I'm in Canada but if we have something similar, I would also decline it. I wouldn't be alive long enough for its full duration of 40 years, so I may as well not pre-emptively pay taxes on something I couldn't fully redeem.
Whoah in the United States if you win a game subscription prize, it's considered taxable income and you have to pay taxes. 😲
For those who missed Kickstarter: my book, Shift Happens, is now available for preorder in the new online store, to be delivered in October!
No future reprints are planned and the number of books is limited: https://shifthappens.site/store
"Emerging evidence seems to show that a four-day work week is win-win for employers and employees alike:
Productivity goes up, and so does employee well-being. A 2022 pilot program mega-study tracked 33 companies with reduced working hours and found that overall, employees were more satisfied with their work-life balance, experienced less burnout, and company revenues actually increased." Men also greatly increased their contribution to parenting.
via https://www.thestar.com/life/2023/04/16/what-a-four-day-work-week-would-mean-for-women.html
#science #economy
So I asked Blue Willow to make me a :
Smurf versus Godzilla, city battle, hollywood monster movie
And what I got back was not disappointing. 😋 It's a 3-way hybrid of Kong, Smurf and Godzilla, all blue and furry but with tail and tallons along the spine, with the face and mouth of Kong.
#MachineLearning #Generative #Image #AI #MonsterMovie #BlueWillow #Discord
My 5+ years evolution from Scawed No Pewpew #Mercy, to (Enemy) Heroes Always Die aggressiveness represented as my history with gaming computers so far. 👼 😈
#Research: How to Be a Better #Ally to the #LGBTQ+ Community
#Workplace #discrimination and #exclusion remain significant challenges for many workers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer and for other gender/sexual orientation minorities (LGBTQ+).
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA https://hbr.org/2023/04/research-how-to-be-a-better-ally-to-the-lgbtq-community
It's impossible to please folks as #Mercy in #Overwatch competitive mode if a team loses:
-Mercy defeats back-dive-flankers attacking her because nobody looks behind? MERSY Y U NO HEAL?
-Mercy takes out a sniper that everybody is ignoring and getting killed by. MERCY Y NO HLZ
-Mercy asks for sniper help. MERCY PLAY ANA KILL HER UR SELF
-Team kill happens while Mercy is desperately trying to chase after everyone who is off 1v1ing far in the weeds. MERSY U SUK.
Sigh. But I love Mercy. :D ❤️ 👼
#RepublicanParty #legislator in #Florida calls transgender people '#mutants' and '#demons'.
State Rep. #WebsterBarnaby made the #remarks at a #hearing to discuss #Transphobic #legislation known as the #SafetyinPrivateSpaces #Act.
- He thinks Apologizing is enough. It's not! Resign now!
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Florida #BathroomBill #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
PS: all your souls are belong to me. I play #Mercy in #Overwatch. Your lives are mine to decide what to do with. #necromancer
A republican governor in Florida called #transgender people mutants and demons from another planet today.
While I would so love to own both these, and I will claim the demon part muwahaha, we can’t be mutants from another planet because a mutant is mutated life from the same planet.
For me to be mutant AND from another planet, the governor would have to believe that alien life exists. His religion won’t allow him to. But hey, welcome to #science and wondering about the #Drake equation. :D
Tried to do MIDI-softsynth #music with my M1 #iPad Pro last night. Forgot that there isn’t a headphone jack on “modern” devices. So how to send a USB digital piano MIDI signal to the iPad, and hear the iOS app’s softsynth? Don’t bother using AirPods, the delay is so high from key press to when the tone is heard.
So I’ve had to join Dongle Club(TM) and ordered a USB-C hub that has a USB A port and a headphone jack. Sigh. This used to be so easy on older iPads. So much for techno “progress”.
PyDPainter – Open-Source Deluxe Paint Clone Written in Python
https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter
#pixelar #amiga #commodoreamiga #retro #retrocomputing #python
Lights' new chill-beats remixed version of her PEP album called "dEd" is very nice! Exactly the Sunday vibe I was looking for. <3
Bought my copy in high-res FLAC from: https://www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/178941
Taking children from their parents is one of the qualifying elements of a genocide.
IE: Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Found a weird thing hiding in macOS! https://waxy.org/2023/04/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos/
#Montréal got covered in freezing ice yesterday, felling trees and damaging homes, vehicles and more. Hundreds of thousands of people without power.
My mood-elevation-attempt comment to peers of “Climate change has angered the Ents” was not well received.
/usr/bin/girl $ cat bio.txt
Bonjour! I love music, chocolate, gaming, and spaaaaace.
Destiny Dead Thing Hunter.
Overwatch Battle Necromancer Mercy.
I feel all these things in my ghost. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️