• Insurance. Some big instances have closed down, others regularly go into maintenance, you never know when one might decide to enshittify itself. Federation gives us the ability to use a different instance if needed, and it costs nothing to have some accounts ready to use should you be unable to use your main one.
• Compartmentation. Wouldn’t want to open the account where I’m subscribed mainly to porn on the bus or at work.
• Access. Not all instances federate with the same set of instances. Having accounts on instances with different federation policies lets you access more of the fediverse.

Next thing you’ll tell me the front’s not supposed to fall off.

But it’s got all the vitamins!

Fuck the bananas

No, that’s also illegal.

Got a loicense for that banana, mate?

Trump’s USA is most definitely not on NATO’s or Ukraine’s side(s).

Yup. And he wants to do the same in Palestine.

Probably other places too.

Everything’s a grift with this guy.

And he’ll name it Luthoria Trumporia.

Holy tax inspectors, Batman!

My god, it’s full of pixels!

Sorry, the app hadn’t auto updated and I hadn’t thought to look for an update on google play.

It’s working perfectly now, thanks!

Don’t they mostly download it directly from streaming platforms these days, skipping the display and its connector altogether…?

Hey, there are many fantastic old fonts. Most of the greats date back to the nineteenth century.

Times New Roman isn’t one of them, of course, but still.

As for Comic Sans, if I recall correctly it was intended to make reading easier for dyslexic readers, so I can’t see these bastards using it. Times New Roman is more their thing… though I could maybe see them using Papyrus.

Not just any sans serif.

Grotesques is where it’s at.

Maybe some geometrics for variety, or neo-grotesques if you need something simple and boring.

Why can’t they just use Helvetica like any normal bureaucratic institution?

It’s on the internet, so I assume at least four out of every three posts are bots trying to sell me something or to get me to hate someone. 🤷‍♂️

The idea is that what you pay goes to a fund that is used when the insurer has to pay a client, therefore socialising the costs of fixing whatever the clients insured.

If every client could get their money back, the company would likely have less money available for the payouts (and would risk everyone taking their money out once a big payout is due), and might go bankrupt if too many payouts come up at once.

So instead the idea is that ideally you end up paying less than you’d get if you needed to fix whatever you’re insured for… but it’s like a bet: you bet that shit’ll happen before you’ve paid more, the insurer bets that it won’t.

Of course, though, like in all businesses based on gambling the house always wins.

Even if they weren’t scamming you, they’ve got actuarial tables telling them how much you have to pay to make sure they’ll have a certain amount of profit… but of course they are scamming you, and they’ll do everything possible to avoid paying you even in the unlikely event that you fall on the wrong side of the actuarial table.

Center-right, really.

Your run of the mill moderate conservative.

And I think most of western Europe would see him that way.

He only looks progressive by contrast with his dystopic environment.

Live long, and sausage.

I remember Beyond 2000, it was great.

Reality was quite a disappointment after that, I must say.