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sleepingadmin··on U.S. Inflation Accelerates to 40-Year High
>This was expected. I wonder though what happens now, is hyperinflation a real possibility. Is it really sensible to expect consistent positive returns from overall stock market this decade unless doing some active investments ?

Hyperinflation is defined as 50% inflation per month.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2

Inflation has roughly 40% locked in; which will push out over a few years. Hyperinflation isn't in the cards.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m1

Then you look at M1 and it's like... well could happen but it's not locked in yet.

sleepingadmin··on Inflation rises 7.5% over past year, more than expected and highest since 1982
>So I keep hearing the same two narratives over and over, we printed money and what do we expect (?), and supply chain issues.

Supply chain claims are fairly baseless. The assertion being that supply is low, demand stays the same. prices go up. The obvious argument is that when the supply chain issues are resolved, you would require deflation. Which is certainly not coming and not happening.

>With all do respect supply chain/monetary policy concerns are a cover for what is really going on, lack of competition in the market.

If this is true, the easiest way to become rich right now is to simply create competitors.

>The market is not rationale right now as we have allowed these mega mergers and pushed out all small competitors. That 7.5% inflation is them coordinating prices and sticking the profits back into their investors pockets, then using supply chain and monetary policy as cover in the media.

If this lack of competition is what is happening. They will actually come buy you out and shut you down. You likely wouldn't even have to do much to compete.

sleepingadmin··on Is this the end of the Cannonball Run?
>I'm sorry you're having a hard time.

Hmm? What makes you say that?

>I think you might want to moderate and adjust your media consumption. I don't think the information you're getting is benefiting you.

Is there something you disagree with?

sleepingadmin··on Is this the end of the Cannonball Run?
>Talk to anybody working in this space and you'll learn this is simply not true. CBP is still chasing people down and turning them away. ICE is still deporting people by the planeful.

"Anybody working in this space' seems vague. Let's look for a more official position.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/30/immigration-us-will-no-longe...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/06/politics/immigration-arrests-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-biden-rules-for-...

Quite clear borders are wide open.

The better discussion, why?

https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/workforce-cris...

Baby boomers will have retired by 2030, there is simply not enough people to replace the boomers. Birth rates were too low for decades. This shortage is set in stone unless we drop the whole 'child labour laws' which will never happen.

There is no denying the borders are wide open, it seems clear to me why they are doing it.

sleepingadmin··on Is this the end of the Cannonball Run?
>but because the roads just ain't is as good shape as they used to be.

Fundamental core functions of government is roads, borders, preventing of violence(military and police), justice, and refereeing the economy.

Roads as you say are in disrepair.

Borders are wide open.

Military has been at war for how many decades? War exhaustion can't be higher.

Violent crime is vastly under reported. Police brutality seems to be at historic highs. Victim of violent crime? Dont call the police because when they show up, the situation gets worse. Antifa is burning cities down, in part due to police brutality.

Where's the justice? If your car or property is stolen, there's a ~90% chance you never see it again and nobody is caught. Arson is worse than that. Murder is the only violent crime which has a clearance rate above 50% but only barely. There is no justice.

Ref for economy? If financial crisis proved anything, they clearly dont.

The core function of government is clearly failed. Lets say we form the HN political party and we're going to fix this. We can't. Government debt to GDP is over 100%. The budget isn't in balance. The central bank is bankrupt; https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/central-bank-bala...

sleepingadmin··on Data misreporting during the Covid-19 crisis: The role of political institutions
>Certainly the extended lockdowns were harmful, I totally agree. I do think it's important to call out our increasing knowledge over time. Executively imposed lockdowns we're certainly justified under most states' emergency laws.

It's always a 20/20 hindsight thing. I think I would have also locked down for 2 weeks and shutdown the borders.

>Firstly, based on what we knew at the time, lockdowns in March and April were absolutely warranted. Beyond that, many states started building frameworks to manage public health, relying on indicators and public data. Mostly those frameworks stopped adapting in summer/fall 2020 despite radically increasing knowledge. That's when it all became politicized.

