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financial dependence is *such* an effective tool of abuse, that we really should be working together as a society for things like ubi, and universal health care, if for no other reason than to reduce the levels of power abusive employers, spouses and parents have over theur victims.

it wasn’t obvious to me but it’s so clear now that virtually all conservative policies are about increasing those power imbalances

:boosts_ok_gay: more resources on (accessible) color palette design highly appreciated!

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they are apparently still around. also from their finance reports it seems they got *at least* a $200.000 investment to start... for essentially a non-federating fediverse instance

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casual ableism online and elsewhere 

i've copied and pasted this point in several posts onhere before but here it is again: "even if it's correct to point out a given example is hyperbolic, bringing up these fringe examples to laugh at them is a way of reinforcing the idea that disabled people's demands for accommodation in a community are absurd, and should be met with cynicism"

@prehensile
and one about how one the bigger mac game developers of the 90s flubbed their payment processing so they could take credit card payments

payment providers didn't have a business category for selling software digitally, so they registered as a bodega

at one point they paid a contractor who turned out to be a NASA engineer as his day job

it turns out the FBI gives you serious side-eye if you're a "bodega" based in a residential suburb and send thousands of dollars to NASA engineers

Anarchism doesn't mean you get to treat people like trash, and any academic who continually persists in pushing this line of inquiry should immediately be beaten with a printed copy of their drivel that's been rolled up into a tube.

If you cannot take the time to learn about something, you really should stop trying to pretend you're an expert on it.

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Oh, a new USB Standard: „USB4 2.0“

At this rate the next USB generation will be named:
Copy of USB4 2.0 Generation 3-4x2_final(2)

It’s trying to start a race against UserAgent strings!

Gotta love it when a Wikipedia article is clearly written by someone who's still holding a grudge: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Est

@srol Oh yeah, and because accuracy (especially in gaming) is frequently a concern that people have: I now have an MX Ergo, and it allows me to be *much* more accurate (including in FPS games) than any other mouse I've used. Motor control issues probably do play a role there, but I'd say that it's entirely suitable for games that require fast response and accuracy. Not sure about other trackballs though.

@srol I'd say that my main advice would be that different trackballs can feel and function *significantly* differently, much more difference than with typical 'regular' mice, and so if you have trouble with this one, it's worth trying a different one to see if it works better

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev @tthbaltazar@chaos.social In NL this is a complete non-issue, though. I can't even really think of a single case where overloaded wiring caused a fire or damage, in any house with an electrical setup from the past 50 years.

Oops, forgot a `yield` in there, that's what triggers the actual parsing

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Did a syntax crime and now I have a really neat abstraction for parsing text/line-based formats

@Dee looking forward to the first international diplomatic incident because the tz maintainer refused to update it

@Dee also because if something is done wrong in this obscure project, basically every computer everywhere in the world breaks

student loans discourse 

so a lotta people say that they don't wanna cancel student loans bc they have paid for it, and if they are gonna cancel them, that means their efforts were useless

they are obviously wrong (sunk cost fallacy aka "I already started so I might as well continue even though this is harmful to me and others)

but what really interested me is that you think we should still help those people

here's why:

current piracy levels are 99%

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