Wholesome AF. Enjoying the discussion.

My comment was 10,000% sarcasm. Of course they don’t add jobs, trickledown economics is a complete crock of shit lol

Bahahaha I felt that I didn’t have to add /s to the end of that, I was obviously wrong…

My take? The issue I have with the mega rich is that they (generalization here) aren’t playing by the same rules as you or I. I don’t have an issue, with not paying all of your employees 6 figures. Different jobs, skills, training, and capabilities are (and should be) worth different amounts of money. It’s important that people with good ideas, or business capabilities have avenues of expanding, bettering themselves, and enjoying the fruits of their labor.

When you pay money to write rules that are favorable to you, you become the problem. Money in politics is the problem. Imo, that has enabled all of this. Don’t have good healthcare? Likely it was lobbied for because someone wanted more money. Stuck in prison? Oh yeah, money in politics got you there. Minimum wage hasn’t kept up with inflation? Something, something trickledown-bullshit, money in politics. Kids killed in school constantly? Oh you know…FUCKING MONEY IN POLITICS.

Favorable can be lobbying against health & safety or environmental regulations because it impacts your bottom line. It is donating to political campaigns for tax cuts (you know, fucking bribery). It’s blocking minimum wage hikes to secure your bottom line.

All of that said, how people sleep at night with absurd amounts of money and minimal charity is disgusting. I don’t fault someone for enjoying an oppulant lifestyle…I do fault someone for Scrooge McDucking and hoarding cash…for what? Bragging rights? Power?

TLDR: be gaddamn ethical about it.

That’s not a dog…it’s a raccoon! Oh my god, look at that raccoon wearing a hat!

But if they lose money they can’t invest it and create jobs.

Bahaha nice catch.

The updates has been one of my biggest drivers, they have minimal bloateare, and, the phones are like the sweet spot of value/performance for what i do daily.

That is absolutely hilarious. They should’ve offered him @twitter in exchange, it would only be fair…

10:10 wholesome response.

Just blocked the [email protected] and my feed is soooo much better.

Really frustrating that all of those above was spammed into all of those communities.

I loved all of Asimov’s books/stories, I’ve recommended to a number of friends but a few have had the same issues with the foundation books as above.

I thought the scale/short-story history jumping style of the foundation books was a really unique approach to storytelling. I thoroughly enjoyed the series.

Snagged the audiobook from my library this morning & started it via libby. Audiobook was an excellent idea, thank you!!

Just rewatched this with my wife the other day, such a good movie!

Ive tried to get thru dune a few of times but it hasnt clicked for me yet, I’ll use your comment as a reminder that I need to give it another go :)

This is the most interesting one I’ve read so far.

Finding what makes you happy and focusing on making sure you’re unapologetically taking care of yourself is a good place to start.

This goes for work, relationships, hobbies, friends, whatever.

Can’t say I’ve always done a great job of it but for me it feels like it has made a difference the older I’ve gotten.

And of course, social media (including lemmy) is horrible for self confidence so don’t binge if you can help it.

User name checks out…?

How likely is a federated threads going to be used to harvest data for whatever advertising or AI purpose meta has?

Aside from ensuring their launch product has immediate content, the only reason meta would do this is for that $$.

That said, it could be a symbiotic relationship with instances who’s users aren’t super worried about that & find value from the addtl content it will surely bring.

Dedication. Hopefully you used a script lol