I’m already home, in a functioning democracy with freedom and social welfare. What’s a fash?

Living standards have nothing to do with KGB overthrowing democratic governments.

And I lived in a Soviet-overthrown country, as did my parents and grandparents… you don’t need to convince me of anything.

Not only irrelevant, but also false.

Yeah, it’s like judging a Ferrari owner for not knowing how to change the oil…

KGB tried the same, but they lost.

Well, ads pay for bills, and most devs have a food and shelter habit…

Probably accept that, too!

Lync

I went from outlook and office to Google suite (Gmail and Google docs). So, so much better. Maybe excel has more bells and whistles, but Google docs has everything I need and works so well everywhere. I would consider quitting if they dared to change to Microsoft.

Regarding communication, we use Slack for text and zoom for video, and it’s fine. I also have installed teams and Webex (for customers) and they are all okay-ish. Once I used bluejeans and audio quality was impressively better, but no one seems ot use it.

And the dead

Not only pennies do melt, they are more valuable once molten. It’s just illegal to do it.

Ah yes, the 15th standard we’ve been waiting for!

Plenty of them already died, by eating horsepaste during a respiratory virus pandemic. The survivors didn’t care.

… again.

Well, it’s the price of not being dependent on billionaires.

On the other hand, if the hundreds of thousands of subscribers go to a some publication (I’ve seen propublica recommended earlier in the comments, for instance) they will be able to pay a decent salary to a bunch of those journalists.

The can cancel as well and work somewhere else.

The 90% tax was on income, this is on wealth.

The seller doesn’t pay sales tax (and sales tax doesn’t apply to real estate transactions, usually it’s a special real estate tax and it’s much lower).

While 20C is too much, winter shouldn’t be here already. We’re in the middle of the fall, the first half if we’re specific (21 Sept to 21 Dec).

3-4x is in the fair region still. Do you think Microsoft employees make 20-30 millions each? (3-4x less than the CEO)