sbv @ sbv @sh.itjust.works

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Twitter is very friendly to influencers because it automatically boosts popular posts and hashtags. Mastodon doesn't by design, so they're gonna have a much, much harder time there.

That's an okay decision to take, but it makes it hard to grow the network because there's a lower financial incentive.

Helldivers meets 40k

And it's easier than paying warehouse workers compensation!

I dunno. Trump is an establishment guy and he likes having power over people. The threat of tariffs is making people dance like idiots, but he doesn't have to deal with any real consequences. He got to troll Trudeau; and he has Daniel Smith, Doug Ford, Kevin O'Leary, behaving like fools.

If he hasn't implemented tariffs yet, I'm guessing he won't. But maybe that's just wishful thinking.

On the radio side, I think part of it is lazy/scared journalism. Rather than learning enough about a topic to find credible experts, journalists are doing the bOtH sIdEs thing, or worse, just using "experts" suggested in press releases.

I'm really disappointed by CBC radio's interviews. I tried tuning in a couple of times recently.

The House was just interviewing ministers and bureaucrats about policy. They didn't talk to academics or independent researchers about the effect of the policy. It felt like I was listening to a press release.

All of the coverage of Trudeau's resignation (that I heard) asked people affiliated with the Conservatives or Liberals what they thought. They interviewed Gerald Butts ffs. Then they interviewed some Harper-era minister. The interviews went exactly as you'd expect.

I really wish they'd interview independent experts. Everything I hear seems to be from people who have vested interests.

I don't think it's a plot, I think it's just half-assed journalism.

tl;dr:

Long story short, at some point over the decades, the gate that could close off the transmission pipe was purposefully taken out of operation, but no one thought out what the implications of that might be. The obvious solution would be to build a storage reservoir for treated water at the plant, but that was evidently never considered.

Screenshots are also disabled.

It was.

Eugenics was considered left wing around the 1930s. In Canada, the "father of Medicare" initially supported eugenics but realized how awful it was pretty quickly. The women who got universal sufferage similarly supported eugenics.

As a lefty, it sucks, but we need to be aware of our past and avoid similar mistakes.

it will be followed by a giant swing in the opposite direction after

I worry that billionaires who are profiting from these policy changes will be able to cement them.

The US and Canadian population is incredibly docile, so I don't expect revolt unless things become terrible. We've seen our share of wealth shrink over the past few decades, and the cost of living skyrocket, but our reaction is to elect more of the same.

According to GOOG, "НЕНАВИДЖУ ЕКСЕЛЬ" is "I HATE EXCEL".

She's too powerful. She isn't even blowing it.

Apparently high levels of glyphosate and other herbicides were found in a bunch of the victims. Irving (IIRC) sprays a number of them as part of their forestry operation.

https://nbmediacoop.org/2023/07/13/high-levels-of-glyphosate-other-pesticides-in-most-patients-with-atypical-neurological-disease-letter/

How binding was that two hour wait and secret agreement?

What about another Tea Party? I realize there's only one Koch, and the president isn't black, but it was all about principle, wasn't it?

Maybe it's too credible? She is anime, but she isn't a fighter waifu. Maybe she isn't delivering enough value for the MIC?

Having an architecture that locks communities to an instance is a problem. They should be distributed across the network with no notion of a home instance.

Agreed. The PM already has too much power. Leaving the role with stupid procedural levers is too much for these power hungry assholes to handle.

@repost@sh.itjust.works you seen this?

@repost@sh.itjust.works what do you think of this?