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thepaulmcbride commented on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists reuters.com/world/ireland... · Posted by u/abe94

skywalqer · a month ago

You know that tax money is taken from people who could buy art with it? Or, maybe buy food and other things that they need even more than art at the moment.

thepaulmcbride · 19 days ago

In a society with a progressive tax system these things are overwhelmingly paid for by people who have vastly more money than they need to survive. Taxation when done correctly is a good thing.

thepaulmcbride commented on Facebook is cooked pilk.website/3/facebook-i... · Posted by u/npilk

thepaulmcbride · 20 days ago

This is exactly the same experience I've had. I recently re-installed the app to use marketplace after moving to the US. My feed is mostly AI generated half naked women and AI generated conservative rage bait. It is so obvious that it's AI slop, but none of the comments ever mention it. I too assumed they were bots.

thepaulmcbride commented on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists reuters.com/world/ireland... · Posted by u/abe94

thepaulmcbride · a month ago

It's wild to me how many people in the comments see any form of government doing anything as shady. It is doubly wild to me that using public funds to create art is seen as a bad thing.

thepaulmcbride commented on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases planetscale.com/blog/5-do... · Posted by u/ryanvogel

thepaulmcbride · 4 months ago

I want to like this so bad, but the free tier changes still haunt me. I ran a little hobby project for a while on it that helped junior developers find jobs. The work needed to switch from PlanetScale ultimately meant I just canned the project.

Fairly or not, when I see PlanetScale, that’s what I think of.

Seeing the CEO on here defending it as if they nailed the execution of it doesn’t help either.

thepaulmcbride commented on Ruby Blocks tech.stonecharioteer.com/... · Posted by u/stonecharioteer

thepaulmcbride · 5 months ago

Ruby is really let down by the tooling around the language. The language itself would be so much more fun to write if the lsp would reliably jump to the definition of functions etc that seem to appear out of no where. It has been the biggest source of frustration for me while learning Ruby.

thepaulmcbride commented on Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections news.cuanschutz.edu/news-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

throw0101c · 6 months ago

In 2023 there was a conference about Chemistry of Indoor Environments (CIE) that looked at the research that was done over a ten-year period; opening presentation:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0GLbi20Q4

* https://indoorchem.org/publications/

Playlist of the various presentations from the conference:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2iHOCI2hz4&list=PLsc2-5fAgM...

Generally: avoid any use of electronics to 'do stuff' to the air or pathogens (e.g. UV) and just use high-MERV / HEPA filters, and use an ERV to vent stale air and bring in (filtered, conditioned) outside air.

thepaulmcbride · 6 months ago

Even HEPA isn’t a requirement, you just need a high CADR. Doesn’t matter if the filter doesn’t catch a particle on the first pass as long as it does one a subsequent one and the flow rate is high!

thepaulmcbride commented on Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know cnbc.com/2025/07/18/visa-... · Posted by u/koolba

thepaulmcbride · 8 months ago

I wonder how this will work for visa waiver programs like the ESTA. I have family visiting next year and if they have to pay an extra $1k, it won’t happen.

thepaulmcbride commented on Therapy dogs: stop crafting loopholes to fair, reasonable laws dirtamericana.com/2025/04... · Posted by u/speckx

SSchick · 8 months ago

Having moved from the EU (Germany) to the US there seems to be a LOT of these bad-faith skirtings of reasonable laws, especially in automotive (eg. license plate screens, window tint etc.) where lack of enforcement is abused and will eventually lead to the penaltization of the general public.

thepaulmcbride · 8 months ago

I moved from Ireland to the US and noticed the same. So many people in the US treat others as if they are NPCs. Rules only exist so that they can’t bother you, but the rules don’t apply to you. It is extremely frustrating!

thepaulmcbride commented on The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together vda.de/en/press/press-rel... · Posted by u/smartmic

thepaulmcbride · 9 months ago

Notably Volkswagen is missing

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