Dan Sugalski

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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes.

Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg.

One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...)

Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https://socel.net/@heyheymomo

Currently not in France. Dammit.

Bloghttps://www.sidhe.org/blog/about
Dan Sugalski15h ago
Natasha 🇪🇺Apr 7

British artist Kate Jenkins, best known for her knitted and crocheted realistic depictions of food items 🥯🧁

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/10/kate-jenkins-breakfast/

#WomensArt #Knitting #Crochet

Dan Sugalski15h ago
Chuck Darwin17h ago

Following California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.

“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-income households,”
he wrote earlier this year.

His concerns echoed those of fast-food franchise owners, one of whom told Fortunein 2024 that higher wages would be unsustainable for smaller chains with slim margins.

But nearly two years after the law’s passage, economists are seeing very different results than what was initially feared.

A working paper from University of California at Berkeley released this month found the policy increased average weekly wages for eligible workers by 11% and did not reduce employment.

Prices increased modestly, about 1.5%, or the equivalent of about six cents for a $4 item.

“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,”
Michael Reich, the study author and chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley, told Fortune

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html?guccounter=1

Economists warned California not to raise the minimum wage to $20. They were wrong in almost every way so far, another economist says

“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,” Berkeley’s Michael Reich told Fortune.

Yahoo Finance
Dan Sugalski15h ago
Parker Molloy1d ago
Absolutely dying at right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg getting so angry that Mr. and Mrs. Met hugged @[email protected] that he started calling them antisemites and became a Yankees fan.
Dan Sugalski15h ago
Dr. Lucky Tran20h ago
Zohran Mamdani: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."
Dan Sugalski15h ago
Louisa18h ago

It's essential that sometimes, you make art that serves no purpose

I've thought a lot about how much heraldry/illustrated manuscripts like yellow and black stripes*, just like a high voltage sign

*sable et or, and in this case, bendy

Dan Sugalski15h ago
Edmonds_Scanner15h ago
What's holding you back in life?
lack of ambition
lack of wings
lack of magic
unchecked capitalism
Poll ends at .
Dan Sugalski17h ago
Good Boy/Slut Nick1d ago

Good. Good!

The former CEO of Twitter/X TERRIFIED at a marginal tax increase on wealthy people.

Dan Sugalski20h ago
Show threadChristine Lemmer-Webber21h ago

@maxleibman What has been the case, and continues to be the case for over a decade, is that technocrats use UBI as a promise to distract from the idea that we should be doing exactly that, funding social services through taxation. Instead, the mechanism is left eternally vague.

We know UBI, as in guaranteed income, has lead to enormous improvements in social structure when it has been made available. The money will come from *somewhere*, but where?

(I know you already agree, just expanding)

Dan Sugalski20h ago
Show threadMax Leibman21h ago
@cwebber Also, I’m glad you expanded on it, because you have inspired me to formulate something I don’t think I have quite put together before:

There is a world of difference between people who promote UBI as a way to address income inequality versus people who promote UBI to excuse income inequality. The letter group have no interest in actually seeing it implemented.
Dan Sugalski22h ago
Dr G1d ago

Pope Leo XIV TODAY:

“The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion and the name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

He is NOT backing down.