Housing and food are viewed that way in our capitalist society specifically

Housing and food require someone else’s labor to produce if you don’t do it on your own, hence receiving it for free is still a type of pay. Not unlike disability benefits, social housing, etc.

Saving for the future is not passive income. If it pays interest someone somewhere is getting fucked for it.

You can’t save for the future long term without some kind of interest because all your money loses its value. So you can lend it to your government for social programs, or you can lend it out to companies and communities looking to finance solar panels (e.g through solcor), or you can invest it in a REIT buying up residential housing en masse. Up to you if you see those as equally abusive or not

IIRC the original meaning was about poverty and then it became about whip cracking, which meant white people in general

Depends on the airline, budget ones actually prefer new ones because cheaper maintenance

But even then, a lot of things aren’t updated too often. Changes often require retraining, recertification, etc. It’s expensive for everyone.

Post-its don’t make a noise or vibrate to remind me they exist so I can just ignore them

But all of this could just be an app on your phone. Hell you could do much of this with ifttt

“All modern operating systems do this, including macOS and Linux. It’s not ‘cheating’; this is how modern systems make apps feel fast: they temporarily boost the CPU speed and prioritize interactive tasks to reduce latency”

I mean this part I agree with them on. Good on them for finally figuring out something that other operating systems, including free ones, have been doing for a while now.

The video comparison in the article is just opening outlook. 14 seconds vs 4 seconds to get to the damned thing ready to use.

Lol. lmao, even

I’m just surprised the got outlook opened in 14 seconds in the first place. I’m also surprised they’ve managed to write an email client so fucking horrible it takes 14 seconds to open in the first place. Though in my experience it’s more like a minute since my only Windows computer and the only computer I need to access Outlook on also has bossware on it and only has a a 13th gen i5 so it’s like 20 years too old to run Windows 11 efficiently…

I mean it’s been a slur for a few centuries, even though the exact meaning changed to mean what it does… also a few centuries ago at this point. 19th century IIRC (cracker = someone who cracks a whip = white person).

But also it’s pretty easy to tell from context that cracker here doesn’t mean “white people”. Similarly to how when you calculate a slope in math you don’t usually associate it with the slur.

On November 21, 2025, Greene announced that she would resign from her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, with the resignation going into effect on January 5, 2026.[162][163] Greene said that Trump attacked her over her support for the anti-AIPAC organization Track AIPAC and the release of the Epstein files.[164] In mid-December, BBC News summarized the Trump–Greene feud as beginning with “her backing of a full release of the government files connected to the Jeffrey Epstein underage sex-trafficking case – long a source of conservative conspiracy theories. It broadened, however, into a critique of Trump’s Middle East policy and accusations of his failure to address cost-of-living and healthcare concerns for low-income American voters.”[165]

Resign, apparently. Which is great for her - now she can criticize Trump, but can’t be expected to do anything about anything he’s doing.

Any website can be scraped if you want it badly enough.

However, tmdb is a significantly less shitty alternative, even if data isn’t always as good. It also has a free API for non-commercial use, so FOSS apps can use it for free.

I did end up finding a blu-ray version torrent that’s less censored than the streaming version, but nowhere could I find any version of that episode where Lucky’s Dad and Bandit get properly wasted. Only a 20 second difference in length.

It seems I should watch this show

Housing and food is essentially pay too, in a way.

What I’m saying is that there are people who get to live off others’ work in that system too. It’s just a much more just system, because we’re basing it off who can vs who can’t work, rather than who has money vs who doesn’t.

You could also make the case that passive income doesn’t necessarily require exploitation. One could work 80 hour weeks for 20 years with the goal of retiring earlier. In effect, that person is doing their future work in advance, and then in one way or another, earns income off it. If you just kept the extra money as cash, it would inflate away.

However, such “fair” passive income wouldn’t be 8-10% a year in growth like you can currently get passively long term, it would be in line with inflation, to make it so that your 80 hours of work today are still worth 80 hours of work in 20 years.

I would argue that government bonds (in an actually ethical government, not something like the US…) are pretty close to exploitation-free passive income under the capitalist system. The rate is not high and the government uses it to fund social programs, infrastructure, etc. In return, the extra work you did to make more money, retains its value over time.

But this is just a theoretical way under the capitalist system to get SOME passive income to help you retire with more comfort than the state pension. Unfortunately, since exploitation IS allowed and is much more profitable, this is not actually what most people are doing for passive income.

Ah then partner material needs to be autistic too.

Not autistic, but I have ADHD and also feel the need to filter my thoughts with a lot of people, which is a bit difficult given the “blurt my thoughts out” disorder. I’ve begun to understood they’re not partner material for me, through no fault of their own.

And Madd Dogg’s rhyme book!

… Both of them though?

One based on investments, the other based on being unable to work. From each according to their abilities and all that.

Not that it’s a bad thing. To some degree we already do it in most sane capitalist countries too.

I do believe 1. Is because everything changes as soon as a woman is pregnant and they have to stop doing any treatments that haven’t been tested on pregnant women for liability issues. Doesn’t really justify the others though.

Sure but also do you know what day last Sunday was?

Chromium is. Chrome is not

Idk, too enjoyable for me. I need it to be uncomfortable to get the waking up effect. But then I like and can afford slow mornings so I don’t actually need to wake up quickly.

My tiny country has multiple manufacturers of those, some sell globally. Seems there’s enough demand.

Idea: put the data centers in Texas. They have their own grid separate from the other two. It’ll be fun.