I doubt it. But I hope you’re right.
mostly inactive, lemmy.ca is now too tainted with trolls from big instances we’re not willing to defederate
I doubt it. But I hope you’re right.
I signed it but I don’t really get what’s the goal here other than rectifying a minor semantic issue
Just say yes to fuck up their metrics.
“Yes but don’t contact me on this number again, it’s my work phone”
To help fund this foreign tourists should pay an entry tax depending how long they stay.
Hmm, I mostly agree with the rest of your comment but you lost me there.
If it were free but buses and trains showed up 1/3 as often it’s not worth it.
I think free fare advocates aren’t advocating for this hypothetical tradeoff, it’s probably for increased funding to replace fare revenue
Squamish becoming a commuter town is a bit tragic, but trains would be nice yeah
Yep. It’s cognitive dissonance. Presumed innocence & welfare for me, discipline and punishment & rugged individualism for thee.
I never understand why people don’t want criminals reformed, just locked up.
It is pretty easy to understand. People are interested in their personal safety above all else, way more than they care about inefficient use of public resources and human tragedies brought by a carceral system. Many favor systems that error to the side of unjustly punishing over a system that accepts the inherent trade-offs of pursuing common good.
In other words, to some folks, criminals aren’t people so we shouldn’t worry about what’s good for them - all worry is dedicated to making the lives of white flighters as stress-free as possible. TLDR: snowflake conservatives.
I don’t think it is a “problem”, but it gets really boring / bleak when every single house looks identical to one another.
It looks boring at first, but over time they come to represent the times of their adoption. I think Vancouver Specials, despite their pathetic looks, have a charm that carries its history and significance. Something similar is bound to happen. And at least this time it’s not a single design, there are quite a few.
A nurse would quite literally crosscheck 50 blood markers in a matter of seconds
Yes, but also a nurse has bazillion other things to do. That’s probably why, as the CBC journalist reports, “the nursing team usually checked blood work around noon”. So even though it costs a second to do, it’s done was done once a day. Now it’s done continuously because it’s an alert system instead of something the nurse has keep an eye on.
In this specific case, the fever + high WBC would be more than enough for a nurse to know that something was up. It makes me think that adding AI just adds another step.
Sure, there’s another computation step. But that’s cheap. Nurse time is the bottleneck. From the POV of a nursing team, before, there was a step (check blood pressure at noon), now there are no steps. They replaced a process of checking some numbers with an automated metric-based alarm. This is textbook operations process optimization, great for everyone involved.
I think this is exactly the case for automation to be useful without negatively impacting the professional. It’s not a matter of nurses having the knowledge or expertise, but a tool that takes away the toil of monitoring - which is boring, easily skipped or performed badly by a tired brain, and is trivially interpretable. If a thingamabob beeps louder and makes the nurse pay attention to the blood cell count, the human is still in the loop of decision making.
that just because the UCP received 54-ish% of the popular vote in the last provincial general election, it doesn’t follow that 54% of the population of Alberta is anti-trans.
It does mean that 54% is willing to promote UCP even though UCP as an institution is supportive of anti-trans politics. So while not everyone in those 54% might be anti-trans themselves, they are consciously supporting anti-trans politicians, and are effectively helping the anti-trans ideology.
Welp, at least it’s a non-profit and the amount of people under care is increasing.
I’d say this kind of thing is in the best 1% of UCP moments, considering everything else. It’s a low bar but still.
I don’t understand. Ending Translink to fund who?
If you’re sure it’s more than you’d expect, then you have some idea. You can just say how much you expect and then we have a lower bound to verify.
In any case do we even know who commissioned the poll? Might as well have been some institution with discretionary spending. Maybe I missed it in the article but it’s not clear that this is government funded research in the first place.
How much money is being currently “wasted” on this? And how much of it is taxpayer funding that could be redirected?
IMHO Canadians are not significantly friendlier than most nationalities. At most they are friendlier than the average big-city dwelling Americans, and that’s where the meme came from. Up until a few years ago Canada was a country of small cities, and these comparisons are all inherently flawed given the myriad of factors involved.
There is a LOT of conservatism brewing in Canada, and this hasn’t much to do with friendliness. Some of the most astoundingly friendly people I’ve met were midwesterner Americans… and these same people were very bigoted in some regards. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.
Of course there’s a theme, and big truck jackasses playing heavy metal with “Fuck Trudeau” & MAGA stickers abound. But visit an assembly from any affluent neighbourhood residents association and you will see highly educated and courteous old ladies parrot genocidal talking points.
Both, because what people believe to be true dictates their behavior and policies should account for that.
But in any case, we were not talking about policy. We were talking about “complaining” about policy. What I said is that it is helpful to “complain”.
Complaining that it’s not preventing crime isn’t really helpful, since that’s not what it’s supposed to do.
It is helpful, because a large extent of the voter base does think that increasing the police personnel will prevent crime.
Now that the day is past, today I saw in the news what each candidate was doing yesterday. What’s the story behind Á’a:líya Warbus being a Conservative candidate in Chilliwack?
I’m not surprised to occasionally see LGBTQ+ folks joining hands with conservatives because there’s one thing that usually threads the needle there: class warfare. I can also understand the poor working class that votes conservative: rugged individualism and “traditional values”. But I still can’t understand indigenous voters going conservative… Rustad is clearly an enemy!? 🤷♂️