these installed we could probably reduce both by a double digit percentage while creating more enriching spaces.

I vote for ballot initiatives and then use the DSA’s voter guide for local elections. For president it’s always PSL. Voting for a DSA member isn’t getting an ML revolution, but it is sewer socialism at a local level. Sewer socialism is powerful in a country where the little infrastructure that does work still drives a 20th century society. Americans are radicalised into fascism twice a day on their commute.

Would you ever vote for someone like Trump just to make things intentionally worse in the hopes of sparking off a revolution?

Accelerationism falls into the same wishful thinking category as adventurism. Not wanting blood on my hands is why I don’t vote for democrats. If I throw a chaotic evil boomerang by voting for a fascist, that’s just voting for a democrat and hoping it blows back on enough people to do something before hitting me. The closest thing I’ve found to a good ML path is what the Black Panthers were doing in the 1960-70s. Electoralism and existing power structures might have been cynically engaged, like funding the mutual aid initiatives or electing a politician who might give them breathing room, but power came from organising in their communities and building up dual structures that linked intersectionally with other orgs. Revolution was putting up a stop sign where the city wouldn’t so that the residents watching learned that they had power. It was feeding hungry kids while their parents were engaged in discussions about their issues. Those things can’t be trusted to electoralism because politicians are temporary and usually replaced by their opposite.

Fediverse courts need to convict Rimu of weird moderator actions that are not normal.

Rimu needs to be the first person since Conner O’Malley to be criminally convicted for being weird. Rimu, why do you choose to be this person?

I love watching interviews with him about this acquisition and then visiting the subreddits for his stock cultists. He’s an even more transparent charlatan than Elon Musk and struggles to form a sentence. The podcast hosts and news anchors were visibly cringing. His supporters treat it like the return of Christ because it might finally trick someone else into investing in gamestop so they can sell their shares, but it only bumped the price for a single day.

It’s a shame the fediverse doesn’t have native support for them. They made web 1.0 forums fun in a way that 2.0 forums lacked.

I appreciate when an animal looks like god was having a bad day. I too rush things and forget to complete projects.

I’m not them. I’m just a Marxist calling it out as self-defeating Orthodox Marxism.

Marx was also writing based on observing specific conditions in specific places 150 years ago. The point of Marxism is that it’s a way to coherently frame the things you’re currently observing as intersectionally as possible and test them against prior studies while checking your own personal biases. Most of my organising as a Marxist is in anarchist or democratic socialist orgs because they’re easier to start in the surveillance state that developed after Marx said this. They just don’t scale up as easily as an ML org like PSL, which maintains the same message with discipline in cities across the US. That higher level of organisation is equally important to anarchism’s ease with local organisation, more secure and more able to centralise and use resources.

two paths to the same outcome, two distinct levels of organisation that complement each other where the other falls short

The only thing I learned from multiple physics classes was that I’m not a physicist. People would die if I had to do physics. It’s nonsense made up by nerds to feel smart when real geniuses just eat the apple that falls on their head. Free apple.

I think homeschooling is great. My resume isn’t particularly impressive and I have a mediocre GPA from a mediocre school. When I apply for jobs in today’s economy, there’s so much competition. It would be awesome if they could look at the next resume and see “education: school of life, professor mom, A+ and ten stickers for chores”. I would get that job easily.

It’d be neat if this eventually resulted in something like self-healing space habitat hulls that generate a useful byproduct.

The Purpose of a System is What It Does

It’s pathetic that they didn’t even bother to look at the measuring tape. This flagged as AI slop within a few seconds for me. Not even good AI slop.

It’s cool when someone is so pathologically attached to power that they can’t be trusted with the smallest thing. Emopunker might be the most pathetic freak I’ve seen on the fediverse. If “trouble” is being able to pretend they no longer exist, I’ll happily take my ban from their hermit kingdom.

I like that in the original painting he’s the one freak in the audience who doesn’t want to fund public schools.

Not for long. Hexbear’s control over their mod accounts is paying off BIG.