Yep, this.

>Metrics should have been updated over time and they largely didn't. We started hearing whispers of hospital utilization and some metrics like bed count started showing up but then it became clear Those were misleading numbers anyway. We never got any sense of the medical staff burnout crisis which should have been critical.

100% of ICU beds are occupied! Oh wait.. that's true literally all the time.

>Those emergency laws were badly abused though and many legislatures simply allowed the executive to usurp power instead of jealously guarding it (as they should) and taking up debate on its own. Emergency laws have expiration dates to prevent executive overreach and few states complained when the executive just started declaring the same emergency over and over again, a clear corruption of the purpose of the statute.

Now imagine another virus escapes a lab. One that is actually far worse than the spanish flu. Will kill 50% of the world population.

Are we ready for it now? Nope. No way.

sleepingadmin··on The data are clear: The boys are not all right
I like Yang, he's certainly intelligent and his reality/algorithm is certainly separate from mine, yet parallel. So I find what he talks about is very interesting. The first part of the article clearly lays out the reality that men/boys are under attack.

One of the key roles that the political left-wing should represent is fixing disenfranchisement. Unfortunately for about the last few decades, that not only is untrue, the opposite is what is happening. It has been the left-wing who has been disenfranchising boys and men.

>Yes, men have long had societal advantages over women and in some ways continue to be treated favorably. But male achievement — alongside that of women — is a condition for a healthy society.

Here it is coming from Yang. The right-wing are obviously where traditional gender roles are still represented. The equality or rather attack on traditional roles started many decades prior but for example it's the left-wing who has attacked the boy scouts.

It's the same reason that homelessness is in vast majority men, but the vast majority of homeless shelters are women's only.

>Our media, institutions and public leadership have failed to address this crisis, framing boys and men as the problem themselves rather than as people requiring help.

This is intentionally being done by those groups. Hard to address the crisis that they themselves are intentionally creating.

>Resources that keep families together when they want to stay together, such as marriage counseling, should be subsidized by the government — a much more cost-efficient approach than dealing with the downstream effects.

What's more important. This isn't zero-sum, women benefit from men being strong.

>On a cultural level, we must stop defining masculinity as necessarily toxic and start promoting positive masculinity. Strong, healthy, fulfilled men are more likely to treat women well.

This was intentionally done and in fact, it's trending in a worse direction. This is about to get worse before it gets better.

>The above is, of course, a prodigious undertaking. But I see the need around me all the time.

Toxic masculinity isnt a thing on the right-wing. When the left-wing says 'toxic masculinity' the right-wing rolls its eyes. He sees this around him all the time because of where he stands politically. If you're interested in some right-wing positions on this subject.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/the_lefts_w...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/why_leftist...

https://mises.org/library/marxism-and-manipulation-man

Oh and if Yang continues this push. We shall never hear from him again.

sleepingadmin··on The Semiconductor Ecosystem Explained
>Yes, the media is crying wolf and also saying it won't happen, similar situation as around Ukraine/Russia, and similar to any other type of conflict in the world. Media organizations thrive on stirring the pot, and will always have scary headlines, especially when there is even a hint of anything approaching a conflict.

I'm right there with you in understanding the media's fake news and the somewhat recent move toward yellow journalism. That's not what is happening here. These are top officials, actual agreements, and very real reactions to overthrowing the government of hong kong.

It's challenging, but not everyone is fake news and throwing this out by labelling me as exaggeration is wrong.

>I'm currently in Europe but live in different places in the world during the year, what about you?

Canadian.

>I believe that things are uncertain right now, and claiming that you know or that everyone "expects" something to happen to be an exaggeration. Linking a bunch of online newspapers with names like "warblog", "militarytimes" or articles about how Australia now has a deal with the US about nuclear arms, doesn't exactly improve your case. Most newspapers just wants views like everyone else, and they'll write news that makes you click on the headline. It takes careful consideration and weighing different sides of a story to see what's going on.

