The fediverse is more like a string of hit and miss mom and pop shops no one has heard of. Some are great, others are real dives.

Seems like there aren’t many centrist communities where you can have nuanced discussions.

Nearly all social media is full of eco echo chambers… I still post and follow stuff on several of the platforms. There is very little nuanced conversation… Seems like it is more and more just an up vote or downvote storm, or people claiming one thing or another without any supporting evidence.

Workers side stories

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-canada-post-strike-worker-1.7396244

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/they-alone-are-responsible-no-deal-yet-in-canada-post-strike-1.7125166

https://globalnews.ca/news/10871404/canada-post-strike-explained-what-to-know-mail/

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/18/canada-post-better-working-conditions-fair-wages/

Yep, it can also be the answer to getting insane performance gains for extremely specific functions / calculations.

The reality of life is the higher level languages let you get more done with fewer errors but with less potential performance… You can only optimize python so much. Some newer languages like Rust try to balance the two but often make things more complex.

Many programmers that work in Low level languages like Assembly or C regard high level languages as easy or slow and thus tended to dis them.

John Carmack (Doom, Quake engine, considered an amazing programmer) Best Programming Language has a wider appreciation of IDEs and Languages.

The barrier for entry for TEDx is very very low, worked with someone in management who had done one they where not with the company long.

Who owns your outlook.com account? Who owns your gmail.com account? I will give you a guess it is the company that owns the domain to the right of the @.

The problem is, if you set the cost to be actual cost incurred, then anywhere remote or rural will be ridiculously expensive

Well I am not saying each letter, more that the system as a whole needs to be making profit in one area to carry the loss in another… At this point we have way more places to deliver to than people sending regular mail.

I believe that every job should be sufficient for someone to live comfortably on

Looks like Canada post already pays the average or above average and is above living wage in most areas.

https://ca.indeed.com/cmp/Canada-Post/salaries

https://www.livingwage.ca/rates

No I expect everyone not to be lazy fucks and do some basic research on one liner facts

The original question I see as a useful conversation where a simple search would probably not give as valuable resultes.

Where simple facts like “how long does a crt tube old a charge” is a Google thing.

why don’t you google that?

• Laser / LED printers can blind you and may have larger capacitors.
• Old CRT style TVs / Monitors can get you if not discharged correctly.

Presumably it should be self sufficient, by charging for some services… Remember every letter required paid postage.

If everything competing with it has shift work, no benefits and cheaper vehicles. Then something is wrong with us paying for daily delivery of fliers and given out pensions to a low skill job.

I don’t know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days when there’s Unix/Linux

None of our end users know how to use Unix/Linux… MacOS or Chrome books would be more likely looking at the youngest in the work force.

Everything else you listed basically comes down to end user / power user preferences. 99% of our end users barely remember what to click on if it is not on their desktop.

Like, I don’t know why any serious company would use Windows with this in mind

Being able to mass configure, secure and monitor all devices with many different vendor tools remotely is nice. Have you ever tried to manage a fleet of Linux laptops in the field?

now we have AI on the horizon promising to make things more efficient

sounds good

but we really know what it is actually going to be used for

Contradicts the first statement and the next statement

They want automate out everything. People packaging up goods for shipping, white collar jobs like analytics, business intelligence, customer service, chat support. Any sort of job that takes a low or moderate amount of effort or intellectual ability is threatened by AI.

OK you do know what they want to use it for.

But once AI takes all these jobs away and shrinks the amount of labor required, what are all these people going to do for work? It’s not like you can train someone who’s a business intelligence engineer easily to go do something else like HVAC, or be a nurse.

Highly untrainable people have always existed and are always the first to get replaced.

But it should be pretty obvious that you can’t run an entire society with no jobs.

Well not one based on capitalism.

The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don’t have jobs and no income, not able to survive…

Well the ones that can’t do research and can’t look up history maybe. AI is the new Robots, is the new assembly line is the new…

You are just using the age old technology fear narrative.

When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites (2017)

Since so many of these leave the details out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1542q49wzgo

The union wants a 24% pay increase over the next four years - higher than the 11.5% increase proposed by employer Canada Post.

and

The latest strike comes as the Crown corporation deals with big financial losses of C$3bn since 2016, primarily due to the fact that people are sending fewer letters than before.

In its 2023 annual report, the operator said its financial situation is “unsustainable", and had projected that it will run out of cash unless it borrows C$1bn and refinances its existing debt.

I don’t care if it is permanent daylight time or permanent standard time just stop flipping the clock twice a year.

You do realize it is an osculating wave of longer and shorter… The absolute statements people make and the difference the 1 hour makes to a typical person often only last 1 month tops.

Like in the winter O yes I have an hour of sunlight before work, two weeks later as the days continue to get shorter, it is dark at the start of day and dark at the end of the work day.

Start studying, it is never too late to UNLEARN or LEARN. Step one is realizing YOU are now in control to improve things.

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