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

I wrote my MP once in 2021 regarding the reversal of the wholesale broadband rates. Specifically, about how the Vice-Chair of Telecommunications sat down with the President of Bell Media for some beers at a sports game to discuss things after the 2019 court rulings upheld the existing rules set by the Commission.

The result, of course, was a change to the rules.

You're not going to get a real answer from your MPP, just a staffer tasked with boilerplating out an email that could conceivably be construed as an answer to your question/complaint.

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

"The founding maintainers were perfect in every way and their vision doesn't need adjustment!"

"Their vision included the need for adjustment? Nah, that's just propaganda from trolls."

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

"Working as intended" #wontfix
/closed

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I appreciate the well formatted commit message. A shame that some of the maintainers aren't interested in accepting fixes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Adding to this with a post I found on wallstreetbets.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/15uo06v/inflation_data_has_always_been_a_lie/

Not exactly a reputable source, but the OP does go through several key indicators and shows their math (with screenshots of a calculator, lol)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Maybe I'm becoming too cynical, but the raises these unions have been settling on don't really cover inflation over the periods where they received no increase.
These articles just feel like the media wings of these megacorps are trying to stroke our egos. "Yes, so much bargaining power!"

I can't find the article I'm thinking of where someone used a bunch of privately sourced data to peg the average annual inflation at 7%, but this article shows how economists don't even agree on what metrics to measure for calculating inflation.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex.asp

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like everyone forgot he was busy causing constitutional chaos to avoid justice.

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

If he wanted to live, he should've bought a new heart before flying!

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

If I had been in his position, given the results of the survey, I wouldn't have changed the system, either.

It was a dead split among the possible choices, and any selection would've been attacked for it's strategic political consequences, so he did the only fair thing which was nothing.

Also, "counting promises as equal" is value projection. The severity or weight of each promise is subjective to each of us (single-issue voters are still a thing after all), so an unbiased, matter-of-fact counting is not a way of equally weighting them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not a fan of LPC either, but I wouldn't say he broke all of his promises.

https://www.polimeter.org/en/trudeau

He didn't keep them all, either.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Of course, the moment the constructive criticism is only coming from the outside will be when it gets labeled as foreign manipulation to further cement tribalistic mentality and provide fresh out-groups to hate and fear.

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

What, you don't like smoothbrained out-of-touch takes about an entire generation based on the transparent dictate of global property holdings companies?

Old Souls in Young Bodies™ my ass. People are going low-tech to escape pervasive panopticon and the endless stream of fake fucking people and conspiracy peddlers.

Any time I read these broad-brush generation articles, I have to hold my eyes still to avoid setting my skull on fire with frictive heating.

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