you better boost
@aseva I like this one better.
@aseva wow suddenly I want to eat a really oily salad for dinner
@aseva thinking there is a single source for all problems is the single source for all problems.
@tshirtman
1/"According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life. Other than this neither Marx nor I have ever asserted.
Hence if somebody twists this into saying that the economic element is the only determining one, he transforms that proposition into a meaningless, abstract, senseless phrase."
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2/ "The economic situation is the basis, but the various elements of the superstructure β€” political forms of the class struggle and its results, to wit: constitutions established by the victorious class after a successful battle, etc., juridical forms, and even the reflexes of all these actual struggles in the brains of the participants, political, juristic, philosophical theories, religious views and their further development into systems of dogmas β€” also ..."
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3/ "...exercise their influence upon the course of the historical struggles and in many cases preponderate in determining their form.
There is an interaction of all these elements in which, amid all the endless host of accidents (that is, of things and events whose inner interconnection is so remote or so impossible of proof that we can regard it as non-existent, as negligible), the economic movement finally asserts itself as necessary."
f. engels, letter to j. bloch, 1890
@aseva what can we say? We wouldn't point it out if it wasn't the truth
@aseva Thanks I have a job interview tomorrow.

@aseva I do this too

The people around me a probably sick of it but I won't stop until they are sick of capitalism too

@aseva Repeatedly being told we're technophobe "luddites" for caring about performance & web best practices. For not getting excited about the latest JavaScript framework or AI model? When that's <5% of the top 10 million sites.

https://www.spicyweb.dev/the-great-gaslighting-of-the-js-age/

I guess the only real reason this is frustrating is because recruiters buy the line... The Problem is Capitalism!

The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era

The age of frontend JavaScript frameworks eating the web world didn’t happen simply because some well-meaning developers found great DX. It happened because we were fed a line.

The Spicy Web
@aseva me on the phone with my SocDem ass parents
@aseva Also when it's actually not really related to capitalism, blame it anyways