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This article doesn't have the word "commute" in it at all. Not very many of them do.
"As much as an 8 percent raise", but 8% of an 8 hour day is about 45 minutes. Which is... a 20 minute commute to and from work, which is time out of your life your employer is taking from you, unpaid, for which employer and employee both gain nothing.
And a 20 minute commute in Toronto is a _joke_, it's nothing. 40, 60, sometimes 90 are common.
I wish journalists could do math.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/23/why-remote-work-has-staying-power.html
The pandemic-era trend of working remotely has endured largely because it benefits both workers and businesses, economists said.Greg Iacurci (CNBC)
Holy moly, 4.4% of people in England have long covid
That's 1 in 20 people! Not of the population who have had covid, but the general population. Not in the past, but right now.
WHY ISN'T ANYONE WEARING MASKS ANYMORE
NOT EVEN ON TRAINS WHAT!!??
#coronavirus #COVID19 #LongCovid
Report into prevalence of condition reveals stark north/south divide with the highest rates in north-westTobi Thomas (The Guardian)
Peak oof
Source https://fosstodon.org/@deshipu/113000517135266583
You know the 10x developer? You know, that one guy on the team that writes ten times more code than everyone else, because everyone else are too busy fixing everything he breaks? I have some great news, everyone! We have automated that guy, and put …Fosstodon
I did a calculation yesterday that made me want to scream. If you look at the *current* density of satellites in 1km altitude bins in Low Earth Orbit, and assume they are travelling at circular velocities (generally true), then Starlink satellites pass within <1km of each other EVERY 30 SECONDS.
At Starlink altitudes, everything is travelling at 7 km/second, so <1 km close approaches are terrifyingly close. Every 30 seconds. WHY.
When I was on holiday in a cottage in the deepest Wales countryside for a few days last month I happened to check the AS my phone's internet packets were coming from. Starlink. I must admit I was conflicted.
"Oh don't worry, SpaceX has amazing engineers! They know what they're doing!"Well yes, they're amazing. But they definitely make giant mistakes. Like... you know... dropping hundreds of pounds of debris from a "fully demisable" spacecraft by my house. Whoopsie.
SpaceX, please don't whoopsie us into Kessler Syndrome.
When Space Junk Fell on My Neighbor’s Farm, the Law Had Few Answers for Us
A Saskatchewan farmer’s near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and murky politics of space junkScientific American
Ice cream was mentioned 🍨
Happy #FursuitFriday
📸 @/FurCPhoto
📍 Awoostria / Vienna
🪡 @Areksim (Vino Studios)
HBCF provides resources for coexisting with beavers and supports landowners in implementing nonlethal management to address common beaver-caused problems.Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund
WOW. That's a *huge* shift in just one year. It's wonderful to see @godotengine doing so well and loved by so many people.
#godot #GodotEngine #gamedev #unity #GMTK #GMTKJjam
Very excited to attend the SotonFurs summer party this weekend with my @azakir! We had an absolute blast last year, it's such a great time and such a great group of people.
📷 @xenfluffs
🪡 @selkiesuits
⌚ #FursuitFriday
Keep on rockin' in the (furry) world. 🤘
🦌: @SurgeryDeer
🦊: Levi the Fox
✂️: @poeproductions
📸: Akyr
#FursuitFriday #AC2024 #Anthrocon2024 #Anthrocon #Fursuiting #Fursuiter #Fursuit #Furry #FurryFandom
When I first had a savings account opened for me as a child and some pocket money put into it, interest was at, I think, 17% or more. I thought that was normal at the time and probably couldn't understand why anyone would do anything with money but put it in savings. Then rates dropped off a cliff and seemed incredibly low; I didn't realise at the time it was just going back to normal.
I studied economics in college and learned about the business cycle. And then we had decades of really, really low interest rates and inflation.
It honestly was nervous-making, because it means that governments don't have the "lever" of lowering interests rates to goose the economy.
It's wild to me that just using Google Fonts (the hosted-by-Google way) immediately makes you in violation of GDPR.
https://termageddon.com/google-fonts-violates-gdpr/
You can always self-host though: https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts
Or it's a one-clicker on Cloudflare: https://developers.cloudflare.com/speed/optimization/content/fonts/
A court in Munich, Germany has recently found that websites that have embedded Google Fonts violate the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).Donata Stroink-Skillrud (Termageddon)
Mein Beitrag zum #FursuitFriday 
Avalanche auf Reisen … am #radom auf der #Wasserkuppe in der #Rhön.
#fursuit #FursuitFriday #kemono #partial
me: *wakes up computer*
computer: *struggles to wake up and crashes*
it's okay computer, i feel the same way sometimes lol
Another Tattoo Commission and this is a special one! One of my foxes drawn like Da Vincis Vitruvian Man, that’s really unique and I feel so honored! 😍
#ComicArt #MastoArt #TattooArtwork
Colorful friends in the woods
🟣🦇: Malcompard (tw/x)
⚪️🐕: Huscai
🟢🐉: @AilurusThePanda
🔵🐈: JustinHeuer2 (tw/x)
📷: @lennyaa
#FursuitFriday #Kemono #RyukiCarrotDragon
I have no wish to deny the truth of this assertion but has anyone an actual citation for this quote showing it was spoken or written by Keynes?
'Thomas Cate, professor of economics, Northern Kentucky University, specializing in the economics of John Maynard Keynes:
“I do not believe that this quote is by Keynes. It appears to be a re-wording of something said by Adam Smith about the business community.“'
https://stevecotler.com/2009/07/07/keynes-nastiest-wickedest-capitalism/
Of course you know that not everything on the web is accurate, but what if you find thousands of hits for a quotation, including citations in Wikiquote, the Washington Post, and the Howard Law Journal (which, in its Vol 48 Issue 1 Fall 2004 issue, b…Steve Cotler
no one will remember:
- how much money you made
- how many hours you worked
- how "busy you were"
they will remember:
- nothing
- the internet has destroyed my short term memory
- why did i unlock my phone again? i wanted to do something
Today is a super special #fursuitfriday because it’s the birthday of this bean!
Exactly a year ago, a mysterious box arrived at my home, marking the beginning of an awesome journey for me. Attending events, making friends, having fun, being a menace to society, and so many more things.
(1/2)
nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- the time you made the printer work
- files that you didn't encrypt
whaaaaaaaaaat?
#caturday #fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits
Side note, one of the best things I ever did (as a YouTube creator) was add most emojis to my YouTube Studio block list.
On YouTube, the block list prevents comments from showing for other users, and puts comments in a holding area where I never have to engage with them.
Putting most emoji in that block list has caught spam, impersonation, catfishing, crypto scams, and a lot of lewd behavior. I can allow the average everyday emoji through, while filtering the crud.
(Boosts on this welcome)
😼attaaaaaack!
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits
Pretty much ALL fairy tales were like that.
Before disney sanitized them so they could sale princess merchandise for small girls.
Oh, I love learning about the original fairy tales and have some on my bookshelf. It's fun to see what the differences are 
Why do newspapers find it so hard to link to the fucking study
https://www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/app/uploads/LONG-COVID-REPORT-2024-FINAL.pdf
FWIW: This is self-reported long COVID from the GP Patient Survey and the 4.4% number is from 2022. It was 5.0% in 2023 and 4.8% this year (methodology change). The ONS number from earlier this year is 3.3% and I suspect their question wording is a bit better.