Conservatives have adopted the franchise model and applied it to politics. They conform themselves to head office (in this case Republicans in the US) and get to piggy back off the propaganda that gets put out by them. The US being the media powerhouse that it is, it’s pretty effective. Alberta is the most obvious example of this.

I find it amusing that they used a poster from the 2004 remake for Dawn of the Dead.

So, sortition? I’m not opposed to giving that a larger role in policy making. It would give voice to a wider range of life experiences than the lawyers and business owners who tend to dominate elected positions.

A juggling crab

Tabasco or some other hot sauce in the pizza sauce would be a lot more ideal, but on top is acceptable if that’s what’s available.

At nine hours and 32 minutes a day, Brazilians rank second globally in average daily internet use, just after South Africans,

Jesus Christ, Brazil. Posting like it’s a full time job.

But that person only commented once.

Remember that time the NYT published Judith Miller’s stenography for the Bush Administration’s lies leading up to the war in Iraq? I’m sure they learned their lesson from that debacle, though.

I wonder what Media Bias Fact Check has to say about them?

Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER

Factual Reporting: HIGH

Country: USA

Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE

Media Type: Newspaper

Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic

MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

What a goddamned joke.

I don’t bother personally for the most part but it seems like you can do it via --embed-metadata, --parse-metadata, and --embed-thumbnail.

One of my favourite applications. I stopped paying for spotify and just use this to get music these days. Everything gets uploaded to youtube anyways.

People have been treating a Conservative majority as basically foretold for the last while, but the election is still over a year out. Personally, I’ve been much more reserved with my feelings about our current political trajectory. Recent events from south of the border should make it very clear that even a few months is forever in politics. We’re not in what I would consider an ideal position, but it’s much too early to assume the sky is going to fall.

I’ve said this before, but coming up with no ideas of your own except to crack your whip at other people until they do something is bad McDonald’s manager level of leadership. Housing is an issue country wide, expecting municipalities to each individually come up with solutions for you instead of developing a country wide strategy is going to lead to extremely uneven results at best. Most likely it’s going to be a disaster everywhere because municipalities don’t have the power to deal with root causes like land speculation the way the federal and provincial governments do.

I also would bet money that if municipalities start getting homes built in ways the Conservatives don’t like, like public housing, they will be punished for that as well.

Macho Man also released a diss track about Hulk Hogan.

A little tangential but how often do you get a chance to reference this?

AKA Gender affirming truck.

You don’t have to take Russia’s word on it. USA and Russia inspected each other’s nuclear arsenal as part of the New START treaty until the beginning of covid.

This is less a reason to use Lemmy or MBin over the other specifically: One of the great features of the fediverse is that the content is not siloed off behind one interface. Usage and development can happen on both and any number of other interfaces and all of them will have access to the same content (barring federation issues, but that should become less of an issue as ActivityPub and various interfaces mature).

As for there being enough people to populate interface specific communities/magazines/whatever, you can’t take a snapshot of today and project that into the future statically. The fediverse population is still relatively low compared to commercial social networking sites, but there is enough of a core userbase for new people to accrete onto over the course of time. There is a potential future where the user base flips, or doesn’t but both Lemmy and MBin have large userbases, or another interface that doesn’t even exist yet takes off and becomes larger than both. But it doesn’t really matter because all that’s happening in those cases is people are being offered different ways of accessing the same content that better match their preference.

Bringing it back to the original point, that the content is not siloed means development on various interfaces can happen concurrently to make things not necessarily better than each other, but more suited to different tastes. You aren’t locked into whatever Reddit, or Twitter, or whatever decides the interface should look like.

Surely linking affordable groceries to communism will make affordable groceries less popular rather than communism more popular.

It’s most likely a bad faith hail mary lawsuit.

[Referencing the ARA ballot measure]

The measure will face a competing ballot measure sent to ballot via the Arizona Legislature and backed by the Arizona Restaurant Association. That proposal would allow restaurants to pay tipped workers 25% less than the minimum wage.

After being previously voted down in the Senate, Senate Concurrent Resolution 1040, formally known as the “Tipped Workers Protection Act,” finally passed on one of the jam-packed last days of this year’s legislative session by a vote of 16-12, with only Republicans voting in favor.

[Referencing Raise the Wage AZ’s ballot measure]

The measure needs 255,949 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. The group submitted 354,278 signatures earlier this month, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. County recorders are currently working to validate the signatures submitted to determine whether the minimum wage increase will qualify for the ballot.

Now, Raise the Wage AZ is facing a challenge of its own. In its lawsuit, the Arizona Restaurant Association claims that the group submitted 28,000 less signatures than the 354,000 it claimed were submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office, was signed by non-Arizona voters and that petition circulators were not properly registered with the state.

So even if the ARA’s claims are exactly correct, Raise the Wage AZ still collected far more signatures than they would need to get this measure on the ballot. It seems like the ARA is hoping they can keep the lawsuit tied up in court past the date of the voting so that their own industry backed ballot measure is the only one that is able to be voted on.

You don’t need both. Raising the standard deduction will already remove the taxes on any tips (+ wages) made that are beneath the new deduction limit. It’s just that everyone else who relies on wages will get the same benefit. I agree that minimum wage exceptions need to go.

This is an awful policy. Want to give a tax cut to working people? Raise the standard deduction by a few thousand and bump up the taxes on the highest bracket by a bit (or preferably a lot). That will give a cut to untipped hospitality workers as well.