I have provided many differing sources and you excluded all of them on the grounds they are fake news. This is fallacious and won't convince anyone of anything.

>I'm asking you to provide evidence for these two claims:

Why bother? You will instantly claim the evidence is fake news.

>You're saying fabs are being put on fire and/or being hacked by foreign entities, while still not providing any evidence for that happening in practice, essentially spreading conspiracy theories. The statement from akm says "there is no clear prospect for identification of the cause of the fire or for restoration of operation of the plant" and the Reuters article makes no claims regarding the cause of the fire.

Now I am a conspiracy theorist. Okay.

>It could be related, it could not. Without any sort of evidence-based approach, you have about 0% chance at arriving at the correct conclusion. And while you don't have a clue what's going on, it's better not to spread theories that are not based on facts but instead boils down to "So you think this is just a coincidence huh?!".

As a conspiracy theorist who provided many top quality sources that you instantly revoked as fake news. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-sydney-morning-herald/

Left leaning and high factual but I guess they are conspiracy theorists as well.

Since I am a conspiracy theorist, I now believe you are a chinese agent.

sleepingadmin··on Data misreporting during the Covid-19 crisis: The role of political institutions
>Wait, this suggests that Canada and Australia are highly misreporting, but Russia isn't? I thought it was well established that Russia's count was very, very off. This would imply that this model doesn't work very well.

Ontario officially admitted they inflated numbers significantly early in the pandemic because we didn't fit the global trends. The numbers were fudged by over 50%.

We also had the problem of Fauci chastising Ontario for running PCR cycles far too high causing significant false positives. This actually accounts for the significant portion of 'symptomless spreader' having not actually been covid but rather just false positives.

Vaccination numbers were also impossibly high. We had a shortage of vaccines available and it was reported ~80% of the population had 1 shot when nobody under 40 could have the shot without some high risk diseases. The numbers were either false or Ontario is far worse off than official numbers allow in terms of aging population and illness. The assumption is that Ontario also misreported how many people were vaccinated. The actual real numbers seem to be much more in line with the USA, at that time period it was most likely more like 30-40%.

The next problem is the misrpresentation of covid being the problem. How many people go to the hospital for not-covid and get tested but test positive. They aren't there for covid but they are represented as being there for only covid. Which is not right.

sleepingadmin··on The Semiconductor Ecosystem Explained
>You'll do everyone a favor by not exaggerating that much

What exaggeration?

https://thediplomat.com/2021/10/taiwan-says-it-is-preparing-...

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/dutton-warns-of-next...

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2021/10...

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/the-three-reasons-taiwan-k...

https://asiatimes.com/2021/09/us-and-australia-signed-a-nucl...

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/is-australia-ready-f...

https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2022/01/24/china-s...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3164139/ta...

https://warblog.org/news/us-approves-support-deal-with-taiwa...

https://seapowermagazine.org/rep-gallagher-navy-must-be-read...

If you believe this to be exaggeration... this is happening right now. Out of curiousity, which country are you in? How do you not know about this? 10 links provided and can be easily added to.

>You make it seem like there is consensus around the expectation that Taiwan will "fall next" while there is no such thing.

Is your claim that Taiwan won't be next and it's someone else who is next? Taiwan is second? Or is your do you believe all these governments are spreading propaganda?

>You're also making claims about fabs being set on fire or being hacked by foreign entities without any sort of evidence.

I suspect you're not asking for me to prove APT groups are chinese?

https://web.archive.org/web/20211127025205/https://www.akm.c...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-chips-idUSKBN2BN27E

Multiple fires hitting non-chinese chip fabs? Just a coincidence... nothing to do with the ongoing war...

sleepingadmin··on You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way
>Since about 2010 heart disease has been on the rise again after decades of decline, Curious, not sure I know exactly what this graph looks like. Also looking for this, it's hard to find. Some graphs certainly show an increase since 2000. But they are poor sources I wont share.

