rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

How about an extra 5% VAT on all good sold in mixed-materials packaging?

How about an extra 5% VAT on all good sold in non-recyclable packaging?

How about an extra 5% VAT on all goods sold in non-standard bottles and jars?

How about an extra 5% VAT on all goods sold with labels stuck on with non-water-soluble glue?

So that's an extra 20% for non-recyclable mixed-material non-standard bottles with bastard glued on labels...

Packaging would get sorted QUICK.

MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names - it makes you wonder what kind of crazy vulnerability is lurking in the dark.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams

poor person must be the child of a Republican legislator -

@robpike I like how it was worded in one of the SICP lectures:

“You stop thinking about iterative or recursive. You just say there’s this aggregate. There’s this list and I transform every item in this list. I stop thinking about the particular control structure and order.

“That’s very very important idea. I guess it really comes from APL. It’s sort of the really important idea from APL that you stop thinking about control structures and you start thinking about operations on aggregates.”

The small-scale, but high-profile, disruptions caused by Just Stop Oil protesters in the UK are extremely frustrating for many. But their single demand – for no licenses for new UK coal, oil and gas projects – is consistent with the science underpinning the international agreements that the UK has signed.

https://theconversation.com/science-shows-the-severe-climate-consequences-of-new-fossil-fuel-extraction-210846

'Disruptor' is a Red Flag for me, now.

You know what’s software engineering? Regaining control over a computer 20 billion kilometers away thanks to the design decisions made 50 years prior. #voyager2

Finally went through my footage of pink oyster mushrooms releasing their spores to find the very prettiest part.

#mushrooms #mushtodon #fungi

Some parts of the BBC have decided to join the Fediverse on their own instance https://social.bbc/about

"This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months, and then look at how much value it has provided, how much work it requires to maintain and then decide whether and how to continue."

Accounts being created include:

@BBCRadio4
@BBC5Live

And a few others.

Edit: confirmed https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

#BBC #BBCRadio4 #BBC5Live

That thing where you find an interesting blog that doesn’t have an RSS feed…

“Too bad. I guess I’ll never read this again!”

“Go on," said Twitter. “How's it gonna be. We gonna get a little place."

"We'll have a cow," said Elon. "An' we'll have maybe a pig an' chickens . . . . an' down the flat we'll have a . . . . little piece alfalfa- "

"For the rabbits," Twitter shouted.

"For the rabbits," Elon repeated.

A comment from Reddit:

"Three degrees was the apocalyptic outcome when I was a child. Now, it's the best case scenario."

https://reddit.com/comments/154snrg/comment/jsqt78y

#ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #collapse

You say: "Code craft is a waste of time. Just get it done already!"

I hear:

it is with a heavy heart that I regret to inform you that the tech bros have invented sails

"I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people." -- https://cohost.org/hystericempress/post/1731218-reflecting-on-it-th

The best [citation needed] ever.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_got_your_nose