Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Berlin’s rent cap is illegal, Germany’s highest court rules https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/germany-highest-court-rules-berlin-rent-cap-illegal

I never really understood the obsession with living in big cities, but its an inevitable byproduct of overpopulation.

Welcome to the new colonialism: rich countries sitting on surplus vaccines https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/14/rich-countries-surplus-covid-vaccines

#disastercapitalism

US company illegally peddling ‘miracle cure’ bleach for new Covid variants https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/15/us-company-florida-oclo-bleach-covid-variants

Scrums full of unnecessary demos. :-(

I may have listed cmus in error. From the man page, it appears that it shuffles the whole library and queues it. Maybe I've added music and just happened to hit the same songs in the new queue. Still should look over the shuffle algorithm. I think new song priority would be an interesting concept to explore.

Why do music players have such bad shuffle algorithms? I always hear repeated repeats on shuffle mode. cmus is the latest to manifest this. I'll have to dig into how it's implementing shuffle. I would want a shuffle of my whole music library stored and played with a localized reshuffle when music is added to give the new music priority play.

I've also wonder if song play order determined by sorted hashes would give a shuffle effect. (Repeating over whole library, but ...)

@hjertnes Are you saying that, @fribbledom , is an agent of skynet? :-)

The next 40% might have only gotten 1-3% raises, but probably didn't get a raise in one of the last two years. This means most of the per capita income increase can be attributed to the top 10%. Considering the stock market gains, the whole per capita income increase likely means the 1% did very well and the rest of us lost money. #eattherich

Yesterday's paper was crowing about a 1.3% increase in per capita income; today's paper cited a 2.6% inflation rate for last year. Even ignoring the fact that government inflation numbers are much lower than actual cost of living increases, we can pretty much assume that the bottom 50% of earners got no raises last year. ...

@fitheach Frank Zappa on Roxy&Elsewhere talks about the movie, It Conquered the World, with a monster he describes as "an inverted ice cream cone with teeth around the bottom". He describes that as the monster comes out of the cave you can see a piece of 2x4 attached to it, and an off stage voice saying, "No! Get it back!". The song is called, Cheepnis.

Of course, after hearing it I had to verify what FZ said, and sure enough he wasn't lying.

@GuerillaOntologist "The union advanced no demands related to compensation or working conditions." I guess if you ask for nothing, you should expect nothing in return. Watched the UAW meekly submit to job losses in Kokomo, Indiana as Delphi went through bankruptcy. I was salary, but the loss of the union cost me 15 paid days off, another $1200/yr in compensation, and worse medical benefits. Even before that, the UAW was steadily giving ground to GM.

@dynamic @tfardet I misspoke. State representatives are part time. National representatives are full time. In Indiana, state representatives make about 2 times the national median income, so still pretty lucrative for part time (91 days in two years split 60/31).

At the national level, the sessions are (2019-2021) 193/164, which is still 3-4 times the amount of time off that most office workers get in the USA.

@dynamic @tfardet Interesting that members of the US Congress are considered part time, but their compensation is at least 5 times the median income.

@tfardet @dynamic I think, both, as well, but there is a pull toward relativity at the local level. National concerns get outweighed by the need of the local population. i.e., if local poverty is high, you're more apt to trade good paying jobs for a company's history of misdeeds. (As long as the smokestacks are downwind from our town...)

@dynamic @tfardet That does sound intriguing. I wonder how the dynamics of influence vs relationship forming would play out. Would it extend well into bigger representation areas? Compensation dynamics would be interesting as well. Require employers to allow government sabbatical, but who pays salary/benefits?