Lemmy is a federated system and these stats are self-reported by user maintained systems. Rather than a sudden influx of users (bots or otherwise), a misconfigured system or hiccup in stats collection seems more likely.
Generally, Hanlon's Razor, add applied to computing: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidityuser error.
There's a lot of malicious systems out there, but there is little corroborating evidence indicating that we're under attack.
If the most creative thing they can think of to answer that question is "Money" then their critical thinking skills are pretty much zero,
Yes. If the candidate thinks acting out a post they saw on Reddit adds something to the interview, they're probably gonna make poor choices as an employee.
I feel like disposable cups, flimsy disposable plates, and crappy plastic utensils are the opposite of luxury. They remind you that you're eating food made on an assembly line at the lowest possible cost. But maybe that's just my point of view.
The version I present nowadays usually is better socially adapted and better able to integrate itself into a conversation
That seems positive. But it's your call.
For me, "conforming" means listening, considering my audience, controlling interjections, and asking people about stuff. I don't feel like I'm denying myself, I feel like I'm being more considerate.
I can see how other kinds of conformance could be awful. Denying one's sexuality or something like that.
If the new you is closer to the person you want to be, isn't that a win?
I feel like I do this enough that it becomes a comfortable habit. Occasionally, I still want to interrupt people to tell them how wrong they are, or how right I am, or just become the centre of attention. But that isn't who I want to be. And that urge seems to diminish as I learn to listen and ask questions, and then that becomes more of a habit.
The other parties "talked about those problems" but they weren't able to focus public anger like the Conservatives did. None of them have provided policy proposals to quickly address the cost of living crisis.
The Conservatives ran with cost-of-living issues after the Pandemic restrictions eased - so late 2022 or 2023, I think. They showed potential voters that they understood that prices were rising, and that Canadians were hurting. The Liberals initially dismissed concerns (IIRC Freeland or Trudeau said something about vibes vs. the GDP), and didn't really start moving on it until 2024ish; but they couldn't shake the credibility problem. I'm not really sure where the NDP were - I think they were focusing on the supply and confidence concessions. I'm not aware of messaging from the Bloc or Greens that got consistent coverage.
Of the five, only the Conservatives were effective in that messaging. This is Lemmy, so I have to say that I'm not a Conservative, but I can appreciate that they did an excellent job understanding the public sentiment and speaking to it. The other parties did not.
There weren't many policy proposals before the election - certainly nothing that changed public perception or meaningfully pushed prices down. The policies from the Liberals focused on the supply side by providing improvements to the development process (and maybe some loans?), while the Conservatives proposed doing something similar, but on a more limited basis (?!). They were insufficient. And yes, I'm focusing on housing, because that's what I've been following.
During the election, the Liberal housing proposal was more grounded, but it didn't address how the country will reach the goal of 500k starts/year (other than loans and factories), nor does it provide a goal for housing costs. The Conservative proposal was undeniably worse, since it didn't provide a mechanism to reach their much more aggressive goal.
I'm fully on board the Conservatives-bad bandwagon, but it really doesn't make sense to
ignore the cost of living issues that many of us are facing,
pretend that the CPC/Poilievre didn't do an excellent job of parlaying anger about cost of living into votes,
credit the other parties with addressing cost of living issues in a way that speaks to voters.
The CPC are doing well because they're tapping genuine concerns that voters feel on a daily basis (amongst other things). The other parties weren't doing that, and I don't see much evidence that they'll improve. As someone who really doesn't want the Conservatives to win the next election, I think we need to call out where the other parties are failing so they can get their shit together.
In the lead-up to his 2025 campaign, Poilievre repeatedly called Canada “broken.”. He cited increased crime, addiction, high grocery prices and more as evidence of Canada’s brokenness
This buries the lede: before Carney got the Trump bump, there was a bunch of legitimate complaints about the skyrocketing cost of living, increases in homelessness, and availability of healthcare. Poilievre was definitely stoking and using it to his advantage, but the problems existed and persist.
It's an incredible shame that other parties didn't pick up on the public sentiment and provide constructive policies to address the problems.
The latest publicly-available numbers from the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB)'s May 2025 report show a brutal 25.1 per year-over-year cent decline in condo sales across the board, compared to a 13.3 per cent drop for all housing types (including condos).
The number of active listings soared by 41.5 per cent compared to the same time last year, with properties spending 44.4 per cent more time on the market.
I felt a great disturbance in the Roadmap, as if millions of unit tests suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Probably not. I don't really want to be around people who act like me. I've done a decent job of reigning in my most asocial behaviours, but they still get through.
On the flip side, other people seem to like the version of myself that I currently project, so I think I'm doing a good enough job.
Lemmy is a federated system and these stats are self-reported by user maintained systems. Rather than a sudden influx of users (bots or otherwise), a misconfigured system or hiccup in stats collection seems more likely.
Generally, Hanlon's Razor, add applied to computing: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidityuser error.There's a lot of malicious systems out there, but there is little corroborating evidence indicating that we're under attack.