As a Canadian, I find this source acceptable. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications...

Which this source and others say the opposite. That the problem is getting better.

Keto's re-emergence was in 2017 or so. So not really included in the data. Keto is also not a widely accepted diet, so impossible to account for in wide data like this.

>which seems to coincide with the craze in keto type diets. Sugar consumption has declined slightly over that same time period.

Take this for example: Again 2016... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5040825/

Or a more recent one: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30549-0/fulltex...

Modern science is very clear that it's sugar that is causing cardiovascular disease.

sleepingadmin··on The Semiconductor Ecosystem Explained
Infographic is outdated and borderline propaganda.

The war with China has started. SMIC is shut to outsiders. Hong Kong fell to China. Taiwan is expected to fall next.

So what's going down? Everyone getting into the chip game because they must.

Europe’s Chip Act, Infineon is building chips in Germany

Chips for USA Act hasn't quite passed yet. Biden issued an executive order that is unchallenged by anyone. US sanctioned SMIC.

Samsung will be building a fab in Taylor Texas near to Austin. Intel will be building 2 fabs in Arizona(RISCV!)

Samsung obviously also building much more in Korea.

TSMC is building a fab in Japan with Sony. Everyone hoping the fabs in taiwan don't fall. Really good chance those fabs will be destroyed if China moves on them.

India is blowing up big time with fabs.

The number of secret fabs is surprising as well. Tons of them popping up in the midwest, primarily sourcing for the automotive industry. Makes sense to keep them quiet because it seems there's lots of fabs catching fire or being hacked and shutdown. Oh the nature of war...

sleepingadmin··on You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way
Might I point out that 'hypothesis' is no better than 'guess'

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypothesis

In fact, the lipid hypothesis having used to be a theory and being downgraded to hypothesis probably makes it far less than a hypothesis.

The wikipage uses a single source for this 'consensus' and look again that magical date of 2017.

What does this 'consensus' really conclude?

>Consistent evidence from numerous and multiple different types of clinical and genetic studies unequivocally establishes that LDL causes ASCVD.

The 'consensus' is that LDL causes illness. I dont believe that's in contention. What we are discussing is what causes LDL to cause illness and we are discovering decades of bad science.

sleepingadmin··on You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way
>To be clear, you can study high cholesterol by simply having test subjects eat eggs. It reliably raises serum cholesterol in real time

I must admit this goes against what I know. Lets look into it together; nothing older than 2005 will be allowed.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...

Harvard ought to be a good source:

>The biggest influence on blood cholesterol level is the mix of fats and carbohydrates in your diet—not the amount of cholesterol you eat from food. Although it remains important to limit the amount of cholesterol you eat, especially if you have diabetes, for most people dietary cholesterol is not as problematic as once believed.

So exactly what I said.

What's important as well, 'especially if you have diabetes' because as I said, as did my webmd link say. It's sugar that is doing it.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-doe...

Healthline fantastic source because they source their sources. Literally the title says exactly what I said.

>The amount of cholesterol in your diet and the amount of cholesterol in your blood are very different things.

I could probably steal healthline's sources but I'll just leave it here.

>All of the egg-industry funded studies which try to show that "dietary cholesterol doesn't affect serum cholesterol" are doing extreme mental and linguistic gymnastics. That statement, which can sometimes be shown to be true, only applies to dietary cholesterol in isolation from any other food, including cholesterol in isolation from the rest of the egg. Dietary cholesterol with saturated fat, which is the most common way that dietary cholesterol is consumed, does more to raise serum cholesterol than any other food. Oh, and also high cholesterol is a necessary condition for heart disease

As I believe I conclude above. This 'egg-industry' boogyman is untrue. In fact, your body will continue to produce cholesterol for you if you eat a low cholesterol diet. It's obviously not sufficient, we are evolved to be on a high cholesterol diet. What a low cholesterol high sugar diet does is hide the huge dangerous spike in ldl that the sugar causes. This is a tremendously unhealthy approach to take when the correct approach is no sugar.

