Notices by aburtch (aburtch@triangletoot.party)

#SilentSunday

@lain Tea, Coffee, and Coco. That’s what sent me over the edge! 🤣

The folks at NYT games are on strike, so they were kind enough to make alternative games for you to play so you could still get your daily fix: https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/index.html

And now would be a great time to plug @lexgames all build by @lexfri which are so awesome I'm actually paying to subscribe to them: https://lex.games/

@maskedscheduler The irony is that he never wanted to win the first time. There are old 1990’s interviews where he muses about running for president because it makes you “permanently famous” which is what he wanted all along. He never intended to win.

Just look at this photo from election night 2016. This looks like everyone’s in shock.

“The US top rate of tax in 1944 was 97%. The postwar top rate from 1945-63 was 94%, and it was 70% from 1965-80. This was the period of the largest expansion of the US economy in the nation's history. These are the ‘good old days.’”
- @pluralistic

My dog is really bad at this. #DogsofMastodon

@lain I'm interested in learning more. Link? More info?

@maskedscheduler To be fair, when it first came about networks went all-in because it was so much cheaper. None of us on the production side knew the changes it would bring. It's where all the budgets went, so we had to follow.

Remember the lawsuit a while back where landlords were colluding through a third-party algorithm to raise rents across the board in multiple cities?

Well now it’s been discovered in the hotel industry. Prices are up even while occupancy is down.

Just like there is never only one roach, assume this is going on in every industry.

https://youtu.be/xFk8V7mU0Wo?si=yhKhT7ZOVZuFGk9q

This 50 minute Defcon keynote by @pluralistic isn't for the faint of heart. BUT, if you want to know why everything is so screwed up, he lays it all out plain as day.

The bottom line is that regulation disappeared in the 80's and we are now being crushed by unfettered monoplistic capitalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8

It costs 3x more to leave people homeless than to actually provide them housing.

https://shnny.org/research/the-cost-of-long-term-homelessness-in-central-florida/#:~:text=By%20comparison%2C%20the%20report%20finds,68%25%20reduction%20in%20community%20costs

@WarnerCrocker @MyWoolyMastadon How to alienate 63% of Americans in one sentence.

@lain Ah...the good old days.

@mjj @GottaLaff @davidaugust This clip is way more indicative of his incoherent, word-salad, stream of consciousness speaking style than it is of any premeditated plan to become a dictator and end elections. (Not that he wouldn’t do that, just that most of what comes out of his mouth is accidental.)

@maskedscheduler Why is it listed in that category then? Who made that call?

@annaleen I imagine it would be precise. And self-correcting. Always checking to make sure things were in order. A stickler for details and process. It would probably have trouble with concepts outside the contract. Loyal, to a fault and bound to its own strict stipulations. It might be an enforcer, calling out anything outside the lines. And perpetual, concerned about living and aware of any situation that might threaten its existence or signal the end the contract (like out clauses.)

@killyourfm Ah! If everything else is the same (no bugs, or soil changes) I definitely think it's the extreme heat. We've been watering to keep everything alive, BUT most growth has stalled. And it's not just the butternut squash. Tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant are all experiencing the same thing.

The only thing that's growing fine in the heat is the okra.

@killyourfm Where are you? We are having similar issues, researched it, and it’s definitely from the prolonged extreme heat with little to no rain. (We're in Durham, NC)

@GrahamDowns @jfslicer That is indeed possible.

This is a REALLY important article. We're entering the era of algorithmic fraud. FBI raids Cortland Management (corporate real estate management firm, rents out 85,000 units across 13 states) who used RealPage to increase rents nationwide by coordinating landlord pricing decisions and holding apartments off the market.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-fbi-raids-big-corporate

#fraud #monopolies #landlords