Month: 3 Tishri 5784 (September 2023)

@babe@glitterkitten.co.uk Has he even *tried* to ruin astronomy by launching thousands of shiny satellites? Has he ever built a car that blew up while running over a toddler? I bet he hasn't even attempted to undermine US democracy. Low-effort all round

Why is it okay to exclude the far right from your communities while welcoming the far left? Well, to summarize it as succinctly as possible, the far left basically wants to rebuild the economic system and the far right wants to kill all of the Jews.

Sorry if I’m in a bad mood with people today. My bra is too tight and HR says I am not allowed to take it off in the office after the last incident.

Never do something so terrible you get Elon Musk to defend you.

I see the number of unread posts in my reader jump by a few hundred, I just *know* one of you web devs has rebuilt their site. (https://jan.boddez.net/notes/7c55e55615)

I absolutely abhor that with every study that proves universal basic income works (how many studies does it take before it’s actually implemented universally?) there’s the qualifier “homeless people didn’t spend as much money on booze and drugs as we thought”. So condescending. We don’t scrutinize rich people this way. There’s the assumption that rich people deserve that choice because the money belongs to them. Poor people have to answer to some arbitrary social expectation of acceptable behaviour before they are “allowed” to be housed, fed, clothed, etc. It shouldn’t matter how basic universal income is spent. The whole point is that we all get the choice and the possibility to live a comfortable life. It’s not up to any of us to decide what comfort looks like for anyone. Some people don’t fit social expectations and it’s apparently not ok only when they are poor.