Here is a frank summary of this article: After the city of Pittsburgh could not compete in the market, production declined. Looking for another source of income the city started living off government subsidies. Now Trump is threatening to cut these subsidies and leave the residents with no "income". View quoted note →

Watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the wife. When we got to the Time Warp scene I told my wife: This is what a Open Source convention looks like. 😂 Too much?

The World Wide Web Consortium just went woke!

W3C

Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) becomes a first public Draft Note

This specification defines guidelines that use planetary, people, and prosperity principles (the PPP approach) throughout the decision-making proce...

#woke #oss #freedom

You deregulate, we’ll invest billions, industry titans to tell EU! It won't happen. The leadership in the EU are all about control. They think they know best. From their point of view, without their guiding hand, the markets will detriorate to chaos. They are not controlling the markets for their personal benefit. They are controlling it for the markets benefit. Even if the EU rulling class (the so called civil servants) act upon these suggestion, they will view these as temporary measures. Just to get the train rolling. Once it's rolling, they think, there will be a need for a strong hand (theirs) on the wheel. In other words, what the EU needs is a new way of thinking about markets, ownership and rights. If these titans would invest in educating the public, they won't need to try and convince the politicians. The people will change the politics. #philosophy #objectivisim #economy

Please tell me more why NHS is a good thing #socialism

This is why to have a peaceful flourishing society you need that the people in that society hold a philosophy for living on earth. A philosophy that pushes a person create connections with his fellow man. A philosophy based on rationality. https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1973197830388064423/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1973197830388064423&currentTweetUser=MarinaMedvin #philosophy #aynrand #hamas #objectivism

Am I the only person looking at this and saying: Good! This is how it should be?

Statista Daily Data

Infographic: U.S. Trust in Government Lowest in the OECD

This chart shows the share of respondents saying they trusted their national government (in percent).

I really don't understand #nostr / #amethyst notifications. The notifications tab always starts empty. Sometimes it would remain empty. Sometimes it would load the newest notifications there are. Only the new ones. And sometimes only notifications that are a year old. Can someone explain this? #asknostr