Some measure of sympathy and class solidarity is the only thing keeping me from carving my opinions into the ubers that veer into the bike lanes every day in this city.

I've got none of these compunctions about Waymo. None.

https://mastodon.green/@ronanmcd/116459198153461110

Ich muss immer wieder an einen Abschnitt aus der Scheibenwelt denken. Sinngemäß so:

"Wo ist denn der Premierminister?"
"Im Gefängnis"
"Wieso das?"
"Wir sperren sie ein, sobald sie gewählt wurden. Das spart Zeit"

Hachja

With all due respect to everyone involved, I do not care about Tim Apple or his replacement John Apple, and am slightly annoyed it's a lead story on almost all news outlets. I remember when tech industry news was contained to special publications or a Saturday afternoon special lighthearted bbc news segment. I don't need to know this stuff. The only thing I'm interested is in how much tax they're paying now. That should be front page news every day. The company is currently valued at $4.01 trillion and yet their horribly convoluted tax payments have regularly fallen below 1% for their global subsidiaries. Whilst they claim this is made up through their overall tax bill (which is compensated in the States) at something like 24%, this has been heavily disputed with back taxes of $14 billion being ordered by the EU Court of Justice paid in Ireland in 2024. However their revenue in Ireland 2025 was $235 billion, so these numbers are meaningless to them. To put it another way - if you are lucky enough to have a thousand dollars saved in the bank and the tax people come along to tell you there's been an international incident with you massively underpaying your tax bill despite raking massive profits out of the country and you have to put it right - that'll be a little over $3.

STICK THAT ON THE FRONT PAGES YOU GHOULS

Wake up, babe. A new lemmy update dropped today. And it fixes some security issues.

#patchery