Nationalism and Protectionism. In the case of Canada, left-wing Nationalism affects a lot of Canadian-US relation policy and trade. In short Canadians really hate Americans and do not wnat their industries overtaken by US. They're really insecure about their national identity :cirno_heh:
Skilled Work Visas are a more compleicated issue than we might realize. Not because of larbor staturation (it's skilled labor so it's meeting a deficit), the problem is a concept known as brain drain. You get this with software companies sniping other developers (hiring them for higher wages). Essentially all the smart and well educated people in your country leave and go to somewhere else that pays more. As a result the country that educated you and raised you gets nothing and you get paid higher wages which no tax benefit goes back to your country of origin. Poor countries get poorer and rich countries get richer and mroe talent. It's a on going problem with globalism and most economists are aware but don't have a perfect solution for it that would invalidate free trade.
Like you could apply for a work visa in a lot of places as a skilled worker but it might not make sense to work there. A personal example I'll give is, I'd really like to move to Japan, I have every ability to apply for a Visa, I can even apply for a special ancestry Visa for PR. But I'm not sure I would ever want to work in Japan for a Japanese company, both because the work culture is completely backwards imo compared to western nations, pay is less than western, you have limited promotion opertunities, etc etc etc.
So Japan has a labor shortage and peoplle are concerned that immigration will cause it to turn into Baltimore maryland or something. And I kind of don't believe that because the places that have shortages require technical skills, you aren't getting a work visa to go work at seven eleven or family mart in Japan.
Another example is Italy which is a beautiful country, again skilled workers get educated using their state funded universities and programs and then leave for Germany or America or wherever.
tl;dr idk I'm just rambling about globalism
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Well, I am not going to separate myself from human race on this topic. I benefit from farming, enjoy seeing a pet animal etc.
So "we" seems appropriate.
“I wish Mastodon would stop building apps and focus purely on the protocol.”
Mastodon is a software. They don't work for the ActivityPub protocol.
The ActivityPub protocol is handled by the W3C. There is a W3C Working Group for ActivityPub, which interested developers can join and have a discussion, regardless if they are the developers of the Mastodon software, Hubzilla software, Pleroma, Misskey, etc.
So, yes and no. Yes, the Mastodon team is focusing on building apps because that's what they do. And, no, they cannot focus on developing the ActivityPub protocol because that is not under them.
Just clarifying so it's clearer. ^_^
There’s #doomscrolling… but also there’s my passion for #nerdscrolling. Scanning the timeline for cool bits of Web Tech, cool things people have made, people sharing nerdy #memes, etc.
So keep sharing the cool things you see, and do on the web. The more you share the more positive and interesting peoples timelines become. 👍🏼
@turtle_green @FandaSin @countcol
The cyclical nature of agriculture means that it is difficult to manage regarding predicting future stocks, volatile weather etc.
So for example say weather meant that we got less strawberries last year, so strawberries were very expensive. Farms when doing their analysis may choose to plant more strawberries this year at the expense of other crops. This has the effect of raising the price of everything else, and making strawberries very cheap. (Cont)
Shadow of war is THE most underrated game I know of.
When it came out, everyone was like "the first game was a masterpiece, and this is a micro transaction filled cheap copy".
hell no.
This game does not just "improve" on every aspect of the first one. It outright goes all in on expanding the game as much as they can. They absolutely went all in on trying to make the fantasy of being a war lord as great as possible. EVERY ASPECT OF GAMEPLAY WAS REEVALUED. The world is bigger, Orcs more diverse and also more interesting, fighting is more viceral, war is on greater scale etc.
So, why does noone remember it? because... It had optional microtransactions at the peak of the backlash to that mechanic. But they are seriously not intrusive.
On the oposite, this game not only allows for obvious endless grind thanks to the leveled mechanics, but it does CONTRARY TO THE PRREVIOUS GAME have a difficulty slider just in case the grind wasn't what you wanted.
If you see the game on sale, give it a consideration. It is a true gem.
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