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The blessing and curse of this website is when I make a low effort complaint I get a very reasonable and useful response, which my complaint did not deserve. Aside from any other details, thanks for that csours.

All that said, I still find this to be the kind of thing that probably feels very tight and compelling if you already believe it (and perhaps if you already know what "PREE" stands for), but for someone on the outside (like me) it just seems like a bunch of statements with broad mood affiliation and then the blog post ends.

I’ve enjoyed a lot of what this author has written in the past but honestly I can’t even understand half of this blog post.

My website is not about whatever I learned today, it's about me. As it happens, what I learned today is a thing about me, so it can end up on my website. But, if you're coming to my personal website to see exclusively brand new information, never before published, then I'm sorry but I'm a person much like most other folks and my experiences overlap with them quite a lot. My website will be full of ordinary, shared experiences and facts, with the occasional novelty thrown in, much like myself.

I'd hate to only show the parts of myself that are perfectly unique to the world, I think that'd be very lonely.

This is the random and anonymous person, right? One of USA Today's 2022 Women of the Year? https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2022/03/13/rachel-...

System76 seems terrific. But, overall, Apple is alone is having the market power and deep integration between software, hardware, and services to radiate abuse. So, pretty much every other company has the potential to be better.

Galago pro, with the current pop os, with some MacBook pro usage on the side. https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/galp5/README.html

It’s long past time to abandon Apple products. I’m as guilty as anyone, typing this out on an iPad. But I’m also using a system76 laptop in parallel to my MacBook Pro and slowly moving more of my computer time to it.

The truth about Apple, and probably any other company that managed to get in its amazing situation, is that they want the whole pie. They’ll always burn partners, customers, and rivals to slowly (or quickly) boil the frog and consume the whole pie. It’s been clear for a long time, but their devices are so great that we’re all in denial. They’re a bad actor, we have to move forward and figure out the next steps for ourselves.

This is what happens with a union. They voted for a floor and it came with a ceiling. Nobody experienced with unions should be at all surprised, but often folks who vote to unionize are not actually experienced with being in a union.

This is not at all to say that this is worse, it may be better at least for some people. But this is completely standard with unionization, there's nothing especially sinister here.

nb, I do not like Apple and don't consider this a defense of their business.

"“All of our opinions are open to criticism,” Roberts said in remarks to judges and lawyers. “In fact, our members do a great job of criticizing some opinions from time to time. But simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for criticizing the legitimacy of the court.”"

Were you thinking of a different quote from your source? This quote, which seemed closest to your intent, does not at all say what you were suggesting.

I’m happy to go to a bagel shop in my neighborhood.

I hope you're right! The lack of an update on that post, combined with the FAQ saying the opposite thing, makes it even harder for me to know what their policy is. Respecting robots.txt is a civilized thing to do and I hope they do it.

The Internet Archive does not respect robots.txt - https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

Or a legislature.

The Real World started in 1992. It was "credited with launching the modern reality TV genre" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_World_(TV_series)

I don't know much about the company, but don't they run Wordpress.com? I think I've seen some wild stuff on subdomains there, do they do similar filtering on ios for those sites?

I wonder where Matrix/Element would fit into this chart.

Paul Graham, the creator of this website.

Conquest's third law - "The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies."

Then Apple should stop trying to sell it.

The way is YouTube Premium.

I’m unclear why the given justification, that EVs don’t pay gas taxes, is insufficient to justify an additional tax to support road maintenance.

Why would anyone trust Mozilla with their private browsing data? https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...

Maybe desktop Linux needs more people like you and me to help make it better?

Yes, but this distinction doesn’t require a corporate policy to implement. One transaction is legal and the other is not.

Many Mac users value a native application.

Is it possible to share password entries with others, like it is in 1Password for example? This is a crucial use case for me, but I understand it’s not universal.

When I put your values into this calculator (https://tax-office.traviscountytx.gov/properties/property-ta...), I found that the house in Rollingwood would have about 2K in City of Rollingwood taxes (just as you said), but the house in Austin would only have about 4K in City of Austin taxes, not 20-30K. All other property taxes were the same between the two properties. The overall property tax burden in Austin (adding county, school, etc taxes) for a million dollar house would be 20,298, while in Rollingwood (with the same additional tax categories), it would be 18,388. Certainly the taxes in Rollingwood are lower, but with hardly as big of a gap as you wrote. How did you get your numbers?

Bottle and can deposit has been going on in Massachusetts since at least the 80's (when I was growing up there) - https://www.mass.gov/deposit-bottle-can-recycling

Bright flight.