The amount of money it’ll take to fix all this will dwarf the $150B. By several factors at least.

Private equity, huh?

Walgreens has about two year left before shutting down.

Firefox and Mozilla to a larger extent may be going down the gutter soon. They have been angling towards AI shit, and then their new terms of service debacle this last week makes it clear they want to sell your data for ads.

I’ve moved from FF to Zen browser, which is a fork. And also Librewolf, another fork.

Right?

Russia could end the war it started right now. And leave. It chooses not to.

I’m also a Jasmine Crockett from Texas fan.

Yeah, this one guy has been trying to jumpstart so many projects. And that’s admirable, but it’s also too much for one dude (and I know he’s tried to get some other people, but there has been drama around that - by him, I think).

But more to your point - something feels a little off even though I can’t confirm anything. It does feel like this guy might just take some money and run if given the chance.

And I don’t necessarily blame him for that - I probably would too. I don’t want to work, and if I had money I wouldn’t.

But there’s just this feeling I can’t shake about all of it. And I have a Pixelfed and a Loops account. They are both fine, so we’ll see, I guess. But I wouldn’t be surprised if I end back up with Mastodon being my sole social place for sharing photos, for example.

The people there seem pretty chill in my experience so far.

I wish there was an easy way to know which servers are getting hammered more than others.

I can easily make a post to my server via the website, but the app was giving me trouble, as an example. That’s why I wonder where the hiccup is/was. Both the website and app are just interfaces to get data to a server, so if one doesn’t work I’d assume the other doesn’t too. But I dunno.

Edit: After writing this I went back and tried posting from the app again. It finally worked! I guess things have settled down.

I have a Pixelfed account and have tried the app.

But I can’t actually make posts using it. Don’t know where the hiccup is.

It also gives a “free” music service, and while it’s not excellent by any means, that keeps me from spending MORE money on another music service.

I just like that I can log in on my AppleTV and it works immediately with no ads or bullshit.

“You’re doo-doo-ing wrong.”

It’s wild that RFK once was on the side of the environment and worked in that field to do some good things.

What happened? Did he get brain worms or somethi—ohhhhh

Listen, I like Biden, and I’m voting Harris.

BUT, did Biden “rip trump” or literally just forget his name here? It kinda could be either at this point.

I can’t even think of a GOP person who wants unions to be a thing.

If I recall they rape him, so that’s fun and wholesome.

He real scared about that sentencing.

I’m no expert but I came to the same conclusion.

To be fair to this image, I think I would also have that face when walking into a kitchen where they are growing whatever that is in the sink.

The “come and take it” crowd scared of their own kind.

“So, students, does anyone have an argument against intelligent design? Yes, Billy?”

“Yeah, the balls are on the outside.”