Wow. Even the US doesn't have it this bad.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
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What on earth is your instance name?
Good question!
I essentially self-host my own pyfedi instance ( pyfedi is to piefed.social as lemmy is to aussie.zone ) - and thanks to srv.us I do it for free! (Well, I have my own internet connection that's subsidized and run the software on an old spare laptop at home, so still free overall, but srv.us just provides the permanent domain name.)
Alas, the price of not paying for a persistent and unchanging domain name is not being able to choose the domain name.
Interesting. I very briefly ran a test Lemmy instance off a raspberry pi I had laying around, but shut it down because I was worried about having an open port on my network and exposing my IP to the world. Then I tried to run an actual Lemmy instance on a proper VPS and ironically had more issues with that than running it at home!
Actually we do. Disabled people that work at Goodwill get paid less then the minimum wage here and it's legal.
Ooof. How much less do they make? Is it worse than AUD $6/hr ?
Yes like 2.50 to 3 dollars.
Yes we do...
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/subminimumwage
There was an article I read where some dude was getting paid $1.25. I have no idea why they even go to work.
Ouch! Yep, I stand corrected.
Incidentally, might this be the article that you read?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/08/30/subminimum-wage-disabled-workers/
Yeah that's the one!
The disability pension needs to be raised.