PETA has killed more animals than I have LOL.

It’s not about a sovereign EU, it’s about government controlling the media. There is too much temptation for a politician to use that control to make the media say only good things about them and negative things about the opposition. See Russia for an example of how bad that can get.

Are all of the newspapers controlled by the EU? Do you think it would be better if they were.

Anyway, yeah I’m talking about social media. The primary problem of social media is that it’s an oligopoly. Create regulation so people can have choice without being cut of from their friends that are on a shitty platform and people will leave to be on better platforms and companies will have to compete to provide a better product.

Very few people actually like Facebook and Twitter, they just can’t leave because they wouldn’t be able to communicate with their friends and family if they did. And their friends and family can’t leave for the same reason. What if you could go to a Friendica site and still be able to chat with your friends that are still on Facebook and they could see your posts you make and vice versa? How many people would stay on Facebook if there was no longer a barrier to leaving? How many people would put up with Elon Musk’s antics on twitter if they could leave and still communicate with the people they like that are still on Twitter?

If there was no major barrier to leaving these sites, they’d have to compete to provide quality moderation, make it easy to find the things you like, improve algorithms so they aren’t shoving shit you don’t care about into your face, etc. Having a single government entity doing this wouldn’t provide this and the site would probably just be constant bickering about what the government should and should not allow on social media.

I gonna intercept here for a bit. The Problem with “shutting down single farms” is, that this virtually has no effect at all. T

It would save the animals you claim are being boiled alive. Why don’t you care about the suffering of these animals?

Yeah I know about TV licenses, but aren’t they incredibly unpopular? And a government could eliminate them and replace them with subsidies (which gives them influence) and many voters might agree with that given the unpopularity of TV licenses.

Yeah, you just have to know yourself. Personally I feel like I need to go into the office once per week otherwise work starts becoming an abstract thing. But I’ve known some co-workers I wouldn’t see for months at a time that were really on the ball. Ask an obscure question about something really technical on slack and get an answer within seconds kind of thing. I knew another guy that said he had to come into the office every day because his family was too distracting.

Everyone needs to know what works for them and be a responsible professional about it.

And yeah managers that want 100% RTO are just admitting they can’t handle working from home. Ok that’s your thing, but it’s not a thing for everyone else.

Anyway I got out the the RTO thing because I told them of the times some computers were having issues and I had to work the whole weekend (from home) to fix them. If I’m going to be 100% RTO then I’m 0% WFH and the next time something like that happens I won’t be able to start working on it until 9am on Monday morning. So I’m still in the office one day per week, weather permitting, which is my preference.

What if the government tells a social media site they have to ban people from criticizing them or they’ll lose funding?

Open source sure, that’s fine. But someone’s gotta pay for running the servers and if the government can cut that funding they have influence over it. That’s a level of government control over the media that’s a little concerning.

Better to have the the government make regulations requiring companies to make it easy to switch to another company. Like changing to another phone company, you can keep the same number (because of regulations) so people can still call you without even knowing you changed companies even if they have a phone from a different manufacturer using a different phone company.

You can do the same with things like social media, just need to have regulations requiring protocols to allow people to change services easily and connect with other services so there’s not a network effect making people stay on shit services because it’s what all their friends use. People should own their data, own their contacts and companies should compete by providing better services rather than by making it difficult to leave the services they’re currently on.

Handing over your date to the government isn’t a better solution than handing it over to a private company. The real solution is to ensure people own their data.

Could we perhaps consider ways of making software that doesn’t involve killing hookers?

Why are you so obsessed with the source of my meat? If you must know comes from a little French town called Dublé Entendré.

Do you hope Trump stops taking them seriously, or do you hope people stop taking the freedom of speech of comedians seriously?

According to the graph there were fewer US troops deployed in Iraq during the last years of Obama’s presidency than there are now.

So Bush started the war in Iraq and Obama ended the war in Iraq?

Sorry, but this graph just doesn’t fit with the both sides forever war narrative.

Was I supposed to be taking comedians seriously?

Apparently Trump takes them seriously and sees them as a threat. Or maybe they just hurt his feelings.

The Canaidan died in ICE custody two days before the statement you just linked to was released.

Note we are currently two days after the death of Sayafollah Musallet so it’s a little premature to be screaming about a lack of a press release.

