I knew I forgot something:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/business/jaguar-new-logo/index.html

The “unexpected” mixing of upper and lower case looks more like a shit explanation of wanting all the letters to be curvy, but the same size.

Bob Barker only died a year ago. I thought for a long time he had gone in, like, 2010 or so.

Born and raised in WW and I thought I had heard them all…

That graph plots gross pay (x-axis) against take-home cash (y-axis). The far left of the graph (in green) shows people making under 20k taking home more than their “earned” pay. At the extreme bottom is somebody making 1,000/year taking home 10,000. The progressive income tax starts at 20,000.

Not labeling the axises does make it hard to read.

The US doesn’t technically have a negative tax, but the EITC accomplishes the same basic thing. Whether it’s efficient enough, or needs expansion is another story.

tldr; the town of 2,000 residents had six officers, who all quit when their gravy train got cut off. The state police then chased the guy head-on into a semi truck “for his own protection.”

Full Self Publishing is only two years away, just like it has been for eight years.

Answers here:

https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-great-bluesky-migration-i-answer-some-of-your-questions/

Specifically starting with this section:

Bluesky is fun, but won’t it inevitably be ruined by horrible billionaires like the other social media websites I’ve used over the last 15 years?

It’s me, ur colleague.

Reddit content is posted by bots and/or upvoted by related bot farms. No human general morality is involved in what gets popular.

Shit

Or, you know, decided not to judge the entire human experience by the actions of a handful of individuals.

What Musk did is roughly the Reddit-equivalent of reinstating t_d and auto-subscribing everybody.

If that happened, yeah, folks would leave in rather large numbers.

It’s funny because when he gets that curious/inquisitive look, we say he’s got his mouse face on.

From one of my favorite college professors: apparently in the Chevy Chase days of Saturday Night Live he would do the Weekend Update and had a recurring bit that went like this.

And now it’s time for the basketball scores. 98-82; 102-99; 95-76.

That’s data. Without context there’s no useful information.

Ha, we did this for one cat and now every time any show comes on with even the smallest bird chirp, she runs to the TV and waits for it to come back.

Nuclear block plus a culture of not feeding the trolls means the only toxic accounts I’ve run across are just a day or two old. Block and move on. The experience can only be as negative as each user lets it be.

He has time to finally go back and get another diploma. He can graduate high school again, right?

One’s “own best interest” can take a lot of different forms. Especially when the number and variety of plausible candidates are finite. Your preferred candidate for a given office will rarely line up perfectly with your own values. There’s a compromise there.

If I vote for my own finances, it may come at the cost of my morals. It I vote for my own moral interest, it may cost me more. If I vote for my own power, it may cost someone else their freedoms. How heavily do I weight my own interests against those of a wider society? Political identities and philosophies are complicated, and can’t necessarily be reduced to a single binary choice that is “best” in every scenario.