[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

This comment right here is going to make somebody $50. From me.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Purely informational question: to me this seems to say "she started using!" Later the title clarifies that she's using a FOSS tool of some kind. Is there a word missing? Or is "!" (just an exclamation point) a FOSS app? I get the overall gist of the message, but I'm confused about a detail.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Has that "absentee owner" law (or whatever the name is) taken effect yet? Do you think it will help?

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Well, there goes my dream retirement plan.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Definitely under 50K (USD), but that's because I live in the sticks.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

At this point nobody can convince me she wasn't murdered by a Ryan Walters, the guy running the OK Dept of Education.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

With that argument, any employer can pay any employee less than minimum wage by arguing that they don't do "minimum wage work." The point of minimum wage is that subminimum-wage jobs should not exist at all.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

No, Yemen declared war on Israel. It's war, so it's cool.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

This is a standard flip-flop. Conservatives swear we're not a democracy, we're a republic, we need Wise Old People as representatives, not mob action, etc. Until it's convenient to swear that the founding fathers wanted grassroots action at every turn, that people getting directly involved is the best kind of democracy, that insurrections by--

I'll stop there. Anyway, it's a phrase they trot out when things didn't go their way.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

You win the "most mind-numbingly predictable reply all day" award. Congrats.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Technical question: how did Israel cut Gaza off from cell networks? Is there some kind of jamming technology, did they literally destroy/disable all cell towers serving Gaza, or did they get Verizon or whoever to stop providing service? Or something else?

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yup. And the people living in deep south Texas have, in some cases, been living there since long before the USA was a country.

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