Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 43

Corporations hate paying tax, so here’s my radical idea: let’s scrap taxes for corporations.

That’s right, 0% tax.

Who’s with me?

Instead, we make all public services and utilities free at the point of consumption—that’s water, electricity, education, healthcare, etc.—and we make corporations pay for it, the percentage of the burden shared based on their annual revenue.

We could call it, I don’t know, Compulsory Corporate Social Responsibility or something.

Who’s still with me?

:awesome:

@selzero Remove the modern-day and it’s perfect. (Insert “always has been” meme.) :)

As Florida Braces for More Devastation, Project 2025 Plans to Break Up National Weather Agency
Project 2025 claims National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration “could be provided commercially"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/as-florida-braces-for-more-devastation-project-2025-plans-to-break-up-national-weather-agency

#Project2025 #HeritageFoundation
#authoritarianism #FarRight #fascism
#antiLGBT #ChristianRight #theocracy
#WomensRights #antiabortion #ReproductiveRights
#GOP #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Trumpism #DeSantis
#libertarianism #Trump2
#ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #NOAA #ClimateDenial

So billions for brains designed a two-person taxi?

*golf claps*

@amiserabilist It’s terrifying that that person has a vote.

@knittingknots2 @BrianJopek I don’t understand how otherwise rational people who believe in magic invisible sky fairies can come up with such nonsense.

@anatudor In case I don’t say it enough, love your work :)

The second is a quick little thing I live-coded in Professor Mode on @codepen in under 15 minutes a little while back.

Just like the first, it has absolutely no text duplication, not in the markup and not in pseudo content.

A little #SVG #filter magic 🪄 slices and offsets it https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/RwmPZVR

#CSS #cssGradient #svgFilter #code #coding #frontend #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment

The first one is this text effect that uses absolutely no images whatsoever save for #CSS gradients.

Some #SVG filter magic 🪄 is responsible for the background texture and also for the 3D look of the text and its grainy gradients.

https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/gONbppb

#filter #svgFilter #texture #textEffect #textEffects #noise #cssGradient #code #coding #3D #3dText #frontend #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment

11! of my demos throughout the first @codepen trending pages!

#SVG #CSS #filter #3D #svgFilter #graphicEffect #textEffects #texture #css3D #transform #code #coding #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment #frontend

@KenSwe I believe we’re too busy propping up tyrants to keep Brown people from coming over here at the moment.

@nitinkhanna No idea, sorry. I haven’t dived into the internals of that stuff for a few years now.

@tezoatlipoca Instead it looks like UNIFIL will likely leave with its tail between the legs. Having been pounded into submission by Israel and the United States alongside concepts like international law, basic humanity, and justice.

@ln The US regularly intervenes to ensure Israel has everything it needs to continue its genocide. The US is funding the genocide in Gaza and Israel’s war crimes in the region. And I’m thinking the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons against a civilian population can stomach a lot of carnage so I wouldn’t bet on their hitting the breaks anytime soon.

The fuckers (Israel) have attacked the UN *again* today.

Third attack in three days.

Who’s going to stop these fuckers?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/11/middle-east-crisis-live-eu-israel-iran-lebanon-blog-news-updates-hezbollah-hamas-unifil

#israel #rogueState #pariahState #terroristState #IDF #IOF #warCrimes #settlerColonialism #colonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #UN #UNIFIL

@NataliaArmyOf1 Ah, so it is! And thanks, will try :)

@NataliaArmyOf1 Aww… and on my birthday too; what a lovely present :)

@franksting @sinabhfuil Just another Wednesday for Israel.

@aral @goetz Mastodon supports the SWF foundation. They call us partners because of this support at launch I guess. I have no idea what relationship they have with Meta. And there is no relationship between Mastodon and Meta.
Similarly, Meta is a W3C member, Mastodon participates to some W3C meetings about ActivityPub.

@renchap @goetz Do you guys seriously not get why Meta wants to be on there and what it means for Meta to be on there? You’re whitewashing them. You’re telling people “they can’t be that bad… Mastodon would never partner with them if they were that bad.” I mean, do you really not see this?