It was just at school - basics of GMAW class.

I used to always listen to classical music when I was welding. It was very soothing.

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues.
For example:

Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $

Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $

Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

I cut up a magsafe phone case and glued the important bit to the charging mat in my car. Works great.

I've been talking to my comrades a lot lately about how politicians keep reaching for the "help the working class" lever and it's either not there or they pull it and it just subsidizes some kind of big business.

Are you telling me that capitalists can only develop technology to alienate and enclose human activity so as to mediate it through the commodity form as the material basis of child rape class dictatorship? That's crazy talk someone would have noticed by now and we would have done something about it.

imagine if hardware manufacturers colluded with hyperscalers to hoard compute resources and then rent it back to consumers at a markup

the tech industry was all about making computers better, smaller, and more connected. and they more or less finished that the last decade. they did a good job at it. and since then there's been this weird midlife crisis vibe from the industry that finished its purpose.

the competitive phase of capitalism only occurs during the period of increased productivity after enclosure and primitive accumulation.