@apodoxus@mastodon.online
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

apodoxus

@apodoxus@mastodon.online

Former hacker; Wild-wanderer wondering "Why?"; still skeptical.

Philosophy 🤔, Science 🔭, Politics 🏴‍☠️

Pragmatist 🐿️, Generalist 🌍, Anarchist 🍞

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyBipolar

All hostility and disrespect gets blocked.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

nealcurtis, to random
@nealcurtis@mas.to avatar

A story about Meta that Meta has banned. According to rhetoric author, Meta has also banned links to the site where the article was first published.
Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@nealcurtis Wow it's true!

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@nealcurtis It wont let me post that column either!

JeremyMallin, to Etymology
@JeremyMallin@autistics.life avatar


How did Brits ever get "Spain" from "España"? 🤔

None of the vowel signs and not even all of the consonant sounds.

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@JeremyMallin What? They're almost identical. Both are pronounced "sp-n."

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@JeremyMallin True but close enough... Seems like nitpicking to me. Deutchland is Germany in English and Tyskland in Swedish. That's plenty of other nonsensical examples compared to missing one soft consonant.

apodoxus, to Health
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

Interesting.

carrideen, to random
@carrideen@c18.masto.host avatar

Some people never really get out of bed on

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@carrideen Stone henge cat

apodoxus, to random
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

Man tries to get me to help him cheap on his wife. I teach him how to talk to his fucking wife about his needs instead.

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

This is going pretty fucking well so far actually. Like and RT my post, you bastards. I'm an angel. 😆

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

Trying to get them to butter eachother up so they can practice becoming more vulnerable and trusting with eachother eventually.

Radical_EgoCom, to random
@Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social avatar

is exploitation. There's no way you can have a system that doesn't exploit workers. Even if you try to make it more tolerable through policies and legislation, the inherent nature having to work for those who exclusively own the means of production in order to survive will always be exploitative.

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@Radical_EgoCom I would like to add that some reforms are more (or less) conductive to revolution than others.

apodoxus, to tech
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

Calling all nerds. What is this on Images? Some images seem to have some shine animation while most don't. What's the point? My friend recorded this earlier on his phone.

video/mp4

apodoxus, to music
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

When's the last time you listened to Whitney Houston? She's much better than I remembered.

https://youtu.be/FxYw0XPEoKE

gimulnautti, to random
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green avatar

Restarted reading ”The Dark Forest” by Liu Cixin, which is the second book in the Three Body Problem -trilogy.

Refreshing my memory before the second season on Netflix comes out, so I can compare better!

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@gimulnautti The English series is out now or do you mean the same Chinese one?

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@gimulnautti I've only seen about half of the Chinese one and it's very faithful to the book except one aspect and maybe you can guess that if you read the books and know how China is.

Some of it is exactly how I imagined it though. It also doesn't even leave out all the accurate technical stuff. I've never seen any show do that.

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@gimulnautti Exactly. They took out all the stuff criticizing the cultural revolution as far as I can tell. I recall that being very early on in the books and I'm way past that in the story.

ai6yr, to random
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org avatar

Pay Intuit yearly extortion fee for Quickbooks or suck it up and convert it all to GnuCash... Hmm....

(yes, I did type sudo apt install gnucash)

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@ai6yr Just be grateful that's your choice. I get to pay $400 a year to H&R Block since my expat taxes are a bit complcated.

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@ai6yr Fuck. Well, I heard they're trying to automate things, doing a trial run in some states this year. I have a feeling the Big Tax lobby will win again.

You know how long it took me to do my Swedish taxes? ALL of it took five minutes and cost me nothing and my Swedish taxes are even more complicated than my American ones! 😆 The difference being that Swedes know about these things called computers which I hear process data pretty well.

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@ai6yr Okay well, let me make it up to you by saying like 30% of the population is voting for a fascist party and neoliberalism has destroyed most of what foreigners know as the good things about Sweden before any of that started. 😅 Still the best country in the world, but the world kinda sucks, right? So... haha

redoak, to random
@redoak@social.coop avatar

Today's yard work:

  • feed chickens
  • clear out the spot for the potato tower, and put the base on the cleared spot
  • see about sifting more compost
apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@redoak I feel like the chickens should be feeding you in this situation, you know what I mean? 😅

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@redoak hahahahaha

Well, at least the compost isn't sifting you. Fuck. I need to do that too. 😩

apodoxus, to worldwithoutus
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

Okay, this was actually helpful. I did notice the pattern but wasn't sure what the fuck was going on.

I think so far I've only seen one article in a leftist magazine about this and it was basically like "It's complicated but there are anti-colonial tendencies involved."

https://youtu.be/Ew5w6PyI66Y

apodoxus, to Climbing
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

When you're failing a lot and feeling hopeless, watch this.

She failed every day for six years, until she didn't.

Also note how she says that she sees climbing as learning and she loves the process. Enjoy the process and don't be attached to outcomes. Intrinsic motivation is the killer app.

https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/reel-rock-s7-e3

apodoxus, to random
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar
apodoxus, to politics
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

"Equality is much easier for the affluent."

"Who do they find? They find the reactionaries. And why do they find them? Because there's nobody else there."

https://youtu.be/54H8ppxnp8I

nealcurtis, to random
@nealcurtis@mas.to avatar

Neoliberalism was the means by which the rich dismantled the consensus around social democracy, progressive taxation, welfare and public services in order to amass wealth and material inequality similar to the time of absolute monarchs.
Fascism is the chosen means by which they secure and preserve those gains.

apodoxus,
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

@nealcurtis True story. Sad story.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • provamag3
  • InstantRegret
  • mdbf
  • ethstaker
  • magazineikmin
  • GTA5RPClips
  • rosin
  • thenastyranch
  • Youngstown
  • osvaldo12
  • slotface
  • khanakhh
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • JUstTest
  • Durango
  • everett
  • cisconetworking
  • Leos
  • normalnudes
  • cubers
  • modclub
  • ngwrru68w68
  • tacticalgear
  • megavids
  • anitta
  • tester
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •