Mavvik

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Looks great, where is this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like Makie #JuliaGang

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The article discusses this issue specifically and provides a pretty balanced perspective on it. I don't personally blame immigration for the issues we see today and there is a compelling argument that immigration could help us out of these problems, but it really does require adequate government investment in the sectors that need labour (like healthcare)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No worries, keep up the good work!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

A little late to the party but there's also the West End Phoenix and The Local

If magazines count, Spacing is a great one focused on urbanism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lots of good replies here but I'll respond to this one. It's pretty crazy that striking is illegal for federal workers. I never considered Canada a bastion of worker solidarity but our public sector unions are very strong.

In Ontario a few years back, the provincial government said it was going to pre-emptively introduce legislation to prevent one of the public sector unions from striking. The union responded by saying they would do it anyways. This very quickly spiraled into a threat of a general strike not just from the other public sector unions but also private sector unions. The legislation was rolled back after just one week (Decent write-up here).

So it is surprising for me to hear how the public sector unions in the states are so weak and I'm amazed that such blatantly anti-worker legislation was able to be introduced. In Canada, strong unions and stability of work are some major selling points of government employment and I guess I'm surprised government employees aren't standing up for those benefits. Is there a perception that this will all just blow over in four years and if they can weather the storm, it will work out in the end?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't tried it yet but the concept just seems a lot more intuitive in a way that systems like NixOS and Guix SD arent. I haven't tried those either though so maybe I'm just ignorant 🤷

 

I'm from Canada and I find it very confusing that US federal workers haven't gone on strike with all the BS being pulled by DOGE. I feel pretty confident that if the same thing was done in Canada with random mass layoffs of critical services and hostile takeovers of critical infrastructure, that there would be a general strike of federal employees. Why has there been no labour action in the states?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You're really making it sound tempting, I may have to just get one and send it

 

I discovered GoboLinux not long ago and was disappointed to see it was no longer being maintained. It's exciting to see some folks are picking it back up again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've been fixie-curious for a while now but haven't jumped on board yet because I only really have space for one bike. I've never ridden a fixie but it seems like a lot of fun. I like my gears and I use my bike for everything from commuting to long distance to short bikepacking overnights so the gears are very nice. But I don't know, there's something about fixies that just calls to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

This is very cool, I might want to get one of those. I have a saddle cover for my Brooks saddle to keep it safe from the elements and to hide that it's a nice saddle. It goes all the way around and covers the bottom, so something like that would hide the tracker. I'm not sure I can believe most bike thieves are looking very hard for trackers, but I suppose if they are becoming more popular then they will.

Only other place I can imagine is the seat tube but that looks too big for most seat tubes and I would thick it would mess up the signal. Maybe you could find a way to discretely tape it under your handle bars with bar tape?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You are misreading the very poorly captioned table. The percentages are showing a comparison of the rent of co-ops and market rent against the average in the same category of the five cities in the study. So co-ops are being compared against the co-op average. It's just to show that rent prices of co-ops and market rentals are similarly affected by the markets in the respective cities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh I see so it has a GPS module and sends the GPS data to you. I was imagining a triangulation of the signal location using other nodes but this makes a lot more sense. That's really cool. Depending on how small these things are, could you fasten it under your bike seat? Might be easier if you have a full seat cover.

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