Notices by Omega (omegaprobe@paquita.masto.host)

@luke @goatsarah When poor people do it, it's corruption. When wealthy people do it, it's politics.

@alex_leathard @goatsarah But that's a distinction without a difference.

The point made by OP was that we all pay for that corruption with our taxes, which is exactly true. How many steps you want to put between the expenditure and the tax collection that has to cover it, doesn't matter at all.

Ultimately, we all pay the abuses of the corrupt with our tax money. The specific mechanism only adds interest to the mix.

@pluralistic I have very fond memories of late 90s internet. Going around geocities discovering people's websites was a great source of joy. Sharing the weirdest, funniest, ugliests, most peculiar, and, some times, most interesting, with friends, was a regular "thing to do in the internet". That's all gone. There's no exploring the web, peeking into the creative minds of your peers. It went from unpredictable non-euclidean nD-space to a flat, gray, uniform mush.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/20/ransom-note-force-field/#antilibraries