@fell@ma.fellr.net2026-01-07 01:16:19
I want a high quality metal fidget toy. It keeps me from opening a browser tab the second I have to wait for anything to load.
I want it to be somewhat precisely manufactured and made out of safe materials, preferrably metal.
I know about https://lautie.com, but I was wondering if there was anything decent inbe…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-02-03 08:56:56
As I walking through the town of Złotów, I've noticed the rentable electric scooters scattered all over the place, and I was wondering how their batteries handle temperatures below –10°C. I suspect they they don't handle them well at all. But well, business is business; why bother collecting them and storing somewhere through the winter, when you can just leave junk in the middle of the town, and just discount them afterwards.
#AntiCapitalism
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-22 20:55:25
Belated #MonochromeMonday / #MountainMonday: A moody winter day in the Ammergau Alps. A view down the snowed-in river bed of the Linder with the Notkarspitze summit catching the last light in the distance...
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-01-25 15:30:03
A winter storm slowed everything down—quiet house, lost sense of time, strange stillness. That silence turned into a reflection on death, dignity, and medical aid in dying. New post is up. ❄️🕯️
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/snow-silence-and-the-diff…
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 10:39:50
Despite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
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Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-01-15 22:36:01
"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt."
(Original title: Software as Fast Fashion)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-a…
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-11-18 19:42:19
TransLink preparing transit services for winter weather
Deeper tread tires expanded to 70 per cent of bus fleet to help keep customers moving
TransLink is equipping roughly 500 more buses than last year with tires featuring deeper tread patterns for improved traction, to prepare for winter weather in Metro Vancouver.
Up to 1,100 buses, about 70% of the fleet and double from 2024, will be operating with Michelin Grip D tires this upcoming season.
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-01-25 04:21:20
Snow, Silence, and the Difficult Question of How We Die
A winter storm slowed the world to an eerie quiet, blurring time and routine. In that silence, my thoughts drifted from snow and preparation to harder questions about death, dignity, and whether we should have more control over how life ends.
https://…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-11-17 13:20:14
A decent haul from our cramped city garden as we close up for the winter.
#gardening
@compfu@mograph.social2025-12-20 08:28:27
The winter holidays are set! I've ordered 3 more games for a 68% discount on Good Old Games:
Two #LucasArts games that I have never played back when they came out: Indy and the Last Crusade The Dig (I've bought Indy and the Fate of Atlantis recently and I loved it). The account @…