Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 124

@Telciris The high tax burden provides benefits to everyone. The drawback is that they are soulless benefits, and to get them in a time of need, you must often humiliate yourself by revealing things to government clerks that you'd rather keep to yourself if you place any value on privacy. I believe in sharing, but I don't feel that the welfare state is ideal for me in particular.

@Telciris You end up charging prices you don't really feel comfortable about charging. And that's before you've even made any sort of active attempt at blood sucking. I have people telling me that I'm still not charging enough and I'll remain poor if I continue, and they're probably right, but it feels wrong.

@Telciris In the case of the Nordic countries, probably 50% of what you earn goes toward some kind of tax, so you have to at least charge twice your net wage. If you're not able to fill your schedule 100%, you then have to pad that further to create a bit of a buffer for the sake of security. If you need to pay an accountant, buy equipment or rent an office space, that requires further padding.

@Telciris You're making a living off something else, though, right? Those three digit sums aren't so unreasonable when you start looking at the expense and risk of being a freelancer.

@bax_books He should hire another developer.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx

@Elizafox And inside a circle of nerds, no additional trust is needed. You can usually trust nerds. They're not generally known for lying and cheating. Which probably explains why the early Internet had so little security.

*checks time* Well, at least I got myself to bed before 1 AM... Unfortunately, I fell asleep this afternoon, so I'll probably be awake until 4.

@Chakiral The idea would of course be to make it transparent to the users.

Couldn't you easily have end to end encrypted DMs on Mastodon? I mean, there are JS crypto libraries...

Blizzard, my cat, making weird faces.

@SupperMarioBroth That's some quality artwork right there.

@qazstan As in bro rosé? 😛

Icelanders, though? They are the real stars. There's only 334,000 of them, and everybody loves Lazy Town.

When you're a Norwegian on the Internet, you're basically a C grade celebrity. There's 7 billion of everybody else and 5 million of you. Anything that there is so little of will naturally garner some interest.

@urwitchygothmom What is a jackbox stream?

It's not that pictures of Bigfoot are blurry. That's just how he actually looks.

@nico @gargron lol

@sdm Note: I actually had it with fried rice instead of plain rice as in the picture. 😮

@sdm That was the main course. The taco salad was for later. Same with the cake.