Inflation is great if you're invested. Lots of broad investments have been doing 10% or 20% in the past year (often beating not just headline inflation but the actual inflation rate they're lying about). Meanwhile, anyone who gets a certain amount of currency has significantly less year over year. Wage earners who have savings make less this year than they did last year and forevermore from here on and lost some percentage of the wealth in their savings account.
You can call them "future taxpayers", but that sounds awfully euphemistic to me. A bunch of people get free goods and services and sometimes cash payments without having to pay for it by forcing people who havent even been born yet to work to pay for it. What is slavery if not forcing people to work for you who don't have any choice in the matter and they are not getting anything in return?
You can call them "future taxpayers", but that sounds awfully euphemistic to me. A bunch of people get free goods and services and sometimes cash payments without having to pay for it by forcing people who havent even been born yet to work to pay for it. What is slavery if not forcing people to work for you who don't have any choice in the matter and they are not getting anything in return?
Every single one of the people in government who later go on to openly admit that they lied to the chief executive to ensure they got the decisions they personally wanted should probably be lined up in a gallows.
I've actually spoken at length about this before, that it's one of the biggest weaknesses of the Lemmy ecosystem -- everything is centralized. As long as your instance in my instance connect and you and I as users consent, we can have a conversation here. If mastodon.world doesn't like that, there's nothing that it can do about it. By contrast, on Lemmy each community is an atomized thing on the server that it resides on. It gets to decide who moderates, even if nobody from that particular server is having a conversation because their server is the one hosting the community.
The other big negative of that is exactly what you said, that you could have a thousand of the exact same community because every server has to have their own, meaning that a relatively small user base ends up getting split up, and people who might like to talk to each other maybe can't talk to each other.
My view a more correct answer would be to figure out a way to have a fully decentralized community that can be somewhat locally administered. That way everyone has a copy of the same list of posts, but maybe every server maintains its own list of posts and users it doesn't find acceptable, like a curated usenet. Then a smaller group could have more discussion.
The other big negative of that is exactly what you said, that you could have a thousand of the exact same community because every server has to have their own, meaning that a relatively small user base ends up getting split up, and people who might like to talk to each other maybe can't talk to each other.
My view a more correct answer would be to figure out a way to have a fully decentralized community that can be somewhat locally administered. That way everyone has a copy of the same list of posts, but maybe every server maintains its own list of posts and users it doesn't find acceptable, like a curated usenet. Then a smaller group could have more discussion.
Funny how it's only people who are inconvenient to the regime that keep on committing crimes.
The post is half right.
There's no such thing as government funded, it's either taxpayer funded, inflation funded, or debt-funded.
Taxpayer funding is the most honest of them, you take money away from people to spend it.
Inflation funding is the least honest of them, you take money away from the poor and middle classes and hand it to the rich.
Debt funding is the most evil of them, you spend money and sell your kids into slavery. Fuck them, I want my $2500 skinny check!
There's no such thing as government funded, it's either taxpayer funded, inflation funded, or debt-funded.
Taxpayer funding is the most honest of them, you take money away from people to spend it.
Inflation funding is the least honest of them, you take money away from the poor and middle classes and hand it to the rich.
Debt funding is the most evil of them, you spend money and sell your kids into slavery. Fuck them, I want my $2500 skinny check!
It's a little bit hard to even comprehend at this point because the US federal government has become such a leviathan, but the US started off as something a lot more like the EU. The idea was that you would have a very weak federal government that would basically just make sure that all the states were playing relatively nicely with each other and would work together in the case of an invasion or something, and then the state governments would be able to run themselves however they like. In the same way that England and Germany are not the same country, North Dakota and South Dakota would not be the same country, which is why it's called the United States rather than the United provinces or United prefectures.
It wasn't until much later on that the US Constitution's Bill of Rights even applied to the states, so a state could abridge freedom of speech as long as it was allowed within its own constitution.
So at that point, the Federal Constitution would have only been for granting powers to the extremely limited Federal government, and then the state constitutions would end up granting powers to the extremely limited or not state governments.
It wasn't until much later on that the US Constitution's Bill of Rights even applied to the states, so a state could abridge freedom of speech as long as it was allowed within its own constitution.
So at that point, the Federal Constitution would have only been for granting powers to the extremely limited Federal government, and then the state constitutions would end up granting powers to the extremely limited or not state governments.
"It isn't about the fact that you're a woman. It's about the fact that you obviously think you're a woman first and a pilot third and you're supposed to be a pilot first right now!"
I've known a lot of extremely competent women in male-dominated industries, and they get respect because they're competent at what they do.
I've known a lot of extremely competent women in male-dominated industries, and they get respect because they're competent at what they do.
Joking aside, a big part of what's going on right now is likely related to housing. Housing in Canada has been insane for many years, but has gotten particularly insane in the last five or so. During the pandemic, the price of a single family home across the country was over $800,000. Now that is in canuckistani kopecs, but even in freedom dollars that's a lot of money to live in the hinterlands. Toronto's been over a million for many years, and Vancouver has been over 2 million for many years. By the time you start talking about that kind of money, it doesn't matter whether you're talking kopecs or freedom bucks.
So another thing to understand about Canada is that mortgage interest terms are extremely short. In the US you can get a 30 year mortgage with a fixed rate, in Canada and overwhelming majority of mortgages are 5-years or less.
So if you go back 5 years, interest rates were quite low. The lowest interest rates ever were four years ago during the peak of covid. So you have these people who bought million dollar houses with a 5-year fixed or 5 year variable rate mortgage, and now they need to renew what was 2% at 5%. Those mortgages are rolling over. When you're dealing with such a large mortgage increasing in interest rates that much, suddenly people just can't afford it anymore.
