I'm often disappointed to see that leadership candidates I somewhat like often don't just not win (that's overwhelmingly likely), but get absurdly low levels of the vote. If Vivek got 10% that could've helped change the whole conversation, but at 8% it was a distant, distant fourth.
Reminds me of Ron Paul back in 2008. Maybe you think he's not a good candidate for president, but a lot of people were really excited by him and ended up with a miniscule percentage of the vote. The only thing there is I think after 2008 he won in the end because the liberatarians were positioned as a much more powerful faction within the republicans.
Reminds me of Ron Paul back in 2008. Maybe you think he's not a good candidate for president, but a lot of people were really excited by him and ended up with a miniscule percentage of the vote. The only thing there is I think after 2008 he won in the end because the liberatarians were positioned as a much more powerful faction within the republicans.
It's a scale, and while a couple bad incidents don't tip the scales into not believing something as a whole, eventually the scale is simply too overloaded and the balance of trust is clearly on the side of mistrust.
Most people wouldn't say "just because some tobacco companies funded research saying tobacco didn't cause cancer doesn't mean we shouldn't trust research they fund about tobacco causing cancer".
Most people wouldn't say "just because some tobacco companies funded research saying tobacco didn't cause cancer doesn't mean we shouldn't trust research they fund about tobacco causing cancer".
Even people I really like have the boomer tier bad take of "people should post with their real names and faces"
Oh yah? Should they post their credit card number and social insurance number too? Just to make sure they're totally bones the moment they attract any attention whatsoever?
Oh yah? Should they post their credit card number and social insurance number too? Just to make sure they're totally bones the moment they attract any attention whatsoever?
You sort of have to turn off your postmodern filter when dealing with kids or things get weird, and so its lose-lose. You either look creepy and weird because you're stumbling over your words to not say something through unintended subtext, or you look creepy and weird because you're saying something through unintended subtext.
I realized it pretty early on that I was second guessing myself a lot talking to my son so decided to just accept I'll say things I know sound strange.
I realized it pretty early on that I was second guessing myself a lot talking to my son so decided to just accept I'll say things I know sound strange.
It is a company, but it's also a standard.
Originally, interac was a non profit operated by the big 5 banks (Canada doesn't have a lot of competition in the banking space) to create the interoperability standard. Eventually 80 companies participated. Later on a for profit entity was spun off to handle branded services online. Eventually the two branches of interac combined into.one entity.
It likely could handle international payments, but for 2 factors, both being "it's Canadian".
1. It's Canadian, nobody is going to adopt a standard from such a backwater
2. It's Canadian, and after Trudeau weaponized the banks against his own citizens adopting Canadian technologies in your banking system is a non-starter since it's a national security threat.
Originally, interac was a non profit operated by the big 5 banks (Canada doesn't have a lot of competition in the banking space) to create the interoperability standard. Eventually 80 companies participated. Later on a for profit entity was spun off to handle branded services online. Eventually the two branches of interac combined into.one entity.
It likely could handle international payments, but for 2 factors, both being "it's Canadian".
1. It's Canadian, nobody is going to adopt a standard from such a backwater
2. It's Canadian, and after Trudeau weaponized the banks against his own citizens adopting Canadian technologies in your banking system is a non-starter since it's a national security threat.
Might still go back next weekend and dedicate a machine to postgresql, it seems like just the one thing takes a lot of oomph.
Don't forget the poor!
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"so you won't be capturing poachers of endangered animals because..." "Because a government I don't work for is retaliating over a terrorist attack and I don't like it."
[Admin Mode] Praise God, we're back!
Pretty touch and go there for a bit! I noticed a couple days ago that our CPU utilization was looking strangely high on postgres, and in the middle of a database backup, the whole server failed catastrophically.
And you know how you always go "Oh, I really should set up regular backups"? yeah, you should....
So I bought a new drive, recovered all the data off the old one, (set up a regular backup), and now we're back as good as ever.
One casualty is FBXL Video, which was taking up way too many resources for the fact that I never used it, so pour one out for the ones we left behind. I don't think it'll be coming back unless I make a specific server for it.
