Blue square is more like

“Eat a banana if you can, but no pressure”

Yeah, that debate was basically settled already in 1936ff by Keynes

Kind of a telltale sign that conservatives still don’t get the message almost 100 years later.

Wonder where they build these two huge boats, which are almost half as big as Crete.

In the 90s you found it on the attic, today you find it on the internet.

Women will look past that figuring they can fix it later

Or they don’t care in the first place? Like, they’re human beings with different tastes and stuff? There are around 4 billion of “them” and they’re all different.

Capital gains are taxed at a flat rate of ~26.4%

Which only the most stupid superrich (or normal people who saved up) really pay.

If you’re superrich all your assets belong to your holding. When you gain money from your holdings (e.g. dividends) they are taxed way below 1%. Your now untaxed capital sits in your holding. Privately you now put that holding as a security for a credit. Bravo, now you are privately in debt and can save some more taxes.

How do you pay off the credit though? Fear not: next year your holding is worth more, because it once again gained untaxed income. You just borrow more money, pay off your old debt and repeat that.

One day you wake up and don’t know which is the real you 👻

I don’t know about the US, but in Germany the amount and size of cars has drastically changed. So my parent’s house is at the end of a cul-de-sac. There were, kid you not, only like five cars parked in the street around 1990. And nobody drove there, you could be out playing all day on the street and not encounter a single car, if there were two it was a very busy day.

Now the whole street is stuffed with big-ass parked cars, vou cannot even see the street from the sidewalk. You cannot turn around a car at the end of the street anymore, because there’s more parked cars. Every five minutes some Amazon or other delivery vehicle speeds along, or other cars which use the street to turn around. Wouldn’t let my kids play in that street anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Like the Escalator to Nowhere?

FYI: F-Droid builds from source themselves. That makes them so trustworthy, but that’s also why it’s a bit more difficult for the maintainer to get their app accepted.

(not true if “just” using a F-Droid compatible repo).

I would probably start out by speculating about this teleportation stuff worked.

The rest of the time I would descend more and more into what’s wrong with our current society from my view.

Came here to call out this petty generational warfare thing, while the real conflict is working-class against capitalists…but basically every other commenter did it already 😅👍.

So, yeah, fuck this shitty diversion shit and just Robin Hood the productivity gains which were stolen since the 1970ies.

Maybe this is the only thing that one can blame the boomers for: widely voting for those neoliberal politics, but then again, it is not like the younger folks would do that much better in that regard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was in a kinda similar position. Browse Lego sets of that time, a lot came back to me that way.

Erm…but the manuals are all online, though? So, I feel you, that it would be cooler with the actual manuals, but still having the bricks…is cool, I guess.

it’s not a horrible company

😅. It was literally started by Hitler himself.

“But that was a long time ago”…yeah, well. Then give BYD some ~50ish years, by then BYD might be as righteous as Volkswagen is now…cough Dieselgate, cough.

Do I use caddy just for this or do I have to figure out how to move each of them to use this web server?

No, your services stay basically untouched. They still need to deliver their content via a webserver. But instead of delivering it straight to your browser, they now pass it to your reverse proxy (caddy), which delivers it to you.

Volkswagen was a state funded company until the sixties ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

New factories, battery research and stuff like that are heavily subsidized for German car makers as well.

Maybe China is subsidizing more, but maybe that only speaks for sound economic decisions in China, like

A. they have the money, apparently

B. they subsidize future technologies instead of fabulating about e-fuels and whatnot.

Well, the lesson takes long, but slowly it gets into the heads: can’t have a currency union without economic (and social) integration. The north/western countries also profit off a weak Euro. Nobody would buy German shit if they had to buy in Mark. That would be too expensive.

So pooling it will be one day, would’ve been saving some headaches if we already had it before the Greek crisis.

😅

But the thing you want to play it on can get seized.

No, it’s not for GDPR compliance. It’s like this talking point “stupid data protection laws, all those cookie banners”. Nobody is forcing any company to use all those shitty tracking cookies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