I finally put batteries in the laptop toy I bought for my son.
I love it, the cover says "CAT The trump product, everyone likes"
But after putting the batteries in, it turns out it's a veeeery chinese toy. Not sure it's going to be what I'm looking for.
I love it, the cover says "CAT The trump product, everyone likes"
But after putting the batteries in, it turns out it's a veeeery chinese toy. Not sure it's going to be what I'm looking for.
The focus on tax increases or tax cuts is imo a distraction from the policies that actually create inequality.
Let's say that Bob and Jane each own their own shoe stores, but Bob gets special legislation that has the government pay 90% of his costs and provide 90% of his profits. At that point, you can tax Bob 50% and Jane 0%, it doesn't matter because Bob's shoe store is by far a net tax consumer and Jane's store is likely a net tax provider. Then Bob gets half of Jane's product line banned for arbitrary reasons. You can tax bob 75% and Jane 0%, it doesn't matter because Jane's business has a huge hurdle Bob's doesn't. Then make it so Bob can borrow billions of dollars basically for free and Jane needs to get normal loans. You can tax Bob 95% and Jane 0%, it doesn't matter because Bob is so far ahead Jane can never succeed.
Stuff like the above happens every day, and no political ideology has a monopoly on supporting them.
Let's say that Bob and Jane each own their own shoe stores, but Bob gets special legislation that has the government pay 90% of his costs and provide 90% of his profits. At that point, you can tax Bob 50% and Jane 0%, it doesn't matter because Bob's shoe store is by far a net tax consumer and Jane's store is likely a net tax provider. Then Bob gets half of Jane's product line banned for arbitrary reasons. You can tax bob 75% and Jane 0%, it doesn't matter because Jane's business has a huge hurdle Bob's doesn't. Then make it so Bob can borrow billions of dollars basically for free and Jane needs to get normal loans. You can tax Bob 95% and Jane 0%, it doesn't matter because Bob is so far ahead Jane can never succeed.
Stuff like the above happens every day, and no political ideology has a monopoly on supporting them.
Even if I disagree with them, the more people (and the more people who have big audiences) who join the fediverse, the better.
Fedi is freedom, and freedom is awesome. People I don't like should be here as well as people I like, and we should all be doing our little part to make this free and open source platform the top tier choice it has every reason to be.
The big question is whether the big names are going to be able to deal with a decentralized platform they can't control using their hollywood clout.
Fedi is freedom, and freedom is awesome. People I don't like should be here as well as people I like, and we should all be doing our little part to make this free and open source platform the top tier choice it has every reason to be.
The big question is whether the big names are going to be able to deal with a decentralized platform they can't control using their hollywood clout.
Fediverse Uber Alles!!!
But people who can't handle freedom should head back to Facebook to live in their VR pod discussing whatever the federal government has deemed it acceptable to talk about this week.
But people who can't handle freedom should head back to Facebook to live in their VR pod discussing whatever the federal government has deemed it acceptable to talk about this week.
The fediverse is non-algorithmic. This means it becomes what you make it.
Early on I found I ended up unfollowing some people I otherwise wouldn't have minded following because they posted like 400 times a day and my timeline was entirely filled with their posts.
Early on I found I ended up unfollowing some people I otherwise wouldn't have minded following because they posted like 400 times a day and my timeline was entirely filled with their posts.
LineageOS is 11/10. The fact that phone manufacturers make it so hard to switch is a tragedy.
I love getting reported, because it's like "Oh! Shit! Ya got me! I'll go downstairs and unplug the servers!"
I believe both facebook chat and google chat started as xmpp compatible before they got their stuff working the way they wanted and shut down the original. Microsoft isn't the only one with an embrace, extend, extinguish strategy.
Not related to the quite interesting scene, this film, one of the earliest films made, won't enter the public domain until 2047.
I can't begin to express how disgusting that is. Every single person involved with the creation of this movie is certainly dead of old age. Their kids are probably dead of old age. Their grandkids are starting to die of old age. And by the time 2047 rolls around, their great grandkids would be largely dead of old age.
Four generations, each given the full power of the government to protect a work they have increasingly less claim to. How many of us even know what our great grandfather did for a living, let alone think we have a claim to the fruits of that labor?
I modified the legal page of The Graysonian Ethic to release the copyright to the public domain 15 years after first print, as it really ought to be. If I can't make back the money and time I spent on the book by then, it just wasn't meant to be.
I can't begin to express how disgusting that is. Every single person involved with the creation of this movie is certainly dead of old age. Their kids are probably dead of old age. Their grandkids are starting to die of old age. And by the time 2047 rolls around, their great grandkids would be largely dead of old age.
Four generations, each given the full power of the government to protect a work they have increasingly less claim to. How many of us even know what our great grandfather did for a living, let alone think we have a claim to the fruits of that labor?
I modified the legal page of The Graysonian Ethic to release the copyright to the public domain 15 years after first print, as it really ought to be. If I can't make back the money and time I spent on the book by then, it just wasn't meant to be.
If anyone wants to continue to pretend that senator Warren cares in the least of both common man, just remember her chewing a strip off of fed chairman Powell for having the audacity to try to tackle inflation.
Inflation doesn't matter when you're rich already, your assets just keep on going up. Inflation matters an awful lot when you earn a wage, because every day the value of your dollars are shrinking just a little bit more. Senator Karen is rich already and uses the working class as a human shield.
Inflation doesn't matter when you're rich already, your assets just keep on going up. Inflation matters an awful lot when you earn a wage, because every day the value of your dollars are shrinking just a little bit more. Senator Karen is rich already and uses the working class as a human shield.
One thing that I'm starting to realize is a lot of the things that were criticized earlier turned out to be true. Instant gratification is in fact bad, and it turns out sitting with a screen one inch from your eyes all day everyday actually does wreck your eyes. Asian Urban centers have massive problems with nearsightedness.
I've spoken and written about that at length.
Great, they're really good at Facebook and YouTube. That does not make them good at technology. The moment you get off of the 15 buttons they know how to use they often become more useless than the boomers.
They once tested dogs and wolves for intelligence. They found that both were roughly the same intelligence, but a wolf will stick to a problem because they are all they've got, while a dog will give up and look to his master to solve the problem because they're fundamentally built for subservience. Something worth thinking about in general.
Great, they're really good at Facebook and YouTube. That does not make them good at technology. The moment you get off of the 15 buttons they know how to use they often become more useless than the boomers.
They once tested dogs and wolves for intelligence. They found that both were roughly the same intelligence, but a wolf will stick to a problem because they are all they've got, while a dog will give up and look to his master to solve the problem because they're fundamentally built for subservience. Something worth thinking about in general.
Having had covid after I was vaccinated... That was not worth shutting down planet earth over.
The fact it's not that dangerous is almost worse. It's like a reverse skinner box and the rats are constantly pushing the button convinced it's doing something...
The fact it's not that dangerous is almost worse. It's like a reverse skinner box and the rats are constantly pushing the button convinced it's doing something...