The profile of Johnny Noviello on the CBC came out four days after his death. So definitely premature for you to be upset about not finding a profile Sayafollah Musallet two days after his death.

It’s been two weeks and I can’t find any report from ICE on the cause of death for Johnny Noviello.

The reporting on the Sayafollah Musallet story is currently spotty. The incident just happened on Friday, it was a riot so a messy thing to investigate. There is reporting that the riot was started by Palestinians throwing rocks, and I’ve seen reporting that three Israelis have been arrested. These are unconfirmed reports though. The incident is being investigated according to Reuters. From what reporting there is, it does seem like they’re taking it seriously and it will be investigated and arrests made (if they haven’t been already).

This is one of those stories you should follow up on if you actually care about Sayafollah Musallet. Propganda can go around the world before the truth puts its pants on, but if you actually care about a story to know the truth of it, you’ll probably need to follow up on it a little more than two days after shit went down so investigations can happen, arrests made, reporters can confirm sources, etc.

Also it may shock you to learn American citizens do get killed over seas fairly regularly. What do you suppose the US government does immediately after those incidents? Usually nothing, if a reporter asks, they say something like “we’re aware of the situation”. You just have a greater concern for this particular region of the world than for others for some reason.

Just had a moth inside, kinda annoying. Got a box to try to catch him but just so happened the next time I heard him fluttering about he was right by the door. So only had to open the door to and swish him out.

Moth friend is free!

I don’t kill things unless they deserve it… or if they taste good.

Weird way to be judgemental.

I buy all of my food from Food 'n Stuff… and most of my stuff.

Estimates with numbers like 80% and 99% are just made up on the spot. I estimate 99% of the world knows that.

Some website I’ve never heard of before that you term as a “random website” says “We estimate…” a bunch of times without any attempt to describe the methodology used for their estimates.

So that’s bullshit.

The problem with the vegan animal rights movement is you’re always going for the moonshot of ending an entire industry instead of even trying to identify and shut down farms with horrible practices or outlaw those practices. To accomplish the goal of ending an industry, you’re fudging numbers and coming out as being dishonest which means no one will trust you and you’ll accomplish nothing. If animals are indeed being boiled alive (I don’t believe you about this because you’re obviously making up shit on other things) then it will continue to happen because you’re trying to accuse an entire industry of doing things that only some in the industry might do.

If you cared about the boiling animals alive thing (if it actually happens) you’d be trying to get that particular farm shut down, get laws passed to prevent that from happening. But you’re not doing that (you’re not even identifying any particular farms) so that leads me to believe either it’s not happening, or maybe you want it to continue to happen because it somehow helps your vain cause of ending all meat.

The “fight fire with fire” marketing campaign is getting a lot of engagement so we’re releasing the product anyway.

The Canadian government is aware that a Canadian citizen died in ICE custody.

What are we supposed to do?

Launch an invasion to free our people from the terrorist American regime?

I think it has more to do with lazy management. Before WFH their job was basically just making sure the employees were sitting at their desks at a specific time and didn’t leave until after a specific time. So 9am, you’re sitting at your desk, at 5pm you’re sitting at your desk then they’ve done their job for the day.

WFH means they need to know that you’re actually working. So they have to know what you do (many bosses don’t actually know what their employees do) and have some way to measure that you’re doing that thing in a reasonable amount of time. It’s actually their job to do this even if you’re in the office, but it’s easier to just make sure you’re in a location where work is the only thing you can do and assume you’re doing work because there’s nothing else to do.

Also bosses are hesitant to verbally abuse employees over video chat as that can easily be recorded. RTO solves problems for managers that like to yell at their employees.

But they can’t say “we’re lazy and we want to be able to yell at you” so they come up with other reasons.

Sure, sometimes the real estate thing can be a factor when a company got massive tax breaks from the government under the promise of that the new Amazooglesoft “campus” will be a big economic driver for a city with a bunch of cities competing to give the biggest tax breaks to entice those companies to go there. The governments that gave those incentives will probably take them away (they should, those companies should be paying taxes) because there actually hasn’t been economic stimulus for the neighbourhoods of those offices spaces because of WFH. So in those cases you have to go to a place so you can buy lunch (and maybe go shopping after work) so your company can still get tax breaks.

But mostly it’s just lazy managers.