Bertrand Le Roy
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Bertrand Le Roy
@bleroy.bsky.social
Reposted by Bertrand Le Roy
MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax'
Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.
www.wbur.org
August 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The AI completion feature in JetBrains Rider needs to be killed with fire. First, it's bound to the Tab key (a key that was *already* in use for regular completion) and you cannot unbind it. Second, it takes over and freezes the IDE completely and is sometimes almost impossible to roll back.
August 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Seriously, browsers still do that kind of shit? Like, crash and throw all your tabs into a black hole? Don't use Microsoft Edge.
August 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
That's my cart :)
DecentCart2350, new upcoming open source #Atari8bit computers multicart with a nice screen (and many other useful features - see video). Entry for ABBUC Hardware Contest 2025. youtu.be/o-sEndb4mEI #atari #retrocomputers
July 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Excuse me, shouldn't the government seek access to the media, rather than the other way around? Why would the media "back off" in fear of losing a source of lies? Won't the government publicly publish the lies in question in places that the media will always have access to? This makes no sense.
The Handbasket has not been contacted by the FBI.
July 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Modern-day Nazis really, really like to call people NPCs, as an on-the-nose way to deny the humanity of the people they dislike. It's particularly ironic when you notice that Nazis in video games are pretty much ALWAYS NPCs. But hey, what do you expect from a bunch of illiterate morons?
July 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Bertrand Le Roy
Gillibrand and Jeffries and Schumer are not as concerned about what Grok said as they are by what Mamdani did not say.
I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network.

A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
July 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The effects of leaving social media are comparable with those of therapy, large study finds: web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/re...

Just leave Facebook, Shitter, Instagram, Bsky, all of them. They are like mental disease.
web.stanford.edu
June 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Even cancelling service is harder than cancelling a gym membership. Web site crashes on login. Direct access to pages throws infinite redirect loops. Their phone system wastes your time asking you what you want before telling you nobody's there to take your call and hanging up on you. 2/2 #comcast
June 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Hardly a hot take, but it's impossible to overstate how much Comcast / Xfinity sucks. This is a company that only exists because they're functionally a local monopoly. If people had a choice, nobody in their right minds would be their customer. 1/2
June 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Transition animations in apps are nice and give an impression of smooth performance. When they're smooth. When they stutter, they give a worse impression than no animation at all.

Looking at you, #Outlook
June 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I'm sorry. We're associating with that fucking Nazi piece of shit now? WTF Microsoft?
Grok at Azure AI. #Msbuild Difficult for most of the Europeans even to see him at #Msbuild.
May 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM