No more penny! What's the catch?
Cuts the US Mint's budget by 4% or $192 mil/year. Only cuts fed budget by 0.00003%. Drop, meet bucket.
W/out the penny, prices round up 5₵ & cause an inflationary effect, negatively affecting those w/ limited incomes & historically marginalized communities. Bingo!
Posts by Ash Alexander
Y'all remember Google+?
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I read the Immortals series last year and loved the story, characters, and world building. I'm halfway through The Good House and am enthralled. I'm grateful to have found a new favorite author. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world.
Jay Graber's net worth is $5M, and is expected to soar if Bluesky sustains current growth by exploiting users' screen addiction & narcissism like any other platform. Users seeking a space less toxic, less politically biased, and free from government/oligarchy control.
Refuge or more refuse?
2006: Jack Dorsey develops Twitter.
'13 Co. goes public.
'19 Dorsey starts Bluesky.
'21 Dorsey hires Jay Graber as Bluesky's CEO & resigns as Twitter CEO.
'22 Dorsey aids Musk’s Twitter buyout & exits board.
'23 Dorsey quits Bluesky, backs X as "Freedom Tech."
2024 Dorsey exits Bluesky's board.
Just trying to outrun the oligarchy on this here techno treadmill in a prison of our own making...