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LisaKalayji, to Medicine
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Abolish capitalism, exhibit eleventy-million:

"Moderna is quadrupling the cost of covid vaccines, from $26/dose to $110-130. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel calls the price hike "consistent with the value" of the mRNA vaccines. Moderna's manufacturing costs are $2.85/dose, for a 4,460% markup on every dose...

What will Moderna do with the billions it reaps through price-gouging? It won't be research. To date, the company has spent >20% of its covid windfall profits on stock buybacks and dividends, manipulating its stock price, with more to come...

It's not an outlier. Big Pharma is a machine for commercializing publicly funded research and then laundering the profits with financial engineering. The largest pharma companies each spend more on stock buybacks than research."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity

tokyo_0,
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@LisaKalayji @rysiek How long will it take them to recoup the costs of development?

tokyo_0, to random
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Have sent five e-mails this week now in a back and forth about items ordered and whether they are fit for dispatch.

Last week I sent six to follow up on payment being acknowledged, shipping and the delivery address.

I feel guilty for digging my heels in over details, for wanting to know the order status and that items will be shipped in good condition and as advertised.

But it's not wrong to want what you've paid for.

I've almost abandoned all hope of this order not just getting cancelled 🙃

tokyo_0,
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Which reminds me, I think some reasons I've felt so defeated through my life with household tasks and administration is not recognising how long some things really take to make happen, and also not counting time I spend towards them (especially when tasks become more complex than expected).

tokyo_0,
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Many household tasks take longer than you think.

If you don't count time you spend on them because you thought you'd only spent minutes when it was hours, or you didn't know how long it would take, or the process ballooned into five times as many steps as you'd thought would be involved, all you see is that they're still not done yet, and that your time has somehow vanished but you don't know where, and that your to-do list has nothing crossed off of it. It feels like the problem is you.

tokyo_0,
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@ArtBear Right? I'm pretty sure a lot of people must experience this and just end up overwhelmed but never really understand why.

tokyo_0,
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@ArtBear Yup, those unexpected sudden extra tasks are the worst for it, and especially when they have that complexity that isn't immediately obvious, as you say.

Hope everything can be repaired quickly and that it turns out to be less complex than it seems right now — it must be so disheartening to have to deal with damage like that.

tokyo_0, to meta
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"WhatsApp user data, ProPublica has learned, helped prosecutors build a high-profile case against a Treasury Department employee who leaked confidential documents to BuzzFeed News that exposed how dirty money flows through U.S. banks."
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users

Just being Meta again. But hey, they might behave with integrity in their dealings with the , right? 🤪

seachanger, to random
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Amed Khan is an American humanitarian worker who has delivered relief to Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Congo etc.

When asked why he withdrew campaign support for Biden, Khan says it's simple: "ethnic cleansing is where I get off the bus, right?"

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/deconstructed-podcast-gaza-humanitarian-aid/

tokyo_0,
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@jhall251 Anyone who has turned their TV on in the past three months knows that. Try harder. @seachanger

tokyo_0, to random
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thinks: "why am I so hungry?"

...

"oh yeah, I never finished making lunch"

(It's 6:15pm)

🫣🙃🤪

tokyo_0, to random
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Everyone might know this, but you can set up wire transfers direct into a recipient's bank account (using the same details they'll give you if they ask you to do a conventional wire transfer) using . They'll guarantee the exchange rate for a couple of days while you pay the money in on your side (can be done after setting up the transfer) and even give you a nice tracking page you can share with your recipient. They send you the transaction reference afterwards, too. It's very smooth.

kushal, to webdev
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Is there any good book/articles/workshops/videos to teach how to write (only) the in a proper accessible way? I am specifically trying to figure out the HTML part first.

tokyo_0,
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@kushal Presuming you must've seen this one 👉 https://www.w3schools.com/html/ ... it's a while since I looked at it, so it may have some CSS mentioned as you go along. Or do you mean specifically the accessibility part? (ie how to make the code most suited for screen readers etc)

tokyo_0, to random
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@kushal I ended up writing a toot or two about my to-do list setup in Trello and remembered you'd been asking about tools, so figured it might be of interest: https://mas.to/

I wouldn't have thought of using Trello for to-dos to begin with but the automation lets you do some interesting things.

tokyo_0,
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@kushal Any reason? (I wasn't aware of them getting up to no good, but if they have it'd be useful to know)

grendel84, to random
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The absolute gall of this question. A required question, mind you.

I will likely not be getting called in for an interview, but it was totally worth it.

