moosepuggle

joined 1 year ago
[–] moosepuggle@startrek.website 92 points 11 months ago (11 children)

This is awesome! Now the IRS just needs to send me my already completed taxes that I just verify, sign, and return, like they do in Sweden.

[–] moosepuggle@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

The app is objectively terrible. Barely useable.

[–] moosepuggle@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago

Purrl with a curled tailing

[–] moosepuggle@startrek.website 12 points 11 months ago

We need more investigations into these kinds of domestic terror networks.

Holy shit I need blacklight jewelry! I got lab alexandrite and lab moissanite for my wedding ring, but I didn’t know I could get SCIENCE gems! And I do a ton of confocal microscopy where we use dichroic for splitting the wavelengths! Thank you for this link, I’m def buying all my jewelry from here from now on!

[–] moosepuggle@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

Flop flop flop 🍆 👀

[–] moosepuggle@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it bendy? How do they work that thang?

[–] moosepuggle@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I grew up poor (rural Arizona, living in a trailer we couldn’t afford to heat in the winter, mom worked at Walmart, dad was a mechanic, just to paint a picture of what I mean). Both my parents are more progressive, we moved from the Bay Area of California when I was ten because we couldn’t afford it and also so they could get away from their druggie friends circle. Thankfully I liked science and had people who encouraged me, and I now have a PhD in molecular biology and my partner does computer programming and makes a lot.

But before I decided on science, my progressive parents + being poor + Intro Philosophy + Against Me anarcho-syndicalist punk rock made me want to major in some combo of history, economics, and political science so I could change/overthrow the system from within. I still have the anarchy tattoos behind my ears, though! But I think Scandinavian style Democratic socialism is better suited to modern technological society.

And now I’m in academia, most people here grew up middle class or upper middle class, and the entitlement is mind boggling sometimes. I’m learning more and more how to blend in with them, my partner is upper middle class academic family. But sometimes I still feel like some of them can tell I’m a dirty poor.

It just pisses me off so much that there’s soooo much wealth in the world and it’s all locked up by rich people. I read somewhere that a study by the Swiss bank found that if all the wealth in the world was evenly divided amongst every men women and child, each person would get like $30,000. That would be amazing! No more world poverty! A living wage would be a great start.

Anywho, it’s late, I’m tired and rambling. TLDR: eat the rich.

[–] moosepuggle@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup, I’m 41 and I haven’t gotten less radical, just more detail-oriented in how we make it a reality.

Wow I didn’t know I loved dahlias! The curly wurly petals in the middle are my favorite 😍

[–] moosepuggle@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This about sums it up

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