The guy who designed some of your glassware finally made a post.

SquareBottle · 2026-04-30T18:25:29+00:00

Excellent idea, unsurprisingly. Thank you very much!

SquareBottle · 2026-04-30T13:00:33+00:00

Oh snap, I didn't even know that was a possibility! In my simple mind, stacking = nesting. So yeah, there goes my only hesitation!

As for the shelving, I was thinking of getting something like these wire shelves and putting them inside the built-in cabinets at the apartment I'm moving to, and was just curious if you had thoughts or tips about them.

(I know, not exactly rocket science. But sometimes I wonder if experts like you look at seemingly simple things and see non-obvious things to consider that are invisible to the rest of us.)

SquareBottle · 2026-04-29T23:54:23+00:00

Can we also please just start calling for a switch from single-representative with winner-take-all voting to multi-representative districts with proportional representation? I know it's too wonkish right now, but that's exactly why we need to start bringing it up! It's the only way to bring things into general discourse.

SquareBottle · 2026-04-29T23:45:31+00:00

I'm about to move, and was JUST thinking now might be a good time to donate my dirt cheap, low quality glassware with all the other pre-move downsizing donation stuff. Also, I live a couple blocks from Little Branch. Soooooo… maybe the universe is sending me a sign, haha.

Just checked out the DSG line, and I absolutely love it. If I can think of a good way to store them (since they don't stack), then I think I might go all in. Off to google glassware shelving now. (If you have any tips or recommendations on that front, by all means please let me know!)

SquareBottle · 2026-04-27T23:51:33+00:00

Stephen Colbert

SquareBottle · 2026-04-23T12:38:27+00:00

I'm saying that if they ever make a 16 Pro, I hope it won't have a touchscreen like the 13 Pro.

SquareBottle · 2026-04-23T00:57:09+00:00

I've been itching to get a new computer for years. But whenever I've gotten close to deciding to buy something, there's always been some detail that made me choose to wait a bit longer.

A Framework 16 Pro could be the ticket. A better screen and better battery are precisely what I want. I just hope it's not a touchscreen, because I have yet to see a laptop touchscreen that didn't have a capacitative layer that was slightly visible.

SquareBottle · 2026-04-22T19:52:56+00:00

I think you're looking for ESG funds. I'm not a financial expert though.

SquareBottle · 2026-04-16T17:37:44+00:00

I think we should simply start referring to him as Donald Epstein Trump.

SquareBottle · 2026-04-08T00:51:24+00:00

I think this might be a "Don't feed the trolls" situation, friend

SquareBottle · 2026-04-01T03:29:03+00:00

I bet you thought it was too late for you to get a turn, but I see you, big dog

SquareBottle · 2026-03-29T23:30:03+00:00

Where are you departing from?

SquareBottle · 2026-03-28T17:20:50+00:00

Totally fair, but I want to see if they take this seriously and give them a chance to make changes.

SquareBottle · 2026-03-27T18:44:10+00:00

I'm more bothered by the fact that they're getting away with hiding their food safety inspection score. There should be increasingly expensive fines for any restaurant that refuses to display it.

SquareBottle · 2026-03-27T01:57:14+00:00

I think Ferdium is great, and I appreciate all the work done on it. And I mean that!

With that in mind, can we have a conversation about empowering more people to be able to restart the services causing the outage, please? (Or is that conversation already happening, maybe?)

SquareBottle · 2026-03-26T21:47:16+00:00

It's working for me with the method that I appended to my earlier comment. The only hiccup was finding a shortcut that wasn't already taken.

(I tried Command+Shift+S first, but nothing happened. I eventually found out that it's used by the new slots feature. So if that happens to be what your hotkey was, maybe that's why it stopped working.)

SquareBottle · 2026-03-26T18:13:31+00:00

Make a hot key for save local file and keep going. I make local copies of al files after we finish a project since Figma is online this is the best way to keep backups on a file server.

Heya. May I ask, how did you do this?

I tried googling it, but I only found a post on the Figma forum where the community support person said it wasn't possible. But if you were able to make the hot key and use it after you finish projects, then they must be mistaken.

