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Gnome be like: "Here, you can select your wallpaper with this dialog that doesn't show any thumbnails or preview pictures whatsoever"

Does anybody know of a "thread unroll" webapp for Mastodon? I'm seeing some interesting long threads that I would like to read in a more comfortable format.

Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back To Phones If The EU Gets Its Way… Apple Will Tell Us This Is Bad For Us

https://gadgeteer.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/batteries-400x265.jpg Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need be. Whether it was a […]

https://gadgeteer.co.za/replaceable-batteries-are-coming-back-to-phones-if-the-eu-gets-its-way-apple-will-tell-us-this-is-bad-for-us/

https://gadgeteer.co.za/replaceable-batteries-are-coming-back-to-phones-if-the-eu-gets-its-way-apple-will-tell-us-this-is-bad-for-us/

Amnesty statement slams Supreme Court refusal to hear #Assange appeal | @amnesty
Link: https://t.co/MITv4T6epO https://t.co/1kYZRsXrpF

damn there really is an entire of genre of politicians who suck but whose parents fucking kicked ass

#war

I made a browser extension that changes the word “billionaire” to “oligarch” and, well, it’s about as perfect as I was hoping.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/billionaire-to-oligarch-r/ealafelnipmdnebociefhhkgoocplidj

Guy Verhofstadt trolling Marine le Pen after her party apparently destroyed 1.2m leaflets with this photo:

Very good analysis, still relevant even though written 2 days ago:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-ukraine-most-senseless-war-nato-history/

The march of technology

1985: Load time of game (cartridge): instant
1997: Load time of game (CD): 30s
2009: Load time of game (DVD): install to hard disk first, half an hour
2022: Load time of game (download): a day or so to download and another 4 hours for day one patch

This NFT explainer, linked here already by many, is amazingly good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

That said, this sentence is just art:
> This is what makes [NFT] enthusiasts so deeply unreliable: they have meaningful financial stakes in an intangible, volatile thing that exists entirely as a collective ideoform.

I promise the rest of the video is very clear and easy to understand, cuts through the bullshit like knife through butter. But that sentence... that sentence is *dense*.

To bump this thread: The Swiss state has been taxing the carbon in fossil fuels since 2008 ⛽

The tax started very low, and increases every year. It is currently 120 CHF (~130 USD) per tonne CO2 💰

2/3 goes to each citizen, evenly divided, as a reduction of their health insurance! 🏥 1/3 of the tax goes into green spending.

Every country can do this, without losing economic 'competitiveness' if a tariff is applied 🗺️

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