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I read books to pay the bills.
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  • We Desperately Need Maximum Wage Laws

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  • @desmosthenes but to go back to the first point - if they want to have a company in the US they will do it whether or not they're resident. Can't very easily employ thousands of Cayman Islanders in your billion dollar business. A Way would be found. But by structuring the business in such a way as to avoid whatever restrictions there are, there would at least be a small reduction in their cut. And a small reduction in billions is not insignificant. Plus... One fewer tax haven reduces options.

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  • @desmosthenes they also buy food and drink from your local town, rather than designer limited editions from Paris.

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  • @desmosthenes a lot of it is more likely to go into the Cayman Islands or investing in media they can control or buying politicians. Give $1b to one man or $20 each to 50 million people - bet you more money makes it into your local economy the second way.

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  • Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

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  • @CmdrShepard49 @dukemirage If ten people want to store or listen to the same original album at the same time then the creator gets to sell ten copies. Then they might hand them on, but ten copies are still out there. Maybe an eleventh person wants one but they're all in use - they're going to have to go back to the creator and buy a new one. If someone pirates one copy and gives it to nine people for them all to have at the same time then the creator only sells one copy, forever.

  • Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

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  • @BananaTrifleViolin @dukemirage a huge proportion of the stuff people watch on Netflix/listen to on Spotify is really old media you could get second hand on CD/DVD for pennies. I mean how much is a Friends box set going for nowadays

  • Vermont Republican lawmaker resigns over racist and antisemitic group chat

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  • Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

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  • @sugarinyourtea @BarneyPiccolo especially in a language as widely used as English with regional nuance that an NLP could never distinguish. When I say "quite" is it an American "quite" or a British "quite"? Same for "rather"? What does it mean if we're tabling this thing in the agenda? When/for how long is something happening, momentarily? Neither the speaker nor the program will have a clue how these things are being interpreted, and likely will not even realise there are differences.

  • Trump administration begins laying off more than 4,000 federal workers amid government shutdown, court filing shows

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  • @MutilationWave @chronicledmonocle fun fact: old printers didn't have it in their font sets so they used to use a Y which is why "Ye" exists as an old-fashioned "the"

  • Joe Rogan Slams Trump's 'Horrific' Immigration Policies

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  • @core @RestrictedAccount like watching the modern American equivalent of the British right-wing press in action. The Daily Mail was openly fascist until WWII started. Say what you want people to think while it's profitable, but if the worm turns, find a new opinion...
    It's a good thing. He's not as bright as he thinks and has few morals to speak of, but he's a good bellwether.

  • People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

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  • @TheGrandNagus @Cosmonauticus i can see a very dull future of filling in individual details for all minor-brand/non-US/homemade items in your fridge because the fridge doesn't have the details in its catalogue. Or the company changes the size but leaves the branding intact (hi, shrinkflation) so the fridge gets confused...

  • People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

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  • @TheGrandNagus @Cosmonauticus how would a smart fridge know whether a box of something or a carton of something was full or empty? Weight-sensitive shelves? Would you have to show it everything you put in or took out to make sure it registered? Seems like a faff.

  • Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state

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  • @Jason2357 @funkajunk I mean that was the initial selling point for Gmail wasn't it? Don't worry about deleting or archiving anything, ever, you can just search for it... Basic file management skills sidelined.

  • 'No one can find him': Trump drops from public view again after 'slurring' military speech

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  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • Kirk was all about debating : steamrolling arguments over his opponents without answering questions or going into details. This strategy impresses naive audiences, in truth it should be rejected

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  • @grrgyle yeah you can follow Lemmy topics on Mastodon - every comment in this one is auto-boosted by @politics and I can click in to see the whole conversation.

  • Kirk was all about debating : steamrolling arguments over his opponents without answering questions or going into details. This strategy impresses naive audiences, in truth it should be rejected

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  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • Rented e-bicycles more dangerous than e-scooters in cities

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  • @freebee @tunetardis regarding centre of mass - the bike, itself, is heavier than the scooter too. And "sit-up-and-beg" positioned shopper-style town bikes move your mass even further back - little chance of catapulting forward on one of those. The centre of mass is far lower on a bike.

  • Independence Pay. Made in Europe

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  • @quicksnail @polle Hmmm. A bank transfer (my banks literally call it "send money") or standing order is different from a direct debit authorisation - the first two are me sending money, the last is me letting them take it. Pretty sure we don't need a special app. My bank apps even allow me to send money to a phone number.