If you’re worried about misinformation, the most dangerous places are main stream media and a bad algorithmic selection on youtube or other “endless scroll” websites.

And the main stream media thing not because it’s obvious nonsense, because they having specific wording and focus you don’t really see until you look for it, so it looks balanced and fine and high quality, but you only get a good sense of what’s going on by reading from multiple international sources, even bad ones and noticing the differences in focus and tone and thinking about it.

If you have a source or person you trust implicitly, be sure to check them in depth from time to time. How they report on different topics and such. E.g. is it always pro or contra something.

https://xkcd.com/1987/

Once again a nightmare of someone’s own making. The python steering council didn’t sit down and dictate that people must use all different distribution methods (in your case gcc) mixed and at once.

A new report

BY THE AI COMPANY “WRITER”

and research firm Workplace Intelligent found a massive portion of workers across the US, UK, and Europe are intentionally trying to sabotage their bosses’ AI initiatives.

Please don’t spread obviously doctored “reports”.

Government is excluded from meeting GDPR requirements. ☺️

Money isn’t going to solve the burnout problem

In my opinion, the biggest source of burnout is actually our dayjobs.

Respectfully and meant humorously, WTF are you talking about then.

Yes money can solve it. It can solve FOSS devs needing a day job, it can solve not having enough people to do deal with FOSS related nonsense.

I’m really annoyed when people say that and somehow have “shame” when it comes to demanding, let’s say, $50 million from FANG to maintain their project. Just ask. And then because of that shame, they think “asking for money” is asking a few fellow FOSS enjoyers for $1-5 a month and then that amounts to like $3.50 and then yeah of course that won’t solve any problems.

Since it wasn’t mentioned before, I’ll write a bit about credit, debt and inflation.

Is that why Euro was created?

Soooo, you may have heard that in the really olden days, currency was backed by valuable metals. Up to the end of Brendan Woods, you could take a US dollar and go to some exchange place and demand and receive a US dollar’s worth of gold.

That was a problem.

If anyone, even nations, needed a bunch of money very quickly, they couldn’t get it easily, because they would need to either give something of equal value, or take on credit, which people wouldn’t give them, because they were already in a financially bad place.

So that “backing” (with gold) was removed. Currency now solely rests on a general “trust” in the country and the economy. And so when things got tight in the Weimarer republic, they just printed money and that’s how we got the word “hyperinflation” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic . The situation was solved by resetting the currency. Besides the trouble of the actual printing, it’s a huge mess because everything has to be reevaluated, prices are weird and wonky, making people less interested to trade (and pay people in the country for their goods and services).

Buuuuuut, if it’s done carefully, a little bit of inflation can actually be good for a domestic economy: Since old debt is just a number, if the value of the currency gets lessened, that old debt is easier to pay back. Improved exchange rates make goods and services from that country cheaper and more competitive and ideally that can promote international trade.

The Euro removes both.

It does that by sort of, kind of coupling economies and using trust in some parts of the European economy to serve as back for the rest that is struggling.

Which means when greece had a debt crisis (in 2010 or so), they couldn’t just debase their currency and call it done, it was a huge international problem.

It’s the reason why countries that are rather on the “let’s take on more debt, lol” side of economic planning, often back plans for “euro bonds” that create shared responsibility between european nations for the debt any nation takes on.

In practice, the biggest reason is probably still that trading and managing international companies become a lot easier if things don’t have to be converted all the time.

Nothing would change. It should be obvious that Trump isn’t the one making the decisions and neither would be JD Vance.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if there was little attention being given to a funeral. Just as a show of power of how disposable the figure heads are.

They could go the way of a leadership cult they have in north korea, where btw, the title of kim il sung is still technically, officially head of state, even though he’s dead. They simply invented a new position and keep him as eternal big leader. + something with christian nationalism, like “trump is watching over you guys from heaven”.

Maybe I’m too pessimistic too, we’ll see if “they” will allow the mid term elections to take place or how that will go down.

I would be totally fine with it.

The problem is that it is factually worth a lot of money. Saving a life, either through an organ or by blood donations because they’re needed for surgery, is nearly impossible to evaluate.

And lots of people need stuff that isn’t blood or organs. If I need a car, or place to live and someone in society dies and has a car or a place to live and that’s not being given to me, but instead it’s turned into cash and assets.

That’s asymmetric.

Now I’m not saying I’m entitled that society should just give me everything I want. So I wouldn’t call it “unfair”.

But on the other hand, giving away organs and blood, completely for free, is a bit much.

That’s why I’m against it.

THAT is what happened?! Wow, that is hilarious!

The legal battle is ongoing, but Kim looks set to lose.

I am SO curious what will happen here and what the final verdict will be. Trying to cheat someone out of 250 million has to result in some enormous fine at least right?

webstores.

I can’t use it on amazon, or to buy a plane or train ticket. Can’t use it to pay for a pizza I order online, or a movie ticket, or a digital download movie or song or album.

I also don’t use cards or phone payment IRL if I can avoid it. But particularly online, where I HAVE to use VISA or paypal, they’re also not supporting those either.

I mean, I’m mostly meme’ing, I will never touch it. I think it’s hilarious that they do all that marketing and it’s simply not functional yet.

I do sincerely wish you good luck and that it works for you though.

If only you could… you know… use it to pay for stuff? In stores? Wild concept, I know.

Wow that’s crazy. Software problem. Nothing you can do about that I guess. It is what it is. Could happen to anyone, really. Those who have never murdered a school full of children can throw the first stone and such.

Sure would be neat, but it always comes down to funding.

Ads? No thanks, I’m here bcause the fediverse is not doing that.

… and content.

Can you be super fast and exclusive and sell that? not really, all the super fast stuff is delivered by random people who witness things, or press releases that are piped directly into the feed anyway.

Can you be super high quality and sell that? That’s just a regular website and people haven’t believed in “it’s a website, it’ll make money for sure”, since 1999

Thirteen years ago, this small youtube channel made imo very high quality meta comments about literary stuff and video games on youtube. (starting with the mass effect 3 ending and why it’s bad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MlatxLP-xs&t=67s&pp=ygURVFVOIG1hc3MgZWZmZWN0IDM%3D

Everything from low quality text, to selection of music, footage and the literary content is just… so good. And they’re a comfortable 10-20 minutes each.

But I am also not sure if after he did what he did, there is really that much to say. The important part of that work is mental work and writing, and it will take forever to make even a single video.

openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots.

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See, from my point of view, the problem is that the website is up, not that it was brought down?

ok.

Well I for one am shocked that the companies aren’t immediately informed of every secret plan that governments come up with? How dare governments do that?!? Don’t they know who those CEOs are?!!!