{"id":178952,"date":"2018-07-09T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/09\/tweet-stream-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2018-07-09T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T01:00:00","slug":"tweet-stream-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/09\/tweet-stream-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet Stream of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comparison of Silicon Valley and the the Soviet Union is genius:<\/p>\n

\n
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:<\/p>\n

– waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it’s of poor workmanship and quality<\/p>\n

– promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2014 Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
– living five adults to a two room apartment<\/p>\n

– being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2014 Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
– ‘totally not illegal taxi’ taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet<\/p>\n

– everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2014 Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
– mandatory workplace political education<\/p>\n

– productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2014 Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It goes on, but it is well worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comparison of Silicon Valley and the the Soviet Union is genius: Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: – waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it’s of poor workmanship and quality – promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[395,416,441,464,389,367,390],"class_list":["post-178952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-computer","tag-culture","tag-former-soviet-union","tag-good-writing","tag-history","tag-internet","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}