catdad 🍕 @tcql@octodon.social

i've posted it before, but this is just *so very me*

https://youtu.be/sP4NMoJcFd4

@ccolocho AND I DID A THING

http://valleydrag.stipes.co/0

We talked all about Bodega and why it's Bad™, why Square is Good™, and why Silicon Valley is always disrupting the wrong things

https://octodon.social/media/7TiKIBUTa8dNwlj-T5s

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SHITPOST; THE FINAL FRONTIER

shitpost classifier
trained to find the difference between shit posts and shitposts

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im slep

they just raised $450M in series C.

THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY.

If they were doing extremely poorly right now, the raise wouldn't be that big. So what it probably means is they're planning to grow aggressively.

But... like... what are they planning to build that they need to grow that much for?

so

Patreon. like. their platform is really simple right? am I missing something? there's not that much complexity.

you let people support creators. you handle the transactions. you have different triggers for how much to charge (per month or per delivered "work").

but like... it's pretty simple?

how is Patreon, the company, not making money already?

so uhhh about that Kurdistan independence referendum... 😒 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41306048

senate can't vote w/o a CBO score, senate R's are pushing for CBO that scores $ but not the coverage change, so they can get it quicker.

of course it's convenient that the $ score will look good (hey we'll save money!) and coverage won't (hey a bunch of people will become uninsured!)

heeyyyy they're gonna try one more time to repeal ACA... greaattttt...

and this time they're trying to rush it because they have a deadline to do it by midnight Sept 30. sure sure, logically, doing it as fast as possible with as little information as possible is a good idea 😑

How googling health stuff goes

*searches about something minor*:
ayup it's cancer you're dyirng

*searches something possibly serious*: well like it could be fine or it could be bad. it really depends like there's a lot of variation based on h