Near the bottom, this article says the exact opposite of its headline - that Reddit is restoring deleted data, even if it should be legally deleted. ☹️

I don't use DDG, but below your article was this one saying they discontinued their tracking agreement with Microsoft:

https://www.digit.fyi/...

Yes! That would be awesome!

Cool! What interactive fiction is your favorite? I'm an oldster, so I love the old Infocom stuff, but I also programmed my own back in the 90s-00s.

Here. Lemmy seems to have reached the tipping point of having a big enough community to have interesting conversations. Bye, Reddit!

Ironic that they have several social media feeds down at the bottom for following the site, but no links to the Fediverse.

"Akshully, we meant to say Hitler bad!"

Alternative question: Do you feel that a household making the median income as "poor"?

Done-zo. Viva Lemmy and @seahorse@midwest.social !

These things are definitely worth a donating to, as I do with my Mastodon instances.

Subscribed! Thanks!

@seahorse I'm getting a "has expired or has been deleted" error when clicking the link.

Oh, good Lord, now I'm embarrassed. 😂 I keep wanting to write a prequel for the Beetmonger's Journal where I'm not forced up against a deadline. The first half of it is pretty good and polished. The second half was rushed by the contest I was entering. So, if you play the first half and like it, stop there! 😂But the concept was weird and solid - imagining there was an ancient secret society of beetmongers (like freemasons) what would they be like? I also had fun playing with the traditional perspective of IF games, and instead of 2nd-person, I made it in 3rd person (with a present narrator) and 1st person (wrtiting in a diary).

I also love the Gostak - and I was one of the playtesters for that one before its release, back in ancient times!

Nowadays, my time is taken up by board & card games - I've designed a couple, illustrated a couple. I'm also a part-time magician which takes care of most of the creative stuff, and magicianing actually turned into a positive cashflow hobby-side-hustle. (Thus, my moniker.)

Let me get this straight. You don't consider 3 or 4 times the national median household income "wealthy"? National median household income is about $62k.

It's pretty rare for a couple to have two specialized degrees like what you're mentioning.

Hi there, folks - I'm Scott Starkey, a software developer and part-time magician living in Indiana. I'm not a big fan of the stuff that Reddit is doing, so I thought I'd explore other options.

I'm also available on Mastodon with a bevy of accounts:

• My main account for programming and performing
• My game design account
• My Esperanto account

We seem to be lacking some communities that I'd like to see on Lemmy, specifically #Magic, #Esperanto, #GameDevelopment, and maybe #Freemasonry. Maybe I'll volunteer to set those up, once I figure out all the stuff.

Edit to say, I found an Esperanto forum: !Esperanto@sopuli.xyz

I'm turned off by his positions, him being an anti-vaxxer, and a general conspiracy theorist. What a loser, who sullies the legacy his last name.

We currently have a $2.8 Trillion surplus, but that will run out around 2034 unless something is done. Well, if we get past the Baby Boomer generation, Generation X is much smaller, and will strain the system less, letting the fund build back up. But you're right - something needs to be done in the next 10 years.

One easy way to fund Social Security forever is to raise or eliminate the cap on social security tax.

Currently, with the cap, people making more that $160k are paying less of a percentage of Social Security Tax than poor people.

The tax burden of Social Security tax should be the same on rich and poor alike, even if the rich don't use it much. Remove that cap - instant funding, and Social Security works forever. The only thing stopping it is our priorities in DC: apparently we want the poor to pay & suffer more the rich.

Cool, nice to meet you, @feidry! What sort of games do you develop?

I primarily design board and card games, but I've got a game I've been working on for Alexa / smart speakers to teach myself JavaScript.

One great part of living in the Midwest is the sheer number of game design conventions that go on during the year. Next month I'll be attending one of the Protospiels in Michigan to show off my works.

Yeah, I get it. I'm sorry it's that way. Indiana is great, except for where it's not - and where it's not great is really bad.