I have heard a few people talk sanely about the tax and the more I hear the more ridiculous this one time “fee” sounds.

I heard a far better proposal about closing the tax loopholes they use. Wealthy folks are borrowing tax free against unrealized capital gains. They pay little to no tax on it.

It’s not sexy but it’s a way better solution because not only does it tax the people who need to be taxed, it also begins to help people push back against capital being more powerful than labour.

It’s also far less costly to implement. You borrow against unrealized capital gains to live as if it were income - boom income tax.

Tirulo Roundini

Cast iron pan pizza is so good!!

If you’re up for something different, try it with thinly sliced (mandolin) blanched potatoes and rosemary with a thin amount of Parmesan shavings instead of tomato sauce before it’s topped. So so good.

I use Adam Ragusea’s method (where you lightly cook the dough on the stove top before popping it in the oven).

I worked on a large(ish) contract (tens of millions) with one of Microsoft’s engineering teams where they were implementing an Azure managed version of software we produced. I would regularly refuse to install teams at the meetings, using teams in-browser only.

It also ensured that the technical project manager had to be the one to transcribe anything in our notes into whatever tools Microsoft was using.

While it was never said, the Microsoft engineers seemed to completely understand and never pushed back against my refusal to a) install crapware and b) not take on work that wasn’t mine.

Not using teams: win win.

It is owned by Lenovo, make of that what you will.

Google is also basically American. Make of that what you will.

We got a relatively cheap adapter that works great. It’s from Ottocast. I don’t know what the current/new model is like but ours works pretty well with two phones of the primary drivers.

We’ve had our Niro EV for over 6 years now and it remains an excellent vehicle. The only failure so far was in the AC. Other than that, it had required almost no maintenance.

We did a proactive reduction gear oil change and had the brakes cleaned once due to lack of use (regen and driving style mean the brakes are not used frequently).

Love that it just looks normal.

Pull yourself up by those bootstraps.

Your bootstraps:

It’s weird when anyone quotes Leviticus (or any Old Testament verse) in the context of it directly applying to Christianity.

That’s not the text (or philosophy) Christians are asked to use by Christ. Think of it as a wild and lascivious prologue that’s supposed to prove Jesus was Christ. The prequel so to speak.

Note: am an atheist but considered a life in the church a long, long time ago.

First and foremost it was the slop filtering that sold me on it.

I had a friend suggesting I try it for a while and I resisted. Longtime duck duck go user for primary search.

I tried it using their free trial/free tier for a little while. I liked what I saw so I went month to month on what I think is their pro plan.

I do not use their ai assistant at all, I went in a disabled that some can’t be of help there.

I use their privacy pass now in all my desktop environments: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

I’ve found the results more than good enough - excellent even with all the slop removed.

I use search so much, everyday, I feel like the clean results pay for themselves in time saved in just one day but I was frustrated and annoyed with both slop and the increasing insidious practices of the big search ad-engines.

Hope that helps.

I didn’t want this to be true, but I’m a happy paying customer as of a few weeks ago.

Mullvad is stellar. I’ve been a user for years and it’s never let me down.

I strongly disagree on proton mail. If you use a custom domain with a catchall it’s absolute trash. Also possibly the worst email search ever. Don’t even get me started on the proton bridge.

I lasted a few months (about 8) and then switched to fastmail. Worlds apart.

We pinky promise to follow through on being nice and not detaining/disappearing you.