The “Stupid” Idea That Made Millions
https://medium.com/@Bhanu_/the-stupid-idea-that-made-millions-da3a2035a169?source=friends_link&sk=7dfa75019b5c79f514c85b1eab11ec8f
Discover how 'stupid' startup ideas make millions. Learn why experts laughed at these now-successful ventures & how to spot your own golden opportunity
#business #news #mastodon #idea #socialmedia
researching how to detect #AI generated #images has been a fun weekend learning challenge #development #science #math
Though as we begin to integrate this these new capabilities we need help deciding how we will present this data to you #mastodon #community
How would you like to see the analysis?
Have any #idea post below!
Questions and an idea for my #USAnian friends...
Your ~~feral~~ federal government is currently being commandeered by an executive that believes that it can rewrite the U.S. constitution via executive orders. One of the primary techniques they are using is usurping the congress's "power of the purse", by either refusing to spend congressionally-allocated funds, or by spending those funds on things other than congress allocated them for.
If the executive branch thinks it's fine to ignore your constitution and screw taxpayers with tax dollars, then...
1) Most of the feds' tax income comes from income tax and various #employment taxes.
2) Employers collect these taxes and remit them to the government.
3) Q: exactly *who* do they remit them to? Based on history, I would think this would be a state agency, who would keep the state/municipal portion and remit the rest to the federal government. Is this correct?
4) "Blue" states are, in general, net payers of tax dollars vs. federal services received.
5) "Red" states are, in general, the opposite - they receive more in federal services / support than they remit in taxes.
So, depending on the answer to (3), my #idea is: why don't blue states stop remitting funds to the federal #government? Don't steal it, just hold it in trust until the feds can be made to follow the law correctly.
I would think this would hurt the feds, a *lot*.
This appears to be a reference to the federal #law known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (#IDEA), which the #Education Dept administers. The law guarantees students w/ #disabilities the right to a #free, appropriate education &, in 2024, sent ~$15B to schools to help pay for #SpecialEducation services. The law also makes clear that it is the secretary of education's responsibility to administer these funds.
@seeg That's not what I asked. So if you're not going to answer the question, we'll just go with: "assuming everyone takes one shot." #wrong #assumption #we #overwhelmingly #needed #double #shots #had #no #idea #how #long #it #would #last #and #initially #needed #to #plan #for #vaccinating #everyone #with #doubleshots #every #six #months
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? 30 Days Until Martial Law...?
By Jessica Wildfire • 20 Mar 2025.
https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-now-30-days-until-martial-law/ (Kind of a salacious title, but unfortunately not impossible either.)
And she links (Safe Travel Trans Americans Passport Policy) https://19thnews.org/2025/03/safe-travel-trans-americans-passport-policy/
(TGNC Checklist under Trump) https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/
(Travel State gov page on passport help with sex marker) https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/passport-help/sex-marker.html
(Reddit thread A Guide for Americans to Leave) https://www.reddit.com/r/AmerExit/comments/urwlbr/a_guide_for_americans_that_want_to_get_out_of/
(SF Chronicle on the Insurrection Act) https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/insurrection-act-president-trump-20201819.php
"Meanwhile, corporate media asks, “Can he do that?” These stories are engineered to distract the public with technicalities. While everyone’s debating what they can and can’t do, they are doing it.
We know this administration’s pattern of loose interpretation when it comes to law and historical precedent. There’s no reason to believe he’ll stop here, instead using this act to use force against anyone his administration considers a threat, regardless of their status or what they’re protesting.
You also have to remember this country has a long, established history of censoring speech and leading witch hunts. During WWI, god help you if you didn’t buy enough liberty bonds or called yourself a pacifist.
We’re the land of moral panics.
Every single one of this administration’s actions have been building toward this moment, when the president suspends our civil and human rights. It explains why they’ve taken such aggressive action toward federal agencies, firing tens of thousands of workers and purging their ranks of anyone who might say no. They’ve already been testing boundaries, daring courts to stop them as they shut down government operations and kidnap U.S. citizens."
(some bullshit from an insecure asshole puppetted for power) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states/
(How to move out of the USA) https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2024/11/04/how-to-move-out-of-the-us/
“I’ve had it with being labeled spineless simply because, at the end of the day, I really don’t give a shit whether we tax the rich to help poor families or hungry children or whatever,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Heat Pumps: refrigerators that run both ways.
omg wait. Het Pumps: shoes that denote utter straight-ness.
