every damn time

#libraries

@molly0xfff
(infuriatingly) exhausting..
@molly0xfff I feel like they had a similar thing with trains a while back
Libertarian transportation policy is just reinventing trains/buses twice a year
@TrashBoatDaGod @molly0xfff @sashin the innovation is excluding poor people somehow

@TrashBoatDaGod @molly0xfff @sashin

Working solutions to the inherent problems and contradictions of capitalism always look like socialism for some mysterious reason, so the conversation is dropped and the lesson forgotten until next time round, maybe hoping "reality's left-wing bias" will go away if they ignore it for a while.

@sashin @molly0xfff Yes, but the new ones are better because they call them "pods". Pods are the future!
@molly0xfff Why is it that people who have no concept of how society works are the ones who seek to control it?
@justincox @molly0xfff How is it that they are the ones who actually do wind up controlling it?
@mtconleyuk @justincox @molly0xfff Because they have money, and they think they got that money by being better and more hard working than everyone else (despite all evidence to the contrary).
@justincox @molly0xfff You know, I just realized in asking the question, you provide the answer, lol! They want to control it *because* they have no concept of it.

@XennyG @justincox @molly0xfff also they were handed inordinate power and money without any requisite education or (real, meaningful) accomplishment. Like grad students joining startups and getting millions of dollars because, uh, they joined the right club that their daddies paid for them to get into?

It says Meritocracy Club on the door so that must mean they have merit, right?

@molly0xfff πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ
@molly0xfff β€œinventing a thing that already exists, except badly” seems to be a recurring thing with these people.
@ahltorp @molly0xfff they have reinvented trains six times now and are exceedingly good at it.
@molly0xfff This is the most wholesome Siddon.
@molly0xfff more like Ken HERBman
@molly0xfff he's a Cox Newspapers White House Correspondent and WHCA board member?? jfc
@molly0xfff just amazing πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈ
@molly0xfff people against free information is so wild to me

@everythingispublichealth It's free information for the wrong people, for those people that they need to stay uninformed and suppressed.

@molly0xfff

@molly0xfff Lol earlier this week I had a reminder in my calendar that I put into two months ago to ask you if they'd reinvented trains. I put it in there because of a train reinvention you had posted about then.

@molly0xfff
Its happened again! They've outdone themselves this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJnyhPGH2cw
#trains #techbros

Tech Bros Invented Trains (Again...)

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@molly0xfff Their mother's never took them to the library nor read to them. This creates damaged people.

@molly0xfff

Being mansplained stupid ideas by a "Herman" troll is kinda amusing.

@molly0xfff Just wait until he hears about the "library of things" concept! 😲 His head might explode!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqO5-T0WchA

Don't You (Forget About Things)

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@molly0xfff Libertarians Smugly Inventing Something Without Bastardizing The Basic Public Services They’re Trying To Kill Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!)
@molly0xfff *pulls the card out the back of this dipshit*
*stamps "owned by molly" *
*puts card back*

@molly0xfff there needs to be a term like carcinisation for using government resources efficiently

See also: techbros and busses and/or trains

@molly0xfff

Oh, I laughed so loud it frightened the cat πŸ˜†

This reminds me of, tech bros (almost) invent trains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5M7Oq1PCz4

Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me

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@missladyartemis @molly0xfff reminds me of small children inventing this, which is cute, when THEY do it.Maybe tech bros never got the feedback they deserved?

@molly0xfff

Rather than caring about yet another uneducated idiot called Ken showing the world that the last remaining brain cell in his head doesn't work, I'd ask why you're paying a fascist billionaire?

@molly0xfff

All people with a blue checkmark on Elmo's platform have to pay for it. It's part of the subscription scheme.
Accounts, which he allowed to be regularly verified, are gray checkmarks.

Or are you saying that Elmo is no fascist billionaire? πŸ€”

X, formerly Twitter, brings back free blue checks for some users

Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has started restoring complimentary blue checks to some of its users. That’s caused confusion online. Last year, X began removing the verification badges from users who do not pay for the platform’s new Premium subscription β€” stripping checkmarks from an array of celebrities and other prominent accounts. But on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, numerous users reported seeing the blue checks return or appear for the first time despite not paying for them. Musk, who bought the platform for $44 billion back in October 2022, said last week that all X accounts with more than 2,500 verified subscriber followers would get Premium features β€” which includes the blue check β€” for free going forward.

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@molly0xfff

Okay, sorry I didn't know that Elmo backpedaled on this. πŸ‘

@molly0xfff @TobiWanKenobi Was that an old Twitter thread from before the Musk takeover?
@molly0xfff Almost as bad as billionaires discovering trains.
@molly0xfff There's very little more American than a public library. Heck one of the things Ben Franklin was known for was inventing the modern library.
@mwguy @molly0xfff And Andrew Carnegie tried to buy his way out of Hell by bankrolling a bunch of them. May even have worked.
@molly0xfff
β€’ Do people who can't afford to pave their own roads expect to drive everywhere at public expense?
β€’ Do people who can't afford to create their own water plants expect to drink clean water at public expense?
β€’ Do people who can't afford to hire private firefighters expect to have their fires put out at public expense?
@molly0xfff I understand you adhere to POSSE, but may I ask why do you maintain a twitter account?
@molly0xfff
"If they don't have bread to eat, why don't they eat cakes."
Most of us know, that this words have been historical fake news.
But some people these days have exact this mindset.
@molly0xfff πŸ†πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ
Though one shouldn't expect an incompetent leader (read the orange Krasnov POTUS) to have competent underlings. C'est la vie en America #Project2025.
@molly0xfff Hahaha. That response at the end is πŸ’Ž

@molly0xfff

You made my day with this.

@molly0xfff - Economies of scale for us plebs? Waaaaaaa?!?!

I'm getting real tired of those folks.

@molly0xfff

Can't help but feel that Mr. Herman's true frustration is that he, personally, cannot control a library.

@molly0xfff he also discovered the concept of public library

@molly0xfff Not if he's talking about getting each individual their own book, each and every one they read.

When I grew up fairly poor I read a LOT and even at those prices then that would have been a considerable bill today. Like I read every book Steven King had written to date when I was 12, borrowing them from the library 5 at a time and trading them back a week later. Something like $1-2000 a year prices back then. 2-3 now.

I switched to programming books later though. So x10 (0_o)