100 years of inflation has destroyed the purchasing power of the poor and middle class. If your mam and pop does not grow 2% a year its a shrinking business and eventually there is nothing left. Big corps seem to make it work by bending the rules. But the little guy gets screwed. The rich tax rate is like the murmur show to distract us from losing everything of value.

ugh hate all that stuff

As someone with a twin with a completely different personality the idea of horoscopes has always been sily

If we required the recycling cost to be covered in the purchase of solar cells and wind mill blades would this still be true.

ugh Jira. At my first job in 2006 I was the Jira administrator. Every project wanted their own custom fields. We had a Jira project for “infra” problems it had 3 fields yall Title/Description/priority and it worked so well. Moved to a company with a simple ticket system with not much more but the concept of “tags” it was heavily

python is like this also. I don’t remember a language that returned ints

I got a promotion. There was no raise in salary just expectations of more responsibilities. I got a $100 visa gift card. I saw that as a big fuck you. I was out as soon as I could manage.

Most of the mess in the middle east was the British and the French taking random swaths of land after WW1 and say hey you guys that hate each other you are a country now figure it out.

Edit: Then we found oil

This is just sad.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes

Like the black musician who befriended all those kkk members and got them to retire their hoods and leave the kkk. It wasn’t by been mean and condescending he was very nice to them.

Such a click bait title.

Lemmy has ratelimits also its what sane people do, you ratelimit how fast people can submit posts to prevent bots from flooding your site with spam.

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