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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Then you should acknowledge that you are ignorant about who the billionaires are and what good they may be doing.

    Most aren’t amassing wealth on the backs of a workforce. Most are making investments for the company they own to make money. As I said, they don’t have the money in their pockets. The company or the stock for the company is worth money.

    Look at any sports team owning CEO. They’re not all great but many are decent people who contribute to their communities. And the people working for them are making decent money. The money the team they own makes is from fans spending money on tickets, buying merchandise, and selling broadcast rights.


  • I sure hope the internet isn’t a reasonable indicator of how the general public feel about CEOs and billionaires. There are in fact many fantastic CEOs and billionaires who donate and focus their time and money and corporations to benefit communities. There’s more than a reasonable argument that without billionaires, the planet would be suffering more.

    This movement of hating on the mega wealthy is misguided. It’s not like billionaires are actually hoarding wealth - they don’t have billions stuffed under their bed. They own companies and stock in companies that are worth money. The money is used to create or buy other companies, to invest in other companies, to create new opportunities, to create jobs.

    The Board of Directors are decreasing overhead and increasing profit margins to satisfy Wall Street’s hunger. This is due to changing government regulations, mostly lead by Republicans. The Republicans want limited government, the dismantling of federal programs, an increase in private corporations, and greater opportunities for the wealthy to generate income off Wall Street speculation.

    This act should be condemned and the murderer should be sent to prison.

    Murdering one person isn’t going to accomplish anything. Murdering all the CEOs isn’t going to accomplish anything. It may feel good to you that this person’s family has lost someone they love in retribution for all the families who have lost the people they love. But it’s not going to prevent anyone else from dying.

    Hopefully, after the crowd chills out from seething at the teeth, we can get back to discussing how fucked our health care system is. Oh, sorry - we just elected someone who explicitly says he’s going to make health care worse and more expensive.

    Maybe we should give a shit about our government and who we’re voting for.
    Maybe we should be shooting each other instead of these CEOs who present more as a symptom of the illness.

    Edit: I’m going to take that back. It’s clear that people are just angry about anything and everything. It doesn’t matter how or why or its relevance. It’s not just the internet, clearly. This is how we ended up with another Trump administration. Irrationality and fear are all that matter. Science, facts, context, intelligence, education; all passé. We are the mob standing by with pitchforks.



  • I ran into a similar problem once I upgraded my subscription and brought in a few different email accounts I have. I have a Proton account, a personal domain, and a domain for a website I own (trying to minimize my use of 15+ email accounts).

    My instinct was to run a filter to put each account into a folder. Coming from Apple’s email system, this made sense to me. However, Proton has the Inbox as the launch folder so I would have to always go to All Mail to view all my mail then dive into each folder if I wanted to view accounts that way.

    I’ve changed my filters to apply labels rather than divvy into folders. This allows me to view all incoming messages in Inbox while choosing labels if I want to be more specific. I use the colors in the labels to reference the root account (ex., purple for three ProtonMail addresses). This process took some time and required that I move things out of the filter folders and back to the Inbox.

    I no longer have any folders. My problem with folders is that they remove messages from the Inbox and I’m likely to forget I moved something. I could see some use cases for them (collating travel plans) but for now I don’t need them.

    I have eight filters for email Recipient. The rest are to organize things like stuff for my car, for my apartment, purchases, newsletters, healthcare/insurance, etc.

    I do have a lingering concern about future migration. It was relatively easy to move my domain accounts from other email providers to Proton but I’m not clear how that works if I decide to leave proton.