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• bobjonkman repeated a notice by steve 16 September 2021
  RT @steve @bobjonkman I really appreciate it, Bob!
• Favorite 16 September 2021
  bobjonkman favorited something by steve: @bobjonkman I really appreciate it, Bob!
• New note by bobjonkman 12 September 2021
  #Stroopwafels FTW! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel
• Favorite 12 September 2021
  bobjonkman favorited something by guizzy: Today @mitsu and I went to a Spanish specialty grocery store, got sobressada and menorcan cheese. Then we went to an european specialty store and got stroopwaffels. And we went to Bagel St-Viateur, and got freshly made bagels (the real stuff, not New York pretenders) to enjoy with some smoked […]
• New note by bobjonkman 12 September 2021
  Hang in there, Dr. Sekula. Your summer somewhat mirrors mine: Conflicted about working in a Covid environment; trying to stay engaged in politics (not physics research); the loss of my father and admitting my mom to a long-term care facility where Covid mortality is high. We'll pull through, and if the future looks different from […]
• bobjonkman repeated a notice by steve 12 September 2021
  RT @steve "End of Summer, 2021" Ive gone silent in this blog. Take it as a sign of everything else that has been going on. Writing in this blog is the first thing to be sacrificed when life intervenes. Its been many months since I wrote here. Truth be told, I think I need to […]
• Favorite 12 September 2021
  bobjonkman favorited something by steve: "End of Summer, 2021" Ive gone silent in this blog. Take it as a sign of everything else that has been going on. Writing in this blog is the first thing to be sacrificed when life intervenes. Its been many months since I wrote here. Truth be told, I think […]
• Favorite 9 June 2021
  bobjonkman favorited something by lnxw48a1: Last year, while visiting #sonTwo and meeting #GS3 in person for the first time, I asked my daughter-in-law about smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. She said they had one of each, but she wanted more. So I ordered a few of each and they put them up. Tonight, the gas […]
• New note by bobjonkman 2 May 2021
  But human labour only produces surplus value when it's being exploited. If humans are paid a fair value for their labour then there is no "surplus", ie. no profit for the corporate owners. This is why I favour worker-owned co-operatives instead of capitalist-owned corporations.
• bobjonkman repeated a notice by lxo 2 May 2021
  RT @lxo the greatest challenge of automation for a capitalist economy is that machines don't produce surplus value, only human labor does