@melbaboutown great piece.
That's the most succinctly I've seen a writer explain that cause and effect are all mixed up when you look at why some people are scraping along and don't know where their next meal is coming from.
Any easy/glib explanation or moral framework is bullshit in stilts.
jaystephens
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@princessnorah @melbaboutown yes but also in very specific ways - like, the cost of rich people gadgets and toys isn't going up anywhere near as fast as food, rent, fuel. The inflation is weighed towards the essentials which make up a higher % of poor people's spending.
@Thornburywitch I still work in tech but not at the code face anymore so yep, very happy to SEP it :D
@Taleya
This. The UN desperately needs an update, but it keeps comms channels open that it would really really suck to have closed.
@Thornburywitch heh.
Yup, same - Thomas Miller in London (marine mutual insurance). Reasonably coherent code base (entire back end on AS/400, all business logic in RPG, COBOL, or SQL) But the code base was large, all data at rest & all decision logic coded with 2-digit years... And yeah we got there somehow, and woke up tired & hung -over to headlines about how the problem was exaggerated.
If we survive global warming by rebuilding the entire global economy on renewables it'll be the same.
@CEOofmyhouse56 @TinyBreak I can remember working bloody long hours for >36 months to make sure they didn't stop working
@Nath @CEOofmyhouse56 would taste way better but the water content would make it much harder to get the whipped cream to stay stiff
This does happen and it's sad/confusing.
The good news: sometimes folks who were on the outer edge of your acquaintances network for many years change over time and click into the close friends zone, and that's awesome when it happens.
@RustyRaven @Seagoon_ seriously tho, a constitutional amendment to allow constitutional amendments to be other than just yes/no
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@halferect @ajsadauskas yet simultaneously a lot smaller than it looks in Mercator