skittle07crusher

joined 6 months ago

Hey I mean it, the world NEEDS critical thinkers like you. I’m rereading your comments and please, don’t let those thoughts overcome your better judgement. I KNOW that’s not any ‘remedy’.

Hey stop, I know what you’re saying bc I’ve been there myself. You haven’t any idea what the future holds is what I can tell you. There are so many good things in this world and believe it or not (I didn’t) they also come to you sometimes. Sending love your way.

[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

ALONE we are powerless. The really really hard part is getting all of us together.

Nah dawg, that’s like our one strength and even instinct. See Bregman’s Humankind, for example!

Holy shit.. Never thought of it like that.. But yes!! - just check out the comments referencing IBM!!! They’re still just fucking chugging along, line go up for IBM stockholders, as if it was no fucking big deal to make the very goddamn punchcards and tabulators that led so many Jews to their horrible, untimely ends in all those concentration camps. And now, I guess “business” is good again…

Great answer thanks for sharing!

[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 month ago (24 children)

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.

[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because it’s Zach Beauchamp and he essentially hates the left.

I know everyone is giving you tidy, case-solving “it’s-always-like-this” responses, but indeed you are on to something.

Let the anti-anti corporate work begin (Walz and Harris being the [somewhat] anti-corporate).

[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lmao, Silver is equating a Walz pick to a TIM KAINE pick.

I’m sorry, I can’t read any further with sooo much cope.

Is it? I am ready to believe it is, but i guess i was hoping headlines about passing the court

[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed with “fuck Oracle,” but isn’t the JVM the same regardless of where you compile it, Linux or something else?

Something seems off with the idea of a conflict between Linux and Java (and I am no fan of Java!)

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