It will be really bad over the next 2 years, because by then 92% of all mortgages will have flipped over, a lot of variable rate mortgages that had 100 year amortization to keep the payments manageable will be reset back to acceptable amortizations, and the process of people using up their credit to stay afloat which means a lot of people will take some time to reach the end point.
I really think this is just beginning.
So another thing to understand about Canada is that mortgage interest terms are extremely short. In the US you can get a 30 year mortgage with a fixed rate, in Canada and overwhelming majority of mortgages are 5-years or less.
So if you go back 5 years, interest rates were quite low. The lowest interest rates ever were four years ago during the peak of covid. So you have these people who bought million dollar houses with a 5-year fixed or 5 year variable rate mortgage, and now they need to renew what was 2% at 5%. Those mortgages are rolling over. When you're dealing with such a large mortgage increasing in interest rates that much, suddenly people just can't afford it anymore.
It will be really bad over the next 2 years, because by then 92% of all mortgages will have flipped over, a lot of variable rate mortgages that had 100 year amortization to keep the payments manageable will be reset back to acceptable amortizations, and the process of people using up their credit to stay afloat which means a lot of people will take some time to reach the end point.
I really think this is just beginning.
Excuse me, those ain't your bugs.
You can eat all the electricity that solar panels make at midnight on the first day of winter.
You can eat all the electricity that solar panels make at midnight on the first day of winter.
I remember seeing some idiot ranting "use your free speech responsibly or it will be taken away"
If there's a threat hanging over your speech at all times if you don't say the right things, then it isn't free. Freedom is the freedom to use your freedom in ways people might totally disagree with without consequences. If you're free, you're free to go full floridaman and say whatever you want without consequences except the ones that naturally come a out from saying stupid stuff all the time.
If there's a threat hanging over your speech at all times if you don't say the right things, then it isn't free. Freedom is the freedom to use your freedom in ways people might totally disagree with without consequences. If you're free, you're free to go full floridaman and say whatever you want without consequences except the ones that naturally come a out from saying stupid stuff all the time.
Let's achieve lower prices by forcing supermarkets to absorb losses. Smart.
Look, I've been poor, You sitting there getting rung up with a case of kraft dinner and you're 15 cents short and you don't know exactly how you're gonna eat this week since that's the cheapest calories you can think of. I get it.
But there's other ways to get food that don't end up making the problem worse for everyone else...
Look, I've been poor, You sitting there getting rung up with a case of kraft dinner and you're 15 cents short and you don't know exactly how you're gonna eat this week since that's the cheapest calories you can think of. I get it.
But there's other ways to get food that don't end up making the problem worse for everyone else...
But most importantly, our individual human brains.
Biggest problem is letting others tell you what you think and believe.
"You want to be part of the group, don't you? You are part of the group because you believe A, the group also believes B, therefore you must believe B"
Not only could you believe A but not B, but you could also believe C that seems entirely at odds with both A and B independently and individually. Humans are like that. But sometimes it's because we've only been led to believe that c is at odds with a or b or both.
Biggest problem is letting others tell you what you think and believe.
"You want to be part of the group, don't you? You are part of the group because you believe A, the group also believes B, therefore you must believe B"
Not only could you believe A but not B, but you could also believe C that seems entirely at odds with both A and B independently and individually. Humans are like that. But sometimes it's because we've only been led to believe that c is at odds with a or b or both.
One danger at the moment is that authoritarians are great at using anything to support authoritarianism, and every cause you can imagine can, will, and is being used by people in some corners to justify more authoritarian control over individual people's lives.
For, against, it doesn't really matter because it's all just a tool used by someone who wants a thing, not ends in and of themselves.
If you think you're one of the good guys and your cause can't be used to justify authoritarian control of others, either you are blind to it, or your cause isn't powerful enough yet. If it's something on the upswing, give it 20 years.
For, against, it doesn't really matter because it's all just a tool used by someone who wants a thing, not ends in and of themselves.
If you think you're one of the good guys and your cause can't be used to justify authoritarian control of others, either you are blind to it, or your cause isn't powerful enough yet. If it's something on the upswing, give it 20 years.
The exact same image could have ended much differently, talking about how great all these things are. I guess that's the danger: These people who come up with this stuff have rooms full of very smart consultants who figure out the most politically acceptable way of describing a thing so we're all cheering as they put our head in the guillotine.
I hope poilievre follows through when his party is elected in a landslide and actually divests Canada from the CCPBC. Private media production punches way above its weight in Canada, and the CCPBC punches insanely below its weight.
New business model: nothing as a service NaaS
Here's the way it works: you don't pay any companies rent for anything you do on your computers.
You might ask: "how are other companies supposed to make money that way?" The answer is simple: not your problem.
Here's the way it works: you don't pay any companies rent for anything you do on your computers.
You might ask: "how are other companies supposed to make money that way?" The answer is simple: not your problem.
Playing with jellyfin tonight. I've got it fully set up pulling data automatically from my NAS (if said NAS was just a bit newer then it would support jellyfin natively, but no such luck)
First impression compared to plex is that it's much more focused, and I like that. Plex seems to be trying to sell me an entire ecosystem, and my data is just peripheral. By contrast, jellyfin has my libraries of content and my content front and center.
Put more simply, with plex I feel like I need to dig to find my files because there's a bunch of stuff plex intends to sell.
seems to do chromecast ok too.
First impression compared to plex is that it's much more focused, and I like that. Plex seems to be trying to sell me an entire ecosystem, and my data is just peripheral. By contrast, jellyfin has my libraries of content and my content front and center.
Put more simply, with plex I feel like I need to dig to find my files because there's a bunch of stuff plex intends to sell.
seems to do chromecast ok too.