Lumberjacked

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What brands should we NOT boycott? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sorry. My underwear is beyond repair

What brands should we NOT boycott? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah. Lots of people didn’t vote because we had two evils. The greater evil won…

What brands should we NOT boycott? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I used to not vote because all politicians are evil. Someone pointed out that if everyone picks the lesser of two evils then things are going to get less evil. I’ve voted every opportunity since.

Corporations are just legal structure organizing people together to do something. The soup kitchen, local artisan, person cutting hair out of their house, they all set up an LLC to operate under. They didn’t instantly become evil.

But if I need to buy a blender, plywood, or underwear (my shopping list this weekend), I’m going to have to buy it from a corporation. If I could buy it from a less evil corp then hopefully I make things less evil.

What brands should we NOT boycott? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Why was this downvoted? I just listed the companies on NAACP website so you didn’t have to open link.

What brands should we NOT boycott? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah. Was surprised NAACP had them on their list but I suppose they still have DEI verbiage. But shady company (he types on his iPhone…)

What brands should we NOT boycott? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Apple Ben and Jerry's Costco Delta Airlines ELF Beauty

What brands should we NOT boycott? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah. That’s my local grocery store. It sounds like they treat their employees well and do a lot in the community. And tortillas.

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What brands should we NOT boycott? (lemm.ee)
 

I get the boycotts for Target, Walmart, and Amazon for rolling back their DEI programs and bowing to Trump. What companies are treating employees fair or standing up for human decency? Seems like Costco gets brought up?

Most things I need I can get from my local grocery store which seems pretty non evil but where do you go if you need like a new keyboard?

how is less budget supposed to make bureaucracy faster in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Less popular opinion. If we drive taxes up on the rich they’ll just get more creative with tax avoidance or move to Panama.

The ultra wealthy don’t pay income taxes and they didn’t in 1950 either. They’re mostly paying capital gains which was lower back then then it is now.

What we really need to do is remove all the massive loopholes in the current tax code and maybe do something like having progressive tax brackets on capital gains (some people are legitimately just using capital gains as retirement income).

Also, fund the IRS more. They’re not the evil tax man. They are finding the people who aren’t paying their legal fair share.

Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I went hog hunting a few times back in my redneck days. There’s virtually no regulations and we had no idea what to do. Me and my friends went out with a full arsenal. I had a 9mm, SKS, and a 30-06.

I used every gun. It was crazy.

The best part of marriage is always having someone to scratch between your shoulder blades for you. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Washing dishes is the first thing that comes to mind. Foot rubs is another. I’m sure ill think of others

The best part of marriage is always having someone to scratch between your shoulder blades for you. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There are other things of I can do with my own hands but is somehow better when done by my spouse.

Write.as or Micro.blog or ?? for migration of public profile from big corporate social media in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hugo and bear blog are not Federated though right?

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Write.as or Micro.blog or ?? for migration of public profile from big corporate social media (lemm.ee)
 

I have a personal website that is just a landing page made with Carrd. I’ve been interacting on the Fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, BlueSky so far). I would like to consolidate my public Fediverse persona, write a little bit longer form blogging, and be able to have a central spot for my pictures and posts.

I’m looking at using write.as or micro.blog on a subdomain of my personal website. What are people’s experience with these two platforms and are there other good ones?

Has anyone found a good workflow for consolidating personas? I know you can use mastodon logins on Pixelfed. Is there a scenario where I just have one server login and tie everything to that?

Someday I’ll try self hosting but for now, I’ll pay for decent services.

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TIL Social Security in the US is the nickname of the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It’s a subtle difference but I always heard it presented like it was a federal retirement account but is actually insurance for getting old.

Wikipedia: Social Security (USA)

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Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies? (lemm.ee)
 

I use Bluesky and Mastodon. Mastodon better hits where I want the fediverse to go but Bluesky is so much easier to use. Signup, UI, flagship app, feeds, and content is just so much less of a headache. But it feels like it's a matter of time before it's enshittified.

I was thinking about how much I hate big tech but there's a lot of small and mid-size companies that I have neutral to positive views on. Canonical, Mozilla, 37 Signals, Odoo are the ones that come to mind. All of those have a revenue model but also actively support open source initiatives and developers. None are perfect but better than "big tech" and get more done than just donation based development.

It feels like there needs to be some for-profit companies (without ads and maintaining privacy) that can help support the development around ActivityPub and maintain apps and servers that are easier to onboard and easier to use. Does this exist?

What could be some non-evil revenue models? I pay $20/month for a blogging platform for my business website. Maybe have a service to host AP servers for businesses or journalists? Personal private encrypted cloud services like photo backups that are integrated with AP?

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