adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ

@adarsh@ruby.social
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Director Emeritus of rubycentral.org. Ruby developer and consultant. Parent of an autistic kid. Leave trans people alone. Bicycles are antidepressants. If you made a thing, Iโ€™ll probably promote it. (he/him)
LocationOakland, CA
Writinghttps://adarsh.io
adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ2h ago
Natasha Jay5d ago
The current breakaway leader in the Tour de Nap ๐Ÿšด
adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ2h ago
Thomas FuglsethJul 12

Public service announcement.

(Created by https://bsky.app/profile/campfireharve.st )

adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ2h ago
Qasim Rashid, Esq.2h ago

ICE is offering a $132K to $185K per year for supervisory roles & $306K per year to concentration camp managers. Both jobs have ZERO education requirement.

Meanwhile the average starting salary is $46,526 for teachers and $68,485 for nurses. Both jobs require a Bachelors degree & often a graduate degree.

It's a lie that we can't pay teachers & nurses. An uneducated and sick populace is easier to control, creates higher crime rates, and feeds the prison industrial complex. This is by design.

adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ2h ago
MiniMia ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ4h ago

More young Israelis refuse the draft ๐Ÿ’– โœŠ

#SayNoToGenocide #FreePalestine

adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ4h ago
mhoye1d ago

I just found Bret Victor's response to the question, "what is RealTalk's relationship to AI" and I did not think I could admire this man more but here I am doing just that.

https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#What_is_Realtalks_relationship_to_AI

Dynamicland FAQ

adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ23h ago
Jo with elbows up & chin up1d ago

Farm workers are on a three day strike. Please support them and do not buy American fruit and veg. For three days.

https://youtu.be/qngcouVrMZ0

#food #strike #farmworkers

Farmworkers have been carrying out a three day strike. This is just the beginning.

YouTube
adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ23h ago
Andrea Junker 1d ago
The fact that Donald Trump โ€” after decades of ludicrous lies about his height, weight, and health โ€” publicly trumpeted his illness on the very day his intimate birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein was published is the equivalent of an admission of guilt. Nothing more, nothing less.
adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ1d ago
UFW1d ago
I'm a US citizen and a veteran. But it doesn't matter. No one deserves to be treated this way. It's inhumane and it's wrong. I hope no one goes through what I did. I want to do as much as I can so this doesn't happen to anyone.
-George Retes, Unjustly detained on July 10th by ICE
adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ1d ago
Peter Gleick1d ago
Weird how the fossil fuel industry claims it's renewables that are expensive.
My solar panels paid for themselves in 7 years (instead of the predicted 13) and our solar electricity is free now. And it runs our car.
adarsh ๐Ÿšฒ1d ago
๐ฟ๐’ถ๐“ƒ๐’ถ "not yet begun to fight"1d ago
Everyone's so pissed off about this "Big Beautiful Bill" but what those cuck soyboy liberals won't tell you is that under this bill, if you buy a brand new private jet, you can write off LITERALLY 100% of the cost and maintenance of that jet (millions and millions of dollars) from your taxes! And you don't even need to prove that you use it 100% for work, like you would with, say, a truck or a car. You only need to say you use it roughly 50% of the time for work-related things. That's something that can literally benefit everyone! Checkmate, liberals.
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Inspirational Skeletor๐Ÿ’€6d ago
Show thread๐—– ๐—” ๐—ง6d ago
It's kind of hard to not lose faith in humanity when the mercenaries who insist that there's no other way than #capitalism not only make up many humans, but which is made up of the working class, the ones who suffer the most from capitalism, yet are the ones who defend it with their lives. If not humanity, then at the very least, I lack any faith or hope in human intelligence and common sense.
@skeletor
Show threadVladimirN6d ago

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

BEWARE of common sense as it's what usually stops/prevent the brain to think the point over again, that's what makes the brain so lazy... Beware. Keep thinking and do not despair.
Maybe your hope/goal won't be attained during your lifetime yet human history is long (as you shown in another post).
That's why on top of your goals, what's of uttermost importance is transmission.
Best regards.

Show threadTheBlackJester6d ago
@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor mercenaries didn't work for those capital structures they worked as misappropriated financial tools of espionage and behavior programs. There is no free, willful, exchange at their hands.
Show thread๐—– ๐—” ๐—ง6d ago
That doesn't sound all that different from working for them.
@TheBlackJester @skeletor
Show threadLevka6d ago

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

The working class is is not homogeneous. Don't paint us all with the same brush. It's deeply insulting. It's also factually incorrect.

Spreading misinformation is counter-productive. So are classist insults.

You can never convince anybody of anything if you start by insulting them.

As my grandma used to say, "You'll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar."

Just a suggestion.

Show thread๐—– ๐—” ๐—ง6d ago
I haven't spread any misinformation. I said the mercenaries are made up of the working class, not that all workers are these mercenaries, but that these mercenaries are mostly or entirely made up of workers, which statistically must be the case since workers make up the majority of any society, and it's not likely that capitalists are out fighting their own battles.
@LevZadov @skeletor
Show threadLevka6d ago

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

They're not all mercenaries. A substantial portion of the grassroots fascist movement here is made up of misguided volunteers. They're not getting paid. In fact, it costs them.

But that's not the working class. That's just the working class fools. We're not all fools. If you want to condemn the fools, be specific. Also take note of their growing disillusionment with the Trump regime. It's only just begun.

Even fools resent being lied to. They were, and they're waking up to it. We should encourage them. Try starting with the things we agree with them. They're against foreign wars. We're against foreign wars. We're against being lied to. So are they. They hate the elites. We hate the elites. And so forth.

