But they’re only getting paid for the time a primter would take to print it, because why should she pay for more for less?

Or at least a suggestion.

corporate profits decrease very slightly

This is the thing that people will reflexively point to, but this:

quality of life increases

This is the real issue. If quality of life increases, workers are less desperate, and are less willing to put up with their employers BS. Moreover, if other jobs are also paying a living wage, it’s much easier to quit.

We have seen, over and over, that businesses are willing to spend money to exert control over workers. They’ll do it even if it means a decline in profits, or even in revenue. Because at the end of the day, if you have your needs met, any money left over is just power, and power is meant to be used to control others.

Is this guy Trump’s VP pick because he’s the only person he could find that talks like Trump? The guy’s a rotting word salad machine

Is great until you need a job. It solves the 2 language problem right up until you’re working with others.

It’s an argument against seed patents and capitalism.

Ooo, is it made by the people I work for? Because this story sounds incredibly familiar to me.

Federated means you shoulder the cost of hosting the bits users care about, while they harvest all the value in what you post!

Is Rocksteady stupid? Tough to say. They’re not an independent studio, so it’s possible they didn’t get to call their shots on this one.

Really, the GaaS thing has the publisher’s fingerprints all over it.

Unfortunately, it’s not the publisher who will shed jobs over this. The decision makers never have to take the fall for their bad decisions.

And as with cinnamon, all you need is quadruple the amount of sugar as you use coffee in order for it to start tasting ok.

I mean, it was ground this morning

My experience using the *bins has been that they provide a superior community UX, but the microblogging end of things feels very rough and under-invested in. It’s a value-add that doesn’t integrate well, or add real value.

There’s a ton of potential there for cross-posting, but it’s totally unrealized.

The Misskey forks are definitely the best UX as an end user I’ve tested out. And I found them easier to set up than Lemmy. But I also found that they caused frequent CPU spikes on my VPS.

I’m not sure if Mastodon does that or not, as I didn’t try running it, but I didn’t have the same experience with Akkoma or Friendica.

That said, I found Icefish’s implementation of the Mastodon API a godsend for mobile use.

It really seems like they can, which is why the headline is kind of bizarre.

Also that – thanks in large part to movements like the Arab Spring using Twitter to organize and publicize – it became the go-to social media for reporters. The news -> celebrity -> news cycle closes itself nicely there, making it very difficult for either group to go anywhere else.

It was ruined long before he touched it

It just made it worse faster

Commerce isn’t the same as things being for-profit. And, indeed, workers getting paid is the primary thing that cuts into profits.

Wages aren’t “personal profits”. The idea that they are is a lie the ownership class has been selling for generations.

Profits are what you get paid for owning property, not for doing work.

Saying they tried is the whole point. All too often, bills like this just don’t get reintroduced once the party is in power, though.

It’s all about show.

This is the kind of bill oppositions always propose, but never prioritize once they’re in government.

It’s core to Hbomberguy’s video, really. The guy tried to make himself the gay YouTuber by ripping off other queer content producers, and as a persecuted community that’s had to deal with a forever of social erasure, that’s a whole lot extra shitty.