Just a reminder that if you’re using ai to write your book, your book has less worth than your last dump.

Get him. Crush the fool.

I love Mastadon. :D

Sorry, but your healthcare is in another castle.

Would this be an appropriate place for shocked pikachu?

They kneecapped Linux in the early days because they were afraid of what people accepting FOSS as a standard would do to their profits.

If you believe it and keep using Unity for new projects, you’re kind of a sucker.

10:1 wage ratio should be the law. Less if possible.

Too early to say. Crazy has been modestly rebuked and it’s only making them more crazy. Even if main crazy is punished, we might see fringe crazy respond in a variety of obviously undesirable ways. If they do, then normal crazy might step back out of a desire not to be seen as associating with fringe crazy, but that doesn’t mean that crazy will have passed. Crazy will just change tactics and lightly rebrand to new crazy.

The only way to end crazy is to thwart crazy’s plans at every turn and make crazy nonviable as a means for gaining power.

I want to try it but I don’t know how to go about getting it.

Unless employee owned companies become the norm and CEO driven companies are seen as outdated relic of feudalism.

Having done cleaning in offices such as these for at least one of the top companies in the world, I fail to see why even this sort of office is all that compelling. Look, a miniature golf statue…

In a hose, on a rose, up your nose. Everywhere where life can be is where life goes.

Somewhere out there is a conservative going “they worked hard for what they have and shouldn’t be punished for their success.”

I remember well. It was the ultimate gut punch and marked the turn from a more optimistic and innocent time to the cynical reality we’re still living in. The 90’s were by far not perfect, but for many it was a dream compared to life since 2001.

That makes sense. Thanks!

I respect older people, but at this age you really have no business being in high levels of government. Go retire and enjoy your life. If you want to, be an advisor to more junior members of congress. This wraithing is absurd.

It’s not complicated. Have what is sufficient for your actual needs and the rest is by definition excessive. Do you need two cars? Then have two cars. Do you need a boat? Then have a boat. Being legalistic and literal about it is not the point. However, many people justify every excess under the vague umbrella of “I worked hard for that!” Meanwhile, the many people suffering in this world work harder still merely to survive and they receive no such comforts, because economic myths about bootstraps and hard work are not reality.

Drives a car that costs more than say…$40,000.

And to elaborate, it’s because this suggests that a person has more than enough resources for their own needs and comfort, and yet in a world of so much suffering they prioritize yet greater comfort for themselves. I’m not religious, but am firmly in the Saint Basil camp that the extra cloak (or resources more generally) belongs to those who lack them.

Excess is apathy to real suffering.

Law and order? Can’t afford’er!