I don’t want a living wage

I want a fucking thriving wage.

How the fuck are the upcoming generations supposed to afford to pay for housing, food, and essentials when half of their paycheck (or more?!) is going directly to health insurance?

That’s the cool thing! They aren’t!

Republicans want health care tied to employment so that you are forced to choose between your job and your life.

If you want a slightly based view on how this system got developed, the Acquired episode on Epic is a great listen.

The US system of healthcare was invented around the same time as the UK’s and we got a choice on how to handle it.

TL;DL: there was a salary cap on many jobs due to WW2 and companies offered health insurance as a way to make their jobs more attractive. Back then most people didn’t have health insurance nor was it needed so this was considered a fringe benefit. Labor unions, frustrated by the lack of political movement on salary cap, fully supported private health insurance.

I’ve been a developer for decades. I’ve contributed to FOSS code and do a lot of my own development.

I just want a desktop that works. No fuss.

Yes I could compile my own x11 (and have) but I would rather spend my time doing my own shit than trying to stand up a new VM for some edge issue I’m having.

Just…just give me a UI I can use.

It’s why I use Ubuntu.

How is that top shelf secured? Do you have it screwed into the bench or to the wall or both?

I feel like you’re just here to piss into the wind.

Do you hear people screaming to disable the extension frame work or devtools?

No?

If you don’t want those features you can compile your own version of Firefox and remove them.

But lots of people are anti-AI. And there are people willing to provide a browser that keeps it out.

If you want it, have at it. But don’t piss on people just because they don’t.

Maybe you’re thinking of this?

The compromise is to do cash that’s earmarked for something. My family will give me an envelope and say “this is for bitcoins” or “reddit gold”. And then I tell them “okay…” And then just buy whatever I want.

The last time this was discussed, my understanding is that Article 5 of NATO would activate, with the US being the aggressor.

Whether the rest of NATO would actually attack US forces would be the question.

I think people like rationalizing their behaviors so that they don’t seem weird. When really they are just being themselves.

Behaviors become mental illnesses when they start to affect other parts of your life. Organizing your books by color is unusual and quirky, but not a mental illness.

If you can’t leave a library because you have to organize their books by color, then it’s a mental illness.

Democracy is very fickle, especially since all it takes for democracy to fail is a minority of people to allow fascism to take hold.

Trump’s lack of ability to control the US doesn’t mean he can’t bring instability to the EU. Quite the opposite. If he can bring doubt into the coalition, then it will become easier for him to get what he wants, which is a smaller voting bloc.

knows his name will be known for so very many bad things

He absolutely does not.

He literally thinks he’s perfect and that his shit doesn’t stink. He is a narcissist.

That’s why he wants his name on a fucking battleship because it’s “strong” like him.

Stupid question from someone who doesn’t know fuck all about this guy: why did he even enter the ring? Like why did the guy, who clearly is outmatched, even consider being matched with the other boxer?

Racist people often support other racists.

Iirc correctly, Amazon actually doesn’t resell their returns. At least not through their storefront.

They have “return auctions” where returns are put onto a pallet and then people bid on them to purchase. Apparently this is cheaper than having a workflow for their returns, checking them to make sure they are resellable, and then stocking them back into their warehouse.

They just need to say they are using the archive for AI training data. Then it’s legal.

Jfc…

STOP GOING TO REDDIT!

it’s been 2+ years since they proved they don’t give a flying fuck about it’s users. If you are getting banned now, you’re only complaining because it now affects you.

It was the exact same. the math of this is that verizon makes enough money on the contract that they can pay for a phone within your 3 year contract.

Our education system values rote memorization over actually learning something. So instead of teaching you how to use the periodic table, they teach you “The element of Hydrogen has an atomic mass of 1” etc.

A few teachers who actually give a fuck will do both, but they are required to teach the test for funding. Because that’s how they are graded.

When I left my company, I had to get a new phone. When I talked to the rep, the phone cost was essentially free with a contract.

The offer was that Verizon would pay for the phone over the course of three years.

So it’s not financing so much as it was free with a contract. When I asked why this was, he said that it was due to how the market was. Everyone has a phone at this point so now cell service provides have to compete to keep people. So they are willing to pay for your phone so long as you are locked in with them.

I’m sorry, but it’s not going to be. Mozilla set the stage of this when they changed from FOSS to source available.

I made this prediction right when this was announced.