Happy birthday homie.

Had one of the best interviews in my time as a wage slave last week and really felt like I hit it out of the park. They said I'd know on Friday. Well here it is Monday and still donno. Should I keep holding out or just blow my brains out now get it over with?

On a more cheerful note, I'm finally starting my dive into non-ML leftist theory and started Anarchy Works by peter Gelderloos and it's been a pretty enjoyable read. The format is basically Idea, historical example, and synthesis of ideas with praxis for each chapter. But it's clear and easy to digest. I'm 1/4 in and started Saturday and that with barely any time to read and I'm not a fast reader normally.

I'm pretty sure I'm definitely not an anarchist but I like that I am developing a fuller understanding of the concepts. I do like the idea of little pocket anarchist communities popping up all the time tho because even if they never last, it does show that humans can still be communal for at least a moment.

Might take a sidestreet after this book and read up on syndicalism since that's also piqued my interest recently.

I can't fucking wait either.

Gentle remind that the US was perfectly content with Nazi Germany for most of the war.

Insurance here is also about 30% of our paycheck.

Right now I'm unemployed, we are on ACA, the affordable care act benefits. For people outside of this shitty country, that Obamacare. Our toddler is sick. We are trying to get our kids on CHIP, which is actually affordable benefits for our kids. Just found out that when my wife took our toddler in for possible pneumonia or liquid in his lungs, that since he isn't currently covered, if we pay for this visit out of pocket, we could be denied CHIP.

So like what the fuck are we supposed to do?

Dark mode all day and redshift set based on the sunrise and sunset on both desktop and phone. I won't go back.

Also I'm gonna do another suggestion for Dark Reader browser extension. It's great!

Now I wish I would have went with a Marx themed user name instead of just the pfp lol.

Who's Karl Marx?

I fell for the bait at first but going back and reading their comments, ita actually hilarious.

Tbf "Supreme Leader General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United People’s Republic of the Solar System" is a dope ass title.

Also if I didn't suck at programming, meme communist games would be something I could see myself doing.

This comment being full of data reminded me of this that I have saved: https://web.archive.org/web/20221116142647/https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-Sankey-flow-diagram-of-the-US-feed-to-food-caloric-flux-from-the-three-feed-classes_fig1_308889497

The big takeaway is that the amount of edible calories that we get from factory farming is 7% of what we feed them. 93% is wasted basically.

I should also state that I am not a stats guy but saw this posted on reddit at some point when I was first moving over to a plant-based diet.

My mom was super pissed when Country Crock announced they were making plant based butter. She threw a straight up hissy fit about it and wouldn't even budge when I told her the Country Crock that she has been buying for decades has always been plant based.