UniversalBasicJustice

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Cake day: January 29th, 2026

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  • Cleaning up for months

    Sounds like my first internship. Huge, multi-million dollar test loop for compressor validation. Shortly after I left one day a 1/4 inch tube fitting on top of the compressor, part of the oil system, sheared off during a test. While I dont remember the oil pressure I do remember the video a coworker took of the incident.

    Oil geysering all the way to the 40ft high ceiling. For 45 minutes.

    I get back the next day and the whole test loop is covered in oil. Footprint-wise think two semi trailers next to each other. Oil on the floor, oil in the (water only) trench drains which they had dammed quickly, oil on thousands of feet of piping.

    Let me reiterate; I was the intern. Aka, my job description now included “waste oil remediation.” It took a week-ish for your boots to stop sticking as you walked and far longer than that to clean the piping.

    To top things off this happened in winter and the oil viscosity reflected the cold conditions. Thus as spring and summer rolled in and the temperature increased the pipes started…dripping. Honestly this was years ago and I suspect they’re still wiping oil up here and there.









  • Exactly my point. We (royal we, referring to a large proportion of US inhabitants) pay a privately owned corporation for services essential to living. They are allowed to extract profit via rate hikes and service cuts and are additionally allowed to develop monopolies. Dead people are a sacrifice private industry is willing to make in pursuit of profit (see: American death ensurance).

    The “separate but equal” Texan electrical grid is a textbook example of why utilities management should remain under the purview of a publicly-accountable governing body. My quip is dark because people died. Its also true. Its meant to quietly challenge the concept that a government levying taxes is tyrannical.






  • Couple things.

    Firstly; just because they are well-paid does not imply they have the means to survive without employment. In fact that places them far closer to you and I than to somebody capable of living solely off the labor of others. Additionally, large tech companies utilize H1B visas as a form of coercion for both the visa holder and the other employees.

    Secondly; you open your first paragraph with

    Nobody working at facebook has any illusions

    But open paragraph #2 with

    Many are starting to wake up

    Those two statements contradict each other.

    That’s not my point, though! My point is; blame the goddamn reptilian tech bro billionaire and the shareholders. Blame the government that allows Meta to exist at all. Blame the dysfunctional and cancerous-at-best socioeconomic systems that allow either to exist.

    Or, to put it more succinctly; don’t hate the player, hate the game.