From birdsite
RT @garyseconomics
This is a classic example of misleading economics language.
"We" did not just "get poorer".
The GOVERNMENT got poorer because it transferred money to WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS, who still have the money.
It is only the DISTRIBUTION that has changed.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2022/nov/18/we-just-got-a-whole-lot-poorer-says-ifs-head-after-autumn-statement-video?CMP=share_btn_tw
From birdsite
RT @AlexandraErin
The thing about point 3 here is that it renders Muskian longtermism a scam based on the promise of "free beer tomorrow".
If suffering in the present must be excused for greater happiness in the future, then suffering will always be excused. It's always the present. https://twitter.com/SnarkusAurelius/status/1594124755111931905
@mattcalvito comfort zones ftw
@mattcalvito Today me is cuppa and mince pie, been a long day
@mattcalvito It's a Digital Ocean VM
There are some jobs you're supposed to run that clear out media older than X
RAILS_ENV=production /home/mastodon/live/bin/tootctl media remove
for some reason I had 20 gigs of stuff that was hanging around.
Needs some investigation
But it's a future me problem
RT @ShaunLintern@twitter.com
In the last year, 50k staff left social care - leaving 18% of care beds empty in August. Since 2010, numbers of district nurses have halved. @homecareassn@twitter.com says more than half of companies providing care to people are saying no to new clients. A quarter are reducing care
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1594035380440875011
As the World Cup opens in Qatar, our thoughts are with the migrant workers who suffered to make it possible. We still recall how Qatar was the only government that was willing to host the next World Trade Organization summit after demonstrators shut it down in Seattle in 1999.
But rather than treating Qatar as exceptional, we should scrutinize the World Cup itself. Here's why our Brazilian comrades resisted the World Cup and its impact on their communities back in 2014:
From birdsite
RT @mikeysmith
STORY
21 Tory MPs have put TV Licences for their offices on expenses this year - after the government scrapping free telly for pensioners
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/21-tory-mps-claimed-tv-28534732
4. I've warned elsewhere that we shouldn't rely on Starlink as a solution to the challenges of rural broadband, because it's run by an unpredictable megalomaniac. Quebec's rural broadband project to cover the whole province relies on Starlink -- the prospect of Musk just shutting it down, or it failing because of his failures, doesn't seem as hypothetical or remote today as it did even a few months ago.
So good to see you here Steve, Missed your fight for the good since I was banned from the #birdshite
Looking forward to engaging with you again and reading of your exploits once more.
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.