MajorasMaskForever

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s enough nuance to that veto I disagree on that being superfluous a law existing on the books. It takes 50% of employees to vote in favor of forming a union. That part was not going to change under that bill. The repeal (and it’s subsequent veto) was entirely on the vote threshold to allow a union to charge all employees union dues regardless of membership status.

  Now there’s is an argument that the law indirectly disincentives unions since in combination with another law unions in CO must act on behalf of all employees, regardless of membership status, so a union must do more work on less money since 50% of employees are needed to create a union for 100% of employees, but 75% of employees are needed to force all 100% of employees to pay for that extra representation. Most people if given the opportunity will act selfishly and won’t join the union and still reap the benefits. In that event, it’s pretty likely a union wouldn’t have the funds to perform necessary negotiations and representation ultimately leading the union to fail.

  But that’s a set of laws and human behavior acting in concert, not a single law that on its own is entirely captured by another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Had the bill passed nothing would have changed in Colorado. The bill was simply virtue signalling and grandstanding, taking no real action to the very real problem of rental prices in Colorado.

  My criticism of the original comment is that this is not an instance of Democratic policy that is making people distance themselves from the party. If a person does distance themself from the party over an action like this, they did it because of the headline and how that headline made them feel in the moment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  CO resident here:

  Polis didn’t veto the bill because he wanted to have rent raised in Colorado, he vetoed the bill because what it was making illegal is already illegal here. Passing this new law would have done nothing except increase the number of laws on the books. Over the last few years Polis has made it a priority to remove superfluous laws from the books.

  If this is causing Democrats to lose support, it’s not because of the policy, it’s because of the headline-only-reactions and refusal of so many voters to actually think about what it is they’re presented with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Tech⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reaction time

  In the US, using a cord like this will either be harmless or create effectively a dead short. Typical breakers will catch the latter but it will take tenths of a second for a breaker to react in which time the electricity could kill someone.

  Depending on circuit conditions a GFCI might intervene as well, they’re typically faster at reacting (needing a few milliseconds) but for a cable designed to handle full residential power, it’s still enough to kill a person in that small window of time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a still frame from Star Trek The Next Generation, episode The Game

  The plot is a wearable device that is an AR “glasses” game that as you play the game it “makes you feel good” gets used to take over the Enterprise so terrorists can hijack it.

  At the time I imagine it was intended to be part of anti-drug campaigns with the AR and companies curating what you see to distract from reality angle/sentiment being more relevant today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so incredibly annoying when people use smaller order of magnitude descriptors simply so they can then write more zeros. A good chunk of the time too it feels like it’s done to distract from a different point or to exaggerate without technically lying.

  Doesn’t help that technical jargon is only best used when communicating with someone in that field or understands it. Big number + alphabet soup always seems scary 😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Production quality often has in inverse relationship to information quality in youtube videos⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the same way about Mark Rober. For me I think I’ve figured out that I don’t like how blatantly obvious it is that the only reason the video exists is to grab headlines and attention by being so outlandish. I figured that out when I couldn’t tolerate many LTT videos anymore but still liked other LMG channels and the WAN show

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not Minot?