I am shocked, shocked, I say!

This.

For some bizarre reason, Americans are defined via international treaty as “not refugees”. Nothing the US government does to its citizens is allowed to be considered inhumane, oppressive, or persecution.

Quick Time Events; characters that automatically do 60 things just by holding down “forward” on the joystick; the Ubisoft logo.

The Internet is populated by people who think English grammar is cosmic law, so it doesn’t surprise me that they think you should bend over for dogshit urban planning.

Ironically, none of them follow the rule of shutting up if they don’t know shit about shit.

Green spaces: Just for viewing.

What kind of dystopian hellscape do you want the world to be, exactly?

Sure. Neoliberalism won. Anyone not a part of the privaate equity class lost.

As someone who isn’t part of the private equity class, I ain’t fucking celebrating.

Man, that’s a pretty big management team for something that’s just a bluesky front end.

Except on election day. Where where these people when they could have stopped him?

Gotta keep going. Not all signatures are going to be legit, so a reasonable buffer needs to be in place.

This. The DTS was not a tax on American or foreign digital services, but all of them. Home grown digital services companies were certainly lobbying to get this killed, too.

*devil ray pizza

Sure, but that’s not what’s being discussed. Sanders is saying people deserve a 4 day work week at full pay.

Anyone can negotiate a 4 day work week for a 20% paycut. That’s not worth public figures time to discuss.

Hulkamania running wild on capital markets

What investment? We’ve pumped millions of dollars into these companies to get them to expand their networks to rural communities, and they’ve just shoved it up their ass like a cash enema. They’re definitely not spending their own money on improving services.

The only systems they’re incentivized to improve are the ones that funnel our cash into their pockets.

Speaks more to what I’m seeing in Halifax, too. We’ve been flooded with Teslas in the last couple of years, and it’s not beat up Civics they’re replacing.

“It’s computers, so it doesn’t count for some reason”

NodeBB. It’s a fairly popular webforum, but ActivityPub support is fairly new. It’s really something else to see the Fediverse through a the lens of the old Internet.

Yes, yes, clearly we haven’t given the rich enough power. If only we gave them more, then they’d solve all our problems! Let’s abdicate our responsibility to each other even harder!

That’ll surely fix things this time!

Would you be surprised to learn that business is actually a network of cargo cults, where the thing they’re trying to superficially mimic is other businesses that don’t know why they’re doing what they’re doing?

I work for an online edtech company that saw massive organic growth during lockdowns, and has been chasing that dragon since lockdowns were lifted. They spent millions expanding their workforce at the time, while they severely pared down their school outreach team. They made multiple moves that only made sense if you assume lockdowns would last forever.

I raised this with management a couple of times, and their only response was “everyone else was doing it, too”.

Hey, do I work for you?