It’s because it was actually a Walz thing, and she sidelined Walz for some reason.

Seems like an opportunity to use this in attack PP’s tax-cut rhetoric, and to attack the oft-repeated talking points from business that tax increases will be passed on to consumers.

Tax cuts are eaten by businesses, so long as the businesses believe that people will continue to buy. Tax increases will also be eaten by businesses, so long as the businesses believe that people will refuse to buy at a higher price. It’s all being taken by or from shareholders.

It’s a shame no political entities will actually touch this with anything more pointed or useful than “that’s appalling!”

People have had standing requests, and even PRs, for features for years. Many of them are for exact kinds of things Bluesky has implemented. Some have been for similar features but at the server level.

The requests have gone unheard, the PRs have been ignored. So, what I’d have Mastodon do is listen to those requesting better self-safety features, or hurry up and die so development team that actually gives a shit can gain some traction.

Like you I’m confused at the continual cries of racism on Mastadon.

I, uh, said I’m not confused by the cries of racism. I’m confused by the constant claims of “I don’t see any, therefore it must not exist”.

It’s like no one gives a shit, because it doesn’t affect them personally. Which, you know, makes everyone the kind of people that those experiencing harassment don’t want to be around anyway.

Yeah. It’s pretty telling that my entire time on Mastodon has been punctuated by black users complaining about how much racism they’re exposed to on the network, and everyone else going “I don’t see any racism!”

Like, ok, maybe you don’t. I don’t. I’m as white as snow, and don’t post about my experiences as a racialized person (not being one, and all). But it’s pretty clear, just from seeing the same exchange over and over again, that racialized people are experiencing something I’m not, and them expressing as much has Defenders of the Faith circling wagons every time it comes up.

Mastodon being a little more complicated than Twitter wouldn’t have been a major blocker to communities coming over. “Hey, join this site”, rather than “join Mastodon!” is all you need. But no one’s going to be telling black folks, or any other community, to come on over if the social atmosphere is at least as toxic as where they’re coming from.

Now with another alternative, Mastodon also needs to be better than “not being Twitter”. And the people who are there already seem to have zero interest in doing that.

And why is the url they send always “website.com/survey-name/[random hash]”? Why are there trackers on this totally anonymous, fo sho, survey link?

If the people putting money in deserve to be paid for that money, it can be treated as a fixed term loan, with an established interest rate. That makes it a business expense.

Profit is what’s left over after everyone is paid for their work, and the costs of materials, housing, and maintenance - invluding the maintenance of debts - are covered. It’s either what you’ve over-charged your customers, or underpaid your employees.

And that’s wrong.

Oh, he’s not complaining anymore.

Yeah. A public internet means a public internet, for good and for ill. People have been trained to see the internet as private, and we’re now reaping those sown seeds, and people really hate the harvest.

Do you check in on the profiles to see the karma count of people who you feel have a neutral or even positive personality?

Probably not. So you have no idea how the average person with “lots of ‘karma points’” tends to act. Instead, you’re looking at the profile of people who feel safe enough in a space to let themselves be seen as assholes.

This is like asking “why does drinking alcohol make everyone violent?” You’re just noticing the ones who are making a scene.

Imagine your essential services are all run for profit, by entities with the goal of maximizing profits and minimizing service.

They’re always welcome to get a regular job. They’re not choosing what they have to do to survive, they’re choosing what they want.

I can’t wait for the future where we’re paying subscription fees for a thousand separate essential services and the libertarians start suggestinf thet there should just be a service that provides a single source for paying and managing all of tjose subscriptions.

Oh no. I don’t be needin’ no internet enabled legislation! Good, old fahsioned, airgapped legislation was good enough before, and it’s good enough today!

Has an MBA ever contributed anything of value?

I’m not sure what order you read my reply in, but it wasn’t linear, was it?

You need to consider units! 1m ≠1m³

Social Networking Sites: Full of fascists actively trying to recruit people into fascism

Social Media Sites: Full of videos and memes pushing fascism

Governments Around the World: Increasingly giving into or controlled by naked fascists

You: “Have you considered financial literacy?”

What the fuck, dude?

Because among the users it does have are some of the most influential people in the world.

Like, the US Senate’s pretty small, too, but people from the world over have to pay attention to its members.

“Like DNS” there is an analogy. And DNS is actually a distributed system.

Imagine if every web DNS had to go through Facebook. That’s how all of the ATproto traffic works. It’s all funneled through Bluesky’s servers.