mayakovsky [any]

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Cake day: April 24th, 2025

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  • This will increase considerably over the next year as people have to move to the new plans and lose forbearance. What a fucking disaster. SAVE was too little to fix anything, but it was better than PAYE.

    OBBB completely fucked it all moving forward. Now it’s only congress which can change/add plans, not the SoE. Looking forward for a Dem candidate for '28 to make a gesture towards reinstating SAVE and then go “sorry, my hands are tied, vote harder next time”.

    The worst part is that even if 100% of people went into garnishment, nothing would be done. It would just become a fact of life that a significant proportion of the population was having their wages garnished by the government, just like everything else in hell world is “just how it is”.













  • I have an RSS reader that I get all my news from. Many websites, though less than before, have a link which is just a text version of all their articles. It’s usually something like www.website.com/feed

    So you add these links to an aggregator app and it just shows you all the recent articles in chronological order, and if they are nice, you can just read the whole thing right there in plain text. It can have images too, but it’s just a much nicer way to read shit than on whatever poorly designed and ad filled website they have.

    I have collected a bunch of them, from news websites to blogs or whatever, and I can just open my one app, see every headline in chronological order and click on them to read the article in the app, or follow the link to the website.

    It’s a great way to see a bunch of sources all in one place, in an easy to read format.

    I like the app capy reader because it’s open source, I got it from fdroid. It’s very easy to add stuff to, save stuff, etc. Just need to find the RSS feed links, which is sometimes easier or harder depending on the site. Sometimes it’s just a link which says “RSS Feed” which you just copy and paste into your reader/aggregator, sometimes you have to view the page source and search “feed” or “RSS” and find the link that way. It’s becoming more rare though unfortunately.

    Aaron Swartz was one of the people who created it. It’s a remnant of when the internet was better and not completely filled with ads.