Yeah, that seems like it would have too much perverse incentive for admins to ban users they don’t like, both to remove them and get money for doing so.

Damn, I thought they were going out in a blaze of glory weekendgunnit style on the first glance. Self-immolating a sub instead of just returning to the new status quo is more effective than this blackout will ever be.

with the recent ability for kids to convert to a Roth IRA up to $35k with no penalties if they don’t use the funds, has that become the new golden number?

Unless your kids are getting close to college right now, I would not put much faith in any specific program being present in the future. Those sorts of deals tend to come and go with the political tide.

Personally I put less and less emphasis on colleges with each passing year of life. Unless your child has aspirations to be a mover shaker or aims for a highly specialized field, just about any accredited bachelor’s degree in the right field will work for them, ergo a cheap online/community college will get the job done, and possibly also fast if they’re a strong student.

I’d put a modest sum in, perhaps around your number, and then subsidize each child based on their goals. You might nurture a child with strong entrepreneurial aspirations, in which case that 529 is probably not going to help them, whereas 30k in seed money could set them up for great success.

Teaching and nurturing a child early on in life will pay far greater dividends than a college fund ever will in any case. Giving them the tools to advance spectacularly and have a drive to achieve their goals is going to make any other obstacle surmountable.

Only becomes a problem if commenters/posters get out of hand. On a more mild topic like self-hosting it’s probably not a massive issue for the foreseeable future.

I was about to say, it’s the same system Reddit has just about, except instead of a corporation having your data, it’s just some rando with a server.

I haven’t dug into the Lemmy system at all, but would it not be possible for the server owner or other users to run a lemmy version of reveddit? Might not be a system by default, but I’d assume any system with direct access to the data can copy it over to a 3rd party no problem.

That always confused me as a child, since it was super easy to just test it for yourself. Turned out salt tasted salty regardless of where on your tongue it was, the same for the rest of the flavors.

But at the same time, deflating the sales of the product has the risk of prompting the company to not continue with a franchise or employ those developers in the future.

Wireless charging?