Temple Square

Or, as a market-based solution: TurboTax raised the price for small business returns to about the same as hiring and accountant. So, now I just hire an accountant.

Correct. The tie is designed to cover the buttons of the shirt.

TIL you can cross between the border of Oklahoma and Colorado, technically…

That music video from the rooftop!

I guess you could say at least The World Trade Center went out with a bang!

^(I’ll show myself out now)^

A fool and his money are soon parted. From the same class of vehicles that tried to lock heated seats behind a monthly subscription.

You know what’s nice? Those cars can F right off. I won’t buy one new. And never will buy one used.

Always will be “budget” cars (Corolla, Civic, Versa, etc.) that won’t screw around with this crap because the buyers can’t afford to screw around with it.

TRY to paywall a heated seat in a Civic. I dare Honda. It won’t be more than 10 minutes before someone has it badly wired up like an aftermarket subwoofer.

The upside if we all use the term Google, is that over time Google will lose their ability to enforce their trademark.

what’s frustrating is that many of those websites are still there. but when I use Google to try to find them, they don’t show up in the results. not that they are buried on like page five of the results. they literally don’t show up anymore.

That actually sounds pretty good. Especially on a sausage pizza.

Road Guy Rob talks about how highway engineering works in a fun, highly animated way:

Here’s one about a bike lane disaster – where the city screwed up and undid it after a week:

https://youtu.be/zeynqnirofE

That’s fine. We make a new place.

That’s the beauty of the internet (and similarly, America). We just find a space to talk.

I realized today that maybe all I need is something to scroll and some comments to read.

Sunday, this place felt dead. But each day the traffic seems to pick up and I miss Reddit less and less.

In a few weeks, I won’t miss Reddit at all (at this pace)

But not for me. I’m forever gone.

And if there are enough power users (lots of comments, posts) like me who feel the same, it will have an impact.

There’s a HUGE middle ground between “nothing changes” and “reddit goes out of business.” As we see with Twitter, you can have a zombie platform that persists but slowly loses inertia month after month.

It’s not that Reddit dies abruptly. It’s that the platform is wounded now and, without attention, will bleed out slowly over many years.

I hope Spez gets sent to Sunnyside Daycare for all eternity.

Yes… let’s make people return to the most EXPENSIVE cities on the planet.

I know like three tech workers who permanently moved to Appalachia, the Ozarks, etc. They ain’t coming back. They can get another tech job in 3 days or less. So, they’re just going to do that.

This is a GREAT time for smaller companies who’ve been desperate to hire talent. They will be more than happy to accommodate remote work.

Frame is as: The Boomers are retiring in a “silver tsunami.” It’s going to be an employee’s market for the next few decades.

So, an employer can either:

• Work with a union to have single point of contact to know how to keep workers happy and sticking around the job. Everyone wins.

• Crush unions and lose that single point of contact. Then keep wondering, employee by employee what it takes to keep people around. Play whack-a-mole while spending a fortune on re-training and probably end up paying similar wages the union asked for in the first place. Everyone loses.

A union is to the employer’s advantage. A union is capitalism’s solution to keeping the bottom from revolting and embracing communism. Unions are good. Unions are American.

I hope lemmings sticks. It’s cure. It pokes fun at ourselves. It’s great.

I should be upset at you, Homer. But I’m just glad that Lemmy is okay.

I would have thought so of myself, but yet, here we are

These federated let me things really really remind me of the way Reddit used to be about a decade ago. And frankly, now that I found the Jerboa app, I really don’t miss Reddit at all.

I just wanted to find a place where I could scroll around and chat with other nerds. And that’s basically what Lemmy is.

Quora, basically.

I don’t think I’ve ever successfully read one of those, because Google brings me to the site and then it demands I log in. They even go so far as to blur all the content. It’s really really stupid.

It sure seems like half the herd has wandered off.