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  1. Comment on MITRE support for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program will expire tomorrow in ~comp

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    That comparison is poignant. Do you mind if I steal it in explaining my own experience elsewhere?

    That comparison is poignant. Do you mind if I steal it in explaining my own experience elsewhere?

    1 vote

  2. Comment on MITRE support for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program will expire tomorrow in ~comp

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    Thank you, very little of this made sense to me up front due to not having the broader context.

    Thank you, very little of this made sense to me up front due to not having the broader context.

  3. Comment on US abortions hold steady but fewer cross state lines for procedure, study finds in ~health

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    Telehealth increases are good, if shield laws hold. Ok the other hand the reduction in travel being at least in part due to just being out of funding from the existing support networks is bad. Add...

    Telehealth increases are good, if shield laws hold.

    Ok the other hand the reduction in travel being at least in part due to just being out of funding from the existing support networks is bad. Add Planned Parenthood being under attack once again and I worry about how long the patches to our broken system hold.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on What's a secondhand heartbreak you've experienced? in ~talk

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    It's awful, and also I don't wish for the day when it stops, not for anything.

    It's awful, and also I don't wish for the day when it stops, not for anything.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Millions of people are tuning in to watch a 24-hour livestream of moose migrating on the streaming platform for Sweden's national broadcaster SVT in ~tv

  6. Comment on Death to nickels in ~finance

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    I don't think this is an area where small businesses suffer, especially if most of their business is local. The same software (or an equivalent) that calculates the cost of taxes now can be used...

    I don't think this is an area where small businesses suffer, especially if most of their business is local. The same software (or an equivalent) that calculates the cost of taxes now can be used on the front end. If they're doing online orders already they've probably got what they need. If they're doing those orders manually due to the peculiarities of their type of business, then they're going to do the same math for a VAT style tax manually.

    In many ways this isn't that different from when I pay a flat rate at a farmers market in cash and the + tax amount on a card. They're still paying their taxes (or at least most of them are, idk I'm not their accountant) they're just baking it into their sale price, and using the increased card price to cover the processing fee.

    Small businesses often do this already when allowed given receipt laws.

    Again I'm not saying a sales tax is the ideal answer, just that inconvenience for large corporations advertising nationally or pricing their iPhones- which has been the focus, not small business - is not the reason not to do it.

    As for in store (which feels like a pivot), prices legitimately are changing all the time. When I worked at a local dept store we were repricing things regularly. The local IGA prints off labels or hand writes them just as easily. Tax law doesn't change as often as grocery store pricing does for certain. And every gas station, from Freedom to Circle K, updates their tobacco prices regularly and clearly that I've seen at least, whether they're manually typing in prices or using a high tech POS, or whether they're committing EBT fraud. (And if they can manage EBT fraud they can manage pricing)

    2 votes

  7. Comment on What's a secondhand heartbreak you've experienced? in ~talk

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    My partner's loss of the ability to walk. He's wanted to travel to Europe with me, at some far future date, and flying is basically impossible at this point given the level of chair support he...

    My partner's loss of the ability to walk. He's wanted to travel to Europe with me, at some far future date, and flying is basically impossible at this point given the level of chair support he needs. A cruise wouldn't be impossible necessarily but they're often not great, and so much of the world feels closed off to him.

    I'm trying to help him tell new stories with the new normal, and not give up hope for improvement without bullshitting him, but some days he's just so sad. And I just want to cry with him

    15 votes

  8. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (April 2025) — Version 1.4 adds a text size setting in ~tildes

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    I have not noticed this since, but I haven't been doing as much link editing so I think we're good but I'll update if not!

    I have not noticed this since, but I haven't been doing as much link editing so I think we're good but I'll update if not!

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Millions of people are tuning in to watch a 24-hour livestream of moose migrating on the streaming platform for Sweden's national broadcaster SVT in ~tv

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    Direct link to the stream https://svtplay.se/den-stora-algvandringen For the non swedish speaking folks, the top button is accept all cookies should that pop up. We're up to 2 moose

    Direct link to the stream
    https://svtplay.se/den-stora-algvandringen

    For the non swedish speaking folks, the top button is accept all cookies should that pop up.

    We're up to 2 moose 🫎

    6 votes

  10. Comment on Death to nickels in ~finance

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    That's what I don't understand, companies already have to do this! It just makes it front facing. And if it drives business local then all the better IMO.

    That's what I don't understand, companies already have to do this! It just makes it front facing.

    And if it drives business local then all the better IMO.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on El Salvador won’t return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported Maryland resident; Department of Justice will leave it up to El Salvador in ~society

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    This is one of the linked sources, he controls the narrative on social and traditional media, makes people "feel" safe and is riding the wave of being an alternative to past corruption.

    This is one of the linked sources, he controls the narrative on social and traditional media, makes people "feel" safe and is riding the wave of being an alternative to past corruption.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 14 in ~society

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    Which is the exact chilling effect they want. At least they're prepped. Ugh.

    Which is the exact chilling effect they want. At least they're prepped. Ugh.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Death to nickels in ~finance

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    I already have to do math or input my zip code to know the final price, I don't have to divide and multiply, just estimate the difference in percentages, which I'll know since that percentage will...

    I already have to do math or input my zip code to know the final price, I don't have to divide and multiply, just estimate the difference in percentages, which I'll know since that percentage will be everywhere. We estimate this stuff all the time now.

    Most people estimate their tax all the time. And apparently Europe already has you input a location for their iPhone-like purchases, so why would this be difficult?

