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>According to https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html, ~43% of eligible Canadians have a booster/3rd dose.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/01/28/ontario-has-been...

https://www.narcity.com/toronto/ontarians-that-have-been-ful...

I actually go back to when I got my first shot. Nobody under 40 unless they had a morbidity qualified to get the shot. Yet 70% of canadians had the first shot already? It's impossible and they were fudging the numbers from the getgo.

>Most people have realized the covid shots are worthless. How did you come to this conclusion?

Lets unpack a little.

1. Efficacy of vaccine for omicron is well known for being worthless. Im sure I dont have to prove this.

2. Much more important factor. We found out the shots were misrepresented. It's not a vaccine. A vaccine prevents infection. The authorities clearly said 'if you get the vaccine, you dont get covid' but that's not at all how it is. You still get sick and contagious, it just reduces symptoms.

>As far as I'm aware, Canada is stepping down restrictions as cases drop/ICU beds free up. Can you share where restrictions are being increased?

The convoy ishappening because vaccination became mandatory for some truckers in January. That was a new restriction.

>Wow - that’s quite a summary of what’s going on right now. I keep seeing the same pattern of your comment on right wing media lately (e.g. with the insurrectionists): defend the racist group by blaming either a false flag

You can watch the livestreams for yourself. You can watch videos like: https://twitter.com/QTRBlackGarrett/status/14876208353639833...

There is absolutely no nazi flags or confederate flags. The media and Trudeau smeared these people. This is literally the definition of 'false flag'

>call the protesters “largely peaceful and just exercising their rights”,

This has been confirmed by Ottawa police chief. This is infact a logical conclusion because if the protesters were anything but peaceful they would be arrested by the police. The Ottawa police are unable to do anything because it's peaceful and protected by charter right.

>then turning the charge around to call the people accusing you, of being the actual racists. I find it fascinating to see this on hn - it’s usually the kind of comment I would find in the Breitbart / Fox News comment sections.

Did I call someone racist? I did not. Not once did I say Trudeau is a racist. You are the one who just connected that. Is that by chance because you believe Trudeau is a racist? Interesting.

Also I don't know anything about the final part of your comment. I'm Canadian and not interested in Breitbart / Fox News.

https://twitter.com/cancivlib/status/1493383581783236611

I remember a time many years ago when Trudeau would have open mic town halls and any manner of people would come after him. He would stand his ground and talk to anyone. Including terrorists, I even remember the terrorist kind of rushed toward him and he had to tell them to back off. In the end he literally spoke with that terrorist as a person. What happened to that Trudeau?

>That article is from last year and it just says black canadians are right to be wary because healthcare is racist. It doesn't say most truckers or occupiers are black (or indian?).

I was providing a link in corroboration as to why there is a disproportionate amount of not-white people protesting. While some media are covering how this is not white supremacy as claimed by the CBC... https://notthebee.com/article/come-and-laugh-with-me-at-the-...

The point is missed.

>The truckers are overwhelming white men.

So the reason why the convoy exists is antivaxxers. The way averages work, if Black canadians are at 50% vaccinated 'because reasons' and our average is 85%. This means white people are even more vaccinated and not concerned with the change.

>'m in Ottawa. I was at the protest yesterday that stopped a convoy of trucks, all driven by white men.

So you're a counter protester? I support your efforts so long as you also remain peaceful.

>The people who I see driving around with giant flags, yelling at pedestrians are all white men. The people at the LCBO fighting security without masks on - white men. People at the grocery store harassing actual essential workers - white men.

Here's the thing. The narrative that the truckers are a racists, sexist, etc fell apart. You can watch several eloquent Indian truckers explain in depth about how this is not about race.

There is a very relevant video from the notthebee page above: https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1487513119119261696

A counter protester with a sign saying 'white nationalist agenda' is confronted with reality.

