@davidho.bsky.social 10 is way too few. Penalty for coup like behavior from a position of power should be something that ensures you can never attempt to gain power again.

[Dickens, poverty]

Looking into this a little, Dickens appears to be reacting against the Poor Laws of his time, which were passed after the disruptions of the Black Death to suppress wages, crack down on travel, and force people to work who otherwise would choose not to given the terrible pay […]

@stux What gets me is shop.com and the like who recognise me by cc number and then send receipts to the last email they saw. That was fun this Christmas for gift buying. I've never set up an account or installed an app ner nuttin.

@stux Yeah, the way to avoid that is "request desktop site".

@dplattsf You'd really think "I need this specific car to go to this address" would be a thing a self-driving car company would be capable of doing. Kinda... the whole purpose of the thing, isn't it?

Can't wait until one drives off with someone's child aboard.

A pattern here is that the rest of the world leaves the US behind, and the right decides that’s evidence of our greatness. We measure with “freedom units,” our guns keep us safe from tyranny, car-centric development is another form of freedom, etc.

Even transfer to new device supposedly preserves the permanently lost space. There's probably some way with device wipe and iTunes backup hacking to fix it, but it's utterly ridiculous that this is a thing. It should be a billion dollar clas action suit against Apple for essentially forcing […]