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MisterFrog

@ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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  • Wacky 90s fads [SMBC]

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  • The "This machine kills fascists" sticker that John Green put on his laptop for his Crash Course World History series has not aged well at all

  • Same BS every year

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  • I actually wish I could do this in Australia, for the reasons you mention (from a self-interested point of view).

    I'm glad tax witholding is mandatory here though, because the government has to pay for stuff throughout the year, on services which we all benefit.

    And it reduces the number of people who have illogical emotional reactions on having to pay taxes. (Much less resistance when you get a touch back, than have to pay more)

    We do also pay taxes for stupid shit, like our tribute of $300 B AUD to the US for submarines. But alas, such is government spending. We can't all agree what's actually good.

  • Same BS every year

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  • The people are partially to blame, but let's be real, the voting system practically guarantees voter disenfranchisement.

    It's how the US has ended up with the far right, and right-lite-maybe-a-little-good-stuff-but-mostly-capitalism-status-quo party duopoly.

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  • Awwww yeaaah. Welcome friend, stay a while

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  • This is fair, however, not ubiquitous and all their servers are expected to place nice with others.

    Thank god email is federated, and not locked down to a particular company

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  • It's very common, but in Australia at least, not ubiquitous.

    And obviously businesses mostly do not

  • Trump given power to rename Greenland 'Red, White and Blueland' under new bill tabled by Republicans

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  • the freest nation to ever exist

    No one actually believes this, right?

  • ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off

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  • It’s where we get BRAWNDO from

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  • strangled on all sides by public sidewalks

    Walkable cities? Immersion ruined

  • Elon Musk installs illegal server to seize all federal workers’ data

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  • This is why I think it's heinous presidential pardons were ever allowed to be on the books. Must have reminded the founders of the kingly powers they sought to replace?

    How did no one ever consider that you can do as many crimes as you want, so long as the president will pardon you?

    Like????

    Really dumb, if you ask me.

  • Google offering ‘voluntary exit’ for employees working on Pixel, Android

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  • ASOP fork, donation model (pay as you feel) pls.

    Please voluntary redundancy google staff. Please

    (Realistically I know this is a tall ask considering this is people's livelihoods we'te talking about)

    Sign me up babyyyyy

  • Ghost [Mr Lovenstein]

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  • Why people prefer using some company's chat service is beyond me. Email? Fantastic, I'll come back to a response later. But these chats often require you don't close the window, their notification sound won't work, you'll get dropped from opening another app for like 2 mins, and they take ages to respond in many cases.

    Put me on hold any day, I can do whatever else I want in the meantime and then not have to wait while the agent types at a snails pace.

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  • Has your company heard of pre-recorded audio?

  • Kansas Voters in 'Find Out' Phase as Effects of Anti-Vaccine-Mandate Law Turn Into Historic Tuberculosis Outbreak

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  • John Green would like you to know that tuberculosis has never stopped being a thing, if you're counting the whole world.

    But yes, it's ridiculous people are actively choosing to bring it back to somewhere it was no longer a thing

  • Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices

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  • Journalists have ruined the word slam over the last couple of years

  • JD Vance finally admits what Trump’s big plan to lower food prices is | The plan is no plan.

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  • I like different coffee for different purposes. Instant coffee is mostly made from commodity coffee and blends in Robusta (which I don't like, personally).

    That said, in a pinch, or if I can't be bothered with the whole shebang of a pour over or espresso. Mix in a little milk and sweetener and it's quite enjoyable.

    That all being said, this is some mega MAGA copium they're pumping out.

  • CNET: Fed Up With Instagram? How to Move Your Photos to Pixelfed

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  • Me too, the second one shows up, or PixelFed gets e2ee implemented, I would seriously start asking people to join.

    Until then, what's the point? (Unless you want to share publically)

  • CNET: Fed Up With Instagram? How to Move Your Photos to Pixelfed

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  • Thank you for voicing this opinion. The fact so much of the fediverse is just public just makes it impossible to sell for real identity social media.

    Really curious why the community in the fediverse hardly talks about it.

    I'm really holding out hope for someone to pickup Futo Circles or something else that's an e2ee replacement for Facebook / Instagram.

  • European Medicines Agency ditches Elon Musk’s X in favor of Bluesky

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  • Hiring one extra person, for an agency that covers hundreds of millions of people? I'm gonna go out there and say yes, that is reasonable to expect. Sure, uptake is low now, but network effect is responsible for that, now when people are moving from Twitter is the exact time to encourage people to change to something better.

    The European Commission has its head on straight, that they are being a first mover on Mastodon, because putting critical communication infrastructure in the hands of a private company is silly long term.

    I'm not doubting your reasoning as to why this agency hasn't bothered, but it's not convincing that it's reasonable.