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tokensane

@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk

Married, software dev, geek, science fiction fan, Linux user. searchable.

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tokensane, to random
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Bumpy road ahead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxknddlwd5o

QasimRashid, to random
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A quick history lesson. From 1940-1980:
•Wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax
•0 of them went broke from taxation
•0 of them left USA
•All remained exceedingly wealthy
•Manufacturing boomed
•The middle class was 62% of US economy (It's now 40% post 'trickle down scamenomics)
•We had the strongest middle class growth in US History

Let's do that again. Stop protecting billionaires. Start taxing them.

tokensane,
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@QasimRashid Did they actually pay marginal tax rates that high back then? Or were those rates just hiding a lot of tax dodges?

tokensane,
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@mlibby @QasimRashid I'm just trying to compare like with like. If the effective tax rate was zero percent then and zero percent now, it suggests that the problem is somewhere else.

newsthump, to random
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The woke definition mug (because some people still seem to think it means something else).
Get yours HERE >>> https://bit.ly/3LbjfDu

tokensane,
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@newsthump The evidence is that the MAGAts don't know what it means. They just know they don't agree with it, whatever it is.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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here's @RichardJMurphy deconstructing the 's 'story' on the national debt figures (which appeared on the BBC website this morning) - this is an excellent demonstration of the point @sjwrenlewis (& Murphy) have been making for some time;

the BBC's coverage is misinformed & is guided by the normalisation of as a policy!

Its not a simplification to communicate to readers, its a skewed politicised narrative to serve specific political interest!

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/04/25/the-bbc-should-in-the-interests-of-objective-reporting-present-a-balanced-view-on-the-national-debt/

tokensane,
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@zoic @ChrisMayLA6 @RichardJMurphy @sjwrenlewis I still haven't seen anyone explain what changed in Jan 2021.
http://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/26208.jpeg

Did the capitalists suddenly wake up and realise they could have been making so much more money?

tokensane,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @zoic @RichardJMurphy @sjwrenlewis But that's no explanation either. No individual capitalist needs "political cover" to raise prices, they just do it. But all round the world prices did the same thing at the same time. So either there is some Council of the Elders of Capitalism making and enforcing these decisions, or there is something else going on.

GottaLaff, to random
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, Tuckums!👋🏼 He’s all yours now, OAN or anyone else stupid enough to have him.

: out at !

"We thank him for his service to the network," Fox said.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tucker-carlson-fox-news/story?id=98801613

tokensane,
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@GottaLaff Is this because of their commitment to the highest standards of journalism?

neil, to random

I love visiting London. It has everything.

Get this: a place that sells printed eBooks!

tokensane,
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@neil While you are there, check out Foyles in Charing Cross Road.

oliphant, to random

shakes it off

Look, I don't care what server you're on. If I federate with you, we're good.

I do think, in my opinion, mastodon.social is far too large to be effectively moderated, there are bad actors out there it ignores or blocks belatedly--

However--

If you've made your server family part of your identity, if you love your server home and if it works for you, if you click 'Fave' buttons and the faves work, if you get notifications in a timely fashion, if it all seems to be working great for you, and it doesn't seem overly slow or burdened or unsafe, fine.

That wasn't my experience.

But if you are on any server and you start talking about all the spam you receive, or all the hateful comments you receive, and how this represents the "mastodon experience" I'm going to ask for more information.

For one, I'm going to want to know which accounts you had to block, what servers they came from, and possibly see if there's a common pattern there, or at least a common source.

You might block 10 accounts like whack-a-mole, but if they are all from the same server, it might be an issue where your server is federated with some server I want to investigate.

This inquiry appeared to piss some people off, and I lost a follower over it.

Anyway...sorry if I came off as a prick. I have strong opinions, but I try my best never to insult anyone personally.

tokensane,
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@oliphant Anyone thinking of running an open server should read @mmasnick on moderation and not becoming the Nazi Bar, and then make a plan for dealing with the issues. Otherwise you're just leading with your jaw.

GottaLaff, to random
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Does anyone remember this?

https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

tokensane,
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@GottaLaff In the absence of evidence I'm inclined to go with Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.

aral, (edited ) to internet
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Spam alert: thegx.ca/forum

Dear server admins,

If you see an account named thegx.ca/forum (thegx@…) pop up on your servers please suspend it. Some bastard has been setting up spam accounts all over. I’ve lost count of how many I’ve blocked and it’s getting annoying.

tokensane,
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@aral I've been followed by a couple. They haven't posted, so I suspect that following is what they are there for.

AriCohn, to random

No idea what Nazi controversy is going on about Substack, but this is a very weird thing to send to someone named Ari Cohn.

tokensane,
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@AriCohn @mmasnick
The concern I have (and why I am not joining ) is the trajectory.

If @mmasnick is correct, regular people will increasingly desert Substack. Then advertisers (I assume it has them) will desert it. You will be left alone with a few thousand fascists, and your articles will have advertising on them because that is all that is left.

At some point you too will have to move to somewhere else. So better do it now rather than later.

cautionwip, to random

“Wow!” you say excitedly, “there are wild peacocks in Victoria BC!”

“Yeah.” I reply with a flat affect, “it’s great.”

tokensane,
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@cautionwip Oh dear, another invasive species.

I've been around peacocks a bit in my youth. It's pretty cool for the first day or two, but it gets old real fast. Especially when the male insists on displaying to and then trying to mate with your broom.

Garwboy, to random
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Was recently asked which scientific 'myth' I'd like to see banished forever

Obviously, given my field and output, I had to choose 'we only use 10% of our brains'

It's not just a silly thing that leads to shoddy movie plots. It's worse than that

For one thing, the origins of the 'we only use 10% of our brain' notion are unclear. But analysis suggests it came about at least a century ago. Believe it or not, our understanding of the brain has improved by orders of magnitude since then

/1

tokensane,
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@Garwboy People who say "we only use 10% of our brains" are correct. They are talking about themselves.

tokensane, to random
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Inuit children invented their own system for writing numbers which makes arithmetic easier. Now its in Unicode.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-number-system-invented-by-inuit-schoolchildren-will-make-its-silicon-valley-debut/

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