luddybuddy [comrade/them]

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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • Portland is great, and while the PNW is expensive, it’s a lot cheaper if you can live without a car, which is easier in Portland than a lot of west coast cities.

    I worked for 11 years as a structural engineer, and am now in software. I will say, while the work is fun, it is not well compensated for the level of anxiety that comes with designing structures for human habitation and the abysmal level of technical review given at most companies.

    There’s also a bit of a slump on right now, since people don’t know if steel is going to double in price or not. But that shouldn’t be a concern since hopefully all that will be sorted by the time you graduate.




    • The top 1% have 31 times the average wealth
    • The 49% below them have 1.37 times the average wealth
    • The bottom 50% have 0.04 times the average wealth

    (All calculated from the chart itself)

    That seems like the top 1% are the bulk of the problem. If our richest had less than double what the poorest have, that would be a pretty good start.

    I agree, there are a lot of people in that middle band who are not going to give up their 37% extra wealth, but I’m not sure this point is worth making. I’d rather get the lower half of that middle band to understand that they are not much better protected than those below them, than to tell the bottom band that they have nothing in common with half the country. Let’s draw a new chart with a top 10% or a top 20%, it will make this fight seem more possible.



  • So I was reading old effortposts when suddenly

    It seems like bear goo should not have caused such a problem. There are only a few kinds of goo that I can imagine describing as bear goo, and those are, as you stated, the goo that remains of a dead bear and the goo that comes out of a bear (piss poop jizz snot etc). Neither of these things perform bear, or are described as bear, or are thought of as bear. They are related to bear in specific ways, and I’m sure lojban has words for that. In the rare case that you’ve met some terrible D&D-esque creature which is both goo and also a real live bear, it seems like that should also be expressible. It was performing goo while also performing bear. A person would describe it as bear and also as goo. it goo-ed on my bear till I gismu-ed.


  • Bring a photo, say you want a men’s haircut. Maybe even go to a barber instead of a hairdresser, if you have any confidence they won’t fuck with you for being NB. In my experience barbers are very cool, but YMMV

    I once brought a mugshot of Pretty Boy Floyd, barber loved it and had fun duplicating an extremely outdated haircut.

    That was before I lost all my hair. Haven’t been to a barber in a decade!