Economic targets like growth and debt are results of investment and innovation—exactly what missions create. They shouldn’t be goals in themselves. 2/3

Getting the bill at a restaurant is a good one. People of my generation catch the waiters eye and then mime signing a cheque.

I did this in China once and the 20 year old waitress brought me a pen and paper.

Apparently not.

That supra national institution cannot even use money that was mostly gained illegally to fight a war being waged on it by the criminals who put it in their banks.

Yeah. But what I’m hoping is when everyone else has forgotten how to use a computer I can just install Linux everywhere and no one will challenge it. “Thank you for fixing it” they’ll say, handing over a big fat tip.

Simply don’t forget how to use a computer.

This is nonsense and I don’t see you trying to engage in debate here with anyone who has pointed out how much nonsense it is.

Which is why you’re finding yourself increasingly isolated.

Maybe do some listening.

"We Will Rise Again" by @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social (eds.)

What better way is there to end the year than with a compendium of hope and resistance imaginaries!

In C that compulsion still exists because we have no module system, so like Emacs we end up with libraries made with prefixes.

But also it’s a joke. I didn’t think I’d need to explain it.