#jobsearch #jobhunt #capitalism

tokyo_0,
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@mvilain The problem is, we are in a position of strength and able to do these things. The practices should be made illegal so no one who isn't in that position can be compelled to do them. @grendel84

tokyo_0, to random
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Noticed this a while back, but Twitter is basically trashed now for anyone who liked using it to watch and share media clips. Uploading a 2 minute clip in an HD resolution and bitrate takes about 15 minutes now. And they're immediately reencoded to a horribly low resolution, with the audio left out of sync. Guessing it's due to Musk trying to save pennies any way he can.

tokyo_0, to mastodon
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needs the ability to mute a conversation (from a given toot onwards).

tokyo_0, to FediPact
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If I have to debunk the "There's no point -ing Meta because they'll just scrape what's public" argument one more time I might have to pull out my own eyes.

Beyond the technicalities, or law, there is value in challenging what is wrong even if assholes will still try to do it. There is value in people expressing concerns and working together as a group to address them. There is value in showing those who didn't speak up or act because they thought they'd be alone that they are not.

tokyo_0, to random
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Is the problem exclusively capitalism, or the breathless obsession with "small government" and the insistence that regulation is "socialism" (when it isn't, and is actually necessary for capitalism to operate in a healthy way that benefits humanity)?

tokyo_0, to random
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"They didn't understand why they and their friends were all summoned by the police one day after they stopped by the protest," she said. "One reasonable suspicion is that the police may have used surveillance technology to determine the location of protesters' phones at a specific place and at a specific time."

https://www.dw.com/en/china-fights-lockdown-protests-by-targeting-smartphones/a-63953000

drupler, to Logseq
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Started using for notes taking -- and loving it till now. A good replacement for .

tokyo_0,
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@drupler Very interesting. For capturing snippets of websites I use hypothesis - it took a while to find that, but there's a plug-in for Firefox and it's super useful.

tokyo_0, to random
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Oh, you know that nuclear power station they said wasn't affected by Monday's tsunami?

Actually it was. The water level in a seawater tank for Unit 2 was raised by 3 meters, for 15 minutes, about an hour and a half after the earthquake.

https://www.msn.com/ja-jp/news/techandscience/%E5%BF%97%E8%B3%80%E5%8E%9F%E7%99%BA%EF%BC%92%E5%8F%B7%E6%A9%9F%E3%81%AE%E6%B0%B4%E6%A7%BD%E6%B0%B4%E4%BD%8D-%E4%B8%80%E6%99%82%EF%BC%93%EF%BD%8D%E4%B8%8A%E6%98%87%E3%81%A8%E8%A8%82%E6%AD%A3-%E8%83%BD%E7%99%BB%E5%8D%8A%E5%B3%B6%E5%9C%B0%E9%9C%87%E3%81%AE%E6%B4%A5%E6%B3%A2%E5%BD%B1%E9%9F%BF/ar-AA1ms4E0?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTE&cvid=831c0991c74c47c9b226665d9915067b&ei=6

"Information sharing between related parties was inadequate," says Hokuriku Electric Power Company, which operates Shiga Nuclear Power Plant.

(The seawater is used to cool the spent fuel pool, which is interesting.)

jwildeboer, to random
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Wildeboer’s third theorem: Every commercial centralised service that offers “free” services and relies on ads and/or a percentage of subscription/donation fees ends up being supportive of misinformation, hate speech and far-right to nazi content. Either through ignorance or acceptance.

tokyo_0,
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@kkarhan Even if you block a user after they've posted an unhelpful reply, others will still see the reply. It's only you that won't see it. They won't be able to post more replies, either, but that doesn't help with the reply that's already there. @jwildeboer @Gargron @evan

Theblueone, to random
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My opinion of federation with Threads has moved from agnostic to “hell no” as I try and get the vibe of Threads and realize it’s the worst of Twitter and the worst of Insta/Meta mashed together - influencers, toxicity, algorithmically driven, etc.

tokyo_0,
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@Theblueone Yeah... I'm actually surprised at how bad it is.

Theblueone, to nyc
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Up early at 5am and hitting the local 24 hour diner for New Years Day breakfast. Starting the year properly.

tokyo_0,
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@Theblueone Hope all your people are safe 🙏

drahardja, to fediverse
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Once in a while I have about a software system that keep nagging at me, and over time it usually becomes clearer why something has been bothering me.

Tonight’s moment of clarity is that there is a fundamental problem with the , and it is that SERVERS CONTINUE TO OWN MY IDENTITY ON THE NETWORK. They may not be commercial servers, but they are still someone else’s computers over which I have little control.

Moving between servers is a high-friction activity: I lose all my posts and all my friends. Sure, I can reimport those lists in my new home, but my friends would have to rely on a forwarding note I left in my previous server to find me. I sure hope that old server won’t block my friends or go out of service, because then they’ll never find me.

tokyo_0,
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@drahardja Have you looked at Hubzilla? It handles this very well, although since it's written to use a different protocol and only has ActivityPub as an add-on it doesn't always play so well with other ActivityPub-based Fediverse apps (like Mastodon)

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