MBS’s wild ride… (limb from limb)

Does the female aspect really matter because if not you could just leave it out... I’m sure many would still agree with you.

In American Sign Language you can sign at least up to 999~10~ with one hand

Unbelievable that fucking guy or lady said that and got any upvotes. Living under a goddamn fucking rock. Thank you for correcting.

I am -not- in academia (so I can’t upvote), but this makes me somehow feel kinda better about myself.

Please tell me that, idk, “thoughtful” people need more time to review things (carefully), or something, and that explains this fault... Right? Hello? Is this thing on?

Great answer thanks for sharing!

What two pieces of software, if you don’t mind sharing?

I ask because a relative who is a software developer could somehow barely finally leave windows, because of WinSCP, which is, afaik, a GUI for secure copy commands. Why rsync or sftp commands cannot be enough for a software developer without WinSCP was beyond me. But perhaps there is something I don’t know about each of these pieces of software.

If Zucman is a fan, this is great news indeed. A 25% minimum tax on billionaire wealth sounds great, and with broad support, as the article notes (even 51% of Republicans).

Much better news, too, for those of us who only saw this part reported on til now:

The campaign spokesperson called the move—which would still leave the corporate tax rate lower than it was when Trump first took office in 2017—a "fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share." (emphasis mine)

IIRC, the corporate tax rate was slashed by Trump from 30-something percent, maybe 35%, to something like 18%, so to see that Harris was not interested in reversing this Trump tax cut fully (only to 25%) felt til now like yet another depressing instance of the ratchet effect, where the right does what they do, and neoliberals only undo part of it when they are in power.

Is it me or is there something very facile and dull about Gartner charts? Thinking especially about the “””magic””” quadrants one (wow, you ranked competitors in some area along TWO axes!), but even this chart feels like such a mundane observation that it seems like frankly undeserved advertising for Gartner, again, given how little it actually says.

The irony of it being a choking hazard, lmao

‘Great man’ theory of history rears its ugly head(s)

This kinda made me think. We all know the individual today is ‘atomized’ (alienated and isolated from society - in direct contradiction to the aphorism “no man is an island”).

But how many jobs I wonder have become ‘gig-afied’ and atomized, too, so that there are now people working multiple jobs that would previously be one single, well-paying job?