love how it ends with a bunch of personal responsibility bs for trying to limit your plastic intake, very cool
- gender
Oh we're doing gender abolition? 
it's unethical to hurt the feelings of the empire's patrons
Just wanted to share a bit of a bright point from last week, especially since I know The Workplace is a gauntlet of horrors designed to punish a lot of us neurodivergent people.
I've always got really great feedback on my communication skills. It's one part writing-as-a-hobby, one part devops drive for operational efficiency, and three parts AuDHD. In particular I'm really good at communicating technical topics in ways that engineers are receptive to and that non-technical people can understand. Since my entire workplace is remote, efficient and comprehensible written communication is really important.
About a month ago I got looped into an initiative to add explicit guidelines about how to communicate effectively while remote. I was just asked to give feedback on how the guidelines sounded — and I realized that they were all modeled after how I specifically communicate. I even asked my boss about it and she confirmed that it was "heavily inspired" by my communication style. The best parts: I didn't really have to do much work for this initiative, and I've been openly AuDHD at work for a year at this point, so they're quite aware.
They literally just want everyone to make their communication more autistic, and they're documenting that explicitly.
Unironic DEI win 
he felt the US government "should be defending its companies"
hey what's the marriage between state and business called again? 
man this whole thing is terrifying, feel dumb for being so surprised but somehow it all feels sudden
it was for autistic kids? kids with a tendency to form deep, personal connections with inanimate objects? 
bro. bruh. brother. i fucking hate capitalism, and I hate tech companies most of all. the way there's zero plan for the permanent loss of internet connectivity for hardware before the hardware is shipped is a massive reliability failure, and the fact that there's zero accountability for it when it shuts down boils my blood. especially for medical products. as a reliability engineer, there really needs to be some sort of licensing board for the entire software engineering field, it's disgustingly irresponsible to not build that level of offline operability into your product in the first place.
Side tangent about medical hardware: I'm still haunted by an article I read a few years back about a bionic eye company shutting down and how there are blind people with defunct hardware surgically implanted in their heads. at the absolute very least (even under capitalism) the company should be required to open source their server code or at least document their API so people can self-host those servers and shit. bionics companies in particular should be required to operate (even just for support) for the entire lifetimes of everyone who has the hardware.
first one that comes to mind is Operation Cyclone - he armed the reactionary mujahideen in afghanistan to impede the USSR's support of the nascent Democratic Republic of Afghanistan 
tbf the nyc subway is extremely convoluted and unintuitive to use compared to more civilized metros, lots of arcane rules like "only the first 3 cars can fit in this station so if you want to get off there you better remember where in the train you are" or "trains with prime numbers only stop at every other station during rush hour" which are never posted anywhere. It's like the least beginner-friendly metro of any on earth, even ones where the beginner doesn't speak the local language.
that said it's still not that hard, you buy a ticket, you try to get on the right train, and worst-case you end up 20 blocks away from your destination and try again
My rental unit has a gas fireplace that's controlled by remote. The remote fell about 3 feet and the LCD shattered. The remote is still functional, the screen is just cracked and bleeding. Replacements cost $100 and I'm on the hook for it if my landlord finds out. Haven't been able to find any cheaper compatible remotes either.
Any thoughts about how I might be able to track down a replacement LCD? Is it even worth it? The LCD seems pretty specialized.
the idea being that any two things produced by an hour of (human capital adjusted) labor must have the same value
when you definitely understand the labor theory of value
alt title: "I guess this is why people with executive functioning skills journal"
Since I logged back in after being away from Hexbear for around a year and a half, I've been rereading my old comments. The last few years have been really tumultuous for me personally and it's been really helpful to have a bunch of little snapshots of who I am and where my head's been at since Hexbear opened.
I'm AuDHD and have a really diffuse sense of self a lot of the time, so it's been nice getting re-acquainted with my own personality (hopes, dreams, desires, insecurities, interests, values, and everything else) especially after some drawn-out periods of burnout, depression, and just being in survival mode. I like who I am. I'm a lot kinder than I remember.
That's been helpful for guiding some of my goals and and reminding myself of what I value for getting my life back to a happier place again, too.
Plus it's been good refreshing myself on my opsec lies so I can feel comfortable not deleting my old comments and preserve my thought record for the future 
The comment-reread has been a great reminder about how I really like this place. I've had a ton of fantastic conversations with the comrades here, learned all sorts of things, helped people and received help myself. The argument-to-positive-convo ratio in my comment history is honestly way lower than I even thought it would be. Huge shout out to all of the comrades here (posters and mods alike) for making it the least-terrible place on the internet 
Credit scores. It goes up when you have more debt and goes down when you pay your debt off, but it goes down if you ask for a loan and it goes down if you even try to check what it is.
Absolute nonsense.
Technofascists trying to biohack their way to immortality want access to Juche necromancy