This legislation has never been invoked before. It's very difficult to invoke. Virtually any other law must be used first. https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/page-1.html

>AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council, in taking such special temporary measures, would be subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Bill of Rights and must have regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly with respect to those fundamental rights that are not to be limited or abridged even in a national emergency;

The right to peacefully protest still stands even with the invocation of this act. The Ottawa police have been incapable of ending this protest because it has been peaceful. Nobody has even raided/trespassed in the capital buildings like the January 6th 'insurrection' in the usa. If the protesters were anything but peaceful, the Ottawa police would easily be able to arrest them. Logically concluding that this protest has been peaceful. You can confirm this to be true simply by watching the myriad of livestreams online.

>3 For the purposes of this Act, a national emergency is an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that

>(a) seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it, or

>(b) seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada

>and that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.

There are an awful lot of 'any other law of Canada' that could be used before this act. Some peaceful protests are not going to justify using this act. In fact not even possible to use this act against peaceful protesters. Trudeau is moving against a foe that isn't described by this protest.

The accusation or allegation by Trudeau is that the USA has a military occupation over Canada. The funding is being organized in the USA.

This to me doesn't ring true. If the USA wanted Canada, a squadron of F22 could annihilate our armed forces in a day. B2 bombers could lay waste to everything else. Canada could do nothing, none of our allies would come to save us. Our allies could never protect us against the USA. Nuclear bombs wouldn't be needed. Plus, we have an extensive and fantastic alliance with the USA. Why would Biden who is worried about Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan invade Canada? It makes no sense.

The alternative is that Trudeau has deployed this against his political opponents who are peacefully protesting.

What do you think?

>It's also possible management didn't know what all you did. Or, you were running around like a headless chicken-not aligned with the company goals.

I was an outbound tech at an MSP. I was often not in the office, avoiding much of the drama.

I was hired originally because 3 people quit with no notice on the same friday. Between the time I was hired and fired. Many other people quit and they were very ineffective at hiring.

I was 1 of 2 networking capable techs. I was also constantly out for emergency after emergency. None of which I caused.

I actually live wrote a 4 day week at this place on r/sysadmin back in the day. I took the friday off because it was my birthday. In those 4 days I dealt with over 40 tickets, >25 of which were emergencies. At least half of these clients were clients I never worked on previously. On the friday the company phone was constantly ringing, i didnt pick up and even had an account manager come to my house. Of which he shouldn't know where I lived. Except he sat next to someone who did.

Out of ~30 sysadmins, 25 of which didnt last beyond 6 months. Everyone was fired or quit.

>Did they formally update your performance rating? Did you end up getting the raise you were expecting, or did they give an excuse like "well all the raises have been allocated at this point"? The immediate situation sounds like it sucked enough, but if it had continuing ramifications, I'd be beside myself.

Precisely what happened. Incidentally I reported the harassment and I got fired the day after I reported the harassment.

This has happened; this legislation has never been invoked before. It's very difficult to invoke. Virtually any other law must be used first.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/page-1.html

>AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council, in taking such special temporary measures, would be subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Bill of Rights and must have regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly with respect to those fundamental rights that are not to be limited or abridged even in a national emergency;

The right to peacefully protest still stands even with the invocation of this act. The Ottawa police have been incapable of ending this protest because it has been peaceful. Nobody has even raided/trespassed in the capital buildings like the January 6th 'insurrection' in the usa. If the protesters were anything but peaceful, the Ottawa police would easily be able to arrest them. Logically concluding that this protest has been peaceful. You can confirm this to be true simply by watching the myriad of livestreams online.

>3 For the purposes of this Act, a national emergency is an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that

>(a) seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it, or

>(b) seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada

>and that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.

There are an awful lot of 'any other law of Canada' that could be used before this act. Some peaceful protests are not going to justify using this act. In fact not even possible to use this act against peaceful protesters. Trudeau is moving against a foe that isn't described by this protest.

The accusation or allegation by Trudeau is that the USA has a military occupation over Canada. The funding is being organized in the USA.

