johnefrancis

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

the increases they're asking for probably don't make up for the high inflation in the recent past. Particularly if inflation, as measured for consumers at that income level, doesn't stay at 2% or less for the next 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

looks right side up to me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Candyman...candyman...cand-....nah

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Grandpa! I still have his pantaloons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I don't really mind more frequent elections. If anything, the govt needs a shorter leash and more accountability. The population should be able to remove a bad govt almost instantly, say in 30 days, not in 3.5 years. Regardless of their success in the previous election.

I'd be even more insistent on a low bar for recalls if the electoral contest was truly fair, ie the advantages of the wealthy in influencing outcomes were entirely removed. That seems very far away. The problems in the contest really seem to obscure the problems with choices of election systems like FPTP vs PR etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

now do US and Chinese oil companies...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

this poll was way off... 10% high for NDP.. 6% low for SP...

Good to keep in mind whenever you see polls. They're garbage.

 

Looks like a great way to stop getting donations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The NSA has many kinks. Watching people watch porn, precious bodily fluids/anti-flouride porn, that kind of thing. Good for them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

the NSA or other intelligence org invented it and provides ongoing funding to collect an enormous library of SHA256 hashes to aid in reducing the decryption space of SHA256 so they can watch people watching porn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

part of the idea is that clicking every ad presented destroys the ad system's ability to do meaningful targetting. I'm happy about that. Without the data collection and analysis performed by Google, Amazon, and Meta, advertising through them is less attractive to advertisors.

Most of the advertisors are lying garbage too. I have no sympathy for them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

AdNauseum. Built on uBlock Origin.

Block all the ads so you never seem them, but click them all so the advertisor pays.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

China, India have tiny attempts and smaller successes at influence compared to the thousands of corporate lobbyists that meet with Canadian politicians every year.

What about the influence of the construction industry? Property developers outright own provincial and municipal politics in Ontario. Big tech?

Oil?!?

How about all the huge military and consulting companies that place 50% of the labour in govt workplaces and suck a 25% margin off each one?

Most of those aren't domestically owned either.

 

Is there a C-Suite series?

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Mastodon.social outage (status.mastodon.social)
 

Mastodon.social is down. Pretty rare. What do now?

 

not many details at this point.

 

not many details at this point.

 

Found this in a science community, neat to see that some wild ideas come out of the concrete blocks

 

The new speed camera has finally arrived after ~3 years. The mounting went up earlier this spring, and the camera gear and additional signage has been installed in recent days. It was quickly vandalized with paint, but I see the crew was out working on it today.

 

Some have suggested the name of "East Paris, Ontario".

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