Notices by Dartigen the Eternally Tired (dartigen@mastodon.social)

Polite request to journalists: if you're writing about a study, *please* provide a link to it somewhere in the article, or at least give its title.

Hey Fediverse, is there a way to use a script or something to get Git to push changes on a computer's shutdown or something?

I've had to split one of my blog post drafts because I forgot to push changes on my home computer last night, but I want to check the image embeds in it on my laptop. I doubt I can remotely access it either; I don't have any of the info I'd need, and I can't get it either.

And this happens pretty regularly.

This might be a long shot, but...

Does anyone know if there is *any* extant scholarship on:

a) the possibility that Christian 'virtuous poverty' ideals were a reaction to the Roman Empire?

b) the relationship of the post-Reformation 'rehabilitation' of avarice/greed/self-interest/whatever to the late 900s/early 1000s and how the world didn't end and people wanted nice stuff again?

(Terrible topic summaries, but character limit.)

Are there any halfway decent books etc on the Seattle WTO protests and/or Occupy? That are reasonably easy to get hold of?

I'd especially be after anything that incorporates accounts from people who were there.

I finally got around to reading this, and it's finally bringing together some stuff I've been trying to articulate for years in much better ways than I could.

"This number is probably the truest measure of a person’s real wealth: What is the largest unexpected financial shock you could sustain without the cost of that to you suddenly becoming ten times the original cost or more?"

https://shift.newco.co/your-financial-shock-wealth-4845e6dc1d2f

LB: Whoomp, there it is.

Doesn't matter how virtuously you consume - you're still a consumer under capitalism.

Capitalism has co-opted every 'ethical consumption' effort, and profited off of it, and in most cases simply become more cunning at hiding the real costs.

This isn't to say, stop trying at all.

Rather: stop thinking that you can use capitalism to beat capitalism. Stop trying to buy your way out of capitalist destruction.

Find another way.

Tired: arguing over whether Monday or Friday should become part of the weekend

Wired: 3-day workweek

Inspired: destroying the concept of 'work week' and 'weekend' by decoupling access to the means of living from productivity.

I'm just saying. You can do better than just expanding the weekend.

But I know other people who are heavily dependent on Amazon or eBay (or affiliated companies) for low-cost goods, sometimes essentials.

I've also been told before at employment seminars and workshops that not having social media profiles - or not having conventional ones - can be very negative for job searching. (And negative for small businesses.)

Broadly, the thread's point stands: avoiding these companies is *hard* and inconvenient as.