billionaires are the sad victims of an inadequate tax code, which has allowed them to become surrounded by an isolating bubble of sycophants, severed from participation in community and ordinary fellowship. we owe potential victims of this condition prevention, and those already suffering remedy.
@marick whatever you want!
@laprice ass — artificial super sycophancy
sycophancy as a service.
[new draft post] Constant real wages can hide a lot of pain https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/12/28/constant-real-wages-can-hide-a-lot-of-pain/index.html
if you want to get shit done, rather than a “strong man”, instead of autocracy, have you considered a democratically elected unicameral legislature which directly appoints and can remove the executive?
the fraction of communication we experience — across all media, excluding what is explicitly fiction — that is in one form or another a lie is extraordinary.
since AI is going to solve all the medical miracles now, we can dispense with the exorbitant patent rents, right?
so much of civilization is keeping one’s vexations to oneself.
@light Thank you! You too!
nowadays if you’re naughty he just farts into it because natural gas is cleaner.
@LanceJZ they always find a way to escape, i tell ya…
you can never find scissors. not when you need them. never. so you end up buying another pair. until you move. then they all appear, come out of the woodwork, hundreds of them, snapping at you.
“There is no point in criticizing something if some law of nature means that it must be so. But there is, despite claims otherwise, no law of nature which says we have to be bastards to each other or to the species we share this world with.” @ianwelsh https://www.ianwelsh.net/we-dont-have-to-live-in-hell/
love it when a university i attended 20 years ago writes to let me know they've been hacked and they've leaked my social.
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org i suppose whatever the good guys in star wars were trying to do.
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org that’d be the root of all good too.
we’ve been gaslighted into believing that gaslighting is a thing.