@EveHasWords They seem to be having server issues at the moment... will leave that open in a tab ^.^ @wendypalmer

@EveHasWords This indirectly inspired the thought: (a) whatever happened to monthly book clubs, and (b) has anyone applied this concept to indy authors? Cuz, like, it could be crowdsourced instead of giving too much power to individual reviewers...

"Just a thought; y'all have a nice day." -- Beau

@hellomiakoda I have no particular favorite color (kinda like purple, but in general I like ranges of colors within a rainbow) -- does that just confirm that I'm weird? :blobcatthinkingportal:

@jon_bon :paw: ✅

(...and a couple of related emoji, but none of them are appearing in the popup yet; try :paw later today to see if they show up...)

@riley GObject Programming (GOP)

Then all their web sites could use the .gop TLD. FTW!

@devopscats They should require a special license -- I'd initially suggest it should be the same license you'd need in order to drive a tractor-trailer, but since the safety issues are different maybe the license requirements should be different -- even in the US.

That said, the best way to get rid of them would probably be to change the CAFE regulations that caused them to be created by the car-makers in the first place.

(...and that said, I need to watch the video -- NJB probably has better insight into the whole "how to get rid of them" thing than I do.)

@alice That's only a little cooler than one might have hoped for.

@shadowfals Mm, yeah, I've been lucky to have the funds available for multi-terabyte HDs from Costco when they went on sale, and the skills to set them up for backup usage. ...and none of them have gone bad yet, due to only being used for storage.

...but if you have multiple terabytes of stuff to store, hard drives (~100 GB/$) are now way cheaper than DVD-Rs (~10 GB/$). (...and even the largest Blu-Ray would be kind of small for a USB stick.)

I've been wanting for years to figure out how to offer free/pay-what-you-can backup space for folks with less equipment (or stability or knowledge or cash or whatever makes it impractical to have enough backup space). It's still mostly in the conceptual phase at this point...

[refrains from going off into a technoramble]

I’ve added an Excess Deaths Comparison page to my analysis on that topic. Here I’m comparing the UK, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, to June 2025.

My method projects "Expected Deaths" using a linear regression on the weekly deaths (4-week average) from a baseline of 2015-2019 deaths.
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#getfedihired

#softwareIdea An app which lets you loan out your DVD backups to exactly one person at a time via internet, so it's technically legal.

Unless modified by the user, it will make sure to delete borrowed copies once they are "returned".

@stragu @timo21 @stevewfolds @StillIRise1963 @hwll

I'm working on [the foundations of] a way to make it easier for people to express their discontent, collectively and individually.

@janw SAME. #chooseTheOrangePill @notjustbikes

@hwll @ktneely @StillIRise1963 @timo21

One easy way to give money a shelf-life is to just keep "printing" more of it, at a rate calculated to be minimally harmful to the mainstreet ecomony.

The plutocrats absolutely hate this idea, of course -- unless the new money goes to them via federal backing for loans, subsidies, investment in industry, etc. (which is kind of how we do things now).

@crooksandliars Everything past the first 2 words is kind of redundant, but I guess it's good to keep tabs on all the myriad ways...

@ktneely @StillIRise1963 @timo21 @hwll

Yeah, that's another good way of expressing it -- call it MCAD, maybe, for "Middle-Class-Adjusted Dollars".

@StillIRise1963 @stevewfolds @timo21 @hwll

I was going to say "they shouldn't last 2 generations", but then I realized the problem is the existence of the "great [personal/family] fortunes" in the first place.

Wealth should be community-owned.

@JaneinNJ @obscurestar @StillIRise1963 @timo21

Yeah, sadly, we have to work with what we've got -- but we can also work to change what we've got, because what we've got kinda seriously sucks.

...and acknowledging (and drawing attention to) the depth of that suckitude is an important part of enabling change.

How about this: cities/counties/states could institute a "carbon emissions tax" on things like gas leaf-blowers, gas lawnmowers, gas chainsaws, etc. and use the revenue to subsidize (e.g. eliminate the sales tax on) electric equivalents.

RE: https://social.finkhaeuser.de/@jens/115633394234495682

(Quote-boosting to add CW)