    But ok let's say big online purchases are the worst. People don't make as many of those as they make local ones. Let's look at picking up lunch in a drive thru even if you pre-order on an app. The prices are exactly what you pay, no surprises and looking for a penny, no extra buck or two tacked on there. What about a convenience store while traveling? You just need to grab shaving cream because you left it on the plane, wouldn't it be nice to know if you have the cash for it, in this new location with unknown tax? I may have memorized the cost of my breakfast sandwich with tax but it'd be nice to know if I've popped to the next city over is that the same price?

    Even at big storefronts, Amazon knows my address, I have an account, so I could be getting accurate prices as I'm searching through.

    I think you're overstating how much actual math is done by people in these situations vs the same estimating we do all the time, just with a higher base level of price transparency. Maybe everyone in VAT countries are miserable at all times over the math but I sincerely doubt it. It seemed to work fine when I visited (and I got VAT back) but it was a long time ago

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Murderbot | Official trailer in ~tv

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    I think I'd call them dryly sarcastic but not comedic, which I can see where you'd get the wrong impression. I'm glad you enjoyed, I think they're excellent

    I think I'd call them dryly sarcastic but not comedic, which I can see where you'd get the wrong impression. I'm glad you enjoyed, I think they're excellent

    3 votes

  15. Comment on There must be Nazis in the White House. EO 14188 -> 14/88. in ~society

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    I said on a previous thread, this could be a hell of a coincidence, but I also strongly suspect that Miller or Musk or Bannon or any number of the people who fully align themselves with white...

    I said on a previous thread, this could be a hell of a coincidence, but I also strongly suspect that Miller or Musk or Bannon or any number of the people who fully align themselves with white supremacy, trolling the libs and just being awful individuals, would have seen the opportunity and made sure this aligned on purpose for the lulz/liberal tears/whatever the fuck makes them happy today besides locking up innocent people in El Salvador. There was a clear fascist salute at the inauguration. I think we can stop pretending they don't know.

    I don't think it's a secret message, I think it's overt and intentional as trolling at a minimum. It would have been incredibly easy to not have the topics of antisemitism (and to be clear as noted by Timothy Snyder, this is authoritarianism masked as protecting Jews while inevitably harming Jews) on this specific number if anyone cared. And they don't. This doesn't require a conspiratorial mindset. It's just acknowledgement that the Republican administration is made up of some really shitty people.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Harvard hit with $2.2 billion funding freeze after rejecting US President Donald Trump’s demands in ~society

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    It's possible they'll include grants for things like TRIO or Upward Bound (designed to help provide services for first gen students for example) but most often what I see are research grants -...

    It's possible they'll include grants for things like TRIO or Upward Bound (designed to help provide services for first gen students for example) but most often what I see are research grants - those could be for any department that's doing the research. The broad nationwide freeze didn't touch Title I money or those TRIO funds but I don't think any university has broken down what these retaliatory freezes include.

    I know of an IL public university that lost funding on hardier crop seeds - which would have had some immediate benefits abroad but also benefits in the US when climates change, which were the two main reasons it was likely targeted. (It probably said something about diversifying crops too the way this has been going).

    That was part of their whole freeze/funding review thing though. I'm going to see if I can get an answer, but broadly a lot of research, some contracts too from the articles I'm seeing but I'm not sure what those would be besides research.

    ETA: Northwestern only highlighted research grants so that may be the bulk of the target. Unclear if they're going a different route with Harvard. Harvard has at least expressed a willingness and ability to fight.

    9 votes

  17. Comment on There must be Nazis in the White House. EO 14188 -> 14/88. in ~society

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    As I noted above, this isn't numerology. I don't see the Nazi rhetoric as a joke, and while a few decades ago someone saying they named a department after a Shiba Inu meme turned crypto currency...

    As I noted above, this isn't numerology. I don't see the Nazi rhetoric as a joke, and while a few decades ago someone saying they named a department after a Shiba Inu meme turned crypto currency would sound insane, that's what actually happened. So I don't think it's nearly as ridiculous as you seem to.

    I appreciate that it was intended as a joke, but genuinely it was not obvious to me. Thanks for the clarification

    5 votes

  18. Comment on There must be Nazis in the White House. EO 14188 -> 14/88. in ~society

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    Yeah he's been open about wanting that lately. I don't know what to do.

    Yeah he's been open about wanting that lately.

    I don't know what to do.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Death to nickels in ~finance

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    It would be the standard, so it would be very easy to get used to. Alternatively, they charge everyone 849.99 and make more or less money per area. It would also potentially discourage the large...

    It would be the standard, so it would be very easy to get used to. Alternatively, they charge everyone 849.99 and make more or less money per area. It would also potentially discourage the large online marketplace in favor of the local store or small regional online business who can better estimate. Which IMO is a fringe benefit.

    But see the local stores don't do that now, even though they could, because their prices can be undercut by the big boxes not doing that.

    I already don't see a final price until the end, so I'm sure they can figure it out and my experience is already poor, so if we must do sales tax, which is annoyingly regressive, the reason not to do something like VAT isn't because it's hard on large national retailers' advertising and website design.

    There are other reasons, perhaps, but I don't give a damn about how hard it is to advertise their phone/burger/taco as one of them. (And as noted by another commenter, I've been paying more than the national advertising price for combos and pizza specials for years due to IL having a higher minimum wage, so I'm underwhelmed by the concern.)

    Edit to fix a word

    7 votes

  20. Comment on Death to nickels in ~finance

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    I think that sounds like a problem for the corporations to have to deal with. Why should our life be harder and more confusing to make their advertising easier? I understand that's why it won't...

    I think that sounds like a problem for the corporations to have to deal with. Why should our life be harder and more confusing to make their advertising easier?

    I understand that's why it won't happen but I do think that it's a ridiculous reason when it comes down to it.

    16 votes