@babe
What if: chicken eggs .. but color

#Blackrock CEO: quick, make everyone rich, they are starting to question capitalism 🙀🙀
https://fortune.com/2024/03/26/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-boomers-fix-retirement-crisis-millennials-gen-z-economically-anxious/

Going to be asking Chinese people how they circumvent censors to get on facebook
#tiktokban

🥰

@scottsantens
Most right-wingers (deliberately?) confuse UBI with welfare: in many countries you will lose money if you take on a lowpaid job if you are on welfare. Your gross income is roughly the same, but working costs money (childcare, transport, etc).
Those people are stuck in the poverty-trap and make the very rational decision to avoid paid work.

UBI massively cuts down on poverty-trap issues: working a few hours doesn't get you kicked out of welfare.

@smallcircles @hrefna @Yuki
And some of the criticisms are definitely true, such as Dutch unions repeatedly taking the side of their old members over that of (future) young members.

But yeah, also plenty of people who think they don't need a union because they are in a high-demand job and can't imagine that ever changing.

(btw: in the Netherlands union-membership is individual, thus every mid&large-sized company has some union-members and most sectors use collective bargaining agreements)

@GreenSkyOverMe @koteisaev
Ounces and pounds remind me of my childhood.
At our school we had pretty old math-books that used a lot of ounces and pounds, but rounded to metric (ounces are 100 gram, pounds are 500 gram).
Seems that use was pretty common in the early&mid 20th century, as a way of measuring groceries at the market. Which is the only place where I still use it.

@ned
This was pretty much my latest job interview. I couldn't be arsed to even finish it (didn't need the job that hard), so I just told the recruiter it was a bad fit and logged off.

@wjmaggos @finestructure
It would be nice to have a reliable easy-to-use #patreon alternative.
Patreon has been great for years, but they took on way too much VC-money so inevitably they've come under pressure to find ways to squeeze a higher profit out of the creator/patron interaction (when most people using it just want it to be a place that facilitates 'sending $$ every month to a creator I like', and only keeping a small transaction fee for themselves)

@stephaniepixie
Yeah.
So what if poor people make 'the wrong choices'. When rich people make stupid decisions they get to play it of as 'just experimenting'. Having much higher standards for the poor is deeply classist.

@mattblaze @alison
My take on it is that either you choose to trust the system or you don't: if you don't than no amount of re-telling will convince you that Trump lost, if you do than reasonable precautions are enough.