Let's discuss what cholesterol is used for. Testosterone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone#Biochemistry

If you eat a low cholesterol diet. Your testosterone will be tremendously low. So for example about the same time this all came to light is some youtubers(try guys) went and got their testosterone checked and it was so low that they are either 100 years old, castrated or women. Virtually all those guys are probably incapable of having children and their doctors should be putting them on supplements to fix this asap. Huge health risks like osteoporosis is near certain.

Did you know that fertility clinics is an amazing industry profitability wise. Customers lined up around the block waiting for months.

sleepingadmin··on You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way
>I've heard this before. There has been a large uptake in publications on cholesterol from the egg industry. But, you have to look beyond direct funding for a study.

The problem was both side I'm sure. Cereal corps on one side, eggs on the other. One trying to counter the other.

The beauty is that since 2005, that changed. It's not 100% but it was pretty effective. We can now see what's really going on.

Ancel Keys himself has admitted and even pushed way later in life that dietary cholesterol doesn't matter. So the egg industry is innocent.

>High cholesterol is know to lead to atherosclerosis[1]. It's one of the things that is involved in forming the plaques that build up in arteries which lead to forms of heart disease.

Sure but what causes this is what matters. As explained in that webmd link I provided is that this is caused by sugar. Primarily refined sugars. I must admit I don't understand how sugar damages ldl

>What caught my attention was the long term studies around the people of loma lima. There are many vegans and vegetarians there who have been involved in long term studies. They have the same jobs as others in the area, live in the same area, and have many of the same habits of others with different diets. This has been great for looking at how diet affects things. Through those studies they've learned a lot about how diet affects cardiovascular disease.

That's the problem when cereal companies discovered they were the cause of so many diseases. As the saying goes, 'it's always the right time to do what is right' but they didn't want to be out of a job. They did the wrong thing. Afterall, Kellogg the man was an absolute scumbag responsible for the deaths of millions.

sleepingadmin··on You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way
>I upvoted you, even though "never" is a big word, because though I think about history a lot, no counter-examples readily come to mind, sadly. Except me, I'm usually right. Just ask me. Right? :)

That's the thing about the age of enlightenment and founding of the USA era. You didn't have the internet or reddit or whatever to steal your attention. You could work through these sorts of things and when you do, you discover tons of wisdom. The founders of the USA provided no exceptions to free speech. Afterall, truly there should never be any. In fact, the freedom of religion is an even larger non-exception. Religion isn't defined, there are no exceptions.

Hundreds of years there were no exceptions and only recently have flawed humans thought up exceptions

sleepingadmin··on You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way
>This week I was reading about how cholesterol studies are funded by the egg industry 60% of the time. They have a financial interest in the studies going their way and those studies do. Yet, many studies not funded by them go a very different route.

The lipid hypothesis used to be a theory. A significant portion of the 'science' has been revealed to be illegitimate. Cholesterol had a 'scientific consensus' that it was evil causing virtually all cardiovascular disease. Used to...

So what happened? In 2005 you now have to declare your conflicts of interest. Dieticians suddenly started falling bigtime to conflicts of interest. Virtually all of them publishing that cholesterol was evil had conflicts. They were funded heavily by the cereal companies. Science started looking at the lipid theory and it's all fraud.

Cholesterol is no longer a boogy man. The lipid hypothesis has been downgraded to an invalid hypothesis. If you're taking statins, go talk to your doc and get off them.

>Is it misinformation when you speak out against them?

When the statin patents expired in 2016. It's not a surprise that the keto movement reformed in 2017. That cholesterol became a hypothesis and we found out what's really going on.

Ancel Keys much later in life acknowledged that dietary cholesterol has absolutely nothing to do with blood cholesterol.

The even more interesting since the conflict of cinterest change. People have been trying to understand what the actual real data says. Cholesterol may be real problem, but why? You'll notice... this was also published in 2017.

https://blogs.webmd.com/from-our-archives/20170710/how-sugar...

