It can happen to anyone:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/
Cory Doctorow didn't just fall off the back of a turnip truck. If it can happen to him, odds are it can happen to you.
zaphod
joined 2 years ago
when taxes have increased dramatically since then too
No they haven't:
In 1961, families paid 33.5% of their income on taxes, but by 1969 they were paying 39% and in 1974 they paid 43.4% of their income. So, if you compare the 2009 effective family tax rate to 1961, you will find a 25% increase, but you will only report a 7% increase since 1969 and an actual decrease since 1974.
(Note this analysis is circa 2010, but things haven't changed substantially since then aside from the post COVID inflation spike that's still subsiding).
But enjoy the alternate reality brought to you by your "friends" at the Fraser Institute™️.
But spending cuts in the 1980s and 1990s, along with a move to put more responsibility for economic and social well-being on the shoulders of individuals, caused low-income Canadians to fall further behind, the report says.
So neoliberalism. Neoliberalism happened.
Who could've guessed.
They're not.
History has proven over and over again that systemic change doesn't happen through voluntary individual action unless government creates incentives or nudges to drive that action.
Admonishing people to eat less (or no) meat won't solve the problem of antibiotic resistance any more than asking them to pollute less fixed global warming.
If anything, asking individuals to sacrifice to solve a problem caused by industry will just harden people against action as it directs blame in exactly the wrong direction.
Another reason to regulate industry, as has already begun in the US and EU. Relying on individual behavioural changes to solve these types of systemic failures simply does not work.
But I'm glad it gives you a reason to feel morally superior.
Keep saying it. It'll be true eventually.
Lol as if the Canadian Construction Association wants infill. Their members are responsible for the municipal lobbying that leads to sprawl in the first place, and I all but guarantee you their infrastructure cost estimates are assuming traditional suburban residential growth
So sure, this person may have a point in that supportive infrastructure is not being adequately accounted for. But I don't believe for a second that they're interested in what's actually best for Canadians.
You know the old saying: you're not wrong, you're just an asshole.
Hint: you can have a differing opinion without being a dick about it.
What?
Compiling quality datasets is enormously challenging and labour intensive. OpenAI absolutely knows the provenance of the data they train on as it's part of their secret sauce. And there's no damn way their CTO won't have a broad strokes understanding of the origins of those datasets.
Absolutely. I have over a dozen pairs, both from the 2017 eclipse and the annular last fall, and you can bet I'll be reusing some while giving away the rest.
Didn't actually read the whole piece did ya? Just stopped at the first paragraph and then reacted?
It's fine, at this point I'm sure you'll go find something else to pick apart to protect your ego, meanwhile allowing the point to escape you entirely.
I just hope if/when you get scammed, the people around you are less of a dick about it.