I was gonna say, I tried it a couple months ago and I’m pretty sure it hadn’t been changed since when I was using it in like 2012. I thought a theme might help so I checked out the available themes, and the “popular” ones were ones that felt like they were from back then too. Everyone remembers Firefox / Thunderbird themes from back then: frosted glass, photos of space, flames, lots of gradients, themes that look like wood for some reason, that gross red text on black-white gradient background. It was like the entire app was aesthetically trapped in the early 2010s, even the community’s themes.
In the past, when there was a much higher tax on high income earners, instead of paying more in taxes, they would spread the wealth a little more equitably. This was true in Hollywood, in corporations, hell, in working service industry jobs. There were still rich, but so were others. In the past 40 years, we have been experiencing the greatest wealth transfer (over $50 fucking trillion ) from the working class to the 1% ever. And it’s poised to get worse. Anyone who doesn’t support unions and a strongly progressive tax is either ignorant of the history of the US, or an asshole. There is no in between.
Lobbying is an important and necessary government function. The Americans with Disabilities Act is the greatest success of social lobbying in history.
Unlimited dark money corporate lobbying used to be illegal and needs to be illegal again. And we need to get the regulatory capture pipeline under control somehow. Being able to leave government agencies for lucrative positions at corporations you were supposed to be regulating is the biggest problem after unlimited dark money for campaigns.
Every year, there are actors who had roles in Return of the Jedi, who get letters informing that although their contact entitles them to money that film’s net profit, sadly Return of the Jedi hasn’t made any profit yet!
I don’t like the new logo; it looks mean. The previous logo showed a charming bird that delivered my mail, the new one portrays a bird of prey clutching a letter, it will probably bite you if you try to retrieve the letter.
Looks nice. I’m not an email power user but I still use Thunderbird just to handle multiple accounts. I’m grateful to this software for simplifying my life a bit.
I recently went back to using Thunderbird after not doing so for, I don’t know, maybe a decade. Having everything in one place is very convenient indeed.
Half the food service workers are paid in tips. Which is a giant and very effective bandaid to the issue.
The reality is, the income is pretty good for most tipped food service work. Better than in most comparable jobs. The bosses taking themselves out of the equation makes the effective wages pretty decent, even if it feels pretty ugly for everyone else. There's a huge anti-tip movement growing... maybe that's the 4D chess. Get rid of all the tips to ensure food service workers get paid absolute crap just like everyone else so that they show a bit more solidarity with other jobs. But really, it's probably just people who want to pay less and haven't 100% thought through the counterfactual of how the world without tips will look for the workers, absent fixing the fundamental issues of wage society as they currently exist first. Tips work out in practice to revenue sharing. Until wage laws include some amount of mandatory revenue sharing to workers (which they absolutely should for so many reasons), getting rid of tips will hurt the workers.
I'd like to see some regional cookery unions, though. Even in places where the line cook wages aren't that terrible, those are still the worst-treated people in a restaurant. They're treated as totally disposable and interchangeable. They need a union that represents not just the members of any particular store, but disparate stores in a geographic area.
The waitresses said they make the federal minimum wage for tipped workers, which is $2.13 per hour. The intention is that the bulk of their income will primarily come from tips. Schoolmeester-Cochran estimated she works anywhere from 21 to 35 hours each week and, with tips, brings in a salary ranging from $70 some weeks to $170 others. <-- Waffle House employee
But the rare places they don't are also places where the alternative is fed min wage -- also unlivable poverty -- , under table submin wage, or no job at all / mlm psychosis.
I get it's unpopular to speak in support of tips. People hate tipping so much. But until we seriously talk about what will replace it, all the demands to ban it are just part of false consciousness. We need to be more honest that most of the antitip culture is not coming from people who want the working class supported. It comes from people who think these workers are being paid too much.
They finally updated the calendar so it doesn’t look like it’s out of windows 95? Thank god. I really wanna use it now but I’m too tied down to Outlook now. I guess I’ll try to migrate.
If it had a mobile app it would make it much easier. The Outlook mobile app is really good.
I believe they’ve inherited the K-9 Mail app project but haven’t yet renamed it. At least it’s still showing up as K-9 Mail for me on an Android device.
But yeah, they’re plugging away at it yet. Basically, K-9 sat in maintenance mode for a good while, and while it worked, there’s a lot of tidying up to do yet. I imagine they’ll have the Thunderbird name on it once it has some of the bigger pieces in place.
I don’t. Bezos and Musk are both terrible, even if I would say Bezos is worse. For just tech it would probably be Musk? But who knows, Altman and his shenanigans are also a frontrunner for me.
Just tech, clearly Musk. I’d argue Peter Thiel is the worst among the others for direct political influence, but that wasn’t the question and name recognition is everything.
I just know Thiel as an influence for major tech companies, and some of his opinions on eg monopolies. Outside of those companies I don’t know any example of political influence. Do you have some?
Old news, but this is what I’m thinking of: “By February 2022, Thiel was one of the largest donors to Republican candidates in the 2022 election campaign with more than $20.4 million in contributions. He supported 16 senatorial and congressional candidates, several of whom were proponents of the falsehood that there was significant voter fraud in the 2020 election. Two of said senatorial candidates (Blake Masters and J. D. Vance) were also tech investors who had previously worked for Thiel.” – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Political_views…
Hab das Interview selbst nicht gesehen aber anscheinend war das ja wohl wieder ein harmloses Runterrattern von Fragen ohne großen journalistischen Wert. Da hätte der MDR doch mal die Chance gehabt, einer breiten und halbwegs gemäßigten AfD Wählerschaft (weil nur die gucken sich das Lügenfernsehen an) nochmal deutlich vor Augen zu führen, was Höcke für ein grauenhafter Oberfaschist ohne wirkliche inhaltliche Substanz ist. Vielleicht hätte man ein paar Leute dadurch umstimmen können, und wenn’s nur ne Handvoll sind. Keinen Meter darf man den Nazis geben
I’m not surprised. There was a tweet from Ed Soloman, one of the writers on Men In Black, some time ago now, showing his yearly statement of residuals on that film.
Despite making almost $600m on a $90m budget and spawning a franchise, he was informed by the statement that the film was a loss for Sony and the studio is still in the red.
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