adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

@levisan i’ve got to assume the “no” votes were assuming some risk of lasting damage. or they are already financially well off enough to not worry about money, i suppose.

@levisan then it’s a no brainer. yes. would anyone say no?

@womble @Jackiemauro ah interesting. would that need some mechanism for differentiating from “legit” payments for service? (eg. paying a co to maintain your website or clean your boots, for example)

@Jackiemauro @womble i wonder if you could outlaw private equity without outlawing some basic tenet of how private business works that would make it unenforceable. would genuinely be interested in how this would work from a policy/legal perspective. could make a big difference if it was possible — somebody’s prob thought it through!

“7 people liked or boosted your reply”
whoa, so this is what twotter felt like
https://qoto.org/@sabbatical/113313265422631701

@levisan so i’m abducted but ultimately after 30 days im released and unharmed?

@ducksauz @mweagle every time i see "owned by ____, a private equity firm" i cringe and start looking for alternatives. latest realization was wp engine (owned by silver lake), which has for years been my go-to recommendation to people hosting wordpress sites.

@levisan "we're not a regular country, we're a *cool* country!"

@jbwharris @lfm_blue dude your lastfm bot is spamming the timeline like crazy

@pelavarre @schizanon huh, i took it to be a cultural reference developed out of an allusion to the biblical proverb “as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another”. jesus’s instructions were to address conflict resolution one-on-one first. so this would not be violent imagery, if that’s the reference

@Edent took me a minute to grok this since i was reading it as “ALsbestos” hah

@mike i dig the framework concept. saw a thread of folks with batteries going bad quickly for last years batch, which isnt great, but hopefully just a blip. you might like this laptop too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DA0Jr4WH-4

bach and business in the basement

@levisan only issue with this is that ive had flies play dead for a bit after quite a wallop. but if you’re making certain the job is finished, this is a power!

@freemo @freeschool @bibliolater i'm using the phanpy.social web client, so not having the same issues, but i am experiencing long-ish loadtimes, and actions like replies/posts/boost/likes often generate errors and have to be tried more than once before they'll "take".

@levisan wow, i dont think i'd be mad at all if someone prank called me! mind you, on my own number i only answer calls if i know who's calling already, but still.

@levisan wow, i dont think i'd be mad at all if someone prank called me! mind you, on my own number i only answer calls if i know who's calling already, but still.

if there were a service that alerted me when (and only when) this kind of organ-based musical event was going to be happening near me, i'd pay for that
https://musician.social/@elsemusic/113257682811288080

@levisan unfortunately i’m lefthanded, so ballpoints aren’t my favourite. this sent me down a rabbit hole of trawling their site to see if they had any pigment ink of felt tip pens. they do have gel, which will probably work well enough for me. but weirdly the code they sent with the pen for auto-populating my logo in their system doesn’t work!