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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 04:59:47 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @aiono @rootfake @MikeDunnAuthor

   Absolutely, the underlying problem of having low-skill individuals whose skills are not marketable to sustain a living wage is a real problem. We know minimum wage makes this problem worse, so we can of course easily argue to abolish it, but while that wont make the problem worse, it also wont fix it.

   As I stated elsewhere to truly address the problem then abolishing minimum wage is only the first step. The next step is to ensure people have access to high quality welfare programs that 1) keep them fed and healthy in the interim, and 2) provide good training programs to ensure their skill sets are marketable so they can make a living wage.

   You cant start fixing a problem until you stop doing the things that contribute to the problem, so we cant really fix the problem until we take the minimal first step of abolishing minimum wage, though I absolutely support the fact that it isnt the only step that needs to be taken.

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   European Commission (eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 16:11:09 JST European Commission

   It takes an ambitious budget to build a Union.

   We are preparing the next long-term budget starting in 2028.

   It will cover:

   🌍 EU-funded projects
   🤝 Humanitarian aid operations
   💡 Research and innovation grants
   🚜 Farmers' support
   📚 Erasmus+ exchanges
   ... and more.

   We'd like to hear your views on how to shape it.

   As new challenges and expectations emerge, we must work to make the European Union fit for the future.

   Have your say 👉 https://europa.eu/!hxFQDq

   #EU

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   beard :meru_dab: ひげ (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:38:42 JST beard :meru_dab: ひげ

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   @LukeAlmighty @alyx I've been saying this about $80 Mario Kart too. Games are not $60, they just seem like they are. Everybody has spent more than $60 on a game before. Fuck, look at all the popular MMOs. You pay for the game and all the expansions and a monthly subscription. It's well over $100 to play FFXIV for a year at the most basic level but nobody complains about it because it's good. They feel like that it a justified price. OSRS is $100 a year minimum. So if GTA 6 comes out and it's $100 but you get hundreds of hours out of it and it's this massive blockbuster title, is that not worth it? I would so much rather pay $80 for Mario Kart World than $60 for the majority of other AAA games out there. And that's exactly what I've done for a long time lol, in the past decade the only full price AAA games I've purchased are Nintendo ones. If you don't count the ratchet and clank or FF16 pc releases at least, but those came in at $50 instead so it kind of just half counts. Meanwhile, I bought breath of the wild, tears of the kingdom ($70!), smash ultimate, Mario kart 8 deluxe, animal crossing new horizons, and Kirby and the forgotten land on switch. Those games were all worth the money to me, with the exception of maybe AC because I kind of got fucked when my Nintendo account got hacked but that's a different story.

   Anyway, point is, yeah... People are already buying games over $60 even if they don't realize it but they do so because they think it is worth their money to spend more on it. If that's the case, then there's nothing wrong with a game coming out of the gate providing that value up front and center and wanting to charge more for it.

   As for the rest of the industry, they're already struggling to sell games at $60 and $70. Hell, cheaper than that for some of them. There are plenty of FREE live service games that are getting completely destroyed. It's really not about the price. If they think raising their prices to the same level as Nintendo or Rockstar, potentially the two highest quality studios, they are going to be in for a rough time.

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   Pepijn (pepijn@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 05:46:20 JST Pepijn

   "a Tesla Cybertruck is hurtling down a Hyperloop towards four people; Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and J.D. Vance.

   You are on a bridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by putting something very heavy in front of it.

   As it happens, there is Donald Trump next to you – your only way to stop the dumb thing is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save four.

   Should you proceed?"

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 06:33:16 JST Paul Cantrell

   The US government is taking an ax to the trunk of the tree that is the rule of law, and this particular judge is not having one millisecond of it.

   As has been the case for the past nearly 2 months, the question is now whether the words of a judge still have any power at all.

   From @GottaLaff:
   https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114179894736006679

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   Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴 (midtsveen@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 06:46:41 JST Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴

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   I think my Denon CEOL RCD-N12DAB is getting overused from playing all those Zoë CDs. I love this thing, though - it's got everything I need in one package: Bluetooth, CD player, DAB, Internet radio... you name it.

   As someone who's into privacy and security, I don't really use the DAB or Internet Radio features. But I love playing CDs and streaming music from Auxio on Android using Bluetooth. It's my go-to setup, and it works perfectly for me.