@gvwilson it's weird, but close. We *are* that species. On a daily basis we steal the daylight from our past selves and place it gingerly in offering to our future selves, to try to extend our exposure to the precious yellow ball.
There are high transaction costs. Twice annually we pay with heart attacks and car crashes and death and dismemberment. But the sweet nectar of an extra hour of basking means we don't have to revert to the dark times of being as much at the whim of that damnable ball
@timbray might be worth looking at the solutions that @murena are doing with https://e.foundation ... They're using a lot of Free & Open Source (and a few proprietary bits) to provide replacements to Google software & infrastructure. I don't agree with all of their choices, but there are at least decent starting points for several of the items on your list (office, data sharing as OnlyOffice, Nextcloud, Rainloop; search with their hosted spot/searxng, etc). They have self hostable images, too
@br00t4c
> Canada Post offered banking services via its Post Office Savings Bank, created by the Post Office Act in April 1868, less than a year following the nation's confederation. A century later, the Post Office Savings Bank was shut down in 1968–69. Since at least the early 2010s, postal banking has been discussed and studied periodically, with postal unions backing the idea. Canada Post began rolling out postal banking services in late 2022, in partnership with TD
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system#Canada
@timbray oh, zunior may fail at:
> you must be able to purchase music track-by-track or as full albums
Usually sell only full albums
@timbray also, zunior.com in Canada
🚨Ford got caught. For months, his government claimed there was nothing wrong with their Greenbelt grab. Through @OntarioNDP FOI requests we see that Ford's staff repeatedly hid in emails using code names (G*) to replace "Greenbelt" to evade FOI request. https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-greenbelt-code-words/
'Places across the U.S. are testing no-strings cash as part of the social safety net' - @NPR
We should expand UBI programs.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1233440910/cash-aid-guaranteed-basic-income-social-safety-net-poverty
@ronaldo @signalapp @Jami @thenewoil ... or @snikket_im
I've read a lot online about how "Y2K was overblown". As an engineer who worked like crazy in 1999 to correct our systems this drives me crazy.
Today I read about games going offline, watches getting frozen and airline tickets showing the wrong date.
Because of a leap year. Which happens every FOUR years (give or take).
Yeah Y2K was a once every 1000 year issue.
Isn't 2038 going to be fun.
Just published my newest article. This one is about the billionaire-fueled effort to ban basic income experiments, the group responsible, and the names of their biggest known donors.
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study
Data are consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.