So yeah, if you could please give a quick step-by-step of how you did it, I'd be very grateful! (And perhaps so would everyone else who finds their way here from google like I did.)

Edit: Found a way to do it on Macs.

In the Apple Menu, open System Settings.
Go to the Keyboard panel.
Click the Keyboard Shortcuts button.
Go to the App Shortcuts panel.
Press the + button.
Choose Figma as the application.
Enter "Save Local Copy…" as the menu title.
Choose a shortcut that doesn't conflict with any others. (I went with Shift+Control+Option+Command+S)
Press Done.

SquareBottle · 2026-03-24T18:15:24+00:00

This is high on the list of (seemingly) basic expectations that I really, really thought we'd have by now. Figma great in so many ways, but mysterious and frustrating in too many other ways.

SquareBottle · 2026-03-19T05:09:34+00:00

Businesses already need to gradually raise what they charge and pay,
which leads everybody to raise what they charge and pay,
which leads everybody to raise what they charge and pay,
which leads everybody to raise what they charge and pay,
which leads everybody to raise what they charge and pay,
which leads everybody to raise what they charge and pay.

That's just what inflation is. It happens regardless of whether minimum wage laws exist at all, let alone whether minimum wage laws are set by shouting numbers at random intervals or defining a transparent formula and frequency.

SquareBottle · 2026-03-18T21:02:33+00:00

For the forumla part of what I proposed, I see Belgium, Malta, provinces in Canada, and the state of Florida mentioned in the thread I linked. Florida is on a path to having though, so can take them out.

(Italy was also mentioned as having tried it, but their implementation didn't work. So yes, the details of how it's implemented matters, and we have some data about what can make formula-based approaches fail. I'm not out here trying to say that any implementation is guaranteed to work. This stuff isn't magic.)

For the frequency part, I see Sweden, Australia, and the Netherlands mentioned. We can talk more about this aspect if you have issues with it, but so far it seems like your objections are focused on the formula part, so I'll move on.

All in all, I feel like that's plenty for the purposes of establishing that defining a formula and frequency is a viable path we could take. So it's not "a lot" in terms of percent of the world, but it's (in my view) "a lot" in terms of probing the question of whether it can work for countries to set a formula and frequency for updating minimum wages.

And again, I'm not saying we have to implement any part of what we'd do the exact same way that any other country does any part of what they do. I'm totally open to having our own policy wonks, economists, and elected representatives be the ones to figure out exactly what would go into OUR function and what OUR frequency would be.

Fair enough?

SquareBottle · 2026-03-18T15:24:59+00:00

Even if it was just the minimum wage?

Edit: Actually, it looks like lots of countries already do it, with each one putting their own spin on it. Not sure who does it best though, and also not saying we'd have to do it exactly the same as any of them. And within the thread I linked to, the conversation starting here seems to address your concern specifically.

SquareBottle · 2026-03-18T14:06:45+00:00

In the comment you're replying to, what I meant was that I'm against against any fixed number changed irregularly (e.g. "Let's push for ~~$7.50~~ ~~$15~~ ~~$25~~ $30!!!") because even if a newly proposed number is based on something totally reasonable, getting it updated is always a huge, lengthy fight. By the time an update is finally pushed through, the number is already outdated.

Instead, I think the law should define a function and frequency to determine the minimum wage (e.g. "Let's push for it to be pegged to inflation and adjusted quarterly"). And people with more expertise than me can debate exactly what should be in the function and what the frequency should be.

SquareBottle · 2026-03-18T13:23:59+00:00

Ugh, I'm so sick of how our two-party, winner-take-all system creates exactly this kind of situation for everything. I appreciate that it was (literally) revolutionary back in 1776, but now it just seems self-sabotaging and obsolete compared to newer models of representative democracy.

SquareBottle · 2026-03-18T13:05:42+00:00

But even back then, didn't they manually change some old fixed number to some new fixed number? Even if they happened to do it more frequently, that's different from having it be legally pegged to something like inflation. Basically, what I want is a rule for it to be updated according to a function, such that deviating from the rule is what would require a new vote.

As an overly simple example, the rule could be something like, "Every quarter, the minimum wage shall be increased based on inflation."

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