josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

I believe pay is directly proportional to how hard it is to hide the fact that one's own job is useless or even harmful to society. That would explain essential workers having such low wages. What's tragic is that we value our own work according to this principle, and that's why cleaners feel useless while hedge-fund managers think of themselves as essential.

By the way, in this video, or maybe in another one, Glenn points out that one of the justifications bin Laden gives in the letter for 9/11 attacks (i.e., that, because the US have free elections, everyone was responsible for the actions of their government and that made them an acceptable target) is the same one the Israeli government uses for the genocide in Gaza (i.e., that a part of the population, not even a majority, voted for Hamas in 2005, so they're all Hamas and that's why they should all be blown to smithereens, children and women included).

Wow, even archive.org have removed access to The Guardian's translation of bin Laden's “Letter to America”. I thought they had only one job and it was _the exact opposite_ of that.

Here's one of the few journalists with a spine making the case for why you should be allowed to read it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj1cVzUXktg

Ordering a pizza online is more hassle than doing it on the phone, and it destroys jobs, too. No wonder they have to lure you into it with discounts. Fortunately, I don't eat pizza often enough to make it worth my while.

Sadly, I'm missing it, but you don't have to.

Read this thread for an example on how a harmless gardening post can turn into a brutally racist tirade for no reason other than, you know, Texas.

I finally discovered what the Watch and Star buttons do in Codeberg and now I'm unstarring a lot of repositories.