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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I think those robes, the crown, the Sceptre, they were all the Crown’s stuff - aka the Firm, the organization that is the English monarchy - and not his. They existed before him, they will exist after him, and his wearing them lays little claim of ownership past “work clothes” than a pilot can claim to own the plane he’s flying.

    Yes, it’s a bad look. The guy at the bank denying loans wears a fancy suit. The lawyers in America fighting to deny healthcare wear amazing suits.

    Would you have him sell the crown he doesn’t effectively own to throw money at a problem? Never go to the Louvre, or they’ll toss you out for yelling about how they should sell the art to pay for the French homeless.

    In all this you forget: if the pilot sells his plane, if the Louvre sells some pricy paintings, if the Crown’s representative sells the work clothes he’s issued, who’s buying it? That guy, those people buying them, they’ve truly amassed a personal fortune to be able to buy something like that. It’s not work for them; it’s obscene decadence and greed.

    THOSE are your villains. Taxation is how we get them to pay their share from here on in, like we did in the '40s through the '70s. And I think the max tax rate above 1mil gross takings every year should be a 101% tax rate: you’re paying everything you took and just a little bit more. Maybe take less. Maybe launch fewer rockets and buy a few less elections and pay to fix hunger and healthcare and all that instead.






  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    1 day ago

    I lock my door with a fob in this building, but it auto-locks half the time anyway. I can’t operate the elevator to the parking garage or the roof without that fob: I can go to the lobby, but that’s it. If I’m locked out, all failure modes point to a fire escape stairway and a crashbar to the outside.

    I’m FAR more at risk of locking myself out than leave anything unlocked, and I can phone my wife to code-6 the front door like I’m a sexy pizza delivery.








  • source the materials out there

    That’s 5 words and trillions of dollars worth of start-up cost.

    If we’re so dead-set on flying servers out to LEO so they can be micro-meteor target practice, maybe we could leverage the no-water, solar powered setup we’d have to do there to get better DCs on earth here, first. We’d have gravity and thus convection on our side as we look at cooling, not to mention the vastly better proximity to supply chains during the proof-of-concept phase.


  • “some slopgen bullshit that broke all kinds of security [Best-Practice]”

    I wish our worst employers could understand how they’re breaking the very regs they strived to uphold 5 years ago – without letting Nana’s health info leak to Nigerian scammers, I mean.

    And I may work on some serious shit in the daytime, but I’m out of a soulless Managed Service Provider (pimp) like everyone else – which means we’re getting the parent company’s FOMO-by-proxy on Ai. “Find a way to use it in your daily work” contravenes data sovereignty and privacy almost immediately, and even our security folks are just letting it slide.