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  • Trump Suffers Jobs Numbers Disaster After Firing Stats Chief

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  • What if we increase the cost of everything for no reason? I mean if everyone can buy less things, and everything costs more to manufacture, everyone will need more jobs.

  • Trump Suffers Jobs Numbers Disaster After Firing Stats Chief

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  • What does this really mean though?

    The same could be said of any democratic institution, of course the director doesn't have any way to influence the reporting they produce because it's all supposed to be transparent and reliable.

    In reality though, in the Trump admin, they can absolutely manipulate the numbers in a myriad of ways.

  • Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source!

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  • Are there any restrictions on a FOSS instance? Is there a pay wall?

  • Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source!

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  • I'm been trying to stand up a zulip instance. It's working but I haven't used it much. I want a feature complete jitsi instance to go with it and that's only partially implemented right now.

    That said, zulip does seem like the best option for me presently.

    Haven't tried revolt.

    Mattermost seems to be perpetually entangled but being disentangled from some other suite. Confusing and frustrating.

    I haven't tried rocket chat for 5 years or so. I think last time I read about it people were complaining that the FOSS plan is very limited.

  • Trump expresses reservations over Florida eliminating vaccine mandates: ‘We have to be very careful’

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  • This is so pathetic.

    Trump, as usual, parroting the last person he spoke to - in this case someone who accepts the settled science.

    Look, you have vaccines that work. They just pure and simple work. They’re not controversial at all, and I think those vaccines should be used, otherwise some people are going to catch it, and they endanger other people

    If only there were some way to know which vaccines work and are worth the risk. Some kind of panel of experts who could review the evidence, request additional research where necessary, and approve those vaccines which do work and have manageable risks.

    If you had that, then you could confidently impose mandates where necessary as a public health measure - because inevitably some idiots will prefer not to have vaccines because they don't understand how they work and want to rely on herd immunity.

    I hope they do temper their stance on vaccines and avert the worst of the catastrophe RFK wants to unleash. However, this will sadly perpetuate the prevention paradox - vaccines have worked so well that they don't seem important.

  • Would you retire at 30 and live frugally?

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  • I'm not suggesting that it's "wrong", merely that over time these things wouldn't be satisfying for most people. I suspect that even you would find that life unfulfilling.

    It's one of life's great questions and I don't really expect to be able to find a consensus with you.

    Loads of people, perhaps even most people, would describe the list of activites you've presented as being the ideal recipe for long term contentment and happiness.

    However, most people can simultaneously acknowledge that contentment and happiness is fleeting, intangible, and unstable. I'm sure you've thought of the "new car" example - it's great for a few weeks.

    People tend to think they want "happiness" but in practice actually pursue other desires, like being challenged, being needed, being engaged with complex situations and problems. I'm not saying this is good or correct or better, it's just how I observe humans really behave.

    If I had no responsibilities, and sufficient wealth to live off passive income, I might plan to do as you say for a year or so, but during that year hope to identify some kind of direction I could devote the rest of my life to.

  • Would you retire at 30 and live frugally?

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  • Sure, fine, whatever. You do you.

    I think there are very few people who could spend 40 years painting warhammer figurines and call that a rewarding satisfying life.

  • Would you retire at 30 and live frugally?

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  • What does that mean? You said 65% of current earnings in the OP. Most people couldn't pursue any significant hobbies or interests on that level of income.

  • Would you retire at 30 and live frugally?

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  • In this hypothetical circumstance described by OP, you don't have $80m on which to live frugally travelling the world pursuing your interest in photography.

    For most people, living on 65% of their current earnings would mean a serious curtailment of their current activities. A subsistence if you will.

    Besides which, most hobbies aren't really satisfying in a way that can nourish the soul, certainly not the ones you can do at home for little or no cost anyway.

  • Would you retire at 30 and live frugally?

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  • Living frugally isn't the problem, at least not directly.

    The boredom is what would get most people.

    Most people need to engage themselves in something satisfying and challenging.

  • Trump calls Epstein files 'irrelevant' as Massie petition picks up steam - ABC News

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  • The 2030s and 2040s are looking pretty bleak with climate change impacts.

    I don't think we'll all be congratulating ourselves on how great things are going without Trump.

    I think we're on a pretty bleak trajectory, and Trumpism is a manifestation of society's anxiety around that. Poor uneducated idiots want to pretend it's not happening, and wealthy fucks want to implement a slave class to live in the wasteland and produce soylent

  • Trump calls Epstein files 'irrelevant' as Massie petition picks up steam - ABC News

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  • Yep. As if this administration would release something harmful to themselves.

  • 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using

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  • Theres heaps of hosted nextcloud services. Those users wouldn't know.

  • Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

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  • Uh, I'm not certain that's true.

    An American person is from the United States of America, sure.

    If someone said "I met this guy from America" I would genuinely wonder whether they wanted me to assume that the guy was from the USA or if they were about to clarify.

    In English speaking countries, when you refer to anything from "The Americas", there's a likelihood it's from the United States of America, and one might assume that, but it's something less than "widely understood" abbreviation.

  • DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files

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  • Yeah, I honestly don't understand what all the fuss is about.

    The Trump admin isn't going to release a trove of documents detailing Trump's escapades.

  • MTG warns Epstein clients she’ll ‘say every damn name’ on House floor as she tells sex abuse victims, ‘Give me a list’

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  • Would it really make any difference if she did say that someone had accused Trump?

    "fake news"

  • Trump announces Space Command headquarters moving from Colorado to Alabama

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  • I don't think Vance could hold the fascist agenda together.

  • Trump announces Space Command headquarters moving from Colorado to Alabama

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  • So he's not dead then?

  • Trump’s bill is a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids whose treatment is tied up in Medicaid red tape

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  • These kids didn't vote.