There is no doubt that the unpaid internship is exploitative, moreso than the already discouraging/tiring path to a first job programming. But I also think you were right to accept it as a step towards launching a career. It’s something you will never have to do a second time… onward and upward

Great magazine, loved the articles about modern sailing ships and sewage handling by aquaculture.

I believe as individuals and society we are over reliant on unnecessarily advanced technology and should seek alternatives to distance ourselves from this.

I feel about the same way, to the point I don’t even really want print media to die. We’re still looking at something right in front of us, but at least it isn’t a screen. I’ve been framing it mentally as part of an intentional relationship I want to have with technology, and I think generally others should consider this too. Adopt technology selectively and critically, don’t just let them foist new consumer durables on you, LOL.

40 minutes is completely workable!

Think it’d be pretty easy to tell a kid you can’t, or just not inform them that there is an opt-out process in the first place, but I could get it if some people object to the lying by omission

Makes sense, a limit as strict as 8 minutes for the youngest kids seriously inhibits basic communication, so really this either has to iterated on or a great deal of parents will just opt out so it has no effect.

Wow, I’d think somebody in a shit gig like that would be induced to develop some solidarity

comrade Jacob must have studied something well-compensated or become very skilled to pull 70k a year!

Lately, I’ve had more success and less frustration trying to make one test case pass at a time, working my way through them, not adding anything until it’s needed. I use Duolingo too!

makes sense!

I’ll check it out, I think i’ve seen that one talked about online!

we can have a few impersonators as a treat

Yes, and I’m inclined to think there is a not-tiny subset of people who really would be tireless creatives/athletes etc under conditions of full communism, that our general level of engagement with learning, art, and science would probably increase, and there would be plenty of room for a far easier way of life as well.

Let’s see if the less clever of the bourgeois can figure out the falling rate of profit / secular stagnation

Wow, you made me wanna move there, very cool. It’s really too bad the geopolitical conditions are such that we can’t, say, go there on a working holiday visa.

May we live to see a revolutionary socialist restoration, but more than a restoration, a forging anew <3

As others have said, your family sounds nice. Maybe when you inherit those properties, you can keep one unit and give the rest to the residents to form a co-op.

Really I can’t wait to see what a modern, technologically advanced socialist economy comes up with in the field of technology. Just hope we live to see it

It seems like degrowthers have some valuable insight but yeah if you simultaneously did not believe in the neccesity and potential of revolution and state overthrow it would be very “doomer”.

Yes, growth in some positive sectors, but if you would agree that advertising, fossil fuels, fast fashion, car dependence, planned obsolescence, etc. all need to be severely downsized or gotten rid of, it seems like you’d agree more than disagree with the changes degrowthers want to make; that is to say nothing of their ideas of transition, which may very well be utopian. I have yet to get to that chapter in my book to make a proper investigation.