softjobs

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by softjobs 13d ago
What type of taxes, state or federal? Because federal taxes do NOT fund federal spending. https://mmt101.substack.com/p/an-explanation-of-why-taxes-do...
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by softjobs 2mo ago
Thank you for posting that, saved me from doing so. Ignorance and stupidity are the greatest threats to human survival - but perhaps it's for the best.
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by softjobs 6mo ago
As pointed out by Rosa Luxemburg, the choices are socialism or barbarism. In the US, barbarism seems to be a far more likely outcome.
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by softjobs 9mo ago
It's called the abscopal effect; see e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8537037/
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by softjobs 1y ago
In Gregory Benford's novel "Timescape" a diatom bloom features as a crucial plot element. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape
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by softjobs 2y ago
You probably mean BitKeeper. BitWarden is a password / secrets manager.
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by softjobs 2y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... perhaps?
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by softjobs 2y ago
https://www.audiothing.net/effects/moon-echo/
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by softjobs 2y ago
Ask Julian Assange or Edward Snowden, to name a couple.
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by softjobs 2y ago
Initially I read that as "Exploiting others"...
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by softjobs 2y ago
Only Stalwart supports JMAP, which imo is the future of mail/calendar/contacts client-server communication. https://jmap.io/
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by softjobs 3y ago
Upvoted for the pun, with the sad caveat that also it feels like a human tragedy unfolding. :-/
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by softjobs 3y ago
"My building is bigger than your building."
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by softjobs 3y ago
Two words: regulatory capture.
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by softjobs 3y ago
The colon sigil denotes a Symbol class literal, and a trailing colon here denotes a Symbol used as a Hash object key.
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by softjobs 3y ago
Ah, the assumption we always need some rent-seeking middleman.
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by softjobs 3y ago
https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/
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by softjobs 3y ago
And not even that. https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2019/10/sim-swap-sc... https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
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by softjobs 3y ago
Which is especially bizarre because of the US being monetary sovereign. #MMT
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by softjobs 3y ago
I wonder if their diet affects this somehow, see for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8990249/ which discusses endocrine disruptors and fertility, among other things. There is much we don&
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by softjobs 3y ago
Does this mean that most young Canadians can certainly financially afford to have kids without going into debt, but for some reason (worried about the future? Lazy? Other priorities?) just aren't interested anymore? So in other words,
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by softjobs 3y ago
The problems with First Past The Post voting explained. https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
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by softjobs 3y ago
Excellent service!
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by softjobs 3y ago
Qualified Immunity needs to go.
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by softjobs 3y ago
Or government-sponsored healthcare. But no #M4A for the proles, because that's SOCIALISM.
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by softjobs 3y ago
I'm talking about https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1976 . I didn't say it would be a silver bullet, but it would be a large improvement over what we have now, and save money in
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by softjobs 3y ago
As Christopher Hitchens would say, "Religion poisons everything." That is why the separation of church and state is vitally important.
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by softjobs 3y ago
I think it's even worse than that: that whole system is benefitting from the situation, so has no incentive to actually do anything meaningful about the problem, just to pretend that they are. It's a variation on the Iron Law of I
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by softjobs 3y ago
Note: (neo)liberal != left. Just because the Democrats are called "the left" (or even "the far left" on Fox News), doesn't mean they are. Look at the policies they support; are they pro-worker, pro-single payer, ant
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by softjobs 3y ago
In part because the corporate media largely ignores non-duopoly parties (btw, note that both the Democrat and Republican Party are private corporations).

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