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Walking out of the bathroom at a house party and going up to the host to say "you know how the handle on your toilet jiggled a bit and needed to be held in just the right way to flush? It's fixed now." is one of my favorite things.
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@occurrent@app.wafrn.net @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt trade ya for fixing bikes or non printer tech
Absolutely. This would be my ideal economy.
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@ShadowJonathan I 100% would go door to door updating OpenStreetMap fulltime if I could afford to, socioeconomically.
This obsession spawned out of maps not updating fast enough in Portland 20 years ago to reliably run a courier service and kinda getting screwed by that, ultimately leading me to learn about and start contributing to OpenStreetMap just to have accurate navigation in a city that was changing the street grid daily.
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@ShadowJonathan Full post, higher quality. It's not that hard to find this stuff. Original link: https://bsky.app/profile/morbi.bsky.social/post/3majy3zm4es2g
There's a very good reason why Republicans attack the non-conformists, be they the unmarried woman, LGBTQ, non-Christian, POC, or immigrants...
... to build a whites-only ethnostate that serves solely the greed of billionaires, they need to cull the different & encourage eugenics movements.
Why is the GOP escalating attacks on trans rights? Experts say the goal is to make sure evangelicals vote
The recent blitz of anti-trans bills may not align with what many Republicans believe, but party lawmakers pursue them on behalf of their most important interest group.
PBS News (www.pbs.org)
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@ShadowJonathan this is so fucking true. Source: am one of those freaks
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Autism Jo :neocat_comfy: :v_enby: 🍂 This SO, SO much. I tell people often about the need to constantly balance the desire to do productive things that help people with the need to have money to live. The world would be so much better if those things were better aligned.
@AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan This reminds me of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs theory. Jobs which are useful (shit jobs) don't get paid because the people doing them are supposed to live on the warm glow of doing actually useful things with their lives. Meanwhile the jobs with pay don't help anyone and don't need to exist (i.e. are bullshit jobs)
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@occurrent@app.wafrn.net @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt trade ya for fixing bikes or non printer tech
@rachel I love how you specified non printer tech
@ShadowJonathan Yes, I am such a person!
I would love to build things to fix little issues people keep having, that aren't worth mass-producing, so never get made.
In addition, I would love having a little space in my community, where people come to get their stuff fixed or learn how to do it themselves. I'd love to teach all sorts of things, useful or not.
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@ShadowJonathan the trains would be so clean, efficient, and numerous that people would actually enjoy using public transit!
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@AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan This reminds me of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs theory. Jobs which are useful (shit jobs) don't get paid because the people doing them are supposed to live on the warm glow of doing actually useful things with their lives. Meanwhile the jobs with pay don't help anyone and don't need to exist (i.e. are bullshit jobs)
@sitcom_nemesis @AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan I would love to go back to working in a factory as a lowly grunt worker and blogging about it. Wish I could afford to do it.
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@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt that's why we need freak polycule communities to help eachother with our basic needs to be able to quadruple the freakyness of earth
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@ShadowJonathan I actually had a though once that it'd be cool to be responsible for a small community. Not in the administrative sense mind you, but in the janitorial sense. I'd go around fixing, replacing and upgrading things all day and never need therapy again in my life. Could have a simple network too. Setup with a firewall and some IDS, maybe a honeypot, protecting the normies that'd live there from baddies. Go and oil some hinges after killing a printer. Basic janitor stuff.
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@ShadowJonathan true, if i wasn't forced to work in a company, i would go to every single home to make their cyber higiene top noch, this would allow a sharp reduction of easy hack, and scam.
but i need to live like anyone so i have my work and make this reduction possible only for my company.
Sad but the whole system is built like this, and it's killing the evolution rate.
i'm pretty sure if we give money to it many of our problem would disapear (like the population issue).
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@ShadowJonathan In fact, there are guys who will go around obsessively fixing every clogged heating pipe in a 10-mile radius out of spite against the system that tries to stop them.
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@ShadowJonathan 100% this.
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@AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan This reminds me of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs theory. Jobs which are useful (shit jobs) don't get paid because the people doing them are supposed to live on the warm glow of doing actually useful things with their lives. Meanwhile the jobs with pay don't help anyone and don't need to exist (i.e. are bullshit jobs)
@AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan @sitcom_nemesis
My favorite job ever: driving for Jefferson Lines - scheduled motorcoach service.Getting mostly poor people where they needed to go. Actually helping people.
What job was I doing when we went almost bankrupt? Yup. Same job.
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@ShadowJonathan i still randomly get favs on a comment i posted on bsky forever ago:
"who's going to make the trains run on time:
- someone who's in it for the money
- an autistic train guy"
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@occurrent @ShadowJonathan and I'd invite you in
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I would go from town to town evangelizing instant runoff voting. Then I might wax poetic about growing wine grapes without fungicide.
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