I had dinner a few weeks ago with a CEO who makes millions per year. The restaurant itself was exorbitantly expensive by my standards, he kept the $100+ cocktails coming to everyone at the table, and he casually dropped the price of something he bought on a lark ($60K). He seemed extremely relaxed, like everything in life was for him and was going his way. It was fairly intimidating. But he was a good listener, too.
Twice a year, because making a single shot vaccine won’t give you repeat customers.
flying duck by cherryfilter. I know only enough Korean to pick out a few words here and there, but have never bothered to look it up.
I voted R exactly once in a local race. In the previous election during the Tea Party wave, an utter nutcase ousted the usual Republican for the party nomination for county judge. The guy was a menace, the worst, and was openly corrupt. In the next primary, the usual Republican won the primary, but the nutcase decided to run as an independent. I voted for the R once and only once, to keep the nutcase from getting a second term.
Increasingly across many markets, companies are not targeting average or median consumers. They’re only chasing whales, the people who can pay the premium. They’ve decided that more mid tier customers aren’t worth it – just chase the top. It also means a lower need for customer support.
Besides a media server, I self host my email, a blog, an IRC bouncer, syncthing, SPFToolbox, and in my house I run ADS-B plane tracking.
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There’s your answer: they’re all primarily Facebook users only. Facebook is mostly AI garbage, besides private groups.
My aunt does. It’s so she can squint less at the phone screen, and have bigger buttons on the touchscreen. She’s not old, and she wears contacts, but she likes the extra screen real estate.
This is open extortion using the power of the executive branch. Literally providing free services in order to not be targeted by an elected leader? Yikes.
I’ve been running a Mastodon server since 2017. I’ve been aware of Lemmy and Kbin, but was waiting until it was clear which platform was going to have more community. I’ve been disillusioned with Reddit for some years.
I think it would at least return us to how it was before Citizens United, with some amount of constraint on political donations. But I think more is needed to reach the intended effect.
A continuing resolution is full on fraud at this point. Trump has been halting programs authorized by law and funded by these CRs, meaning this CR is giving him money for programs that no longer exist. It’s a setup for more Trump misappropriation.
Until Republicans hold him to account for violating the law, Democrats shouldn’t allow any funding to go through.
Term limits are an antidemocratic solution to an antidemocratic problem - the problem isn’t incumbent people, which the voters select, it’s incumbent corporate interests, which the voters don’t select.
Term limits for the legislature would create a revolving door of corporate shills. It takes a couple terms for a legislator to become skilled at the process and learn to make progress on their agenda - and to build a backbone to their donors.
Ultimately, everything people think would be solved by term limits would actually be solved by eliminating money from politics. We need to greatly diminish the incumbency advantage, which is fueled by money in politics, to give us legislators who have to be accountable to the voters instead of donors.
I’m generally pretty happy with LazyLibrarian. I know people get really excited about the *arr stack, but Readarr never worked well for ebooks. It was maybe a little better at finding audiobooks, but LL is getting better at that.