Yes tipping in Canada is weird, agreed. But from the time I lived in Toronto I didn’t feel it was as mad as the US is nowadays.

Thank god we don’t have a law that allows some lines of work to basically be unpaid, which forces tipping.

That’s the thing us Europeans have to remember. People who work for tips actually need tips or they make no money.

It’s an incredibly evil and dumb system. But a foreigner huffing about it while visiting the US isn’t going to change the system. Tip.

Constructed vs evolved.

Well, he’s a great filmmaker and a fantastic actor. I don’t like his personal politics, but I do also tire a bit from having to immediately throw everything through a lens of “do I agree with this person” before I’m willing to engage with anything they do.

My worry isn’t that we will have a rational war. War isn’t rational to begin with.

My worry is that we will have an irrational war. All it takes is a button push to end the world.

100% this is a jump-the-shark moment.

I sort of think what they’re releasing will stay free for a long time. That’s not my concern.

My concern is that since they’ve been acquired by Canva you can tell how Canva is thinking about Affinity; it’s a pure subscription driver towards Canva.

So given this is what Canva wants to do with Affinity, I have no doubt that Affinity will focus on shipping features that drive towards Canva subscriptions. That means other features will atrophy and that the future of affinity is one where you’re increasingly finding it diffficult to use, if you’re aiming to use it as an alternative to Adobe, without a subscription.

So this is subscription software by another name - it just creeping subscription, slowly boiling the frog in hope we won’t all jump out. Make no mistake, the fire has been lit and it won’t be long before the water gets warm.

Enshittification here we come.

Triggered much?

People make mistakes too.

Yes. Like people, if you want the nuggets of gold, you need to go dig them out of the turds.

And also if you’re opening a cafe in the morning, and you’re late, you are directly harming the place that employs you. Customers will be waiting yo!

This endless separation into “managers” and “not managers” is so unproductive. Everyone manages something. That’s why you’re employed.

This is actually worse. It’s copy/paste with an AI “correcting” any view that doesn’t conform to Elon’s view.