Republicans: “Hey, you suggested it, but now that we’re thinking about it…”

“Own the libs”

IANAL but I don’t think that’s true exactly. But if I remember correctly, there’s a fair use allowance for verbal use but not written use. You see it sometimes in things like a song that can say a brand name over and over, but they can’t name the song with the brand in the name.

True enough, but you’d still be playing legal whack-a-mole because by the letter of the law, you could still be legally relatively poor but have access to an insane amount of money in lots of ways.

In principle, yes, but hiding wealth is also like Rich Bastard 101 stuff.

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The problem is that the winners don’t share. They exploit the others. That’s exactly what got us here in the first place.

Any economist or data scientist should be able to pretty easily compare the economic course to a forecast of what would have happened with minimal interference.

Will we listen? No, because experts don’t count for shit in the US anymore.

That I can believe. I’ve only mixed them in the sense of generally making bad decisions in a night.

That’s interesting and weird! Guessing from your name, is it Slovenia?

That tracks, but with port I feel like it’d be super sugary.

The kalimotxo is actually pretty tame; half as potent as wine, so comparable to maybe a pale ale.

Can’t speak for that other madness though.

Kalimotxo. It’s red wine and cola in roughly equal parts, to taste. It’s a great way to salvage old wine that’s a day or two past drinkable, especially on a hot day.

I described it once on reddit in the before times, and someone called it a “shit red wine spritzer” and I think that’s kinda apt.

Isn’t that basically Tajin?

I would say the only silver lining here is that the exploitation of labor puts these giants in a precarious position where all of their critical work is being done by unhappy, extrinsically motivated people who are often only still there because they’re relatively immobile (i.e., they aren’t good enough at their job to find another one easily) or they were kept on because their salary is lower and they’re less experienced. It makes these massively complicated technology ecosystems extremely brittle, which is why software has been shit across the board for the past decade or so. It’s possible there will be a pendulum swing if and when quality becomes an attainable and marketable feature again.

Color screen and the fact that Onyx, the makers of Boox, flagrantly violate GPL terms.

But it was the Boox Palma getting publicity that made me aware of the form factor and start digging. I’m super happy with the Bigme Hibreak, but I don’t have a SIM card in it. I mostly use it in airplane mode as a dumb e-reader and don’t even install any apps besides the minimum needed to do that.

I got an e-ink e-reader in the pocketable form factor of a phone (Bigme Hibreak Color). Instead of doomscrolling social media, I read a couple paragraphs of the Oppenheimer biography. Next I’ll reread Neuromancer. It’s life-changing. 10/10 highly recommended.

You callin’ me fat?