bayesianbandit

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[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Can you explain what you mean by this? I don't see how recognizing the ideological difference between leftism & liberalism makes someone not a leftist... they differ pretty strongly on their central economic thesis, which is sort of a big deal given how influential the economy is in... like literally every area of our society & political systems...

[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't know these people but even just reading that already made me so tired. I'm so ready for everybody to forget we exist again.

2020-2030 is really making 2000-2010 seem like paradise out here, which is something I never thought I'd say, as a trans woman who barely survived 2000-2010. 🙃

[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

This is one of the best initiatives I've seen from a government in a long-ass time. Such a railway would be a boon for our economy. As a Montrealer, the only thing I can say is I'm pissed it didn't already happen three decades ago.

$80 bn is chump change for something this critical. It will in the long run pay for itself via increased productivity and other benefits to our Canadian economy.

[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

This is a class war, don’t get it twisted. The working class in the US are a bulwark against that shit coming here.

By all means, fuck the Cheeto & large American corpos. But working class is working class. Don’t be selling us out to Loblaws just because you decided some farmer in Minnesota is to blame for the broken system they have down there.

[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, no. Ban the tags. Thank you.

[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is an interesting idea and provides some inspiration thank you

[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So with all due respect I think you’re coming at this from a different set of experiences and assumptions as to what constitutes “good content.”

I’m a transsexual and many of us have already migrated into closed Discord servers in order to specifically avoid what you consider to be “benefits” of federating with large instances.

The same things you think are so great about Reddit have been driving us off the platform for years in search of more niche and protected communities.

I’m not denying that your use case here is valid. Just that it’s a very mainstream view of what good social media is. But mainstream appeal doesn’t necessarily mean better for all of us in all communities.

The fediverse has the potential in the digital world to be like gay villages once were in meat world. Isolated and self-segregated, safer than most places though hate crimes and bath house raids still continued, and essential for organizing networks of support/protection between ourselves.

[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I am still new to the fediverse but I figured that smaller constellations will federate without connecting to the largest federation.

It’s harder to manipulate 500 disjoint federations than 1 really large one. Especially when some of those federations rely on heavy verification.

Of course those smaller federations are likely organized around specific purposes or organizing interests rather than broad public discourse.

[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

H1-B visas. They keep working there because they don’t want to leave the US. Often they have entire lives and family in the US and have not simply been there for a few short years.

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