bitwise Now • 100%
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 Now • 100%
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 Now • 75%
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 Now • 100%
"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."
Every single poster I've seen responding to articles on Lemmy and kbin from this site have been shitty, angry little pricks with regressive takes on everything. We need to block these trolls before they ruin engagement from well-reasoned humans.
bitwise Now • 100%
I appreciate the well formatted commit message. A shame that some of the maintainers aren't interested in accepting fixes.
bitwise Now • 40%
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 Now • 80%
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 Now • 88%
It's like everyone forgot he was busy causing constitutional chaos to avoid justice.
bitwise Now • 100%
If he wanted to live, he should've bought a new heart before flying!
bitwise Now • 100%
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 Now • 100%
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.
bitwise Now • 94%
Copyright won't help here. Extending it to allow the protection of concepts as well as literal implementation is what Oracle tried to do, and would've resulted in a few megacorps demanding licensing for core concepts that no one can really make quality, functional software without.
Of course, software patents are also stupid, even if the general intent of patents seems reasonable.
bitwise Now • 100%
What, you don't like smoothbrained out-of-touch takes about an entire generation based on the transparent dictate of global property holdings companies?
Old Souls in Young Bodies™ my ass. People are going low-tech to escape pervasive panopticon and the endless stream of fake fucking people and conspiracy peddlers.
Any time I read these broad-brush generation articles, I have to hold my eyes still to avoid setting my skull on fire with frictive heating.
bitwise Now • 100%
They'll be moved by force if it gets large enough. Homeless people reaching critical mass is something cities actively "tackle" by loading them onto buses and sending them elsewhere.
bitwise Now • 66%
Suppressing the timely resolution of this strike allows new media companies that don't follow the same rules to fill the demand. I'm sure TikTok benefits from that to some small degree, but they probably suppress protest footage and related as a default to preserve "social harmony".
bitwise Now • 100%
I would honestly love a rule banning the submission of articles that use the "slammed/blasted" headline.
bitwise Now • 100%
That's nice. Any chance of them deciding to return the rest of it? No?
bitwise Now • 66%
How do you tell which group is using those tools for good and evil?
bitwise Now • 100%
I hope so. Room temperature superconductivity would make so many things economically viable overnight...