Sugar in your diet damages cholesterol and makes your body struggle at cleaning it up. They found however, sugar isn't exactly the culprit. It's refined sugars and mostly candy and related high sugar things that are causing the problem.

>The same can be said for a lot of things. You need to dig into the details to have an understanding of what's going on.

Censorship is hard. Anything being labelled misinformation is immediately considered something that must be evaluated.

sleepingadmin··on You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way
Policing misinformation is not a thing. This isn't a genuine term, it's only censorship. Censorship is never fairly applied.
sleepingadmin··on HN ran on a single box in 2018 has anything changed?
HN was upgraded incrementally over the years.

It is now synthesized on global platforms to seize the viral e-markets and aggregate brand schemas on the bleeding edge despite all the challenges in the supply chain.

edit/sorry was joking. I dont know anything about anything.

sleepingadmin··on /r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
>The amount of inflation is not especially high

From a historical point of view sure. The thing about WW1 boomers retiring in the 80s and causing major inflation. Sure it was a huge problem. This time it's the WW2 boomers retiring that will cause major inflation. But that effect hasnt quite kicked in. The inflation stems from benefits and low rates. Which low rates can be just called benefits as well.

> it would've been quite normal back in the 1980s (post Volcker, even). That's why the Fed is slow at addressing it. And of course, the global pandemic had much to do with it.

So here we sit post-benefits. You and I can both agree people who couldn't work because of the pandemic shouldn't be left to starve.

The consequence is extreme inflation, but worse. The USA has entered another recession. Nearby recessions means they are connected and therefore this is a depression. Which we can verify by the high correlation with psychological depression. What do you think, do you find more and more people around you are getting depressed?

>In the latter part of your comment, you're talking about two versions of the same thing. Calling budget constraints 'MMT' does not change how they work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_budget_amendment

The countries like Germany and Switzerland that have implemented this are brilliant. Though to be fair countries which dont even need the amendment are that much smarter.

sleepingadmin··on Recruiters lying about salary? Is this just me or is it getting out of control?
Recruiters lying?

In other news, water is wet so long as bears shit in the woods.

sleepingadmin··on Trudeau tries to bring back online censorship bill
So lets discuss what happened here. In the middle of January the federal government made it mandatory to get vaccinated. Effectively putting many Truckers out of a job. They are also denied any benefits. So what are they to do? Tons of other major countries have already removed all restrictions. UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, etc. So we are sitting here wondering what's wrong with our government.

Hence the now unemployed truckers went to Ottawa to protest. Which is their human right? Even their charter right?

Before they arrived in Ottawa, 1 guy with a nazi flag walked around all over Ottawa and had photographers following him. There's a pretty large bounty to identify this dude, yet nobody can seem to do it.

However, the stories wrote themselves. From our state propaganda... They are a fringe minority of white supremacist truckers. Very unusually there were updates from the police on the highways saying the convoy was tiny, only a few trucks. Like an attempt to label this fringe minority tiny and can be ignored? Very unusual, never seen the police do this before.

The trucker convoy showed up in Ottawa and we discovered oh wait, they are a bunch of Indians. Not white supremacists at all. I dont know the statistic, but pretty significant portion of truckers are Indian. The number of videos mocking the propaganda media where not-white people are claiming to be white supremacists is pretty hilarious.

Then the media spun it again and now people believe the protest is against masks? LOL?

They raised significant $ on gofundme, who seized the funds and at first were going to be donating to left-wing charities. They have since autorefunded. However, what was the rule that they broke? It actually required the government to label the protest a military occupation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_occupation

This designation is very narrow international definition. The allegation by the Canadian government is that they lost control of Ottawa to the protestors. This fringe minority trucker convoy who hasn't invaded any buildings is labelled a military occupation in order to remove their human/charter rights.

It's worse, the propaganda media labelled the solidarity protests in various cities around the country as a 'nation-wide insurrection'

The ottawa police have also started arresting anyone who is bringing 'material support' to the military occupation.

