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Cake day: February 14th, 2025

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  • There’s a number of problems with this.

    It would only work if enough communities and instances adhered rigidly to similar editorial decisions about what is “political”. I don’t think that’s achievable.

    Mods would have to do the heavy lifting in tagging/ untangling things.

    It’s not going to be as simple to implement as you think.

    Posts are already categorised by community. You can block the vast majority of political posts by blocking a few communities and users.

    At times if filtered out keywords like Musk and Trump. You don’t really need to implement a feature for this. Just get posters to include a tag in the title of their post.

    Looking at your other comments, you’re not going to be deterred by these criticisms, so my suggestion would be to find the git repo and create an issue to get some proper feedback from other contributors.













  • I struggle with this narrative, because it’s just not that simple. This is pretty much just something that small business owners like to say to guilt people into buying their stuff. Small businesses still need to compete on price and quality.

    Large retailers still employ local people, and your pension fund probably owns shares in them, or you can buy shares directly yourself.

    Some small local retailers have very shady employment practices. I don’t think employees are necessarily paid or treated better in small businesses. Some might be great, others are terrible.

    Having said that, buying locally produced seasonal food directly from growers makes a lot of sense. Fresher, more nutritious, fewer food miles, less middle men.

    Basically, local Butcher baker and green grocer.



  • Hopefully it generates some stink around the LNP in the coming election.

    It’s just bonkers how many people vote against their own interests in that regard. My parents are rusted on liberal voters but they collect an age pension from centrelink.

    Some headlines around the corrupt punishment of poor people last time we had an LNP government sprinkled through the coming months won’t hurt. I mean they probably won’t help either I guess.


  • For sure there are plenty of people that don’t produce any real value in their work, but that’s been the case since forever and they’re hard to weed out because in some ways their full time job is to ensure their ongoing employment.

    As in most things, it’s a question of extent.

    The most accurate statement you can make is that AI will make “most” office employees “more” efficient.

    The thing is, this has been happening with every technological advance for hundreds of years.





  • My global political history isn’t great, and maybe others can correct me here, but it doesn’t feel like the US has had much of a stabilising effect in the last 30 years.

    There’s plenty of conflicts that just don’t make the news that the US just isn’t interested in. Poor places with no oil or other resources. Presently Burma comes to mind. There always seems to be somewhere in Africa, last decade there was genocide in Congo IIRC.

    Also it’s not really clear whether their involvement in the middle east over the last few decades was positive or negative.

    It’s nice to have them hovering around South China Sea to keep China in check I guess.