Eh. Generations are defined by a lot more than what clothes someone wore or what TV shows were being broadcast. Those things move quickly. Generations are usually marked by larger cultural touchstones.
There are quite a few ways to try and slice the Millennial/Gen Z divide, for instance. An easy-on-paper ones are things like what generation your parents belonged to (Boomers/Gen X, respectively), for instance, though that just kind of pushes the issue back to a different generational divide. Or there's the "do you remember the world before 9/11 happened?" metric. These point to differences in parenting, or differences in the larger socio-political culture within which one had their formative years, and they're far, far wider reaching than fast fashion.
As an elder Millennial, I'm left wondering WTF I missed in 2006?!? All the girls in high school were wearing Doc Martins, turtle necks, and low-cut jeans while sporting streaky highlights in their hair, and all of the girls in college were wearing Uggs and puffy coats with faux-fur hoods. There was none of... Whatever this is.
This continues to seem like an absolute win for anyone using Facebook in Canada. The key here is that they're not blocking links to Canadian news sites, but to all new sites for users in the country.
That's going to fundamentally change the kind of content users see in their streams.
That is, of course, if Meta actually upholds the blackout of all news sites. Waiting to see what kind of fashy bullshit is actually allowed in still.
Because it's a required assumption to make anything you say on the subject make any sense. The fact that you deny that had convinced me that you're just a troll.
Bring publicly viewable doesn't make them public domain. Bring able to see something doesn't give you the right to use it for literally any other reason.
Full stop.
My gods, you're such an insufferable bootlicking fanboy of bullshit code jockies. Make a good faith effort to actually understand why people dislike these exploitative assholes who are looking to make a buck off of other people's work for once, instead of just reflexively calling them all phillistines who "just don't understand".
Some of us work on machine learning systems for a living. We know what they are and how they work, and they're fucking regurgitation machines. And people deserve to have control over whether we use their works in our regurgitation machines.
His work was used in a publicly available product without license or compensation. Including his work in the training dataset was, to the online vernacular use of the word, piracy.
They violated his copyright when they used his work to make their shit.
The slider for Humble is furthest to the left, while also being the highest cut of the pie.
That's pretty fucking asshole design. You don't get to claim you're doing something "for charity" and then use psychological tricks to convince people to give more money to you. That's not doing something for charity, that's claiming charity as a marketing gimmick.
The police need better purpose. Despite slogans, they don't exist to "protect and serve" the communities they patrol, and they never have. They exist to protect rich property owners from the masses. One of the best ways of doing that is by making the masses afraid of the ownership class's pitbulls.
Is that even true? Wouldn’t the per capita cost be the same? A proportion of the people coming in are retirees, so wouldn’t their per capita costs be higher?
There are economies of scale that governments can leverage that make costs more manageable on a per-capita basis. And if the proportion of the influx that are retirees is lower than that of the current population, it's a net gain. Especially for smaller communities. This becomes particularly important at the municipal level, where the only form of direct revenue generation comes from property taxes. Towns and villages in Nova Scotia have seen their ability to be self-sufficient be stripped away as people have left decade over decade.
Assuming people stick around, at least.
This is the problem we’re facing across the country.
Yeah, it's an issue everywhere. But how many premieres are publicly jumping for joy over an issue that has locally been identified as a cause of residents' grief?
As much as I agree with the statement, with respect to the province as a whole, it's the kind of thing that is totally meaningless to the people here who are currently struggling worse than many of them ever have. The idea that communities will be more sustainable long term, or that the province will reap benefits from a larger tax base, really does nothing to help people who are in crisis right now.
And a major cause of that state of crisis is the population boom that we were in no way prepared for, and the province, under Premier Houston, has done next to nothing to help alleviate the blow from it.
No, there was a lot of pushback against new users coming in and "acting like it's Twitter". General interest instances grew, people, for the most part, operated within the rules of the instances they were on, and a bunch of the old guard got on peoples cases over things like content warnings, language policing, and threats to defederate their small, niche instance that no one was going to miss from big and growing servers (which, when you have absolutely no idea about the lay of the land, sounds really threatening and consequential).
People who were used to having almost the whole yard as their own tailored safe space did what they could to try and make the new folks get in line and adhere to the social conventions they were accustomed to, attempting to hold sway over behaviour on servers they didn't really want around anyway. It made the space hostile for new folks coming in.
existing users are rude about newbies because they want it to themselves
Huh. The irony, considering that this is basically what people who jumped to BlueSky said about Mastodon.
They weren't strictly wrong about entrenched Mastodon users, but turning around to pull a reverse-Uno card about the whole thing is entertaining to me.
Eh. Generations are defined by a lot more than what clothes someone wore or what TV shows were being broadcast. Those things move quickly. Generations are usually marked by larger cultural touchstones.
There are quite a few ways to try and slice the Millennial/Gen Z divide, for instance. An easy-on-paper ones are things like what generation your parents belonged to (Boomers/Gen X, respectively), for instance, though that just kind of pushes the issue back to a different generational divide. Or there's the "do you remember the world before 9/11 happened?" metric. These point to differences in parenting, or differences in the larger socio-political culture within which one had their formative years, and they're far, far wider reaching than fast fashion.