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   Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Aug-2025 09:11:37 JST Shoq

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   notice this new tax. Why? Because they spend proportionally less on essentials, and far more on investments or luxuries untouched by tariffs. Their wealth insulates them from feeling any pain, while higher prices crush everyone else.

   So forget the hype. Tariffs are just a back-door tax shift, punishing those with the least cushion while insulating those with the most. A reverse-Robin Hood scheme wrapped in patriotic branding, being aggressively peddled by conservative politicians, …

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   Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 08:41:13 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

   The get-a-working-dishwasher-because-I-fucking-hate-washing-dishes project has snowballed into maybe-we-have-to-redo-the-entire-back-sink-plumbing-that-freezes-every-winter.

   The funny part is that my partner and I found a perfect sink at the Restore! And then burned out as we realized how little we know about plumbing and how many youtube videos we're going to need to watch to learn, and didn't get anything else.

   So, it's not everything-but-the-kitchen-sink, it's only-the-kitchen-sink. Sigh.

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 03:37:11 JST Paul Cantrell

   @griotspeak @cocoaphony
   I’d venture that the defining features of “the cloud” are that the machine(s) involved (1) provide some service remotely and (2) are managed by somebody else.

   So in that scenario where you’re hosting mail for yourself: not the cloud. In the scenario where you’re hosting mail for a dozen friends: it’s the cloud for them but not for you.

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   Peter van Dijk (habbie@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 20:32:10 JST Peter van Dijk

   Dear app developers, I know it is possible to not log people out on app upgrades. I also fully understand that it is effort that your manager wants you to spend somewhere else.

   So please remind your manager that people do not like it when they lose access to their train tickets while in another country. Thank you.

   (This week's offender is Eurostar, and of course I have PDFs and paper prints.)

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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 15:28:59 JST Jacek Wesołowski

   A friend is writing a business plan for an assignment in her business school. The plan has some formal requirements, e.g. you need a logo for your planned company.

   The friend prompted some "AI" for the logo and had it done in an instant, so now she's super happy she didn't have to spent a whole day on a placeholder.

   The logo she got is the most generic you could imagine. Good for a placeholder, and not much else.

   So that's a valid use case for AI. Placeholders.

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   Deniz Opal (selzero@syzito.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 17:08:30 JST Deniz Opal

   Expensive education is just a way to let the feudalists, I mean, capitalists, keep the means of production "in the family"

   The other side to this equation is that society must accept that, while all markets are based on the consent of demand and supply, quality of supply in labour is measured instead with this education above everything else.

   So it is common for a know nothing Havard graduate to walk into a 6 figure job.

   @androcat https://toot.cat/@androcat/112404465580925328