So why the sudden need for an online censorship bill? The government who clearly removed the protestors human rights wish to go further. Remove their ability to counter the clear propaganda being produced against them.

Canada who has some of the most strict covid restrictions is ignoring the protestors and not joining much of Europe by returning our rights. They are planning to remove more of our human rights.

In other news: https://twitter.com/ChrisEnsingCBC/status/149088948355370598...

This bridge isn't the only way in and out but this shutting down is huge. Not much of a fringe minority eh?

sleepingadmin··on /r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
>How exactly is this supposed to work? The government prints money and gives it away for free, nobody has to work?

Given the tremendous inflation occurring because of non-universal benefits, UBI pretty well died as a subject. Everything the anti-UBI people have said would happen, is happening. So if it were universal, it would be worse than this.

Trying to discuss UBI is complex because every single attempt at it has failed.

There is a simplistic idea of UBI = $1000/month to every single person. Just start delivering cheques and see what happens? Everyone earns $1000 more and everyone bumps up in the progressive tax and hopefully you tax enough to keep the budget balanced and inflation under control? We know this doesn't work now. MMT is dead as a subject. We must do much more than just free money.

Lets look deeper.

What if we dismantle every single safety net. Welfare goes away, employment insurance, child benefits, old age pensions, indigenous UBI, etc. These all go away. We take those budgets and combine them and disperse equally. In essence what happens is that from a government budget point of view we aren't broke. At exactly the same time we also make a constitutional amendment requiring the government to balance the budget.

What is this exactly? It's a negative income tax that Milton Friedman recommended ages ago.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM

sleepingadmin··on Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health
They have since decided to auto-refund.
sleepingadmin··on Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health
>Canadian here. Whether one sympathizes with the truckers or not, or has a more nuanced opinion,

Sure, lets put the trucker sideline aside for discussion.

>claiming that free speech was removed (implying some official stance) is hyperbolic. I will concede that the Charter is more vague than I'd like on where the boundaries of free expression lie.

The gymnastics of your following sentence proves my point.

Lets look at this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

There are exceptions to free speech. Defamation/Libel, incitement to suicide, false advertising. I find all these exceptions to be reasonable or exceptions to speech. False advertising or fraud in general isn't the speech but rather something beyond the speech. Even obscenity in which porn or even death videos are not obscene. The obscenity exception is very tight.

So there can be legitimate exceptions.

In fact, in our law we criminalized 'advocating for genocide' which I suspect both of us agree can stay. Mind you, it has literally never been used. Literally only attempt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugesera_v_Canada_(Minister_of... but wasn't even proper. Though perhaps we can agree deporting him was a good idea?

The very next rule is the problem. "wilfully promoting hatred'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Andrews

Supreme court ruled that it did violate freedom of speech but section 1 they made the exception against this scumbag. This is what we call 'best of intentions' and its good to stop that dude but what did it open?

When Charlie Hebdo shooting happened in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo#2015_attack

There was a reaction, especially on reddit, to stand up together against these terrorists. You will find however, NOBODY in Canada stood up. The few who did ended up in front of hate crime tribunals for promotion of hatred. Of which lets be realistic, this armchair not-lawyer... they were guilty. The problem was that hate crime tribunals know the line they walk. They dismissed virtually all these guilty cases because they knew when they go over the line they lose this tool. There was a unique feature of these hate crime tribunal cases. Every single group attacked were Conservatives.

What happened there? Standing in solidarity with victims of terrorists was indeed promoting hatred of islam. It was discovered in 2015 that you can use the hate crime tribunals to silence political opponents. Suddenly the Conservatives were all racists.

How about Comedians who make dark jokes? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55959133

Sorry, but Mike Ward isn't some white supremacist or something. These laws aren't about making people good people. This isn't about making people less mean jerks.

Free speech is officially dead until this is fixed.

sleepingadmin··on Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health
>That's quite a claim to make w/out providing evidence.

