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I own a computer. Mechanical Engineer OH ➡️ WA Mostly dumb jokes about tech or current events
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One of the nice things about being on the left is that most of the shit you believe, reducing poverty, climate change, not randomly bombing places, also allows “humanity to persist on this Earth” in ways not involving asking women if they’re ovulating

submitted 18 hours ago • 45 comments

we are speedrunning how fast CEOs abandon capitalism for straight-up oligarchy

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

I, a serious journalist, have spoken with hundreds of employees at the world's foremost snake oil design and manufacturing firms and their message is clear: "snake oil is fucking awesome and we should all be buying it."

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The original post got deleted but I remain very proud of this joke reply

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The central paradox of Elon Musk is that nobody gets more trust than he does, but nobody earns that trust less

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Geez, this administration will do anything to protect Tesla

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

My "I have become so ensconced in internet culture that I am incapable of thought outside the confines of meme formats and it has become a hindrance to my ability to consume and process information let alone interact with others" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is good news if you think our banking system is too secure.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

Tell me again why the WHCA still exists?

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Don’t lose sight of how far and fast the Overton Window is getting pushed. 15 years ago we were fighting about the racial nuances of the Beer Summit and now we’re fighting over tariffs 3x the rate of the Tariff of Abominations (google it) and weather we should do slavery with Prime shipping.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

Fuck right the hell off

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like. With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

they're so obviously just building Russia 2.0, a brutal oligarch controlled mafia state pretending to be a government, replete with its little racist fake journalist earlobe nibblers

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

the problem w/ the segment is not that it makes trump look good, which I gather ppl on the left are annoyed about — it's that executive orders are only one output of a presidency and it's not clear that this is the best measure of an admin's impact. if anything, EOs might be a negative indicator

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

This guy spends an hour in a makeup chair before work every day

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

if a politician promises to give you a million dollars and then murder you, you should not donate to their campaign based on the fact that murder is illegal.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments