Metal Bob

@metalbob
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A paranoid metallic sponge that might sometimes talk about privacy and freedom.
Pronounscomrade
Classworker

*Central* Processing Unit

TRIGGERED!!!

growth... growth... growth...

need more planets!!!

> but how will we afford [a humane society]?!
< do you mean, how will the goods and services get where they need to go?
< trains, mostly.
But #pinafore feels... more responsive and faster with mobile. And have the best offline behavior!
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Bob Dylan about #Privacy

"Objectivist ethics" be like...

When Ayn Rand Collected Social Security & Medicare, After Years of Opposing Benefit Programs

http://www.openculture.com/2016/12/when-ayn-rand-collected-social-security-medicare.html

When Ayn Rand Collected Social Security & Medicare, After Years of Opposing Benefit Programs

Image via YouTube, 1959 interview with Mike Wallace A robust social safety net can benefit both the individuals in a society and the society itself.

Open Culture

Neoliberal capitalism's idea of the perfectly healthy economy is continually flat wages combined with continually rising rents.

That's not a bug. That's not a side effect. That's the desired optimal outcome.

Mastodon Gestalt Timeline:

2017: HOLY SHIT IT'S BBSES
2018: WAIT NO, IT'S SORTA TWITTER WITHOUT NAZIS
2019: HANG THE FUCK ON IS THIS EMAIL
2020: OH GOD RUN IT'S NEWSGROUPS, WE REINVENTED NEWSGROUPS

Why was I stuck in traffic today?

Oh right, because GM bought up and destroyed almost all of America's streetcars