I share via Signal, and with links to my Immich instance (sent over Signal). Certainly susceptible to security problems since yours truly set it up, but what you gonna do...
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Yes, the taxation is regressive, but the benefits are progressive. E.g.,
According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, for people in the bottom fifth of the earnings distribution, the ratio of benefits to taxes is almost three times as high as it is for those in the top fifth.
( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States) )
It's certainly not a perfect system, but personally I think it has some merit. And it's by far not the worst aspect of USA tax structure (in my opinion).
Something something Drake meme Discord/IRC...
Not sure I get why social security being flat with a cap benefits one class over the other.
Sure, once I meet the max contribution then my withholding goes down and my take home increases. But anything in excess of the max contribution doesn't affect social security payouts after retirement
if you put in more, you get out more, and if you're capped in your contributions then you're also capped in your withdrawals.
Is it a paternalistic program? Sure, it's essentially a forced retirement plan. Its implementation isn't perfect, but I'm not sure I'd call it class warfare.
I think an argument is that because many people live paycheck to paycheck, investing simply isn't an option. Many costs in life are somewhat fixed
I buy similar groceries compared to someone who makes half what I make, and compared to someone who makes twice what I make; as a fraction of income it's a huge spread.
What this means is that making twice as much money doesn't mean you get to invest twice as much
you can invest way more, because the difference in income is largely disposable.
I don't follow why the mortgage interest is better for the wealthy than the total mortgage amount?
In the USA afaik it is only the interest which is tax deductible.
Pandemic lockdown maybe? Everyone got bored a few months into 2020. By 2021 they finally figured out their wifi drivers 🤷
(I'm joking, I haven't seriously struggled with wifi for a long time. I use Debian btw.)
I think there's room for philosphical differences here though. One can acknowledge Meta being evil but not advocate for defederation.
The standard federation analogy is to that of email. Google has shown themselves to be evil at times (prone to enshitification at the very least). But if my email provider drops support for any email from gmail.com, well... that's kinda not a good thing.
Obviously ActivityPub is not email, but still, I think it's a somewhat nuanced issue.
And with regards to the EEE issue, I'm personally not convinced of any threat. Slack embraced IRC then killed support, and no harm was done that I'm aware. XMPP always gets trotted out as an example, but I think it's a weak argument at best, disingenuous at worst.
Professor should know that it's etymologically Greek, not Latin, so octopi is generally considered to be wrong.
Octopuses, or octopodes if you're feeling badass, would be preferable afaik.
As others have said, it's a bit outdated. Being slow is one thing, but having limited software support can be very frustrating.
If possible I would try for a raspberry pi instead, as those have very strong ecosystems (yes, there are problems, but still
it's a big community). A 5 with 8GB would be ideal, but something lower spec (even a 3) would probably still be more capable.