Time to pay VAT motherfuckers.

It’s all fucking tire kickers anyway.

I had an instance recently where it was faster and easier to literally make an item with my bare hands than to coordinate a purchase of one via marketplace.

It’s a strong tradition in France that when you get pissed off with a company you take its CEO hostage.

It seems to be really effective.

Great idea!

There is some good reading to be had that explains the specific roles that different groups of former Soviet elites were allowed to fill within the corrupt power vacuum that followed the collapse.

Can you recommend any good books? I haven’t studied Russia much but recently read Killer In The Kremlin and would like to read more.

This is fantastic news, I’m so glad to hear this is being looked at.

When I’ve thought about this is in the past I’ve concluded that my expectations of Linux are actually higher than Windows or Mac. It’s given me the expectation that if something doesn’t work the way I want it then it will be possible to make it do that, whereas with other operating systems I have been more inclined to just accept a limitation and move on.

OK, I’m guessing that term has some extra baggage around here which I’m not privy to… I spent too many years chopping wood and growing corn, so someone will have to fill me in!

I thought I’d just slip it in and see what happened! I like making things in GIMP as well

Amazing, thank you so much :)

What’s that? GIMP?

Found it! I’d missed that - thanks!

I’ve been ricing my GNOME DE.

Only joking. I had a bit of fun in GIMP for to illustrate this post. You’re welcome to use it if you want :)

Russia?

IMO they should not have been bailed out. For most people the economy has already failed and it should be allowed to crash fully so that it can be rebuilt and restructured in full. That might sound extreme but I don’t see many other alternatives. Something has to be sacrificed for the sake of the vast majority of people and the real economy and I think it should be the financial sector.

This a beautiful story. Bankers get shafted lending money to apex capitalist.

🤌

The last thing I want to dream about is tweaking a thermostat.

That’s great news. Looking forward to having more climate scientists on Mastodon.

Was ist PKI?

First time I’ve heard of it. Sounds awesome!