Bec

@becquerel
3 Followers
37 Following
1.4K Posts
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Socialist
B.S. in Computer Engineering
I like programming, linguistics, and Weird Facts
I also like audio dramas including Wolf 359, The Magnus Archives, Archive 81, The Penumbra Podcast, Wooden Overcoats, and anything by The Whisperforge
Age25
Pronounsthey/them
githttps://github.com/BecJones/
BecOct 4, 2020
Mads "Classic" ViandeJul 28, 2020
"having a special and unique relationship with your own children" and "socialized communal childcare" aren't in contradiction. people really talk about the nuclear family as if your children being functionally your property hidden away from oversight and with no real recourse or basis for comparison should you decide to mistreat them is *necessary* to a meaningful relationship with your parents, rather than the biggest factor promoting child abuse in all forms
BecOct 4, 2020
Da Friggin JokerOct 13, 2019
BecOct 4, 2020
mhoyeSep 25, 2020
Life Hack: Instead of buying the Ring home-drone, you can save a lot of time and effort by simply telling your spouse don't trust them and throwing your housekeys at a cop.
BecOct 4, 2020
Show threadSkip Intro, KRUB News at 9Oct 4, 2020
If this is a real thing do not even attempt to teach me about it. I just want to imagine it as a bunch of people rushing a throne and whoever sits down first gets to be the monarch for like a week before the whole thing starts over again.
BecOct 4, 2020
Show threadCory DoctorowOct 4, 2020

The companies that commercialized these technologies get 'em for free, dodge their taxes, AND campaign against the very idea of government spending. They back a bizarre ideology that measures the economy with nonsensical measures like GDP.

Under GDP, public school teachers are a drain on the system, while the educated citizens they turn out are not accounted for at all.

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BecOct 4, 2020
Show threadCory DoctorowOct 4, 2020

Normal isn't good enough. It was never good enough. Normal got us into this mess.

We need to build back better: to create a moonshot for climate adaptation that uses a muscular, capable state to invest people and technologies.

A moonshot that structures the economy to produce the clean energy, infrastructure creation and retrofitting, transit, universal health care (and other forms of care), universal network access - a future fit for the human race.

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BecOct 4, 2020
AmazeyOct 3, 2020

do you follow someone who is nice, but just boosts an overwhelming number of toots (like, maybe, me)? or maybe you like the person, but not the kinds of things they boost? there is a solution!

open their profile and click the 3-dot button (next to the Unfollow button). select the "Hide boosts from" option. boom, done. you will still see their toots, but no more of their boosts.  

I do not know if this option is available in any of the apps.

BecOct 4, 2020
the prince of danknessOct 3, 2020
its weird too me that people love to critcize communist experiments for failing to live up to their promises (even at the height of the USSRs decadence everyone still had guaranteed housing) but those same people would never say the same thing about capitalism, which promised universal prosperity in exchange for hard work and is currently experiencing several generational crises
BecOct 3, 2020
Rain DogOct 3, 2020
I'm watching a video about constructs in D&D and now I'm wondering, it's common knowledge golems come from Ashkenazic Jewish folklore, yet out of that, how many know that Rabbi Loew's golem was crafted as a guardian to protect Prague's ghetto during a rash of pogroms?
BecOct 3, 2020
Eugen RochkoOct 3, 2020

"Facebook, Twitter And TikTok Say Wishing Trump's Death From COVID-19 Is Not Allowed"

https://www.npr.org/sections/latest-updates-trump-covid-19-results/2020/10/02/919778961/facebook-twitter-and-tiktok-say-wishing-trumps-death-from-covid-is-not-allowed

That's what happens when you put all of your social media in the USA basket.

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