Bishma

There are relatively few steps that would go a long way toward stopping the accumulation of obscene amounts of wealth.

• Make tax rates similar to what we had in the 50s (conservatives love the 50s), with the brackets adjusted for inflation.
• Make all types of income tax at those rates.
• Eliminate taxable income caps including social security withholding.
• Make inheritance and gift taxes equivalent.
• End Citizens United through congressional action.
• Use that tax money on social programs, small business development programs, and infrastructure.

If you want to really jump start things we should also make all campaigns publicly funded.

I consumed the last 80ish% of The Martian in one barely interrupted (personally irresponsible) session. It hooked me hard and I couldn't put it down. I've had a fondness for novels written serially ever since.

The benefit to finding a Mastodon server with a community that you find interesting is that you get a local feed that is somewhat relevant to your interests. If's far from necessary but it ads one more dimension to surfacing content.

My HS put networked computers in every classroom a couple years before I graduated (so '95 or '96). They put predictable passwords on all the teacher accounts, and all teacher accounts had write access to network shares. Those of us who figured that out stashed copies of the Doom WAD file (the one file too big to fit on a single 3.5" floppy) all over the network under different names. So even after they figured out we were in and started forcing teachers to change their password, there were still a dozen or more copies spread over the network.

Student access was enough to copy the WAD file locally over the 100mbit ethernet if you knew where to look. And we all carried the rest of the game around on floppy. So any time we got access to the computers we were playing doom. We also passed around floppies with different mod files. The chicken launcher was everyone's favorite.

YSK, Social Security is predicted to become insolvent in 2034.

MK3s with an MK4 ordered. My wife also recently got an Anycubic Photon D2

I keep thinking we need a way to become our own personal IDPs, then we can have both. But if too many people find the current state of the fediverse confusing we're never going to get a critical mass of people to manage their own oauth profiles and scopes.

Fellow PopOS user here.

I love the late TNG / Dominion War era, but less for the designs themselves and more for how many different ship types we see from all over the Alpha and Delta quadrants.

I'd like to think it was intentional, but if that were the case I think it would be "Cafè Coffè"

There are servers that do this. You get a whole bunch of mostly terrible content (with not votes to rise good stuff to the top) and no way to interact with the original poster or commenters. It's not great.

It's less of a defense and more of a stick to shove in our spokes. We can get bled to death by simple user inertia, it happens all the time. We can see it happening right here in the Fediverse as we speak, where the majority of active users just think of beehaw as "that weird server where people won't see my replies."

Threads is an aircraft carrier at full speed and we're a rowboat being attached to its side whether we like it or not. If we just cut ourselves loose we will be crushed in their wake.