This to me doesn't ring true. If the USA wanted Canada, a squadron of F22 could annihilate our armed forces in a day. B2 bombers could lay waste to everything else. Canada could do nothing, none of our allies would come to save us. Our allies could never protect us against the USA. Nuclear bombs wouldn't be needed. Plus, we have an extensive and fantastic alliance with the USA. Why would Biden who is worried about Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan invade Canada? It makes no sense.

The alternative is that Trudeau has deployed this against his political opponents who are peacefully protesting.

What do you think?

Micromanagement is a negative and is unhealthy. If you are being micromanaged, that's grounds for finding a new job instantly. Absolutely nothing to do with what industry you work in.

Performance reviews is another bag. That is bag of issues. My last job, I got my first performance review. I was expecting a good raise. I was a leader of the team, people would come to me constantly looking for help with their issues. Out of a team of ~30 sysadmins, only 2 people(including me) had any networking skills. I was valueable. I was available afterhours regularly, I billed ~50-60 hour weeks. I worked on multiple teams for clients, I had many clients who wanted me exclusively. When a coworker ended up in a disaster, I was often dispatched to help in the situation. I often gave out kudos to my coworkers and thanked them for the good work they did. Positivity in MSP is so important because everything we deal with is negative. Something broke, someone ran a virus, etc.

Went into my performance review. I got very poorly rated justifying no raise. So I went into it... why was I so poorly rated?

I had over 40 lates to work. Except that wasn't true. I was often one of the first people into the building in the morning. So what gives?

Oh, every time I worked a weekend and clocked in at say 10am to respond to an emergency... I was late to work. I had worked 40+ weekend days. So if I worked a saturday and sunday, I was late twice. When actually properly evaluated, I was late once and that was with pre-approval for a doctors appt.

That wasn't all, my boss was under the impression that I had no friends there. That I was out of the office too much to build interpersonal relationships with coworkers. That there was 2 people who at the time were anonymous in that they didn't speak highly of me. Turns out... I was being harassed. I had one of my clients provide me a phone recording of my coworker badmouthing me pretty badly.

>I've had honking in Downtown Vancouver from a group supporting the convoy and it certainly does not resemble the usual city noise. If it was horrible for the couple hours I experienced then it must have been hell for those Ottawa citizens when it went on for days.

Would you say this honking in vancouver was 'medically unsafe'?

>Since you donated money to them, you probably would like to know that the manifesto of the organizers who setup the GoFundMe and started the convoy explicitly wanted the Governor General and Senate to meet with the organizers and form a committee to replace the federal government. [1] They only recently stepped back from the manifesto a few days ago. [2]

I never donated to them for the record. I wouldn't even join some solidarity thing.

The first link doesnt load any audio for some reason. So i dunno there.

The second link being from a 'government accredited media' org basically just says this MOU was withdrawn. Never provides a sentence of the MOU of what it says. Though they say:

>The group had been accused by some of using the document to try to legitimize an attempt to seize power from the federal government.

Yes well, the group was also called white supremacists, so lets just look at the real deal.

>By having the Senateof Canadaand theGovernorGeneralof Canadasign this MOU into action, they agree to immediately cease anddesist all unconstitutional, discriminatoryand segregating actionsand human rightsviolations.It calls for animmediate instruction toall levels of the Federal, Provincial, Territorialand Municipal governments to not only stop but furthermore waive all SARS-CoV-2 (and not limited to SARS-CoV-2 subsequent variations)fines that have been issued and imposed upon its citizens, institutions, and private enterprises.Further, to immediately re-instate all employees in all branches ofall levels ofgovernments and not limited to promote the same to the private industry and institutional sectors employees with full lawful employment rights prior to wrongful and unlawful dismissals.Lastly it instructsall levels of government and private Sector that the Illegal use of a Vaccine Passportto cease anddesistimmediately

OK, I can certainly see where some people are coming from, but absolutely don't agree with the conclusion they are trying to seize power. In fact no reading or interpretation of that has them asking for power. They are asking for the GG to simply restore our rights. Which is absolutely something we have in Canada that may seem abnormal to say the USA.

