Enginarchy

They hit you with some example of like, opportunity costs or some shit, and calculate in their example that $104 in economic value is added, and all that happens in heir example is that some shmuck gets someone else to mow his lawn.

Arguing with capitalists and all they can do is tell you how capitalism works, not why it’s good or sufficient or necisary.

Me feeling depressed: what if I tried taking a multivitamin? Maybe that’s what I need?

What right wing masculinity gets wrong is that while I DO want to be a hero, I DO NOT want to be a man. THANK YOU

It’s actually very easy to subvert and eventually overthrow every currently existing power structures that our society is based on. Why do you ask?

If there is a technical solution to climate change, it’s going to be in the form of institutions and infrastructure that allow for democratization and decentralization. The solution to climate change are not technical tweaks, but there are certainly technical aspects to the social solutions we need.

No actually, I don’t think that the biggest transphobes and homophobes are secretly in the closet. I don’t think homophobia and transphobia are the fault of queer people. I think the cis/hets are more than capable of being terrible on their own.

I think people often forget this!

Chairman Mao, you say that women hold up half the sky, but have you considered that men hold up the other half?

I have been back on this app for a few hours and people are having nonsensical arguments about flags in my timeline

I’m back on this app and also my appointment to hopefully get on HRT got moved up to early April! Less than a month away now!

I go to the same place for lunch almost every day to the point that they all know my order. I’m not sure if the menu changed at some point, but I’m realizing that I make my order in a slightly convoluted way that costs me 75 cents more than it should. I’m too scared to change lol

Slightly late New Year’s resolution, but I’ve been waking up earlier and going to work earlier so that I can leave earlier. I forgot how much I loved sunsets when I was previously more of a morning person. Love me a peachy little cloud

“I want an expert to handle this…”

Well the experts aren’t handling it

There’s just a race between fascist metastasis and a better world. Fascism is inherently unstable and won’t be permanent, but it will do a hell of a lot of damage while it’s here. We need to fight to minimize its damage, end it as early as possible and set the groundwork for what’s next.

In many ways, I’ve avoided a lot of psychic damage just by having accepted that we are tumbling towards fascism and that none of this is working long term regardless. The outcome of the election did not change my long term prospects for the world.

Dealing with coming out in this current state of things leads to me having just wild fluctuations between wanting to run right back into the closet, and wanting to order DIY HRT and go full bore as fast as possible despite any and all consequences. Hard to consider an in between at this point.

In many ways I’m still a utopian idealist, but that whole idea of techno-optimism just feels so immeasurably distant to me now in a way that feels odd to even think about.

I remember a time in high school, early college, when I was first studying engineer, where I felt such a strong sense of techno-optimism, that we’d solve all of our problems through a liberal scientific humanism, and that we’d be mining asteroids and living in space before I’d reach retirement age.

The energy code in Iowa is a joke. A lot of very important stuff is just not enforced, and certainly not followed, not even understood by a lot of engineers. Not to mention that we are still on the 2012 energy code… that’s 13 years out of date with no plan to update any time soon.

- Mechanical Engineer
- Mechanical Engineering
- Did not change
- I design HVAC systems for big schools and hospitals and office buildings and stuff

I’m considering going back to school at some point for anthropology or some related field though, so…

If you drive into a city every day for work, you don’t live a rural lifestyle, you live a suburban, maybe exurban lifestyle. This is true even if you drive a truck, wear cowboy boots sometimes, or keep goats for your kids so they can compete in 4-H

Feel old yet?

Sophomores in high school today who write in “attack helicopter” where a worksheet asks if they are a boy or a girl were barely potty trained when some Team Fortress 2 player came up with that joke as part of a copypasta to spam chat with back in 2014

It’s crazy to think that we’re all just getting older every day

I think this is what the future of a lot of our historic downtown buildings should be. Not demolition and replacement with new concrete and steel, not frozen in amber. We can create climate friendly, high quality housing with rooftop additions.

I’ve seen examples I like better, but I think this one is kinda cute. I like the contrast between the modern, contemporary style and the older, more ornate closer to the ground, where pedestrians can really appreciate it. If they did more, I think it would distract more than compliment.

That’s the biggest hurdle to reform. We can’t reform that loop out of existence. All of the systems we have to reform extensively exist to maintain that loop, and would themselves fall apart if that loop were in any way interrupted. Capital, as well as the modern state, depends on that loop.

Replacing THE source of growth decoupled from natural geography and cycles, that allows production to be anywhere, uninterrupted, without the need for great coordination outside of purchasing a commodity, with something that does none of that… completely destroys the loop of capital accumulation.

Capitalism can’t survive without fossil fuels. Like many things, we can maybe imagine a theoretical world where it can, but we need to brush over so many of the basic logics of capitalism, the reasons capitalism latched onto fossil fuels so strongly and early in its history.