The old adage of the engineer paid to know where to tap an X comes to mind: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/?amp=1

Frankly anyone telling you they can measure the value of a line of code without any background knowledge is selling BS.

But I welcome this new BS system as the previous system of managers not so secretly counting total commits and lines added was comically stupid.

Network effect is a hell of a drug

Get a home sleep study. Insurance covers a CPAP with Dr prescription. But mental hurdle but man waking up fresh is worth it

Blocked, bye

To a point. If you are the only rider, your risk of dying is very high, because no one around is expecting it. Sometimes the right choice is to keep driving until the infrastructure finally makes things safe.

If it were true yeah. In reality they are just shitting themselves because people on TikTok are broadcasting the genocide funded by US tax dollars and literally using American made bombs

Read some British history. This is their last colony and they are very determined to keep it

What we had was an excuse to spend unlimited money on weapons, destabilizing anti-business foreign governments, and demonizing unions and social programs.

True fact, in the early days of Linux I installed it and was like awesome! I am staring at a terminal prompt with color ls output and thinking man this is so cool! That irrational love of computers lead to a career but also a lot of inability to socialize.

A monthly fee seems idiotic but yes please do it! Please!

That said I think a $5 signup fee on Mastodon or Lemmy that is not refunded if you get banned would seriously help stop bots. They only make pennies per bot and if you make their cost even minimally painful the economics fall apart.