👍Maximum Derek👍

I like that they’ve read the memo about fediverse projects being named after animals, but firefish doesn’t fit. They should have gone with Coelacanth or something like that… but easier to spell.

Just a few steps from “My secret police will now ‘explain’ to you just how not fascist I am.”

it deletes it from my phone to clear space, keeping only the cloud backup

One copy of of anything isn’t a backup, it’s a move. Yes, in this case, Google is doing its own backups but you’re giving them all the trust and control.

I’ve always enjoyed the cover flow of trackers that the duckduckgo extension shows

But I learned Perl in the 00’s and I don’t want those neurons to go to waste!

They’ve been using cluster bombs since the first day of the war. He might as well have said they’ll invade Ukraine “if they have to.”

Its a cyclic calandar and the last major cycle ended. If there were still ancient Mayans maintaining the calendar they would have calculated another major cycle.

I’m sure this won’t have any chilling effects amongst the researchers who keep us all safe.

Edit to add that Johnson & Johnson is/was also trying to use patent loopholes to make sure poor people die from tuberculosis; until the internet got mad.

Sometime I think the Mayan calendar people were right. The world ended in 2012, it’s just a slower process than John Cusack movies would lead us to believe.

And now the change had the inertia. There’s no stopping it now.

Most of my machines, including my daily driver, run Linux. I’ve got one old windows laptop that I use (via NoMachine) to run Fusion360 on. And we have a 5+ year old Surface Pro that my wife uses for Dice Maker (a windows only program).

Neither of my old Windows boxes will run 11, so they won’t run 12 either. And I’m oh so broken up about it.

There are relatively few steps that would go a long way toward stopping the accumulation of obscene amounts of wealth.

• Make tax rates similar to what we had in the 50s (conservatives love the 50s), with the brackets adjusted for inflation.
• Make all types of income tax at those rates.
• Eliminate taxable income caps including social security withholding.
• Make inheritance and gift taxes equivalent.
• End Citizens United through congressional action.
• Use that tax money on social programs, small business development programs, and infrastructure.

If you want to really jump start things we should also make all campaigns publicly funded.

YSK, Social Security is predicted to become insolvent in 2034.

The classic way I know of is a large black coffee and a bran muffin. If you can manage to get stuck in traffic about an hour after you eat, it increases the odds of it working.