He Pumps: description of masc person who doth lift.
H Pumps: uhhh, probably a biology or chemistry thing? Like H is Hydrogen, so just one proton (+1 positive charge, +1 atomic mass in the nucleus) with maybe a neutron or two (+0 charge, +1 atomic mass in the nucleus). So an H pump would probably just be a proton pump, like the opposite of what you give people for stomach ulcers? Cuz acid is more protons, giving a stronger overall positive charge.
E Pumps: come on, this is a free trans chick joke. Or maybe like e-girls, or both tbh. Are e-boys a thing? Are e-boys just fem bois in a more cyber punk aesthetic?
Que dicen
que cuando abras un post, veas los comentarios con mas likes(estrellitas) primero, en orden pues de estrellitosidad. Y luego puedes abrir el hilo de ese comentario y ver la conversacion.
como en tiktok mas o menos
De Gemeente Nederland in beeld!
Op initiatief van Gemeente Zwolle en samen met een aantal gemeenten heeft ICTU deze visualisatie ontwikkeld. Een praktisch hulpmiddel voor bestuurders, programmamanagers en afdelingshoofden om inzicht te krijgen in de samenhang tussen gemeentelijke dienstverlening en taken, en de daarvoor benodigde processen, informatie, applicaties en infrastructuur.
De visualisatie is voor alle Nederlandse gemeentes beschikbaar via Gemmaonline:
https://www.gemmaonline.nl/wiki/Bespreek_je_informatievoorziening_met_de_gemeente_Nederland_plaat
My browser aggregates a history of sites that have their own search: It should be able to run a distributed search on all those pages without me navigating a centralized search engine first.
Just borrowed my mother's bike to go collect a takeaway and developed a whole business/brand #idea while I was doing so: A fast food delivery service offering krokets, bitterballen, kaassoufflés and the like delivered by a fleet of Dutch bikes, going by the name, and I'm genuinely pleased at this, Oma F' Eats.
Another glass of wine and I'd have registered the domain. And then when said business didn't work out just use it to keep a record of Dutch grandmother's weight-lifting achievements.
#IDEA Let's have an annual #Cheerlights day :) Everyone digs out their cheerlights clients and posts pictures of them running on the day
Luetaan ystävän kanssa omat top-lempparikirjat niin, että tehdään sinne merkintöjä toista ajatellen, luetaan ne toisen suosikit merkintöjen kanssa ja lisätään niiden oheen omia merkintöjämme.
Tässä pääsee tekemään sitä mitä aina haluaisin loistavaa kirjaa lukiessani: hehkuttamaan, alleviivaamaan toiselle juttuja, huudahtelemaan AH! ja osoittamaan sormella että katso tota, ja tota, ja tota!
Mä valitsin Max Porterin Lannyn, joka on kuin tällaiseen (hehkuttamiseen) luotu.
phillydefranco: why #trump #tariffs are a #stupid #bs #idea it will completely offset the #tax cuts to #middleclass and most likely just increase #misery around the globe and thus HELP MORE #FASCIST #DICTATOR INTO POWER! (in the 1930s people also voted for #Hitler because of massive financial economic problems (#hyperinflation #inflation) #trump you #idiot gonna destroy #USA
Want american Democrats to ACTUALLY DO something already?
Consider Direct Action instead!
But as well as that, we *do* need a non-corrupt (yet! there's always time, ofc) replacement party that is ACTUALLY left-wing.
Tea Party and MAGA supporters did it. Don't follow their strategies completely, but DO LEARN FROM them.
We all deserve better -- even the Leopards Eating People's Faces party.
How many of them would have supported having their faces eaten if they KNEW it wasn't hyperbole or something?
Or if they took time to imagine and plan for the risks: their or loved ones' faces being eaten by leopards?
https://lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/113933724467583170
Now we just need a name and bunch of furries to advise how to protect our information technologies.
"IF THE SITUATION WAS HOPELESS THEIR PROPAGANDA WOULD BE UNNECESSARY".
Launching Magit from IntelliJ IDEA 
