https://geneticdetective.ca/2020/09/19/she-does-as-she-pleases/

Retaining some ability to spend and use cash is vital because otherwise, all our financial transactions are totally controlled by the banks, and they are completely untrustworthy. The cost is inconvenience.

That is contrived even by twosentencehorror standards.

Oh shit is it still going? I read it religiously like a decade ago.

Agreed. Either it’s archive text messages, and also tape-record all verbal communication as well, or just let people talk to each other without all this admin.

Have you found any decent guitar communities on lemmy?

Municipal waste recycling is such a hilarious stat to throw on there. Doubly so that Malta are so bad at it.

Maybe that’s what horny means to you Netherlands types but that’s not what it means here! Here, it means wild west technohookers! Like that other guy said!

This is a great response, thank you. I feel educated.

I guess a means-tested tax on flights would be a solution to this but that’s definitely moving into the realms of ‘unfeasibly complicated’.

My statement or the one from France?

This has good intentions but all this will do is make it so low income people can’t travel, and not really affect the rich who are mostly the problem here.

I get that he has an emotional attachment to X from his previous attempts at this, but it’s not even the best single letter branding option.

Musk should have gone for Alpha, which you can shorten using the Greek letter α for his stupid logos, wouldn’t get you banned from half of the world’s anti-porn filters, has nice connotations in terms of cutting edge novel software and meaning ‘first’, and which would draw in his target audience of fuckwits who think Jordan Peterson is a serious person with valid opinions. Honestly missed such an open goal with that one.