nik282000

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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Don't eat the rich, bleed them. Make greed unprofitable in Canada.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

It kinda is, most of the people where I work (manufacturing) make significantly less than that. However, it's even more outrageous that a career leech can produce absolutely nothing for his entire life and get a $200K pension.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 hours ago

Uhhh, are they going to be paying the cammed employees more than uncammed?

Are there policies in place that ensure that footage will ONLY be used for safety and that the company will not use the cameras to police employees?

We've seen a growth in violence against police and peace officers in public spaces over the last number of years, and that's carried straight on through to private spaces...

Yes there is increasing violence against the 2 major sources of pain for the most desperate members of society, thanks for noticing.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Imagine opening your email or direct messages to find explicit messages about how someone is going to kill or rape you. Or, maybe it's a message threatening some form of blackmail - like releasing deepfaked nude photos - if you don't comply with the abuser's demands. Then imagine the police telling you there's not much they can do to help you, and even if they do, living with the fear and constant anxiety of knowing there's nothing much to stop the perpetrator from immediately beginning that pattern of harassment again. Then imagine this harassment escalating into physical violence or self-harm.

Now, imagine this happening to a minor.

Imagine a slope so slippery that god himself could not climb it.

I do agree that harassment online is an issue and has been since long before the first "I fucked your mom" was screeched into an xBox, but there needs to be extremely well defined situations where law enforcement are given access to information about ISP subscribers or users of a particular website.

Any kind of bulk-deanonymizing measures should be avoided at all costs as it undermines one of the most useful feature of the internet. If some one wants to find information on a sensitive topic, for example an embarrassing health issue or seeking help for abuse, not having a way to anonymously do so negates any help they obtain.

Ever since the "dark web" and "VPN" made it into the mainstream media it's been a ticking clock to the day when each government decides that anonymous communication is intolerable. "Think of the children" is the war cry of malicious politicians and useful idiots alike.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

To be honest, I was expecting the AI to just predict deaths with some accuracy so that the deaths were no-longer "unexpected." I'm glad ML can be used for something other than 10 second clickbait and revenge-porn.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yay, ageism!

TikTok users are pretty evenly spread from age 10 to 50.

https://explodingtopics.com/blog/tiktok-demographics

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Management is a parasite class. Produce nothing, extract value from people, claim that value would not exist without them.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

Ridiculous, just look at the quality work that Boeing extracts from it's beaten down employees!

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

What ethical business? Our biggest companies:

  • Brookfield Corporation (finance: produces nothing, extracts value from others and concentrates it in the rich)

  • Alimentation Couche-Tard (kwikie marts: underpays employees, over charges for products, petroleum energy vendor)

  • Royal Bank of Canada (bank: produces nothing, extracts value through fees and fines)

  • Cenovus Energy (oil and gas: oil and gas)

  • Toronto-Dominion Bank (bank: produces nothing, extracts value through fees and fines)

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

AND the corporations that run them!

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 52 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Remember how aerospace corporations were allowed to self regulate and then Boeing killed 300 people, had a flight drop 300 feet in a second and had a non-door fly off?

relying on research by chemical industry researchers

🤡

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

6 foot bed, 2 seats, 4x4, electric. Why is that so much to ask? I don't need a 45 foot surrogate penis to get to work and move furniture/landscaping/tools.

 

Using a vinyl cutter and mini-sand blaster I made some alternate universe corporate schwag! I like the idea that someone might have swiped these during an interview before both companies had their 'accidents.'

 

I got my hands on some really weird EL panels and did a little dive into how they work. I still have no idea where to get more but I think they may be DIY-able.

 

I was gifted an unused Ender 3 Pro two weeks ago and managed to model and print an adapter to connect Sony E-Mount cameras onto a 42mm dovetail used by microscopes.

Bed adhesion, leveling, stringing, clearance issues, blobs and permanently welded supports, I got to battle it all but thanks to the massive volume of community support I worked my way though.

 
 

So I bought 2 sets because it looked like one set was briefly lost in the mail and this past week I got an email from Amazon that said one set I bought were “fakes.”

  • Both sets have printing that matches legitimate manufactures.
  • The “legitimate” set have all black filters (not the metalized filters I am used to like Thousand Oaks Optical) the “fakes” have the metalized filters.
  • Both sets of glasses have the same transmittance as the Thousand Oaks filter material I use on my telescope and cameras.
  • The build quality of the “legitimate” glasses is quite a bit worse than the “fakes” with the two layers of paper being misaligned

So, what I suspect is that I actually received a crappy set of “real” glasses and a well made set of counterfeits, this seems in line with the press release made by the American Astronomical Scociety.^[0]^

Some of these newly identified counterfeits are indistinguishable from genuine Qiwei products and appear to be safe. Others look like Qiwei’s eclipse glasses, but when you put them on, you realize they are no darker than ordinary sunglasses. So, these products are not just counterfeit, but also fake –– they’re sold as eclipse glasses, but they are not safe for solar viewing.

So, did anyone get unlucky enough to get some ‘real-fake’ glasses? An did anyone get a set of legitimate glasses with the non-metalized filter?

^[0]^ https://aas.org/press/american-astronomical-society-warns-counterfeit-fake-eclipse-glasses

 

$40M that came of a Conservative motion which was backed by the NDP.

 

London, Ont., police officers participating in a competition in Dubai alongside a Chechen group accused of committing atrocities in the conflict with Ukraine

 

"Not every item within [the plastic manufactured items category] has the potential to create a reasonable apprehension of harm"

As long as we agree not to be apprehensive about the harms resulting from the use and manufacture of all plastics, they are ok. Got it, bring back the straws and stir sticks!

The challenge to the federal government’s proposed ban was brought last year by the Responsible Plastic Use Coalition (RPUC) and several chemical companies. They argued that the federal government had failed to demonstrate that it had enough scientific evidence to justify the regulations. RPUC was formed in 2021 in response to the “toxic” designation, and currently includes more than 30 processors and resin makers, including Berry Global Group Inc., CCC Plastics, Dow Inc., Ingenia Polymers, IPL, LyondellBasell Industries, and Nova Chemicals Corp.

https://www.canplastics.com/canplastics/judge-quashes-cabinet-order-underlying-canadas-single-use-plastic-ban/1003462513/

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