Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org), page 5

@lowqualityfacts

High Quality Boost for Low Quality Facts.

Gotta save that kidney.

@xmanmonk

For a while Google had a great implementation of iCalendar. But now you need to subscribe to their API to manage their calendars with other apps, they no longer follow the iCal specs.

Shades of Google's similar non-support for XMPP and RSS...

@jeff

@jeff

I switched to @nextcloud years ago (when it was still ownCloud) specifically for the calendaring function. The WebUI isn't great, but the #CalDAV implementation *is* great so you can use @thunderbird or @davx5app and even .ics enabled apps.

@silverwizard

...but let's not overdo it...

@silverwizard

I'd eat that!

@jamey

The difficulty with a Negative Income Tax for #PovertyElimination is that people living in extreme poverty (ie. unhoused people) often have no way to file their taxes, keep records, maintain bank accounts especially if they have no address. And payments would come only once a year; low-income people themselves have said they prefer smaller payments spread over the year, monthly or biweekly more like employment paycheques.

#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI

@Angle

@jamey

Ah, thanx for that clarification. I had thought you were advocating for negative income tax!

@ghostdancer

Wow! An entire #HackerPublicRadio series on #AWK. I'm sure I've heard some of these already, but I'll see if I can add just the series to @AntennaPod and decrease even more my copious amounts of free time for listening 😉

And, of course, repeat my so-far unkept promise to contribute an episode or two. I hear @hpr is running low on episodes again.

@silverwizard

@silverwizard

Oooh! AWK is usually my go-to language for almost everything!

Mind you, "almost everything" I do involves processing long lists of text: log files, address books with tens of thousands of contacts, all election candidates in the whole region... so AWK is usually the correct choice. But even when it's not, I usually start with AWK anyway.

@pearlrotter @jacobinbot
I bet PMJT loves this debate. It distracts from a debate that could actually have consequences for our democracy. Fixing our democracy including the electoral system. But let's talk about symbols instead.
https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2018/10/ondemocracy-whata-better-way-to-restart.html

@paulbusch

Let me add a #PublicTransit hashtag to this so it can be found again in this otherwise unsearchable mass of posts. .

@gemelliz @howsen

#Toronto voices

“The #Gardiner East Expressway has approx 210,000 people on it each weekday. [Currently] City is planning to spend $2 BILLION to save those people 3 minutes drive time.
The TTC has 1.9 million daily users. City is planning to cut TTC transit service and increase wait times by 3-5 minutes.”

#voteTO #VoteJune26 #topoli #dofo #transit
via :mstdn: @howsen

@wr_record
>‘It doesn’t taste like a substitute, and it doesn’t taste like a consolation prize’ https://www.therecord.com/news…

#KWvegfest in @waterlooregion !

@bilal

A far better strategy than advocating for strategic voting is to advocate for people who have given up to come out to vote.

In both Canada's federal election and Ontario's provincial election there were more eligible voters who didn't vote than the number of people who voted for the winning candidate. That's a lot of power held by a group of people who think their vote wouldn't make any difference.

6/6

@sirHermitCroneofHHT @gemelliz

@bilal

And as for "Strategic voting", if it were in any way effective we wouldn't get the electoral results we've been getting the last 40 years or so.

It's nearly impossible to campaign to get people to change their vote. Largely, people vote the way their parents voted, regardless of the issues or their party's campaign platform (or lack of one).

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@sirHermitCroneofHHT @gemelliz

@bilal

It has been seriously suggested that Canada needs international election observers because our election outcomes are so vastly different from the votes that are cast.

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@sirHermitCroneofHHT @gemelliz

@bilal

Short detour to give a simplified example of #ProportionalRepresentation:

Votes are cast in five ridings:

Blue: 40%
Red: 30%
Orange: 20%
Green: 10%

With single members elected, all five ridings elect Blue, giving a false majority with only 40% of the vote, and 60% of the votes wasted with no representation.

With five members elected in one large riding, we'd get two Blues, two Reds, and one Orange, with 90% of the votes getting some representation.

@sirHermitCroneofHHT @gemelliz

@bilal

I understand the desire to back a winner. With First-Past-The-Post the outcome is a single representative, who may not at all reflect your views. The stakes are high. That's why it's so important to bring in a form of #ProportionalRepresentation to elect multiple members in each riding. That gives a far better outcome in which almost every vote cast gets some representation.

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@sirHermitCroneofHHT @gemelliz

@bilal

One of the worst ways to vote is to let the media make your choice for you by relying on polls. While polls may reflect the electoral mood across the nation, they're terrible for choosing a local candidate.

Polls have an outsize influence on elections, far greater than any "foreign interference" on social media, precisely because people do vote according to the polls instead of choosing the local candidate who will best represent them.

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@sirHermitCroneofHHT @gemelliz

So I hear that people want to abstain from voting in this election cuz they don't feel they have a clear choice because they're stuck in party loyalty hell! You got to stop voting for the party. You got to vote for the candidate or the leader who's going to do the best for mankind & not the pocketbook! I'll give you the advice that was given to me during Klein's administration 'Open your fucking eyes & pay attention to what the fuck's going on or continue to suffer the consequences?'