This is what they do now. Some counties and cities tax junk mail, this is very effective. When my city did this, it so affected the amount of paper being recycled that the city worried that people were no longer interested in the recycling program (they figured it out). You can’t blame the USPS for junk mail. They deliver, as fast as they can, and that’s it.

One thing that should be brought back to the post, and my president, Elizabeth Warren, agrees, is payday check loans. That used to be a USPS service, and it was very popular. The payday loans were always locked with interest no higher than inflation, so it wasn’t a disaster if you got one. In the 1940s. the USP Savings System held billions in receipts, and was so trusted that even the rich invested in it.

When banks returned to full health, the “government monopoly” was taken from the USPS and ended up in the hands of a bunch of predatory check cashing companies that you now see littering every struggling neighborhood in the USA, except in the few places they’re banned. Ironically, the 1980s destroyed the small town community bank (part of Reagan’s legacy was the S&L scandal), which were supposed to be replacing the USPS, and the extortionists proliferated. Major banks are now in the game, offering payday/salary loans with 200-300% introductory rates.

Blame this guy.

It goes without saying, the business of payday loans hits the poor hard. Interest can reach 1000% if payments are missed, it’s hell. In contrast, the USPSS helped establish credit for millions of working poor people in America. Even when it was judged “redundant” in the late 60s, over a million people still had an account with USPS. And nobody ever talks about it.

Because maintaining the USPS is a federal obligation as stated in the fucking Constitution. Anyone that doesn’t understand this hates America and has AIDS.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Mint.

There’s a small army of Linux “snobs” that look down on it for recondite and mostly silly reasons. Mint is a great and user-friendly OS. The only thing I can say against it is that many of the binaries in the distro app manager are very out of date, but this hardly matters now because AppImage and Flatpaks are so on top of it and great.

it’s sad, pathetic, and stupid that one has to download a potentially dangerous hack to do something so basic.

yo compiz is the shit. You can do ANYTHING with it. It took me a while to figure out because where the hell is the manual, but I have my own custom thing going on and it’s brilliant.

I think the fastest way for linux to spread are a) a state-sponsored (totally open source) product that sees a free and open OS as part of a commitment to a free and open society. or 2) one of these fuckhead billionaires drops $200M or so into a trust, rather like the Poetry Foundation, which has the singular commitment to create an OS for people and to support it indefinitely.

I don’t think the answer to any of society’s ills is to get Wallmart involved. ed: walmart however its spelled WGAS.

congratulations, you now walk with the righteous.

It doesn’t say how they got this number in the piece (unless I missed it), but it’s likely more than 5% if they are, say, counting the OS by user agent strings hitting a particular tracker. Linux distros use different browsers and they don’t report the OS in an accurate way all the time.

For a long time my UAS just said “Firefox, the version #, NT-based” or something like that, but now it reports Linux properly… I haven’t been paranoid enough to use a agent switcher lately.