Pretty touch and go there for a bit! I noticed a couple days ago that our CPU utilization was looking strangely high on postgres, and in the middle of a database backup, the whole server failed catastrophically.
And you know how you always go "Oh, I really should set up regular backups"? yeah, you should....
So I bought a new drive, recovered all the data off the old one, (set up a regular backup), and now we're back as good as ever.
One casualty is FBXL Video, which was taking up way too many resources for the fact that I never used it, so pour one out for the ones we left behind. I don't think it'll be coming back unless I make a specific server for it.
Ah.
"It's not happening but if it is happening it's good and you're bad for opposing it"
"It's not happening but if it is happening it's good and you're bad for opposing it"
Is this one of those "I don't like him anymore so he's a nazi" things?
Because the vibe I get from Jontron is that he didn't follow the auth-left into the self-censorship gulags and they hate him for it.
Because the vibe I get from Jontron is that he didn't follow the auth-left into the self-censorship gulags and they hate him for it.
One of the things people don't realize about insidious invisible censorship on big tech sites -- someone else (who? Who knows!) gets to decide what you engage with instead of you making that decision for yourself.
A lot of people think they want that, and maybe if you fully trust your censors you might, but who actually trusts Facebook? They're pretty dodgy.
A lot of people think they want that, and maybe if you fully trust your censors you might, but who actually trusts Facebook? They're pretty dodgy.
Interac is a standard for moving money around in Canada. First of all it is supported at virtually every store in Canada because the processing fees are significantly lower than credit cards and anyone with a bank account can use it, but it is also used online. For example, you can send money to another person through email or text messaging, and they also do internet payment processing. It's largely handled from your bank.
To give you an example, I pay my daycare using interac, I just have the name and email listed in my bank software, and when I go in and send the money it shows up immediately in her bank account. Lots of people pay their rent with e-transfer, or other things.
The last couple years I paid my income taxes using interac e-transfer, showing it's a heavily used.
It can also be used as a point of sale online, where they give you a link that begins the process of authorizing the payment, and from there it's very much like using PayPal or something.
One thing that's much nicer about it than credit cards is it's all instant. With credit cards, it takes time to process, it takes time to show up in your account, charges take time to show up on your list, with interac, the moment that you put it in the payment goes through the money is taken from your account and put into the other account, or is immediately taken from the other account and put into your account.
To give you an example, I pay my daycare using interac, I just have the name and email listed in my bank software, and when I go in and send the money it shows up immediately in her bank account. Lots of people pay their rent with e-transfer, or other things.
The last couple years I paid my income taxes using interac e-transfer, showing it's a heavily used.
It can also be used as a point of sale online, where they give you a link that begins the process of authorizing the payment, and from there it's very much like using PayPal or something.
One thing that's much nicer about it than credit cards is it's all instant. With credit cards, it takes time to process, it takes time to show up in your account, charges take time to show up on your list, with interac, the moment that you put it in the payment goes through the money is taken from your account and put into the other account, or is immediately taken from the other account and put into your account.
"This is your captain speaking, The demons on my shoulder are telling me to kill again, so we're going to be making a quick detour to New York to take out another big building."
Lots of people got really sick from the jab even if it didn't permanently harm them, so I think it simply follows naturally for them that the thing that made you really sick probably killed some people.
In my country, over 90% of people got the jab the first time[1] (under duress, admittedly). The numbers quickly dropped from there, and only 15% got the latest booster[2]. That sort of number speaks to a lot of people changing their minds. I know I got really sick, and so did a lot of people close to me.
The propaganda can say as much as it wants, but it isn't powerful enough to cause people to reject personal experiences.
[1] https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/just-15-of-canadians-got-updated-covid-vaccines-this-fall-new-figures-show-1.7064240
In my country, over 90% of people got the jab the first time[1] (under duress, admittedly). The numbers quickly dropped from there, and only 15% got the latest booster[2]. That sort of number speaks to a lot of people changing their minds. I know I got really sick, and so did a lot of people close to me.
The propaganda can say as much as it wants, but it isn't powerful enough to cause people to reject personal experiences.
[1] https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/just-15-of-canadians-got-updated-covid-vaccines-this-fall-new-figures-show-1.7064240