Mark A. RaynerCat, powering up for a busy Tuesday ... of napping.
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Musician/songwriter with The Worldwide Whelks, The Snakecharmers, Gato Dama
Steven RosenthalIf NPR is “State Media” because it’s 1% US funded then why isn’t Elon’s Twitter account “Saudi State Media” when it’s 4.5% funded?
RC deWinterLet’s get real about #SocialSecurity .
The 2023 taxable max is $160,200 We pay 6.2% into Social Security on earnings up to $160,200 for the year. So the rich slide by while the rest of us pay a disproportionate amount. This can be fixed. Raise the cap!
@michellepostoncombs A LOT of people take life way to seriously. Fuck 'em.
@Popehat I have become more liberal as I've seen policies, particularly economic ones, I espoused fail spectacularly. I've come to realize that our large, interrelated country, with vast resources needs a viable social safety net, including good healthcare available to all, strong regulation while enhancing competition in the marketplace (strong anti-trust) & real labor protections. At one time this might have made me a liberal Republican. Those days are over and the GOP is never going back.
@gmusser @swissmiss Thanks for info, I'll check that out. I had given up on to-do apps because none of them suited me. As a champion procrastinator, I probably would have liked Put It Off, ha.
@sethcotlar @donieosullivan Same for me.
Muyi XiaoOur latest story (also my first Mastodon post!):
Twitter users were drowned with adult content spam when they searched for information about the historic anti-lockdown protests in China.
Through data analysis and interviews with people behind bots, we found that much of the spam is linked to commercial bot networks.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/19/technology/twitter-bots-china-protests-elon-musk.html
David WrightOne of the things people value in a principled person: stability and reliability. If you know their principles and they have shown themselves to live by their principles: you know what you are going to get. You know their actions are not going to swing dramatically by circumstance and appetite. Of course, the content of principles matters, and if a person's principles are bad, you get reliably bad results. But that seems rarer than the chaos and dislocation that comes from unprincipled people.
Brian Bilston