When companies maximize profits they call it smart and good business. When employees try to increase their wages they call it greedy and bad business.

I wouldn't even call unions socialist, I think they're more like a capitalist tool for workers, so those that are already rich get to benefit from capitalism and socialism while workers benefit from neither.

Here's my hot take as a dev who's been making websites since before JavaScript and css were invented: modern web development is leaps and bounds better than how it was and the rapidly changing best practices had a big part for how we got there in the time we did. I think the industry is in a great place now and now that it is things have slowed down and the focus is now on stability rather than changing development patterns.

They're all con artists. The people buying them were trying to scam someone else.

Call me crazy but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt before assuming the worst when I don't know their situation.

MS is basically getting a ton of equity in exchange for cloud credits. That's a ridiculously good deal for MS.

IMO it's by far the worst on any apple product. I tried to help my mom organize some photos and it drove me absolutely fucking insane trying to figure out where the photos app stored things.

We can totally explain how the universe works. It's random! But it's also not random! We can explain why, but you won't understand it. Not magic!

I wanted to buy a small silicone spatula for specific uses, but they were only sold in a set of 5. I was like what am I going to do with that many spatulas but they're super useful and are amazing at scraping and I love having extras so I don't have to constantly wash them.

The hard part is scaling and building a user base, but threads simply bootstrapped both off Instagram so it probably wasn't hard for them to make.

Open source software is safe because so few people use it it's not worth a hacker's time to break into it (joking, but of course that doesn't apply to server software)

I think the straw thing is much more about trash than it is about combating climate change. Plastic getting into the eco system and building up in landfills is a big problem too, but it's a different and also important problem.

I think that's a good thing. Different topics have different moderation needs and I think specialized instances will be better equipped to deal with those special needs. Communities being on separate instances is by design and we shouldn't have an expectation for instances to do everything.