There's literally 3 links providing evidence in my post.

Furthermore, the onus is on the claimant. The claim being made that these Indian truckers are white supramacists and nazis; or that their friends and fellow protestors are nazis? That literally doesnt make any sense.

Sorry but the yellow journalism or, might i even say it, the propaganda asserting these protestors are nazis is a failed narrative.

sleepingadmin··on Jolie: A drop-in replacement of Django Admin
My approach was at first nothing but admin, but then i found places where i must make custom views.

I'm kind of at a spot where I want to replace all admin with custom but this comes up against an important rule. Dont fix what's not broken.

sleepingadmin··on Opinion: Remember reading the paper?
It's food for thought that perhaps quality journalism is found behind paywalls but we all know how to get past the paywalls. Yet perhaps this has lowered competition? Needs more work at depth to discover here.

Let's look at the facts:

Fox news during the Hanity/oreilly era was pretty awful. They saw this criticism and worked at fixing their journalistic failures. Today on the otherhand you have people like Tucker carlsen who bring their guest on and basically shut their mouth(well not in tucker's case, kind of hangs open) but they dont talk over or cut anyone off. Look at that reddit antiwork stuff, they just let the idiot mod talk to their own grave. That's what journalists are supposed to do. You can have your monologues but if you bring a guest on, let the guest talk.

Flipside, now you have CNN people like don lemon who cut the mic on people all the time. Don lemon is basically operating like Oreilly and it's pathetic. Overall just proving what we already know, those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It.

Yet I use a few examples, but those don't explain the industry. We have clearly re-entered yellow journalism recently. Lots of clickbait and fake news was a thing but only recently did we really transition to yellow journalism. CNN and MSNBC used to have great reputations but not today. Which is a huge problem because journalism's only quality assurance is their reputation.

sleepingadmin··on Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?
Raspberry pi was quite a game changer. It pushed the creation of so many similar cheap boards; which proliferated around the world and enabled IOT, it enabled so many things.

SSDs will inevitably destroy spinning rust. The war was over long ago but spinning rust is still a thing.

The next one that's happening right now is digital cameras. Consumer film is roughly around 87 megapixels. The pros use stuff that's in the gigapixels but 88 megapixels is the line to beat. Samsung S22 Ultra 5G has 108MP rear cam. This is a new generation that will make waves and it's happening now. Film still matters for your stanley kubricks but its not anymore.

sleepingadmin··on Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health
>But, again, in practice, the people in power do not allow free speech. And this is fundamentally different from most examples of cancel culture.

Here in Canada we actually removed freedom of speech. Hate speech laws are tremendously vague and are really not used to prevent anything bad. Sure the Westboro baptists have their 'god hates canada' stuff but realistically speaking it's never used to prevent anyone who is promoting genocide. Literally not once.

Instead the hate crime laws have 99% of the time been used against political opponents. This has created an environment where every single right-wing leader has been labelled a white supremacist. Not because they are in fact white supremacists but because this would put them at odds with hate speech laws and can then be silenced.

Just look at this trucker convoy. The media smeared them as white supremacists and fringe minority. This weekend there was solidarity protests and they were labelled 'nation wide insurrection' and 'occupation'. Ottawa declared a state of emergency and has started arresting and ticketing peaceful protestors.

This is the justification for Gofundme to seize the donations and disperse the money to charities of their choosing.

In reality many truckers are Indian and certainly not white supremacist.

https://twitter.com/QTRBlackGarrett/status/14876208353639833...

https://twitter.com/vonbrauckmann/status/1487614201845600257

My favourite: https://rumble.com/vu5aom-two-indian-freedom-protestors-have...

Those Indian men are the white supremacists!

Yet there were pictures of nazi flags right? Yet here we are unable to determine who that was. It seems like this flag was counter protesters trying to label these Indian truckers as white supremacists.

This is why freedom of speech is important. When you create exceptions, political opponents use these to silence politics.

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