Notices by Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)

Just your occasional reminder that companies Do. Not. Need. To. Grow.

They can stay small, do good business, and make good profits, and any investors can be secure in the knowledge that their money is safe and that they will be paid out dividends every year.

Many really good businesses have failed or become toxic swamps because leadership embraced the "must grow" mindset, and started gambling.

1. No, please don't remove "unnecessary" words. They serve a purpose, and provide an error-protection duty. They confirm meaning, and if bits of a sentence get garbled during transmission, those might protect against failure
2. Humans like flow and some repetition, and also need a few extra words to sync
3. You don't need a fucking app to create sentences

So
Humanoid robots, eh?
This is about people with money wanting to own slaves, right?

@admin

Okay, you find it too hard.

Here is a cheat: Look at what the most vulnerable people are saying, and vote accordingly
- Black women
- Trans women
- People with severe disabilities

If black and trans women give a proposition or candidate a thumbs-up, vote for that
If the wheelchair-bound blind person smiles about something, vote for that.

If we had all voted like black women said in 2016, this would be a better place now

@benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder

For some reason YouTube has decided to show me a ton of shorts that basically involve clips of people living with emetophobia or other psychogenic reaction being "pranked" by people pretending to retch or using props that make retching sounds ... and I am here to tell you that this is straight-up abuse.

Deliberately triggering any phobia in another person isn't humor, it is bullying and abuse

Who remembers Univel?
Novell's attempt at Unix

@thomasfuchs
It is consistent with, but not predictive of.

I track the potential Balkanization of the US as part of futures studies, and this kind of bloc formation around critical issues is one of the milestones.

So, yes, this is one of the milestones, but a milestone doesn't assert that the country *will* break up.

@luckytran

@McD1979

Kinda a dumb no sequitur, My Dude

If you turn out and the election is rigged, you still have a chance
If you turn out and the entire election is cancelled, you made your point
If you turn out and aliens swoop in, blow the planet up after sticking a probe up every cis guys central orifice, then at least you had your moment

If you don't turn out, none of the above makes one bit of difference because you ceded the damn election anyway

@benroyce

"To put it simply: Bitcoin is more secure and powerful than ever."

Good God, what a stupid take.

No, buddy, to put it simply, Bitcoin mining is wasting more energy and creating more pollution than ever

https://cryptoslate.com/the-bitcoin-hashrate-hit-1-zetahash-per-second-how-do-people-still-not-get-it

@LoganFive
GoodReads is an extension of Amazon, and owned and run by the Bezos crew

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon

Wait

In the US, 8% of women undergoing cesarean section procedures experience partial or total anesthetic failure and feel the surgery

The media gushing that a "deal" has been struck with Japan, is annoying.

This isn't a "deal"

Agreeing with a foreign manufacturer on how much you will tax your own population for buying from them isn't any kind of "deal"

Tree beard is alarmed

May it please you to know that the song "Lola" came out in 1970, and "Walk on the Wild Side" in 1972.

Over fifty years later and America is still struggling to accept LGBTQ+ and is, in many ways, regressing.

ICE agents be googling what jobs SS guards could find after the Reich collapsed, because man, this shit looks unstable

And so begins the routine of drugging the dogs, creating sleeping spaces that are cool are dark and insulated from noise, and helping to round up animals that have freaked the fuck out and bolted in a random direction, because some arsehole needs to set off fireworks imported from China and purchased illegally

This is the fifth consecutive month of decreasing Tesla sales in Europe

US agriculture sector facing long-term damage from tariff war

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3315484/us-farmers-face-tough-outlook-china-switches-suppliers-amid-trade-war

@evan
Ok, now I understand your reply. The only thing is that your reply, while well articulated and meaningful, is entirely unrelated to what I said.

I am pointing out a very real and persistent problem that the slightly more than half of the people who voted, and voted for this guy, would have groused all day and every day about Kamala winning, and a good % of those who voted for her would still have complained about this, that, or the other, because they would not have known THIS reality

@evan
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