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Look at social democratic European states for inspiration. High unionization (supported by the state), unemployment benefits, cheap or free higher education.

Companies can still do layoffs, but that’s how you manage the consequences at a societal level.

I know the unionization part is contested these days in Europe, too - but it is still much stronger than in the US.

Yes, the 12 billion dollar company must be doing something that no one needs.

That’s because the sheep graze everywhere and eat sprouting saplings. The only trees are in areas fenced off from the sheep. I agree this is a bit depressing.

I'm a happy (non-German) mailbox.org customer. They are clearly committed to their core offerings and their pricing is fair.

I have previously also used Migadu, but I migrated to mailbox.org. Can't remember why exactly and looking at migadu.com again today, they seem to tick all the boxes for me when it comes to personal email. I remember they had a great UI in general, but in particular the settings UI was fantastic.

This is quite similar to https://giflr.com/ – a web app I developed in 2014.

Liking the way you can build animations by adding one frame at a time and preserving what you drew on the previous frame.

I was a bit confused about how to select and edit frames after having uploaded a GIF to edit it.

I used to be quite excited about Flattr. The ideology they stand for is what makes them exciting, so I don't want to judge them by their brand, but still I can't help but feel that their communication and product design is honestly terrible.

They communicated almost nothing for around 3 years, and now they're back to relaunch. I just don't feel very confident about their organization.

Completely threw me off when I got the email. Safari Books Online is really expensive, and I dislike seeing private entrepreneurs reinventing public libraries (and even selling it as an innovative concept).

I think it would be great if they looked into merging the existing bookmarks system with Pocket!

It's an e10s (multiprocess) thing. Shame that you don't percieve the overall performance as improved, since that's something that e10s promises. But I know that the tab spinner stuff is something they're working on actively, hopefully it'll improve with time.

That's a really good answer, thanks!

Interesting article! I'm a little skeptic to the final paragraph, though, specifically the notion that this research prompted the birth of stereotypes.

Stereotypes might not have existed in their modern form previously, but they're akin to the notion that people have an essence, assigned to them by nature. Platon's ideas about comparing an individual's essence to a metal is a good example (bronze people are good at this, iron people good at that). And I definitely think we'd fool ourselves thinking that the individual held a stronger position in society prior to the early 19th century...

There is! Or rather, right now, you can add an object to a single frame or to all frames, there's a menu just below the tool buttons letting you do that. I might add a "custom" option there as we'll, so that the user can specify an exact range of frames to apply the object to.

Thanks a bunch for the feedback!

I know the state indicators up top (Add, Edit, Share) have caused some confusion when I've tested the app. Making them interactive is definitely an option I could look into.

"Cook" was meant as an informal description of what happens to the set of frames once that big button is clicked, abstracting that somewhat instead of making it the one big action might be an idea, especially as the app matures, the editing is going to mean more than the cooking.

I'm already thinking about how (or whether) to surface cooked GIF's, I want this to be able to be used as a platform for easy GIF sharing, where every GIF doesn't necessarily end up in the hands of the internet just because it lives on a server.

The remix option has struck me before as well, that might make Giflr able to tie into other services, make it like a general way to remix a GIF. I'll think on that one and see what I come up with!

Thanks for pointing that out! The cook button should be pretty loud, so I'll look into how I can make sure it's not missed.

Good point, I'll try and look into that!

That's a good point, I've held back on marketing the app before the text feature was ready since I felt it played such a big role indeed, I probably should make the button easier to spot.

It stemmed from the lack of decent GIF editors that I could find around the web, this thing works on both your desktop and your mobile, and was made to be sexy, swift and straightforward.

Let me know what you think!