No doubt why the national post doesn't actually copy and paste any of this. This is entirely what the Monarch and GG is supposed to be for. Hurts me to say because I think we should cut all ties to the British monarchy and move toward a republic. Coming back to context of my comments. The use of our monarchy being used as if to be an insurrection is the most absurd thing I have ever heard. Our monarchy is still our monarchy. If our monarch decides something, we must abide and that's not insurrection.

>meh. even cheap hot hatches are close to being too fast to fully use on public roads these days. the race to ever quicker 0-60 times is incredibly boring and misguided imo.

currently drive a hot hatch. Can confirm this. The magic number for me is probably around 4.5s. Anything faster is really not needed.

>a model 3 probably is superior to a hellcat in every measurable way, I'll give you that. although I doubt most hellcat owners would willingly trade them in for anything lacking a loud V8.

Ironically... had hellcat before this. Can confirm this as well. I do miss the supercharged v8 whine.

>but people don't buy Porsches to drag race. there have always been much cheaper vehicles that would beat them handily on a drag strip; it's not what they're are designed for. they are pretty fast on the track, but unlike a Tesla, the appeal of a Porsche cannot be summarized in a single performance metric.

My next vehicle will most likely be an EV truck. I think this is what you are missing right there. I would bet the majority of people driving porsche have not taken them to a track. That's not the purpose.

A car with good accelerating power will automatically give me a high speed performance. ~ Ferdinand Porsche.

I cant find the exact quote, but Porsche said, To build a car that drives well at 200km/h, you must build it to go 300km/h.

Tesla plaid doing 2 second 0=60 is idiotically fast as you would agree. It's not about that. It's about driving it without doing that.

>"Mildly inconvenienced" is an interesting term for shutting down a border crossing that handles $350 million in trade per day.

One lane of the bridge was open and the Detroit tunnel had absolutely no blockade. This is a mild inconvenience. Protests are inconvenient to be sure. If the media you consume portrayed this as if there was no traffic at all between detroit and windsor... time for you to look to new media. I am curious where you have gotten this idea? CBC? Some other 'government accredited media'?

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2022/02/12/Detroit-...

>"Mildly inconvenienced" is an interesting term for residents having to put up with medically unsafe volumes of horn honking all throughout the nights. Some had brought train horns and were blaring those.

Ottawa has a population of 1 million and their downtown area will always have honking. Like you know... every other downtown area of a large capital city. Calling this 'medically unsafe' is quite a stretch. Our homes are quite insulated here in Canada given the cold. The same insulation reduces road noise a lot. If you cant sleep because of road noise downtown... move because that happens year round.

>We're "calling it an insurrection" because that is a stated objective of the organizers, to overthrow the elected government of Canada. The fact that this is being encouraged and funded in large part by Americans is frankly, while unsurprising, an overtly hostile act being done to an ally.

No, that's just not in touch with reality at all. Parking large trucks on roads and having a peaceful protest is not an insurrection. There was absolutely no 'otherthrow the elected government of canada' that's a complete fantasy. They haven't once entered buildings or drawn weapons against anyone or anything.

I highly recommend you consume different media because you are not even in the ballpark here.

>As one of the donors included in this hack, I am not entirely sure what they're out to accomplish.

No different than any other cancel culture etc.

>Despite eye-rolling media mischaracterizations of these truckers as you-know-whats, it's a run of the mill workers strike.

This is very important I learnt this weekend. Not to be glossed over.

Trudeau himself attacked the convoy as fringe minority, racists, sexists, and white supremacists. The 'government accredited' media was very fast to show the nazi flag and confederate flags. Conveniently very expensive professional camera gear right there to take pictures.

Yet the real media went around showing that the group is pretty diverse. https://notthebee.com/article/come-and-laugh-with-me-at-the-...

So what gives? Well what happened? Antivaxxers are unemployed? But who are the antivaxxers? ~50% of black canadians are unwilling to get vaccinated. ~25% of arabic and indian canadians are unwilling. When the average is ~85%. It means whites are above 85%. I didn't know this.

