It’s not that my taxes are too high. It’s that the hyper-rich don’t pay enough.

I don’t mind taxes! As I’ve said repeatedly, civilization is expensive and can only be paid for on the installment plan. I’m happy to contribute my bit to keep things running. But when the rich won’t pay their fair share…well that just fuckin’ pisses me off.

“Good” to see European companies getting on the enshittification gravy train. I’d wondered what happened to Evernote. Now I know who caused me to bail so fast when it went to shit.

Oh please oh please oh pleeeeeaaaaaaase.

It feels to me like staying in New York City as taxes rise on the hyper-rich would be the ultimate flex. You’re so wealthy you can’t even be bothered to notice the plebs have raised taxes on you.

Some marketing team needs to get working on this angle, lol.

There isn’t really anything I can add to what’s already been said about these malicious idiots, only that I’m so very grateful to live in Washington state where sanity still prevails.

We’ll duh of course it’s a puppy. Everyone knows she likes 'em on the young side.

Yeah it’s a bar soap, commonly used for both skin and hair.

Aleppo Soap

If you like the weird scent of coal tar—I’m not judging, I do too—you might also like pine tar soap. Pine tar serves much the same function in soaps as coal tar, so that’s a bonus as well.

It’s clearly a scent derived from pines, not coal, but it appeals to my nose in much the same way. They’re both in the same family of weirdness.

Aleppo soap finally resolved it for me after years of fighting the yo-yo effects of medicated shampoos. It’s just an old hard Castile soap made using olive and laurel tree oils. Laurel tee oil is apparently pretty good for skin, and works fine to clean your hair.

I don’t go in for woo, but it is kinda fun to be using a soap recipe that goes back a couple thousand years. Mileage may vary of course, but I’ve found it to work extremely well, and as a bonus has a pleasantly neutral smell—herbal as you might expect. 20% or so blends of laurel tree oil seem to do the trick.

Too late! This subscription ain’t coming back for the collaborating corporate appeaser. They’re not gonna weasel their way back into my wallet.

It feels like fascism is saving me so much money, 'cause I’m canceling subscriptions left and right.

I don’t get it. I mean, their free tier is a bit chintzy, but I give 'em a dollar a month and get 50GB. You can get 2TB for 3 bucks. This hardly seems a ripoff.

It’s pronounced “xitter.”

Haha, I’ve been using old.lemmy.world for so long I’d forgotten I even had the Space Needle profile on my account. Was truly puzzled for a minute.

“How do they know I’m in Seattle? Oh, yeah.”

Generation X here.

You can predict the outcome of this court’s decisions with two questions:
A: Will it cause chaos?

B: Is it cruel?

They seem to feel it’s bonus points if the answer to both is yes.