TheSaneWriter @ TheSaneWriter @lemmy.thesanewriter.com

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Indeed, but no one knows what that number is. Corporations are currently of the mindset of "that will happen in the distant future, so we can keep going." Of course, eventually, that distant future will become the present and things will collapse, but they'll keep saying it's in the future until then.

Pirating people is generally considered immoral.

No problem, I look forward to trying it. Thanks for continuing development, Boost was my favorite Reddit app!

Out of the two parties, only the Democrats have a significant pro-labor presence and support sensible Keynesian economics rather than extreme free-market solutions. In the federal government, both parties have increased the debt at a similar rate, and Democrats do that by spending more on social programs that benefit the American populace vs. the Republicans who do so with tax cuts that only benefit millionaires and billionaires. In what world is the Republican party the party of good economics?

President Joe Biden has genuinely been one of the more pro-labor presidents in American history. While I strongly disagree with how he handled the rail strikes, the policy coming from his NLRB and the way he's been handling the auto strikes I think are a strong indicator of the policy that he stands for. The United States presidency has an extremely poor track record when it comes to working with labor, and I'll take whatever progress I can get.

I'm currently getting an error about missing my TOTP token. Have you implemented 2-factor authentication support?

Mastadon (and the Fediverse in general, to some extent) has problems with discoverability and the average user finds federation confusing. People tend to either use microblogging to see what's going on with people they're interested in or to broadcast their activities to a large group of people, and Mastadon currently doesn't fit that niche very well.

I could potentially program one, a simple TypeScript bot probably wouldn't be too hard. I'll look into it later.

I think this is fine. I understand why rules of formality exist, but it's not like Congress shows decorum in its actions. If they want us to respect it, they should pass good policy that helps people, we care much more about that than whether individual senators wear a suit.

The current community policy seems to be we're responsible for vetting our own sources. I understand that philosophy, though I think a mod comment with materials on reliability.

Indeed. The main thing I miss is the wealth of storytelling content, it felt like Reddit had millions of stories for me to read and Lemmy doesn't have the same breadth of content.

There can absolutely be victims in civil suits. A company isn't a person so it's not like they can go out and mug someone, often the only way to get justice against a company is in civil court.

This smear campaign is clear and obvious defamation. Someone should get in trouble for this, but unfortunately no one will.

It's alright. It could definitely use some more growth, and it's been a bumpy road with it being Beta software and with the federation issues, but I've enjoyed my experience overall.

They were confused why we didn't love their amazing decision. Don't we care about the shareholders?

Yeah, our elections suck. They should be more open and should be ranked choice. Likewise, the Electoral College is complete bullshit. Even still, Xi is a dictator and China is not a democracy. Multiple things can be true.

Most dictators haven't gone by that term, preferring instead some other executive role like chairman, supreme leader, or president. If Xi doesn't want to be called a dictator, maybe China should start holding open elections, see how popular the CCP really is.

That genuinely reads like satire. What an awful corporate model, extracting every penny out of the workers and consumers to force that line to keep going up.

I think the idea behind this is to spend your entire life alternating between periods of work and retirement. It's definitely an idea I could get behind, though society now is not built for it.

For me it's because I don't use it very often, mostly just archiving stuff every few months or so.