RandAlThor @ RandAlThor @lemmy.ca

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What in the FUCK has Canada become? How are we letting miscreants tear down one of our PRIZED jewels of the country - our much-admired health care system? If you think "oh this won't happen here" just take a look around. Here in Ontario Doug "college drop out" Ford is privatizing the health care system bit by bit. It won't be long for this to happen to the rest of us. Is that what we really want Canada? Is this of our choosing?

Woohoo! Hey can you get a new personality at the same time too?

We are literally starring at the brink of the 2nd middle ages where the rich held all the lands and all the power and the rest are just serfs. And we are all powerless to do something about it.

"BBC presenter had paid a young person 35,000 pounds ($45,000) for explicit photos over three years, beginning when the person was 17. The age of consent for sex in England is 16, but images of someone under 18 can be considered child pornography. "

The brits have to get clarity on what "adult" is. This is the gray area.

Oh a tank fan

If it was his actual account, I'm pretty sure the engagement level will be about the same. Or even less LUL.

My comment was incomplete. While tumblr does a great job of stifling the average user's ability to POST anything "sexy", they seem to have zero ability to manage porn bots. I believe they are intentionally letting porn pots run free in order to sustain user base. Porn bots jumped again after they brought out new community standards last fall or early this year.

If you're just a porn consumer, it's fine. If you want to post porn and you know how to evade tumblr's detection schemes, it's great for you.

There are others. But I suspect these guys are the most media-friendly of economists. I went to business school and I can tell you the stuff Stanford and Moffat are talking about.

Enough lemmy for today. XD

By the way, Matt Mullenweg has a poll going on if he should step down LUL! https://www.tumblr.com/mattmullenwegceo/722564072820883456/should-i-step-down-as-head-of-tumblr-i-will-abide

Porn is back yes but they are still pretty strict. If they catch you posting porn, you're banned. If your post has a nipple poking up on a shirt, that post gets banned. If the clothes are too tight, that post gets banned. If you post too many posts that are banned per above criteria, your account is banned.

Higher interest rates are the tough medicine we do need today to combat inflation. But government policies need to be there to ensure the social costs are minimized but somehow that safety net isn't sufficient today is it? Additionally more action needs to be done on oligopolies and consolidation that's happening across every industry that reduces competition.

So this to me is the biggest problem when it comes to fiscal policy. During recessions, central banks reduce interest rates AND increase money supply in order to stimulate the economy. Governments HAVE to do their part by increasing spending but over the last 3 decades, government spendings have NOT matched the actions of the BOC in proportion. Spending needs to be immediate, and not some delayed project that takes 5 years to implement. Sub point to this is that government investment programs need to be counter-cyclical as much as possible (i.e. Chinese gov'ts massive spending during the last global downturn in infrastructure). And during inflationary times, governments need to reduce or restrain spending, and enact policies that remove supply constraints in essential goods like housing.

The BIGGEST issue we've had in the past 30-40 years has been the former - central banks having to act alone to resuscitate the economies without governments doing their part. Which has led to a successive cycle of cheap money-led boom and bust that's brought interest rates lower and lower which has fueled the wealth divide that's brought about the social inequities and class divide we have today.

Unfortunately, I don't see it ending soon.

Well that's just IT. They don't have a significant presence in the tech space and they are trying to create barriers to develop home grown companies. (To answer your question SAP and some anti-virus companies top of my head but there isn't a lot.)

They bought up the small ones because they were failing. That industry requires huge economies of scale and the smaller ones couldn't cope. EU created Airbus out of the scrap pieces of dying European aircraft manufacturers and injected capital into it and gave it a captive market. In metaverse they are starting to behave this way - currently Threads isn't allowed to operate in Europe. They are going to create regulatory barriers around it. Allow European alternatives to grow - i.e. Mastodon, etc. And provide any kind of support - regulatory, capital, incentives, etc. European governments have used their might to create industry giants so that their countries remain relevant and that wealth creation and innovation remains rooted in their countries. It will be the same in this case.

If Tumblr doesn’t go too extreme in any of these directions, I can accept federation with them. My main gripe with interacting with corporations is that they likely want to dictate the rules of the Fediverse.

So I can tell you Tumblr's policies are a copy of Instagram. It is even more conservative than gram. It doesn't want any nudity or porn or even bikini pictures. Sees a nip through a shirt, gets shadow banned. They outright ban users for it. But their bots can't handle porn bots. So average casual user/blogger will banned while porn bots proliferate.

They have recently allowed more porn. But are actively discouraging sexy pics and erotic literature.

Once we have critical mass, I think we can have meaningful discussions. However, if 300 million threads users become regulars in these instances, expect the worst of redditism. Every comment will be memes or jokes.

They want to carve out a piece of the metaverse for European companies is basically the message. We've learned in the past 30 years that large firms dominate different aspects of tech space. Take a look at what they've done in aircraft manufacturing - they've elbowed into the space that Americans were dominating. Now there's just 2 - Boeing and Airbus which is theirs. They are going to seek to replicate that, learning from the mistakes in tech in the past.