https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff

A tariff or import tax is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer.

Could be a slip that Texas is finally going to secede.

Or his head has seceded from reality, no one rly knows

Steven Universe, from beginning to the end. The last (fifth?) season was called Steven Universe Future; it’s a timeskip several years into the future.

I’m sorry, but Doomerism has to die.

The only call-to-action I get from this kind of comment inspires is “give up & go home evryone; your fate is to suffer”

My intention with my own comment is to ask people to please keep the defeatist comments to yourself.
If you aren’t saying anything informative or supportive in Public discourse, what are you actually putting into the Public’s mind?

As far as I understand, all the money/asset value that goes into funding an organization is owed back to the investors, whether it’s as services bck to taxpayers, or dividends back to stock investors. Any start to an organization involves people/ other organizations seeding it with money

Taking on a loan gives you both money (pretty liquid assets) and debt (liabilities). If you just use that money to pay back the debt, you’re back to no liquidity - no leverage to do the things that cost money to get kickstarted or keep maintaining.

So the idea is that, if an organization uses too much in funds/all the assets to pay back the debt, they may not have enough left over to maintain/grow operations.

Source: I’m taking accounting, am struggling, and hate how evrything seems absolutely bonkers at first. But also, it all makes sense. Because real accounting accounts for goddamn evrything.

Not sure if you were angling for this response or used a voice transcription service, but it’s *seizing, not ceasing, btw

Unrelated: sometimes I’ve had confusing chats over fb marketplace trying to gauge the other person’s tone/sanity, but found their texts were just off because they let voice-transcription take the wheel.

If you want change,

Doomerism has to die.

Do more than chant “mid” like trolls do

I LOVE the Time one, lmao

More of my brain cells are left intact scrolling the fedi vs scrolling tiktok

The next update I have pending for Synology Office needs me to agree to AI use on my server. No thanks.

Sounds right, tbh. Source?

It hurts knowing that this is just untagged sarcasm but there are people out there stupid enough to read this as rabid sincerity.

Right? All the bleach we injected in 2020 extincted all the diseases

/s

*laughs in pre-recorded laugh track*

Surely giving up and trying nothing will turn things around!

/s

https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/

Someone breaks down why it’d be a monumental task for Valve/Itch to vertically integrate the whole payment processing thing into their business. The essay is highly readable.

The only thing I had to look up was
Escrow: a financial arrangement w/ a third party who holds/manages funds on behalf of two parties in a transaction

My takeaway was that Valve/itch/GOG would still be beholden to the banks who track porn as high risk for fraudulent transactions.

So what can we do about it? ~asking in earnest, btw. I buy porn and toys like a regular ass person, too~

Yes.

Whatchu gonna do about it?
~(not asking specifically you, bridge, just didn’t want to leave the thread at a circle jerk)~

How’d they change it to ruin it? I only played for a few months after it released

For me, Tumblr was an online culture different from the ADHD of other journaling/blogging platforms like Instagram or Twitter. You could find conversations in tags, gifs didn’t lag my browser to hell, fan content was proliferous there, webpages could be personalized to the lengths you might’ve gone to in MySpace. It was the place to find fandoms and fandom content, even for the most obscure series. There were no ads. And I felt like gifs/texts of porn and kinks were made more accessible when searched for by tags.

There was no algorithm - discovery of new blogs was just subscribing to tags & maybe following who your followed-people followed, the way the fediverse kinda is.

I felt like the presentation was good to relish each post of content with less distraction, and the pagination + scroll browsing was just enough to keep me addicted.

Someone correct me if I’m remembering it wrong.

RIP 2011 Tumblr

Wuff-fern

@gabboman@app.wafrn.net ,

Is registration on the wafrn website backlogged? I submitted a registration bout 12 hours ago, and the registration page said to wait a few hours for review. Got nothin in my email just yet. Not that I’m antsy, and there’s no rush; just hoping to know when I should follow up to log in :u

I didn’t get any email confirmation about my submitted registration, I realize. I refrained to keep from spamming, but… Should I actually submit another? :x
Edit: think I saw the fdroid app & submitted my registration form there, mentioning in case it’s relevant

Thank you for this! I’m not sure how I would’ve found out about Wafrn otherwise, lol