Don't just write them off because we disagree with them about Trump, or race, or whatever. He's screwed them over, too. That means we have common enemies. We choose our friends but history chooses our allies. We need allies. Everyone needs allies. Even them.

Yes, enemies can bury the hatchet and fight side by side. Consider for example the fight at Itter Castle:

https://blog.togetherweserved.com/the-german-wehrmacht-and-u-s-army-fought-the-nazi-ss-together-at-itter-castle/

The German Wehrmacht and U.S. Army Fought the Nazi SS Together at Itter Castle - TogetherWeServed Blog

Learn more about the Battle of Itter Castle: Allies and Germans unite against the SS in WWII's final days on the TogetherWeServed blog.

TogetherWeServed Blog
Show thread๐—– ๐—” ๐—ง6d ago
I don't give a fuck. None of this shit matters.
@LevZadov @skeletor
Show threadLevka6d ago

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

It matters to the rest us. If we don't nip this fascist coup in the bud, *by any means necessary* we're the ones who are doomed. We can't do it alone.

Show threadSally Strange5d ago

@LevZadov Fucking @/Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social again.

I don't know what he is, I just know it's not what he says he is.

@skeletor

Show threadLevka5d ago

@SallyStrange @skeletor

Well that about sums him up better than anybody else around here. We know part of who he is. He's a or sale. Who all he's working for is a little harder to pin down. Some of them are obvious. Some not so much. Who's paying him to move against Putin about Ukraine all of a sudden, is what I want to know. It's like a WWE heel turn, a big one. WTF is going on here? Is it real? Is it theater? It's getting hard to be sure *anything* is real anymore. Maybe that's the whole point.

Show threadSylocule6d ago
@skeletor #Capitalism is a poison on society
Show threadferricoxide6d ago
@Sylocule @skeletor

Any "ism" that's not carefully applied and corruption of it prevented becomes poisonous.
Show threadferricoxide6d ago
@skeletor

What the US has isn't capitalism, though. It's a predatory system operating in the guise and name of capitalism. Actual capitalism requires meaningful competition in order to function properly. The monopolists have done and are continuing to do everything in their power to ensure that they don't have to deal with competition or, especially, the consequences of antagonizing their consumers in a context where meaningful competition results in consumers having actual, meaningful choices of alternative providers.

No, what makes me lose faith in humanity is the number of people that cheer on their own exploitation because they're too freaking stupid to realize that they're vastly more likely to end up destitute than to ever be obscenely wealthy. What makes me lose faith in humanity is that most are too stupid to learn from things that befall others and to learn from history. "Self-interest" ought to be easy to discern, but seems beyond the ken of vast swaths of humanity.
Show threadCJ Paloma In Monsoon Season6d ago

@ferricoxide @skeletor

sorry, it's the use of -capital-that makes it capitalism. And that involves using a bunch of accumulated money/resources to buy the means of production in order to produce at scale.

Unlike mercantile systems of tradeโ€ฆwhere competition can help keep exchanges fairish,

producing at scale is mostly done with the intent to maximize PROFIT (gain above and beyond fair value- so exploitative by nature) and to decrease the number of competitiors.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capitalism.asp

Show threadJimmy6d ago
@ferricoxide @skeletor Monopoly is the natural state of capitalism. Capitalists are devoted to destroying competition because it reduces their profit by driving the price of goods to the their margin, and raises the price of labor to their margin. Democracy is their enemy, because it serves the masses.
Show threadWhalejuicesmoothie6d ago
@skeletor when you're no longer human, such foolishness no longer matters...
Show threadTheBlackJester6d ago
@skeletor faith is irrelevant to the corporeal, people do not have faith in the liberty of selling goods and services in willful exchange, they know it works.
Show threadVoline5d ago
@TheBlackJester
Ancaps are not anarchists
Show threadTheBlackJester5d ago
@Voline Who said anarchist or ancap?
Show threadVoline5d ago
@TheBlackJester
Oh, you ment "libertarian" in the Murray Rothbard sense. I get it.
Show threadTheBlackJester5d ago
@Voline You mention an ancap turned Buchanan Brigader, closer, but I didn't mention any of this, you with SOCOM agent?
Show threadLรถhwe ๐Ÿ“ธ6d ago
@skeletor@mas.to if only I could :/
Show threadDifferent Drummer6d ago
@skeletor Same thing.
Show threadBen Royce ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ6d ago

@DifferentDrummer @skeletor

misanthropy is cynicism, and cynicism is acceptance. so no

Show threadjcriecke6d ago
@skeletor the harder the capitalists fight against us fixing their excesses the more I agree that capitalism is unworkable.
Show threadJubei6d ago
@jcriecke @skeletor I used to be one that thought capitalism can be tamed. It took some effort from my friend to show me the futility of my reasoning and how many others have failed. Communists label those that think they can tame capitalism as "Social democrats", "Opportunists" or "Reformists". Alas it is futile.
Show threadSensitivityi6d ago
@skeletor f*ck capitalism, we need something else pronto
Show threadEtherAndRhum6d ago
@skeletor You a religion yet? Cuz amen brother!
Show threadTiny Gamer Alec5d ago

@skeletor

Capitalism is working as intended. That's why rejecting it and forming communities that help each other scares them so badly, because once you do that you realise just how much of a drain on humanity the rich are.

Show threadC.Synthare5d ago
@skeletor If capitalism caused all our problems, what were causing the exact same problems prior to it?
Show threadRonin Otter5d ago
@skeletor likewise lose faith in those who say that political ideals are binary and the only alternative to capitalism is another extreme such as Communism