The most meaningful metric of any economy in my opinion is always median real income. It means whether most people are more able or less able to live the life they want (to vastly over-simplify).

There used to be a burger joint in my town that had terrible burgers, but they were ridiculously cheap. No idea how they made money, but they were always Russian guys and suits there. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Et tu?

Don’t search for “thought terminating clichés”

Federation on Mastodon is weird. Some information only federates if local users follow an account. Supposedly this is designed to be more lightweight on more limited servers.

Further proof that scientists are cool everywhere in the world

Wait, isn’t this actually a step in the right direction? Can someone eli5?

Intuit donated invested $1million

This made my day.

I kinda like it.

Also I had no idea Apple had so much email. I sort of thought gmail would have the top spot.

Edit: I see, it’s measuring clients. I assumed it was the host/provider

Almost all of the hostages have been freed through negotiated agreements. Netanyahu pretending that renewed military pressure will solve this is a betrayal of the hostages’ lives. Bring them home now!

OBS is absolutely the best software in the field.

I feel the same. It’s my daily driver for about 6 months now in a professional setting with high demands. I have kept the Microsoft suite (and have not yet transitioned Powerpoint). When I go back to compare I can’t stand all the needy Microsoft interruptions getting in my way.

Just literal fraud

Freeloaders

They are only inventing tools. They are not inventing the concept of inventing tools.

Still very cool and impressive

Keep going… What drives turnout? Citizen campaigning.

Maybe if leftists didn’t spend the year leading up to the election protesting the better candidate we would have seen a better outcome.

Kinda what I was going for but I don’t think I phrased it right.

I’d be in favor of a phase out of IP law. It would probably require a LOT more public investment in the arts and sciences. But public funding would lead to public ownership, so society would benefit on the whole.

No one would be getting rich off of creative works, but we would want to be sure that people will still make a living.

Or UBI would work even better.

I don’t know the answer, but you have perfectly captured the spirit of this community. Following.