Right, but that’s where better/worse instances can make a difference. Unless all instances are shit. But they aren’t. Ours is pretty good as far as I can tell. And it’s run by a proper non-profit.

You probably don’t need to mask up in the absence of people in close proximity in order to not get sick, but masking up isn’t harming you. :)

This is brilliantly dystopian They can create hyper-specific profiles to target specific eyeballs and feed ads from the profile itself. They no longer have to rely on users posting things others would react to. They can just write what they know will generate reactions.

If the price for people coming on H1B visas is not hiring or eliminating a domestic job which commands a higher salary then we have a problem. As far as I’m aware H1B typically make less than domestic. It could be 7 figures and it’s still a problem because domestic might be 8 figures. The problem is that workers generate this value and a significant chunk goes towards the top when H1B gets less than domestic. In fact this effect is more significant in higher paying jobs than lower. It should cost the same or more than domestic to hire H1B and an H1B employee should be able to have the same worker rights as domestic. Then H1B doesn’t drive domestic salaries and hiring down.

Isn’t it easier to remove such mods on Lemmy instances, where the admins are not working for a commercial entity?

The assessment requirement sounds reasonable.

The ability to sit next to an actively sick person on public transit and not get infected is truly incredible. N95 masks are brilliant. I’ve never been able to avoid unnecessary infection before learning how to use these things during the pandemic. I don’t think I’d ever fully stop wearing. There’s very little downside in masking up in high risk settings like that.

r/Canada has always been a shit show but the alleged bot/paid actor activity is very concerning.

Now they have prez Elon to deal with who’s threatening them financially.

The informant went to the farm wearing a wire in October, authorities say. Spafford, at some point, then allegedly admitted to possessing the short-barrel rifle, saying it wasn’t registered it because “he does not believe in registration.”

If I were the informant, I’d be a bit nervous if and when Brad’s released.

Happy new year!

I’ve used GNOME Terminal since 2005.

So if people who support Israel’s war immigrate to Israel and people who don’t support it emigrate from Israel, we’d expect Israelis to get more violent while Jews outside of Israel to get less supportive of Israelis. This doesn’t bode well for Israel long term. This would decrease the number of people who advocate for Israel’s violence in the countries who provide weapons and political cover, all the while the violence gets worse.

Huyexit

There was some discussion I saw that alleged those polls never reached him. Instead ended at the inner staffers.

Not excusing his current opinion.

AsSaaSination.

But then the whole pro-worker schtick wouldn’t work and they might have lost the election.

Despicable.

Run Candidates in Ontario, we might vote for them. 😂

I think the only way for people to see differently is if the threatened tariffs are put in place and we see the worst inflation in the country’s history over the next two years. Then maybe we can get some actual progressives in Congress (unfortunately under the Democrat umbrella) to stem the tide of insanity.

I can see that happening. I don’t know if it’ll result in a proper progressive wave though. Or instead just more of the same. If people got so fucked by conservatives to turn away from them, they would be incentivised to vote for anything but conservatives. That lets the Democrats win with establishment candidates. I think a shift in the Democratic party is more likely in the in-between period, when things haven’t gotten too dire for people yet.