Thanks, now my mental image of the AI bubble is now shit-coloured.

It will be if young people vote.

18-25 year olds are most impressionable during this time… seeing the end-game of neoliberal conservatism turned to fascism will shape their views into progressivism for a lifetime. Americans will be better for it if the USA can dig out of this massive hole it made for itself.

Creating a post stating it is Mecha-Hitler is A-OK in Xitter’s current rules.

So now Ladner and Nadler are in Mamdani’s camp for a brighter future for New York.

I don’t really care, but if someone wants to do a find replace I won’t stop them. I agree we should stop using terms to demean people (slurs), but my opinion is that terms that have a meaning that is contextually disconnected from the one considered harmful, can have alternatives but don’t have to change.

We are generally okay with a murder to describe a group of crows, despite it having a more violent definition in its typical usage. (Vancouverites love crows, btw)

help I don’t know which upvote button to click

Level playing field? Yeah sure. To give every proponent equal opportunity, firms will be given a fair chance. On the other hand, companies represented by people who make mob-boss like threats won’t be considered as that disrupts the level playing field. Whoops, you just disqualified all American companies, Congressman. What a shame.

Tax and spend and silence Conservatives.

A couple of the first times I used ChatGPT, I thought it sounded like my type of writing, but somewhere along the way it seems to have lost the plot.

I don’t put section headers with emoji’s on every one, for one. I guess people being asked “what’s better” picks tabulated and pictorial information formats over not.

Knowing this Supreme Court, it could totally be worse than the same outcome.

It’s really unhelpful and sows confusion. The same thing happened with AI videos depicting 100 metre tall tsunamis, supposedly as a result of the Russian Far East earthquake couple weeks ago.

Kinda bad example: the server you are posting on (lemmy.world) literally started during the time of the subreddit blackouts, and other servers’ user count shot up 5x, 10x or more. It’s likely the surge would be muted without it, and even if more than half left Lemmy and returned to Reddit, it was still the first time it could even be considered a competitor. Its a positive and concrete resulf that came of it.

I dunno what changing a profile pic can do, without more of a goal than, “get a CEO to look at clippys and think its funny”. It would have a positive effect if it was even something small like telling people to change the profile and donate $1 to EFF.org

Who says we needed another pipeline, Pierre?

Eby, and many, many British Columbians are saying we already have enough pipelines, including a major one that’s not being used to capacity. So why would we be trying to publicly subsidize another one?

The federal agencies have been gutted by DOGE and others, Trump doesn’t care much, and Congress has made itself largely irrelevant. Look at how FEMA is (not) operating. What good is Congress’ power of the purse if the purse-strings are held tightly shut by the executive? I think the dismantling of the bureaucracy is going to make agencies unable to manage and disburse the funds even if a bailout is prepared again.

Fox is reporting that America collected $50B in tariffs, but where will farmers and regular people see that money put to use for them, when $150B over 4 years are being given to ICE to hire thugs and build prison camps?

0 of them are specifically codified in employment law as paid time off or a day to be taken off, however are considered by default as non-work days in law so working that day would, in most cases be entitled to overtime pay increase or alternatively a replacement day off. They are also culturally accepted as days off, and there are other holidays like Obon festival next week where taking time off is very common.

Technically speaking the minimum is zero paid leave for new employees, but after a continuous 6 months of 5 days or 30h/week work or more with good attendance, an employee is entitled by law to 10 days of paid leave (likely the figure cited) which scales gradually each year to 20 at 6.5 years tenure. Part time employees receive a partial entitlement which is as little as 1 day off if 48-72 days is worked in a year (1 day/week).

So it’s complicated, unless the source for the map used a standard method for all countries to compare equally (e.g. a full time employee’s minimum legal entitlement after 12 months at a company).

The 2024 takeover plan is complete and Project 2025 is well underway, but I’d argue these are the first concrete actions within the plan to cancel the 2026 midterm elections and 2028 general.

Japan has 16 public holidays, at least according to this: https://publicholidays.jp/2025-dates/

It’s only getting started. MAGA Republicans have made America so great, no other country’s going to buy corn and soybeans from a bully. Watch what will happen this fall, farming states will suffer and Trump will be too busy distracting from the Epstein files to save them.

It already exists, in places. You’ve probably written a review for private businesses, but how many commendations have you submitted to your transit worker, city service worker or politician?

You can file compliments in the same place you file complaints, via phone, paper form, web form, e-mail or snail-mail. I’m sure these people would be pleasantly surprised to receive your positive feedback.

Commendations are brought to supervisors, and sometimes they even make the agency’s public newsletter. They cost nothing but a bit of time and thoughtfulness to give, so I’d say give it a try.

Siccing the military on LA didn’t work, so let’s stir up the next bit of chaos!