Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 35

@federicomena romantic, but I fear it is more addiction than true love.

@Gargron Fun question:

What's your favorite custom emoji on your instance and why? How does that relate to your community?

@mhall119 well, now that I know there are special badges involved...

@Gargron grocery delivery?

@cwebber I use swim shirts. Mostly because I hate putting all the sunscreen on all the time. They're easy to find for kids, but unfortunately harder for adults.

@sharpgeek @ksteimel I think we could probably find a sponsor, the tricky part is the vendor.

My plan is, once we have a signed location, to try and call the nearby school districts and see if we can piggy back on their summer program. Or something like that. Not sure. An adventure!

@paperdigits @prokoudine in 50BC, clearly.

@federicomena man, been trying to get @kenvandine to make an account forever. Good job getting him to come to brave new world of ActivityPub federation!

@sharpgeek I imagine the "our" in this case is not just our country, as much as our planet.

At least it isn't all running on PHP...

@prokoudine that is really something.

Interesting though that he believes all software should have built in update notifications though. Something we've avoided in Free Software for privacy concerns, may be we're now not living up to expectations.

@sharpgeek seems like a lot of characters for a Toot coming from VAX.

@RyuKurisu @tinker @thinkMoult don't know the definitive answer there, but the 16.04 transition was started by Canonical, so was probably easier to complete it.

Puts them on a release that gets security updates, so a huge amount better than the current 15.04.

@tinker @thinkMoult @RyuKurisu I've got a Nexus 5 running the Ubports build right now, but it isn't my daily.

It is a little rough as they're transitioning to 16.04. But shows a lot of promise. If you're new to it, I would wait until after that transition to make a serious evaluation.

@szbalint not to discount that, but they also got a sizable investment from Google Ventures.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/09/gitlab-raises-20m-series-c-round-led-by-gv/

@freakazoid the way that school bonds work in Texas is that you can only use them for capital expenses, no operating expenses. You can use your tax revenue for capital as well, but it needs to cover all of your operating budget.

I like this scheme generally, as it separates out the types of debts. Having debt to cover operating budget is a real problem, and leads to the kind of roll over you mention. While capital expenses are usually more fixed cost.

@freakazoid should you be allowed to have a tax imposed on you just because the majority of people voted for it?

At the individual level it is effectively a time-limited tax.

@freakazoid I don't think that debt is inherently bad, I like municipal bonds. What I don't like is how higher level gov'ts basically use it balance budgets. Wish they had to do the same type of campaigns to justify it and discuss the cost/benefits.

@freakazoid while I think taxes are a good solution too, the reality is that they're largely controlled by the richest members of the society.

I would contest that inflation "encourages debt", I would instead say it "encourages investment." Which basically means it discourages zero-risk savings. I don't that is inherently bad.