The White House is trying to troll people on BlueSky? The platform famous for having a ‘block and move on’ ethos?!

I guess new BlueSky users will take the bait, but old users will just shake their heads, hit the ‘block’ button and get on with their lives

We call those ‘weekends’ here in the US, and we are lucky to have them! /s

An r of 1.3mm or less will make it so you are more attractive than the moon!

My knee-jerk reaction is to agree with you, because it seems like this policy would punish money hoarding and therefore keep money circulating.

Then I thought about what I would do if I had a sudden large influx of expiring cash, and quickly decided on buying illiquid assets (stocks, bonds, property, a couple fast food franchises in an underserved-but-growing area, etc) which is pretty much what the wealthy already do. The World’s Richest Manchild doesn’t have $300 billion in cold hard cash sitting around, he has maybe a few million in easily-accessible funds and the rest is tied up in investments (that’s why he had to borrow so desperately to get the $44 billion to buy twitter - he couldn’t quickly cash out his stock investments without cratering their value).

If money expired, the rich would continue to do what they already do - turn their money into long-term investment vehicles. The worst off would be the people who are in the middle - not doing so bad they have to spend every penny they make right away just to stay afloat, but not doing so well that they can invest in illiquid assets (either because they don’t have enough left over after the bills are spent to realistically be able to invest or because they need a safety net in case the car needs to be replaced in a hurry or a tree falls through the roof or the hot water heater busts and ruins the floor).

‘Expiring wealth’ is something that would do society good by forcing the wealthy class to re-invest in their communities and peoples, whereas ‘expiring cash’ would just hurt those who would otherwise be on a path to being able to retire someday

I assumed most people were spending money to see a doctor, regardless of their insurance status, because insurance almost always requires co-pays. If you are insured, you are (hopefully) paying less to see a doctor than you otherwise would have, but you’re usually going to be shelling out money for the doctor’s visit either way.

It’s Jhonen’s. From ‘Johnny the Homicidal Maniac’. This bit pops into my head at least a few times a year, and has since about 2002 or so when I first read it.

Mark is the generally-recognized first Gospel to be written, from which Matthew and Luke get some of their material

Shrimp has more color receptors because he doesn’t have enough neurons to run trichromacy, so he sees in EGA.

love this. nice job :)

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I didn’t even notice until your comment. That’s such a weird image to have an AI make; how hard is it to google ‘billboard in a city or whatever’ and run with the first result?

I meant the Batman on the building silhouette

Aww dammit 😅

The exposure isn’t quite right and there are artifacts, but I am not a graphic designer so 🤷

You’re talking to someone that’s talking about walking on water. It’s obviously Jesus’s Lemmy account

I got my used laptop that now has linux on it from shopgoodwill.com I am in the US, so ymmv

In USMC boot camp, this specific topic was addressed very early on. It’s “Good Morning” up until noon, after which it is “Good Afternoon” up until you eat evening chow, then it is “Good Evening” until midnight (at which point it becomes “Good Morning” again).

Of course, it’s all up to personal preference in the real world. If you’re out with your friends at a club and it’s after midnight but still very much dark out, you’re not going to be greeting people of the gender that you prefer to look at with “Good Morning”, because it is still ‘evening’ to you and them.

Randy Savage started his WWF career as a heel. Initially, he didn’t have a manager, so a bunch of heel managers would attend his squash matches and marvel at how amazing he was ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIXztSSNr0 ). Then after a few matches and promos, he finally announced that he had chosen a manager: Miss Elizabeth ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_G1iMUbbBs ) (In reality, I’m pretty sure he and Elizabeth were a package deal; she would be slated to be his manager/valet before he came to the WWF)

He definitely seemed like a good, genuine dude and someone that was good at most every aspect of pro wrestling (maybe not as technical as Brett Hart, but who is?) regardless, though.

Why did the Trump campaign commit to a debate with Biden despite Biden not being confirmed?

She is leading in NH right now, according to two different polls, by about 6 points