The mouse trap exists to prevent the indigenous population (mice) from sharing in the bounty of their land, so the colonizers can hoard it all.

Pyrabottom jeans, pyraboots with the pyrafur

The new Spiderman movie?

Me playing Pacific Drive

What’s the data rate on a spworm?

are we serious

No. We are not serious. But he is.

Thank you for everything you do, seahorse!

I have a handful of recurring donations, and this one makes me especially happy.

It’s disturbing, how many people eagerly embrace eugenics and anti-natalism as long as they can cite a left-wing cause like ecology as their reason

Means horny

One of these lil guys?

No disagreement on the corruption, coercion, or economic exploitation.

Nor that there’s a straight line from their ability to manipulate the economic and legal systems… directly to their ability to evade justice for the worst crimes imaginable.

My concern is:

Tech libertarians using a (nearly-) universally-acknowledged and reviled scourge as a pretense to post in progressive spaces and sneak in neo-metallist sentiments like “taxation is theft” and “money-printing is fraud”.

I’m not saying OP or even OOP is one, for sure. But the meme does advance their narrative.

All USD is printed. Taxes are the only thing that gives USD its value.

I have a problem with the meme playing footsie with the ideas that taxes are theft and money-printing is fraud.

These are common neo-metallist arguments. And in techie spaces like the fediverse, libertarians like to sneak them into the conversation while going “How do you do, fellow progressives?” before they start pitching NFTs.

It’s the human equivalent of a modem saying “Okay, communication channel has been established. I’m going to start transmitting actual data now.”

What’s a half-ass in metric?

• issuing currency
• collecting taxes
• suppressing evidence of child sex trafficking

One of these things is so outrageously unlike the others that it makes me kinda sus of whoever decided to put them all in the same list

See also: The Whispering Earring

Eating a common egg?

gloriously right

Not really. The dinos were half-baked imitations, not exact replicas. And they evolved in ways the scientists didn’t anticipate, because their reach exceeded their grasp.

There’s definitely an anti-capitalist message, but don’t dismiss the warning about prematurely greenlighting high-stakes scientific initiatives. That’s relevant to the modern world, no matter what our economic model is.

LLMs come to mind. There’s a section of the AI-skeptic folks that say the only problem with AI is the profit motive. I’m not so sure. People will use tech to do all kinds of horrible shit even if they don’t stand to materially benefit. Just look at 4chan.

other 5

There are only 5 other communities?!

Thanks I hate it!