vonbaronhans @ vonbaronhans @midwest.social

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I suppose community building, detached from geography, is bound to be done primarily by highly motivated advocates.

Maybe that's pessimistic, I dunno.

"are Jewish people white" is one of those questions where the answer seems to ebb and flow with the tides.

And it wasn't ever used in lieu of the employee receiving enough of an income at the company they worked at.

Unfortunately that is not true. Restaurants in most states in the US have a law that allows employers to pay tipped employees a much lower wage (about 2 bucks an hour) with the expectation that tips will bring them back up to minimum wage or higher.

So... I actually really like golf. I think it's fun. Haven't played in over a decade, but I look back on my memories playing pretty fondly.

That said, I have zero issue recovering a lot of that lost land and water usage to put them to better use.

I'd be very interested to see a version of golf that is less ecologically destructive and less water intensive.

Enshittification, also called chokepoint capitalism, is a term coined by Corey Doctorow (sp?) that lays out a common pattern with platforms in a capitalist system where:

1. Platform builds a product to entice users to it for little to no cost to the user (Google search, Facebook, Amazon shopping, etc)
2. Once users are locked in, make the experience worse in ways that increase profits for business partners (Google ads partners, etc)
3. Once business partners are locked in, screw them over to rake back as many profits for the platform owner.

This is the line of reasoning I used with my parents as a kid. Dollar per hour entertained.

But I think differently about it these days. I'm looking for maximum value per hour, with an eye towards minimal hours, and with a definite end point if applicable.

And value in this sense could be raw entertainment, but it could be something else, like exposure to new ideas and novel perspectives on life etc.

But I suppose that's what happens when you get older and you've got less and less free time to fill.

Yeah, go for it.

Maybe it's just the circles I run in, but I understand "tankie" to mean leftists who think Soviet/Maoist/vanguard-party styles of Communist revolution/rule were good, actually, to the point of denying any bad things they did/do as "Western propaganda".

Given the red scare in the US, our ability as a whole to use any sort of leftist political labels accurately across the population is basically non-existent, so I do understand the frustration by both tankies and non-tankie leftists about how the term gets used lately, especially in produce circles on social media.

But again maybe that's just me. I don't know if I would consider myself a communist, but I do consider myself as a yet undetermined variety of socialist, if that helps at all.

Words are redefined all the time. Keep up and ask for clarification when needed.

The only thing that applies to me here is the new SAVE IDR plan. But hey, it still lowers my monthly payment a little bit AND let's payments actually go to principal instead of just shaving off interest. It's not nothing.

I would still like to see full debt relief, but I think that has to be a matter of legislation if I understand correctly. And I'll take baby steps over nothing at all.

I think their point is that the pilgrims set the cultural precedents for what would later become America, to which later immigrants would be beholden.

I don't know how true that is, but I think "protestant work ethic" is at least one example of that sort of thing.

"no algorithms" I've always interpreted as "no algorithm tailored to you based on your behavior on the platform and whatever other information we can obtain about you, with the intent to keep you scrolling and interacting as much as possible" but maybe that's just me.

To be fair I was primarily a lurker on Reddit, too. Occasional commenter. Same here, lol.

I've used pixel phones for a long time, but I'll eat my hat if Google actually honors more than 5 years of updates for the pixel 8.

Okay?

yeah, fair enough.

Is that considered tankie? I know it's pro revolutionary socialism, which is typically what the countries tankies like did to start out.

When I think 'tankie' I usually think people who are still pro those countries to the point of denial about genocides and other bad things those countries are doing.

"I saw one post. Most agreed. 100% extreme."

I ain't saying you're wrong, but the route you're taking there is not exactly valid.

Oof, hard disagree there. It's a subjective preference, of course, but you are objectively wrong and I will die on this hill.

I wouldn't call either of these particularly secret, but whatever, they're fun.

Excess material = a very large shit, often multiple shits.

Trip insurance = using the bathroom before getting in the car, whether it's needed or not. I came up with this one as a child, and it's now in widespread use in my extended family, especially with the nieces and nephews.