bitwise

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[–] bitwise@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why spend the money up front? That's just bad business. They'll only do it if there's real traction in the rest of the verse blocking their shit.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'm worried that what they'll do is just set up hundreds of instances on various domains (not even necessarily *.facebook.com, or similar) in order to connect and scrape. Banning them would require resources and time people just can't dedicate in the way a megacorp can.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wrote my MP once in 2021 regarding the reversal of the wholesale broadband rates. Specifically, about how the Vice-Chair of Telecommunications sat down with the President of Bell Media for some beers at a sports game to discuss things after the 2019 court rulings upheld the existing rules set by the Commission.

The result, of course, was a change to the rules.

You're not going to get a real answer from your MPP, just a staffer tasked with boilerplating out an email that could conceivably be construed as an answer to your question/complaint.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

"The founding maintainers were perfect in every way and their vision doesn't need adjustment!"

"Their vision included the need for adjustment? Nah, that's just propaganda from trolls."

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

"Working as intended" #wontfix
/closed

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I appreciate the well formatted commit message. A shame that some of the maintainers aren't interested in accepting fixes.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social -1 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Adding to this with a post I found on wallstreetbets.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/15uo06v/inflation_data_has_always_been_a_lie/

Not exactly a reputable source, but the OP does go through several key indicators and shows their math (with screenshots of a calculator, lol)

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Maybe I'm becoming too cynical, but the raises these unions have been settling on don't really cover inflation over the periods where they received no increase.
These articles just feel like the media wings of these megacorps are trying to stroke our egos. "Yes, so much bargaining power!"

I can't find the article I'm thinking of where someone used a bunch of privately sourced data to peg the average annual inflation at 7%, but this article shows how economists don't even agree on what metrics to measure for calculating inflation.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex.asp

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's like everyone forgot he was busy causing constitutional chaos to avoid justice.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

If he wanted to live, he should've bought a new heart before flying!

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

If I had been in his position, given the results of the survey, I wouldn't have changed the system, either.

It was a dead split among the possible choices, and any selection would've been attacked for it's strategic political consequences, so he did the only fair thing which was nothing.

Also, "counting promises as equal" is value projection. The severity or weight of each promise is subjective to each of us (single-issue voters are still a thing after all), so an unbiased, matter-of-fact counting is not a way of equally weighting them.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not a fan of LPC either, but I wouldn't say he broke all of his promises.

https://www.polimeter.org/en/trudeau

He didn't keep them all, either.

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