It means Trudeau and the 'government accredited' media who rushed out this narrative that they are white supremacists in fact knew they were disproportionally harming not-whites. That to label this convoy as white supremacist might discourage not-whites from joining. This 1 nazi flag has to be a journalist because the convoy is certainly not white supremacist.

At what point does the 'government accredited' media who pushed this white supremacist narrative get labelled government propaganda?

One thing is certain, the data has been manipulated.

In fact, covid was very heavily politicized and censored. Virtually any allegation of 'manipulation' is going to fall on both sides.

>I've invested in GM and avoided investing in Tesla. Mostly just because I understand GM, their business and financials and stock price history makes sense to me. I do not understand the valuations on Tesla, and hadn't even long before COVID and the most recent run-up in value. Clearly I've missed out on massive earnings if I had invested in Tesla instead of GM (although GM's done decently lately).

I'm not currently invested in automotive. Just drive by some dealerships, empty lots. Not because they are selling out but because business is bad. There will be a work from home permanence, the inflation reality will destroy the automotive industry. The only thing keeping them barely afloat is low interest rates.

Then you also have the market disruptor of Tesla. Ford and GM obviously have some fantastic products coming and even some already here. EV silverado and hummer are amazing. Mach-E and EV f150 are possibly the best.

EV cars is a new generation of vehicle and will harm the existing auto industry. Ford and GM are obviously going to survive no problem. They arent worth a trillion $ because they are behind but have significant costs upcoming. GM and Ford's upcoming profitability is going to be quite poor.

Stellantis looks like they are too far behind. Ram revolution silouette looks good but if the Chevy Bolt proves anything... building a good battery has many hurdles. Stellantis has nothing coming soon and may just die.

>To me looking at the stock pricing, Tesla looks like a software company where tremendous growth has been occurring and is expected to continue for some time. To some extent they are a software company, but that software so far has seemed to me to require quite an expensive set of hardware to be sold with it in order to get the software and continuing monthly/yearly/feature revenues sales. This has worked for Apple, so it's not unprecedented, but it'll be interesting to watch how long it can last.

Tesla's first disruption is that after the car leaves the lot. It continues to get better. The traditional auto industry, you leave the lot and your car will be that or worse forever.

The second big disruption is efficiency. AC motors have regen, their motors are ~90% efficient. This creates the new generation of car. A model 3 performance(inexpensive sedan) has a 0-60 of 3.2 seconds. That's faster than all production Corvettes. Faster than a Hellcat. As fast as a Mclaren F1 from back in the day. About as fast as a Nissan GTR or Porsche 911. All the while not being annoying loud, far more practicality, and no emissions.

The most recently disruption... Tesla is now the fastest car with the plaid edition. 0-60 of 2 seconds model s plaid means it's faster than the Demon. Faster than all hyper cars. Yet at significantly cheaper price point. The roadster coming with compressed air to make it faster? Ridiculous.

By the time Ford/GM really get going, Tesla will not have sat around. They will have moved forward.

This is why Tesla has a ridiculous valuation. They effectively are the only competitor in the auto industry for the next several years.

>I can easily get on the hate train, and view cryptocurrency as a pointless waste of resources. What am I missing? To name a few problems they might solve:

When the world went off the gold standard they changed how their currency functions. The thing is, forex basically kept them in balance with each other. So instead of a gold standard it became a forex standard.

Countries still couldn't just print money, but they did.

Countries like Denmark, Germany, Finland, UAE, and some others who didn't... their inflation is under control. The relative wealth of their people is going to be that much higher.

Hungary is a great research point. https://tradingeconomics.com/hungary/central-bank-balance-sh...

They did print money in 2009 and didnt pay it back, now they did it again in 2020. Comparatively it's not as bad as other countries but opps 7.9%

https://tradingeconomics.com/hungary/inflation-cpi

and who did this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidesz A right-wing party who opposes globalization and I believe is fiscally conservative.

The polticians don't matter. The fundamentals of the currency matters post-gold standard. The politicians can and will1 print money but they cant get away with it for free.

