My modest proposal: Failing water companies should go bankrupt, their investors lose everything, their boards and C-suites be fired, and the gov should buy them for £1 and run them as national utilities. Ditto the railways and privatised energy orgs that price-gouged us last 2 winters. Then every statue of Thatcher & her ideological allies should be melted down and turned into commemorative medals to celebrate the day we free ourselves of the stupidity that saw the nations' utilities and housing stock sold to profiteering wideboys.
@brucelawson And for some additional context: there was a time in the 1990’s, and extending into the 2000’s, when neo-liberal fever gripped Singapore.
A lot of previously-nationalised companies were privatised, and where companies were already technically privatised, their primary industries were liberalised. Telecommunications, public transit, national TV, print media - you name it, they privatised and/or liberalised it.
@djlink By imposing high switching costs on their users making it impossible for most users to jump ship ( @pluralistic wrote about this countless times as part of what he terms enshittification).
And maybe also being in cahoots with the US government helps too.
If you are on one of the many Fediverse platforms and want to be more discoverable I highly suggest adding your profile to this opt-in directory. If you aren’t sure how: first, add the #fedi22 hashtag to your profile’s bio, then go to the directory’s website, click on the menu > Directory, click “Add Account”, and follow the instructions from there.
You may also want to add more relevant hashtags to your bio first to improve discoverability.
@notjustbikes in my city in Spain (Oviedo), after years of doing the bare minimum, the city council is finally doing some more serious bike and pedestrian infrastructure. This one should connect some of the farthest neighbourhoods with the city center in what's essentially a straight line. Quite excited about this.
@gyozaPower@notjustbikes Pretty similar situation here in Singapore as well. After years of putting in pretty bad and half-hearted cycling infrastructure, our country is now finally starting to put in serious cycling infrastructure. For example, in the suburban new town of Ang Mo Kio, they are constructing a new separated cycling road together with expansions works to an existing metro station (which will be a stop on a new metro line).
Anyone here speaks Spanish and/or from Chile here? Found this really awesome Latias/Latios shirt on a Chilean web shop here (and yes it’s based on the design of that Latias & Latios GX card I love so much) and I would really love to buy it, but the entire site’s in Spanish (a language I don’t speak), and I’m not sure if they accept payments from or shipping to Singapore too.
It’s a shame that Thunderbird still doesn’t have true running-in-background and silent startup-in-background features yet. This is definitely something Mozilla needs to get working on for Thunderbird, in my opinion.
Psst @thunderbird you hear me? Maybe some sort of background task that lives in the system tray that continues to check and notify you of new emails or calendar alerts even after the main app has closed, and silently starts up with the OS on logon.
Finally decided to ditch the horrible new Outlook app (which is nothing more than a glorified web app that's painfully slow, bloated, and broken half the time) and switched to Thunderbird. Not going to look back here, Microsoft took a perfectly-good mail/PIM client and destroyed it.
The worst thing about the new Outlook app was how Microsoft stuffed actual ads into it. And not like "hey check out this app that the devs totally didn't pay us to promote! 👀" ads, I mean actual, full-on promoting garbage and junk ads. Worse, they made it look like email messages too. URGH.
With the TBSync and the Exchange ActiveSync Provider extensions updated for the latest Thunderbird versions I can now also access all my Outlook services in Thunderbird too.
Why does it feel like Signal will just fall down the same enshitification hole that Telegram did?
“Free” service…gonna need to make some real money somehow eventually.
It’s got leg up on TG now but really not in the mood of jumping platforms again. (That and I barely use TG anyway, just a few friend groups that aren’t elsewhere).
Feel like I was the last furry using Pidgin for YIM, Gtalk, AIM, MSN, and Skype… avoided TG as long as possible until everyone was there and gone from other services.
Diary of an ASD Squirrel. Day 205 , Monday 20/05/2024
Was up till the early hours of this morning with stomach cramps after last nights daring attempt to eat scrambled eggs & beans for tea.
Spent the day getting lots of exercise up & down the stairs to take a pew, if you get my drift.
Attempted to interact on here a couple of times but my brain is apparently on sick leave so it didn’t go exactly to plan 🙄🤦♂️
Hopefully tomorrow will be better !
Final Thoughts.
Is the babel fish truly a fish if it spends most of its life out of water ?
This & other great questions of our age will have to wait until I can think straight!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
I have just posted basically a complaint to Microsoft's Feedback Hub app about how bad and screwed-up their new Outlook app is. If you are on Windows as well, please head over to my suggestion there and upvote it; make the folks at Microsoft see this, please.
