Some day, very soon, I'm going to port all my most promising unfinished A4 projects to A5. Meanwhile, I'm doing more Arduino stuff. Kind of returning to the essential fun in coding. Compare it to coding text console games. There's even a community, arduino.cc, which is a bit like what a.cc was in its glorious years, very friendly, very nerdy people, yet having a hard time being polite to impatient noobs asking stupid questions. Is it a coincidence that they both share the .cc domain?

I used to argue with others here about them wanting to do all the work in society while some fat cat in his big house decided how to spend the money earned by said work.

I called it slavery, but everybody else insisted it was socialism. Maybe a lot of the enthusiasts imagined they'd be the fat cat in the big house.

Now I just pretend to be a looser with no onion.

Under capitalism, the invisible hand of Adam Smith drives prices, and since people want to maximize their profits, they invest in what shortages/desires exist.

In the USSR, you could get plenty of cucumbers, not much meat, sewing needles were almost unheard of, but you can get those in plenty here.

I googled for the term I couldn't think of off the top of my head (regulatory capture) which I'll get to in a minute, but I came across this gem of stupidity right off.

That's a blatant lie. Growing potatoes or designing things through the effort of your own brain is not a zero sum game. Who got ripped off if you grow potatoes?

That's the fault of the people who won't pay the price of eternal vigilance.

And god damn it! I've fallen into it again, arguing with people who are enamored of all the free stuff! Well, at least since the Bernie Bros are too lazy to work for what they want, they're also too lazy to go to the polls.

I'm out.

Sudden devolution into a political argument: yep, this is still allegro.cc.

Capitalism is currently asking for some of its money back that was wasted on policies such as the war on poverty, urban renewal, gasohol etc.

Hello, friends.

I started a new job in December 2018. My job before that was slowly whittling away, so I jumped ship to where a lot of my co-workers went. I was hesitant at first because it was not an industry I had any passion for: the trucking industry. But, it's actually been great! I'm the Product Owner for the mobile application that our 18,000 drivers use on a daily basis. We're currently developing rapid solutions to help the drivers in this wild environment where no one wants to get close or exchange physical things, a key element of the industry. I've got a pretty a cool team that I get to work with and a lot of opportunity.

This is certainly a scary time. My wife has an autoimmune disease and my mom has early onset Alzheimer's disease and lives in a locked down facility where there is one known case of COVID-19.

Anyway, good to see a few familiar faces...err...avatars here.

It's not a zombie apocalypse until X-G and 23yrold come back

And Thomas Harte!

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So Matt, how 'bout that title ?

If he adds support, we won't have an excuse for not finishing our projects.

Ahh... looks like the gang's mostly all here...

Woah!
Living on a prayer!