In short: sewer socialism.

I had spent years street protesting the war in Iraq, and had grown tired of trying to build community and organize in a college town.

So I moved out into a deep rural (and red) part of the country and got a job working in Public Health. This was well before covid and I just started working with grant money to help people retrofit and upgrade their septic systems.

It was a government job and it did more good for more people than I think any damage I did to police or federal property.

And from there I kept working and seeing benefits of public health and infrastructure. There’s a lot to the state and government that I don’t like, but public infrastructure is the valid basis of a state.

Inherent rage at corrupt systems.

But I am no longer really an anarchist like I was in ny youth. Too much of a socialist these days. The statism got me.

It can also be shorthand for apolitical. Like the kind if people with zero political knowledge or engagement beyond knowing they aren’t conservative like their parents or hometowns were.

That’s closer to it. The local permitting jurisdictions get nothing out of approving or denying applications. They get held up for two reasons: the proposal is incomplete/unapprovable by law; and political intervention from an outside entity. Maybe the mayor or a commissioner, sometimes a director of an agency or organization. That’s where any bribery or other such shenanigans would take place. Not the permitting office.

Disenfranchised ruling class commits to counter-revolution. Repeat.

But for that specifically, it is conveniently called the Thermidorian Reaction, using this calendar’s terminology.

It’ll be taken care of by the new Microsoft CEO: Miguel Sanchez.

Some take away from this that the grocer, the janitor, the tailor, the shoemaker, and the baker are to be forgiven as it would be inhumane to punish everyday people.

And then turn around and claim the Nuremburg Trials were inhumane because Streicher didn’t personally shoot anyone.

The banality of evil became so much more of a defense than the indictment it should have been and should still be.

The ruling class of America sees the mayoral elections of Mamdani and Wilson as more dangerous and threatening than Trump and MAGA.

Bazzite is a vehicle for Steam. If your basis for using it isn’t ‘gaming through Steam’, you’re already intentionally venturing into un-average lands.

It is a perfect baseline OS. It gets people connected to Steam faster and easier to Windows, which is the main access to most games.

Biggest obstacles to venturing out in Linux is the documentation for everything is not built or assuming normie users. The default assumption of competancy does not exist in Windows manuals.

But even so using Homebrew in Bazzite is no more complex than in Windows.

Windows can automount USB drives, so a flash drive can get inadvertently formatted, (or something to do with the bootloader, i don’t know the technical details that well.) Point is the automounting can break a flash drive that isn’t formatted for windows.

Switched everything to Bazzite as a start. Easiest switch after figuring out Windows sabotages boot drives.

I may have pirated all my Windows but man it feels good to be off that ride. Spoofing corporate licenses for the authenticator was such a hassle.

That era of machine and windows? Sure why not lil buddy. I’ll join it for a walk back behind the shed.

I did my week’s work yesterday afternoon. Today is now coffee.

And his brother Bret. Pompous ass. I can’t believe I have college credits from his ivermectin ass.

It’s a hell of a high note.

Only a week? Lucky!

Shoebody Bop

Hot butter rum.