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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

“Member states cannot continue the race to the bottom corporate tax policies that undermine European unity and social cohesion. Big tech companies like Apple should not be able to exploit their market power and avoid paying their fair share to society,” said EU MEP Kira Peter-Hansen.

Good.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As a Canadian, I find it very sad that schools have to resort to panic alarm systems as if they were living in a Mad Max movie without a government.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

China is unique. The one-child policy has only recently been lifted, and the government is actively encouraging the population to have more children. The problem is that because of economic hardship and because this policy has changed the family culture in China, parents still do not want to have multiple children.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Understandable. As others said, they have a demographic decline.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

WAS should be the correct verb tense. He saw it was useless as it would split the vote with Trump and now he is behind Trump. He's trying to get his name off the ballot so he doesn't hurt Trump's chances of winning.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Perhaps VPN servers in Brazil (I'm no lawyer) but people can choose to connect to servers outside the country.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I think the professor himself is fed up with the situation, because as a researcher he is forced to publish his articles to for-profit publishers, who are basically the mafia gatekeepers, who profit from information that should be open to everyone. And the university profits from this lucrative business.

This Youtube video will open your eyes to this business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes. I'm talking about the Talibans' sick and perverse mind. The Talibans do not view women as human beings.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 months ago (15 children)

For the Taliban, women are sexual slaves whose sole purpose is to be baby making machines: they're not human beings.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's easy to explain. You and I are critical thinkers who do our own research and are not easily swayed. As for her, she herself said that she didn't do any research, but was influenced by her family:

But Hemphill said she usually votes for whoever her mostly Republican-supporting family recommends. Her family, drawn to Trump’s rallies and messaging, drew Hemphill in as well.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“I didn't realize that brainwashing was happening with Trump in 2016…this is how they would talk to me. ‘Pam, you know, the Democrats…are trying to take over. They're getting more aggressive.’ I tend to believe them. You know, I wasn't doing my own research.”

She said coming across facts by researchers helped her gradually drift apart from the MAGA group. Serving time in prison made Hemphill also rethink “who Trump really was” and the misinformation he spread surrounding the 2020 election, she said, to the point where she lost all support for him.

And that's why skepticism and critical thinking is important for a healthy democracy: you don't get carried away by these rhetorics and get brainwashed.

 

Version 1.0.1's scrolling is still extremely choppy to the point that it is unusable on my iPhone 8 Plus. I've tried Memmy, Bean, Avelon, and their scrolling is extremely smooth compared to Mlem's.

 

Last year, voter turnout in the Ontario provincial election was 44%. Please get out and vote.

 

This is what happens when you try to "save" money by forcing people to use self-checkout.

 

I don't know if it's a bug or if the feature hasn't been implemented because the "Show Fediverse Address" option doesn't seem to do anything.

It would be good to see the communities' instances like this: [email protected]. I've joined several communities with the same name on different instances (e.g. [email protected], [email protected]) and it will be good to know which one I'm looking at.

As for users, perhaps have an option to display the instance of the user.

 

To address long-standing bearing problems in the axles of light-rail cars, the axle hub assembly is going to be completely redesigned, Mayor Mark Sutcliffe announced Monday. "That alone will not solve all of our issues, but I and the team at OC Transpo are hopeful that this redesign will be a giant step forward. At last we are working on the root problem, and not just the issues that arise from it," Sutcliffe said.

To help deal with the bearing issue in the short term, equipment will be installed at 16 points along the Confederation Line to grease up the track in tight curves, Holder said. It will take several weeks to complete the installations. Staff are also working to optimize a maintenance plan for the system, Holder said. R1 buses are currently running the length of the line, except for Cyrville station. A shuttle instead connects Cyrville and St-Laurent stations.

 

The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree.

“This is a hacker’s dream,” said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees.

 

The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.

 

The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.

 

Algorithms are used to dictate speed, behaviour and, ultimately, the wages of gig workers, resulting in different payments for the same work conducted at the same time, with the same skills

 

I cannot enable notifications for instance Lemmy.ca but I can for Lemmy.world. When I try to enable notifications for instance Lemmy.ca, it get stuck on the loading screen and I have to force close the app.

Beta Version: 0.1.0 (11)

@[email protected], I have sent the debug file.

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