Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town

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Imagine a website being blocked on your computer because its owner has a beef with a laptop manufacturer
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/5/16738752/google-youtube-amazon-punishing-customers-feud

The update claims creators will now get 95% of *pledges*; this is true but misleading.

Before, 100% of patron payments were counted as pledges. Now, 97% MAX of patron payments are counted. With the flat fee of 35 cents per transaction, this means you will only get roughly 63% of the money your $1 pledge patrons are paying.

If almost all your pledges are $1 or $2, you aren't getting 95% of your patrons' payments - you're getting more like 70%

Mario Odyssey knows what chord is playing on the soundtrack and uses that info when playing musical sound effects.

https://youtu.be/U5-YDxH6It8

(reposting w/ correction)

Let's suppose you pledge $1 per post on #Patreon to someone who publishes content once per week. Right now you spend $4 (before VAT) every month and, if I understood correctly, you will soon spend ($1 * 1.029 + $0.35)*4 = $5.52 per month.

But if you pledged $4 per post and limited your donation to only one time per month, you would spend $4 * 1.029 + $0.35 = $4.47, saving $1.05 per month.

The creator would get $4 * 0.95 = $3.80 in both cases.

As of now, I proudly support 14 creators on #Patreon. Last November my pledges plus VAT amounted to $27.21.

With the new service fee Patreon is going to implement in a few weeks, I would have paid $35.13 – that is $7.92 (€ 6.71) more. I can afford it, I guess, and if it is still the best way to support my favourite creators, I'll begrudgingly adapt to this change.

But the thing I am most appalled about is that I learned about this from Mastodon, not from Patreon itself...

With the new #Patreon payment structure, *patrons* pay a fee on top of their pledge, as well as patreon taking a (now smaller) cut from the creator's balance.

https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005631963

I made a little spreadsheet to help me work out what the heck was going on in actual numbers.

So if I'm supported by 50 $1 pledges, I get $47.50, but supporters pay nearly $70.

#OneDollarPatreon

https://cybre.space/media/-wknwRBPnI6Hfg_5aNU

do not imagine that a currency market is any way to equitably distribute finite goods. it is not a solution to web of trust problems. it’s a speculator’s game. how long are you willing to ride the bubble?

a highly consistent distributed ledger, divorced from all this proof-of-work stuff would have tremendous value
to communities trying to operate local voucher and coupon programs. the use cases abound for this but somehow we’re stuck reproducing currency markets for rich nerds.

- "Governments are bad for capitalism"
- "Dude governments are VITAL for capitalism. Who's gonna enforce the artificial scarcity you need to thrive?"
- "Hey that's not capitalism, that's cronyism, we never had TRUE capitalism"
- "So you're telling me capitalism only works on paper?"
- "..." *clueless silence follows*

(Inspired by a true story)

http://www.clickhole.com/article/second-chance-amazing-organization-helps-disgraced-7104

Someone on Twitter put it pretty neatly

News and politics in 2017 feels like that BSG episode where the Cylons attack every 33 minutes

https://hex.bz/media/1HKeSqGdVQKKTO4d4Sk

This article on the SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS that sex/gender is not actually determined by X/Y chromosomes in a simplistic way should be required reading. https://www.newstatesman.com/future-proof/2015/02/sex-isn-t-chromosomes-story-century-misconceptions-about-x-y

Let's face it. You can't expect me to have any respect for people who use "triggered" to mean "upset", or "REEEEE" in pretty much any context.

It's convenient to point and Trump and say he's the problem, but he, McConnell, Cruz, Lott, etc are just a symptom. They are just exploiting the problem for their gain.

And the problem is white Americans. The hate of white America for everything that isn't them is the engine that enables politicians to keep fleecing the States.

White America will keep voting for criminals as long as they keep telling them what they want to hear.

That's the core of the problem.