That's where crypto comes in. It's not unlike buying Picassos or Hypercars. You are actively hedging your money against the politicians ability to print money and abuses by the financial system.

There's also a very obvious threat here. When countries can effectively no longer print money. Socialism dies again. Hence why communist countries effectively have crypto banned. China and Vietnam have explicit bans. Cuba and Best Korea don't have free access to the internet.

Surprisingly still not banned site-wide. Which given my previous political subreddit associations... that's exceptionally surprising.

The reality here, reddit did you a great favour. Just take this as a sign to move on.

Climate change is real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record

but the 'climate change will kill us all in ~10 years' is absolutely idiotic.

>Technology seems like a giant waste of time and energy for human civilisation.

He says using technology.

>Specifically the social media giants and advertising funded tech companies seem like the definition of emotional vampires. So do cryptocurrencies.

Im not sure about this emotional vampire factor.

>They are making society worse not better. For a time maybe 15-20 years ago, maybe peaking around the era of Snowden it looked like technology was going to truly democratise the world.

Good luck fixing it though. Imagine I waved my wand and made you emperor of the world. You then instant ban and shutdown these social media entities. Their stock prices go to $0. Nobody on earth had a chance of selling. What happens? Tons of retirees just got their benefits drastically reduced. Most likely all of them are headed to the job line. Too big to fail.

>For what tech produces it is overly rewarded economically. The true economic value of some companies like facebook or amazon may be negative.

Hard to prove.

>What can we do or is it already too late to save the world from the big tech monster?

Not too late, but you cant take down goliath, you have to displace it at this point.

>I think it is already too late. The internet is like an opiate or stimulant for the masses and a vampire, feeding off of and feeding into emotions and mass popular delusions allowing people to be manipulated as sheep and resulting in time and energy being wasted by literally billions.

Out of curiousity, what is your opinion of Trump?

I was watching the spacex stream last night. Shoulder to shoulder crowd where the super majority are not wearing masks. Realistically speaking there's only 7 states in the USA that still have a mask mandate. Many countries around the world are dropping restrictions entirely and returning freedom.

In Canada, many provinces have decided to end mandates. For example, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/covid-alta-edmonton-...

Here in Ontario you cannot meet with more than 9 friends, masks are mandatory, restaurants and venues are operating at 50% capacity but full vaccination is required. Singing and dancing is illegal.

Ontario has some of the most restrictive rules in the world. Naturally there will be protests demanding we be like virtually everyone else in North America. Worse yet, as of a few weeks ago, the Federal government as part of Border guards made crossing the border require vaccination. Restrictions are going in the absolute wrong direction. Those now unemployed truckers moved on to protest.

The police have frameworks to deal with protests. They know what they can and cannot do and the police have effectively done nothing. They told the media and federal government that if you want the protest to end, bring in the military. They won't be doing it. Which they haven't, we going on weeks now?

What happened just a few hours ago. The Ontario government declared the protestors an 'occupation' which is a legal definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_occupation and therefore justified a 'state of emergency' afterall can't declare emergency over protests. Ontario even went and seized the money raised by givesendgo which came with funny response: https://twitter.com/GiveSendGo/status/1491940399505682434?cx...

This is important. The only way to justify the emergency and removal of human rights is to assert they are a military occupation.

The allegation is obvious as well. This is a USA occupation force. By international law, every trucker arrested now must be treated as prisoners of war.

This is why the Ontario police are going door to door today with pre-printed pamphlets about peaceful protesting.

Ive occasionally taken breaks but I think I didn't do it long enough.

This time at like day 3-4 I was triumphantly saying there was no withdrawals, but for some reason I was unusually angry.

I dont deny anger, I almost denied that I was angry. Normally I absorb the emotion and analyze why I was this way. I couldn't really do that, I couldn't really justify why I was angry. I even woke up angry with no apparent cause.

