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(Using US definitions where "billion" = 10⁹) I have had good luck using seconds. 100,000 seconds is a little over a day. A million seconds is a little over 11 days. A billion seconds is a little over 30 years. A trillion seconds is a little over 30,000 years. The earliest evidence of anything resembling agriculture, a kind of gardening, is from about 23,000 years ago. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture) Then I challenge them to pick a company and government program to compare profit and delivery cost. For example, Cameco, a uranium mining company headquartered in Saskatchewan has profits in the range of $200 million per year. Saskatchewan government eliminated our rural public transit (STC) because it cost $17 million more to operate than the revenue it brought in. Easy peasy. One company could have funded the shortfall and still be very profitable. Spread that across a bunch of companies and it would be little more than a rounding error in their profit and loss statements.

@Jonathan said in Rotating Boycotts: And ought we ban cell phones and go back to rotaries? You are arguing against economies of scale. Of what use is being morally opposed to something when it is a natural process? The centralization of retail commerce in this case. There is no way of returning without choking the entire domestic retail industry. I'm interested in going forward, not backwards. The rotary/cell comment is a non-sequitor. That is, it is a technological change with no bearing on the structural change being discussed. To call retail centralization a natural process may be true, but that doesn't make it healthy. We do many many things to combat the ill effects of natural processes. Frankly, your comment sounds too close to the "monopolies are actually good" arguments that came out of the Chicago School and that were used to gut retail (among other sectors) and centralize wealth and income. My off-the-cuff opinion is that any company too big to boycott is too big.

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@ilam.fields me too. Having a name for this phenomenon with a clear, common definition is a public service when these concepts sometimes feel too broad and abstract for most people to get (and keep) their heads around.

So check this out @skeet . These are the current overrides I have set. They allow me to override any css i want, so what i did was i went through the site briefly in chrome, saw a few things that looked like they could be improved, right clicked on those elements and chose inspect, then copied the selector, pasted it in chatgpt and told it: override this selectors color with light brown, or make the text in this selector bigger, etc. then i tweaked its output. If you gave me a list of overrides like this back i would be happy to try them out. Gemini should work fine for this too: .brand-container { background-color: #e9dfd3 !important; } [component="siteTitle"] h1 { color: #2f5e43 !important; font-size: 1.25rem !important; /* adjust size */ line-height: 1.2 !important; } .btn-close { filter: brightness(0) saturate(100%) invert(33%) sepia(11%) saturate(1122%) hue-rotate(96deg) brightness(92%) contrast(90%) !important; }

The only upside to 401k and their equivalents in other countries is that they are employee owned. The company can't declare bankruptcy and leave you with nothing. Bringing back the company pension won't do any good without legislation requiring that it be kept fully funded and held at arm's length from the company so they can't "borrow" from it or make it disappear during bankruptcy.

Here's an ad that makes me absolutely bonkers. Well, even more than the rest of them. When the 400+ lb woman does zero exercise, makes no change in her diet and looks like a supermodel in 21 days by applying a 2" square patch to her fat. Please, Lord, make people stop this garbage.

Talking about the parties directly may be a dead end tbh. There is so much mental baggage, bias and fatigue associated with the parties, focusing on issues and ideas seems the right strategy and making a conscious effort to keep the parties as a secondary or tertiary data point.

I like visual representations for sure @skeet lets always have a visual. Needs a big bold title too to catch the eye. Maybe we can create a template for this?

Alright, I figured this one out. It looks like by default the board was showing GDPR registration process. That's the higher level of explicity that Europe require regarding authentication process. Most of us never see this kind of thing in the US, unless we use a VPN. Anyway, the registration process shouldn't be so scary any more. No, we will not do anything with your data and I guarantee that all we're really recording is IP address to ban bad actors like Chinese spambots.