Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

@annmlipton Ahhhh. That sounds.... extremely reasonable.

@annmlipton So this is basically a stopgap until they can find a buyer? They're not actually permanently paying these people off with taxpayer money, right?

@lucifargundam Kerbal Fried Chicken?

@nsarwark For most of my life, it was absolutely "disrespectful to the millions who died" to "[evoke] the Nazis". But it occurs to me that the reason why is analogous to why one should not falsely cry "Wolf".

Only now, the wolves are trying to convince us that the lesson of that parable was to remain silent even as they circle our homesteads, ready to strike.

@w7voa This is what I'm hearing:

"That's a nice economy you got there. How much you willing to pay to keep it?"

@trinsec @cajun_cheechako My mom got me one of these for Christmas a few years back. I love it, just for ease of cleaning alone. And it probably works a little bit better than the ulu, simply because it's pizza-width already.

@lucifargundam @DavidBond Well, yeah, of course. I've been doing a variation on that for years (who doesn't?), but the efficiency isn't great, so I'm experimenting with strapping model rockets to the pigeons' backs.

I find it very strange that Mastodon allows people you've blocked to reply to your posts.

Otoh, I'm having a great deal of fun blocking entire domains of Nazis in my mentions, so that's a really nice feature.

@acjay Those are fair points. And I absolutely do feel bad for the employees living paycheck-to-paycheck who might not get paid.

But I still struggle to have any sympathy for the people and companies hoarding millions, especially when I see how often that money passes hands through nepotism.

It's definitely messier than anyone would like, but when the rich spend so much time concentrating their wealth instead of using it to fairly compensate the people doing the actual work, they shouldn't expect much sympathy when an event comes along that levels the playing field, even a little.

@DavidBond Do you accept hardware apps? Because two cups and a bit of string is secure AF.

@acjay "not a bank for rich people" yet it held billions for venture capitalists.

Real innovators typically don't have millions lying around in the bank... the lucky few with the right connections to get absurd funding for their absurd ideas do.

So, yes, us underfunded innovators are enjoying a bit of schadenfreude watching their incestuous self-dealing finance rings collapse.