i'm a classical social democrat. i think we should raise tax on the upper tax brackets, increase broad-based tax enforcement, and provide universal programs on transit, housing, and healthcare. this apparently is viewed as neoliberalism

Uh oh

Once I worked for a tiny org that tried to keep prices affordable for our (childcare) userbase and pay our CS team a living wage. When my co-worker posted about the realities of what that meant for dev salary, on call, etc, they got told they were enabling underpayment and the biz shouldn’t exist.

One thing this doesn’t touch on is data sovereignty for homeowners. I shouldn’t have to use proprietary cloud services to get credit for adjusting my thermostats.

There’s a straight line between this and all the states seeking to eliminate property taxes (and replace it with nothing I guess?) The result is the same though. Either in inflationary pressure or elimination of services and amenities voters take for granted. www.newsweek.com/florida-prop...

American politics has drifted towards this collective position that the country doesn’t need tax revenue to run. And while I’ve been anti-austerity-mongering my whole adult life having grown up in the wake of the bungled response to the GFC, this stuff makes me feel like a deficit hawk lmao

Now do when people making $184,500 – the cap for 2026 – finish paying into Social Security

You can go into any small business office in the country and find people doing tasks that could be trivially automated, saving time and eliminating data entry errors. There is nowhere near the optimal amount of "small software" in use right now.

System prompt: 20000 tokens Skill definition: 4000 tokens Output style with full explanation of both my fursona and the fursona the agent is supposed to communicate as: 110000 tokens Hooks: 2000 tokens Some who is good at the economy please help me budget this my context window is dying

people really don’t understand how eastern bloc economies worked huh

holy shit

girls will be like RETVRN and you’ll ask “what for” and it’s paving the streets with bricks.

they should absolutely do spec ops on the iranian nuclear sites. it can only good happen.

nevermind it's all gonna be fine www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/j...

$125 by bedtime, $150 by morning

German stock market didn’t make line go down until Stalingrad.

solar noon should be local noon because that’s how time is supposed to work. it’s all quite simple really.

They aren’t just oil prices — it is the foundation of the world’s economy. Here’s how to fix them:

you *will* trans yr gender

having said that if “avoiding a potential draft” is the push you need to start taking exogenous transgender hormones, well, here’s the excuse you’ve been waiting for

me, about to get dumped by stevie nicks:

Wti opens at (Drum roll) $107

Glasgow peeps, how bad is the train station fire?

Oh they might bring back the draft? *laughs in tranny*

ferengi labour law is based on florida btw

I do enjoy that this guy is just weird. not trying to get people to join a cult or political movement. not trying to sell anything. just a really weird guy online. there's a purity to it.

me 🤝 mirror universe Worf "No, the collar stays!"

I forget which one of you linked this interview with Lloyd Axelworthy, but it’s some of the most substantive criticism I’ve read of the Carney government to date #cdnpoli

pic unrelated, can’t figure out how to remove,

weird thing to say to a permanent resident with a volunteer position in municipal government

The professional managerial class, unlike business owners or the most senior managers, is subject to continual oversight and daily accountability, and so has less freedom to detach itself from reality.

Extremely niche benefit of next winter’s time difference between BC and Washington: Cascades #517 to Seattle departs “an hour later” in the morning and you “get an hour back” on the train.

barrel personality disorder

thinking about how BPD expands to both “barrels per day” and “borderline personality disorder”

Brian White is inevitable #VWFC

You know what I hate about Portland? What other stadium in MLS has a standing section *on the sidelines* in the main stands? #VWFC

we need to be able to articulate what integrity in a product like this looks like a thing that really concerns me is that when the argument centers on a fantasy that you can globally ban math, or somehow pause Moore’s Law we’re not shaping what actual responsibility and liability come next

me after a travel day with the cats:

"Dick Cheney would be loving this."

The arena organ rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner for Hurricanes-Flames in Calgary is suitably ridiculous for such a ridiculous nation

whoa, they have versions of qwen3.5 as small as 0.8B now

This was basically the appeal of the Soviet system, for what it’s worth

this is where i’m at too. the claude people being mostly trustworthy is essentially a fluke afaict

I was already looking at LGES as a home energy storage option, but this seals the deal

bro, he wore a fucking baseball cap to a dignified transfer ceremony, this is hell #uspoli