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• NPCs Are Angry About Student Loan Forgiveness

  People are really angry about student loan forgiveness. I understand why they're angry, but I don't think they do.

  

  Debt-free college degree holders think they're angry because they worked hard to pay off their piece of magic paper while others are getting off scot-free.

  "It's not fair that Karen's degree in Feminist Social Media Marketing Theory is paid for but my degree in Early Childhood Brainwashing took me 10 years of propagandizing the youth to get out from under! I want a refund!" *angry boomer noises*

  The reality is that both degrees are worthless. All college degrees are worthless. The …

• Tutorial: Creating Custom Themes With Pelican

  Pelican is a static site generator written in Python.

  In this blog post, you'll learn how to create your first Pelican site and how to style it using a custom theme. This tutorial assumes you have a good grasp on HTML, CSS, and basic command line input. Familiarity with the Jinja2 templating engine is not required but nice to have.

  Despite being written in Python, Pelican only forces you to interact with Python via its config file - so aside from using pip and setting up a proper venv (which we'll cover in this tutorial), you don't really have to know …

• Hello Dystopia

  Obligatory Hello World post. Welcome to my blog!

  I'm a software developer and yeoman homesteader who's come to understand that there are no political solutions to the technocratic dystopia now facing the Western world. This website is an anthology of how I'm dealing with that reality, and moreover, how I feel these two particular skillsets (homesteading and software development) are uniquely poised to navigate our current societal, spiritual, and monetary predicaments.

  Of course, they're not the only two skillsets capable of altering the trajectory of mankind's rapid descent into despotism. But they're the ones I'm most familiar with, so that's …