My employer offers visa sponsorship to employees wanting to migrate to the Netherlands. Once I meet the tenure requirements (a little over a month left), I intend to start the process. My spouse and kid are onboard. We’ve already started learning Dutch and made a week-long trip there a couple weeks ago to make sure we would like it.
This is open extortion using the power of the executive branch. Literally providing free services in order to not be targeted by an elected leader? Yikes.
Python Mk2. Great handling, very tough. It lets me do everything possible in a combat ship without compromises.
I used to be a committed multirole ship user, doing everything in my Cutter and before that Anaconda, Clipper, Python, AspX, etc. But these days I’m entirely specialized.
If I’m not flying the Python Mk2, I’m flying my Type 8 to do Power Play. SCO boost, maneuverable for a freighter, lots of cargo space and slots for various tasks.
I’ve been running a Mastodon server since 2017. I’ve been aware of Lemmy and Kbin, but was waiting until it was clear which platform was going to have more community. I’ve been disillusioned with Reddit for some years.
I think it would at least return us to how it was before Citizens United, with some amount of constraint on political donations. But I think more is needed to reach the intended effect.
A continuing resolution is full on fraud at this point. Trump has been halting programs authorized by law and funded by these CRs, meaning this CR is giving him money for programs that no longer exist. It’s a setup for more Trump misappropriation.
Until Republicans hold him to account for violating the law, Democrats shouldn’t allow any funding to go through.
Made 460M on this one
Term limits are an antidemocratic solution to an antidemocratic problem - the problem isn’t incumbent people, which the voters select, it’s incumbent corporate interests, which the voters don’t select.
Term limits for the legislature would create a revolving door of corporate shills. It takes a couple terms for a legislator to become skilled at the process and learn to make progress on their agenda - and to build a backbone to their donors.
Ultimately, everything people think would be solved by term limits would actually be solved by eliminating money from politics. We need to greatly diminish the incumbency advantage, which is fueled by money in politics, to give us legislators who have to be accountable to the voters instead of donors.
The writing was on the wall when the Mozilla Corporation was setup under the Foundation. A bunch of SF venture capital types have places on the board, and are in operational leadership, and are slowly transforming Mozilla into a shitty for-profit tech venture. Ads, data collection, subscription services, and a chat bot.
How many times can people keep making the same mistake without us concluding they’re stupid? Closed corporate social networks ALWAYS go to shit. Enshitification is inevitable. And you’ll have the sunk cost fallacy stopping them from leaving, until they all finally get fed up and switch again. Own your network - stop swapping.
My aunt does. It’s so she can squint less at the phone screen, and have bigger buttons on the touchscreen. She’s not old, and she wears contacts, but she likes the extra screen real estate.