The next day I lost control and raised my voice out of anger for a moment. Something I generally don't do. I tried questioning this anger again but found no answers. I believe at this time I still didn't believe cannabis was addictive or for that matter I was having withdrawals. Let alone this was just the beginning.

Took over a week for problems to really peak.

The bigger problem, I was using medically... without it... that original problem also started to come back. Just making it all that much worse.

Nonprofits in Canada must write a mission statement. Once approved, you are legally obligated to follow.

Mind you, im a tech, not a lawyer or boardmember or whatever.

Recently gave cannabis a break. Been using for years as a medical user. If flower, I would smoke < 0.3g a day. If vape, maybe 5-10 hits. Barely any compared to so many others

Felt like I wasn't anywhere near overdoing it, but when looking at cannabis withdraw symptoms... can confirm. Certainly had a problem.

Still wondering if i can even go back.

I have a honeypot network that collects a good amount of attackers, but I also have multiple other sources of attacker infos that let me build a threatfeed that is unlike any other. ISP scale SOC, ISP DDOS, etc. My threatfeed is insane, every firepower I add it to ends up blocking virtually all threats. Better yet, everything is fully automated.

Why doesnt this succeed? I can't share it with anyone outside our non-profit membership.

>Only to those that fixate on changing prices as though they should never happen and are a mortal sin.

Inflation is a requirement of a healthy economy. How much is important to debate and should be politically an option to tinker with. Though I suspect many would be afraid to touch it. MMT politicians are more than welcome to jump into the seat if they garner enough support from democracy.

>When you start critiquing MMT, always best to understand the source material first, rather then getting your view from Twitter et al. They don't understand what MMT is saying either.

There's also a reason why MMT died a horrible death in the last several months. The Twitter critiques were right.

In fact I will go so far as to say they were MORE THAN right. The predictions they made that make MMT look bad were under predicted. MMT reality is so much worse.

>Monthly inflation is slowing, and is at an annualized 4.8%. We had a big spike in the summer/fall that's still showing up in our annual figures, but inflation itself is coming under control.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-rate-mo...

Maybe that would have been believable in August. No way I can look at that graph and say it's slowing.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

That's a gigantic 7.5%. A butt puckering 7.5%.

>Inflation is never out of control, the only thing that is out of control is our desire to deny reality.

This is great news for commie countries like Venezuela and Cuba whose currencies have collapsed and are worthless.

>You can stop inflation at any point with a negative interest rate. The moment you do that you can start increasing reserve requirements, if you are ambitious you can go all the way to 100%.

How does that work? You want to remove our fractional banking reserve? I want to know much more!

The walrus being a far-left MMT proposing place wrote this when inflation was at 3.5% or so. It's now much higher and very evidently out of control.

The article quotes Mark Carney, as if he were on their side. BoE under Carney have raised interest rates twice: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/interest-rate and that hasn't even dented inflation. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/inflation-cpi

I believe Carney has a speech tonight which most likely will touch on inflation and interest rates. Guess we'll see.

MMT and UBI as political subjects have been utterly dead since the time this article was written. What a disaster of an article.

>The best one-sentence description of inflation I've heard is: inflation is a hidden tax on savings. People who save money are hurt the most. It's as if the newly printed money is generated by taking a bit from anyone according to how much cash he/she has stored away.

Who are the people who save money? Or rather, more specifically are either holding cash or in bonds whose real-yields are very negative?

Tourists, downpayments, and retirees.

Flipside, who is benefiting the most right now? People who are leveraged the most. Jeff Bezos and amazon isn't building all these warehouses out of pocket. These are all being financed and amortized for 25 years at tremendously low rates with real yields in the negatives. Or rather Jeff Bezos is being paid HUGE money to take on debt.

Retirees are getting poorer by the day giving their money to Bezos.

High inflation disproportionally benefits the ultra rich by huge degrees.

Isn't the ideal of OS not to need to reboot ever? This project is about intentionally rebooting?

I just had the question of 'whatever happened to ksplice?' and immediately found my answer of 'oh oracle' no wonder nobody talks about ksplice anymore.