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- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 day ago:
Yeah it’s a cropped AI upres of a video still, this is the original.
It’s the Curiosity Rover team celebrating a successful world-first rocket crane landing.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 day ago:
No, but our Treasury Secretary recently floated the idea. I believe there are already some 40-year mortgages, but they’re rare. The 30-year mortgage has been an American institution since it was standardized under FDR’s New Deal.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 day ago:
They’re considering offering a 50-year mortgage product to a market where the average first time buyer age is 40. Like no joke they’re aiming to lock people into a mortgage that would cost more per month than renting the same property until they’re 90.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 day ago:
Probably because it’s a cropped section of a shitty AI upres of a video still, here’s an original.
It’s from 2012 when the NASA JPL team did a successful first-ever “rocket crane” landing to get the Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars. It was actually a really touching / exciting moment, there’s lot of other photos out there of the team hugging and celebrating.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 day ago:
The guy who facilitates your mortgage contract isn’t getting your mortgage payments. The corporation that employs them is. The guy is making a wage or maybe just an hourly salary, plus commission.
By your logic, the checkout worker at costco is skimming off your wages to gate your access to food and clothing.
Even a sleezy car salesman who is trained to convince you to sign an extortive contract isn’t oppressing you. He isn’t betraying you at a class level. His plight is exactly the same as yours.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 day ago:
Being able to tell the difference between a fellow worker and a class traitor isn’t bootlicking!
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 day ago:
No, they’re not. A lot of them don’t even have a degree in anything.
Your personal financial advisor is a person you should be able to trust with your important financial decision. They guy at the bank handing you a contract to sign is a bank employee with a script on rails, a manager, and a commission structure.
In a better world it wouldn’t be like that but in a better world I don’t think I’d be going to a bank in the first place.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 day ago:
Yeah every commissioned salesperson you don’t like is literally nazi ss. Go off, moron.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 days ago:
Bank workers are, at best, getting a small bonus when you sign that mortgage. Your fellow worker isn’t the enemy.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 3 days ago:
Guessing the real story is that the show didn’t sell enough tickets to be profitable.
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 week ago:
Or AmigaOS?
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 1 week ago:
You need to read the article. It explicitly and IMO satisfactorily answers your questions.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 1 week ago:
It’s an atrocious system, innocent people get killed every year over it.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 1 week ago:
So Protonmail was required to log the IP of the user after being ordered to via the proper international Swiss legal channeks, per Swiss/Europol law. And at some point recently, Protonmail thus removed the copy from their frontpage that advertised never tracking IPs.
What the article doesn’t really explain, is what exactly changed about Swiss or euro law? And when? What rules or acts have sprung up that made this possible? Or, was this always something that was possible that has only just now made precedent?
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
I know what a PWA is, let me curmudgeon dammit.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
One use case I could imagine is setting up a website that a parent or grandparent frequently uses as an app icon on their phone’s home screen
…A URL alias?
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
Sure but I consider coding your website to work correctly as a regular website to be a bare minimum requirement for me to want to use it. I’ve never used pixelfed and if their site doesn’t work well without being run as a pwa, I probably never well.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
“Hello user, instead of viewing this information as a website that you can modify locally and adjust to your heart’s content, how about you view it as an app where doing anything like that is a felony with a jail sentence?”
- Comment on "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class." 3 weeks ago:
All technology has the potential to be both liberatory and oppressive, all that ever matters is who wields it and to what end.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Depends where you live but often your municipal, county, or state Department of Transit website will have an online form / email address / phone number where you can request or identify a road for repave. Usually the DOT already has a repave schedule for their roads, but sometimes they do take into account requests or send out someone to confirm the issue, and may then expedite the schedule. But road repaving can be very expensive, a single report probably won’t move the needle. See if you can get anyone else to join in, if you’re the only voice.
- Comment on Just in time 4 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself!
- Comment on Just in time 4 weeks ago:
I technically disagree, most periods human history had “good times” and the happiness of those people was relative to their expectations and equilibrium with the social and technical possibilities of their moment. You might be miserable if you were teleported to a relatively comfortable life in the year 1500, but they were probably every bit as content as some financially comfortable credentialed working class individual today.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t acorn flour edible after you rinse out the toxins?
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 5 weeks ago:
Maybe she should read her emails in case her intern has to inform her of a sick day.
- Comment on It's about time we showed concern for the men 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's about time we showed concern for the men 5 weeks ago:
Is this loss?
- Comment on Have you ever noticed 1 month ago:
Only like the front inch of your tongue actually hits your palate. When I try it, I can breathe around the sides of my tongue.
- Comment on Have you ever noticed 1 month ago:
It’s supposed to. Some people have a short lingual frenulum (The ligament that connects your tongue to your jaw), preventing proper tongue positioning which can cause problems like sleep apnea, speech impediments, tooth decay, and even poor posture. Inability to put your tongue at the roof of your mouth is one of the indications of this. Can be corrected with a fairly simple noninvasive surgery (They just snip the ligament a bit to lengthen it).
- Comment on proportional reaction 2 months ago:
OK true, technically speaking it is indeed more readable, I guess I really meant that it takes far longer to read. I do admire Lua’s barebones simplicity.
- Comment on proportional reaction 2 months ago:
Oh god yea, replicating switch functionality with a huge column of elifs is so gross.
