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Tattie

Which one of you Fedi weirdos* was at the Edinburgh trans rights demo holding the sign saying:

private String gender
not
public const bool gender

* affectionate

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In the UK, why is there not a national campaign to convert larger properties in maisonettes? Household sizes are shrinking as families are having fewer kids, or none at all. We need more housing stock but nobody wants to build more and we don't have enough skilled tradespeople. Surely adding a staircase, a kitchen, and a bathroom is easier than building a whole new building?

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Why are corporation taxes, business rates, and employer NI contributions not defined by progressive bands like income tax, capital gains tax, and employee NI contributions are? Larger, wealthier businesses should pay more just as wealthier individuals do.

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Anon Opin

Maths class should have fun stuff like English has creative writing and science has experiments. Show some practical side to it and quit boring the kids.

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@anon_opin Here's my proposal: if I put it in a colander and come back in 10 minutes, and it's still in the colander then it's a dough.

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Peter

this is good. dylanbeattie.net/2025/04/11/th

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The energy consumption of using AI tools in my day job seems to be around the same order of magnitude as having a commute and yet I don't see people advocating for remote jobs for the climate, and yet I for sure know which has a bigger impact on my productivity!

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Being ultra rich is an illness. A deep, terrifying sickness. Once personal wealth surpasses a point at which you could lead a very comfortable life, the drive to amass and hoard more is an unnatural perversion. You aren't curing hunger. Or saving humanity. You're just unwell.

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It would be great if you could spend time banking certain jobs. Free half hour on the weekend? Shave five times, so you can redeem that time during the week. Put the bins out 52 times in a day and don't do it for a whole year. Spare time often comes at the wrong time.

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JA Westenberg

has anyone told Trump that the "great" in "great depression" didn't mean "good"

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Jason Gorman

"Universal Basic Income would remove the incentive to work", say people with enough money to never have to work again but who mysteriously carry on.

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Lou Plummer 💖

It really is that simple.

Text on a black background reads: "My whole political stance pretty much boils down to 'I care about other people and the planet' and wow does that make some people mad." There is a thinking face emoji at the end.
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@scottearle @anon_opin there’s a tax credit Americans can claim to avoid double taxation. As for why someone living abroad should still pay taxes in their home country: people of working age are net contributors to the tax coffers, supporting the education of children and the welfare of the elderly. Allowing working age people to work in tax havens without consequences forces those who are less mobile to pay more. Put it this way: if you move abroad whose paying for your parents state pension or paying back the money the state spent on your education

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Anon Opin

American's have one thing right, they tax their citizens according to US tax laws no matter where they live. We should do the same. None of this buggering off to Dubai or Monaco as soon as you've earned a few quid to be a tax exile.

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Anon Opin

What date is 5/4/2025? No-one knows because it wasn't written in ISO 8601 format. Please, let's just make that the format we all use everywhere. Variations can be used as plot points in detective fiction or farces. They'll warn us against the dangers of ambiguous communication.

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@anon_opin If America can extra-territorially tax it’s citizens and Brits still have to pay back their student loans after moving abroad, why can’t we tax billionaires even after they leave?

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Martin Rundkvist

“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team

#space

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Ryan Thomas

Still time for this to catch on

Petition to require every scientist to pronounce "molecules" and "particles" as if they're heroes of Greek mythology
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Prof. Sam Lawler

Self-care basketry projects this weekend: one uh... birdhouse? (or maybe suet block holder?) and one partially finished basket.

I was looking at various willow artists' websites for inspiration and the pictures on this website are just gorgeous: blithfieldwillow.com/basket-ga . Everything from wine stands to giant rabbits to coffins.

Everything is willow-able!!

(Where there's a willow, there's a way! Sorry I'm going outside now)

2 woven baskets, one has a big hole in one side and is roughly conical, the other is only partially finished and has long willow "uprights" tied together at the top. They are sitting on a wooden floor, with a bookshelf in the background.
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Vibe coding might reduced the demand for programmers, but it will only increase the demand for software engineers.

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