NL has one of the largest hydro electric power plants in the country.

Are you aware that a hydro electric damn can work similarly to a battery? In this case it wouldn't be a pumped hydro, but hydro plants are typically one of the easiest forms of power to ramp up and down and usually pair pretty well with solar.

I'm really getting the sense that you like to talk but don't really know what you're talking about. Do you ever fact check what you hear people say before relaying that information onto others?

most of it...

• didn't/doesn't address housing shortage.

Not sure what to say about this. This is a failure of every level of government, some levels are more willing to try to address part of this while other levels are actively trying to make it worse. To me this statement feels like it comes from someone who is frustrated but hasn't taken the time to understand the problem that they are frustrated with.

• didn't/doesn't address inflation.

Inflation is being dealt with... Things are nearly back to normal levels of inflation. You can't say that it's not being addressed.

• increases taxation as a means to get more income flow to the government

This is normal and a good thing? I'm also not sure which taxes you're referring to? Our taxes haven't really changed much recently.

• spends crazy(milions and bilions) on S.D.G ideals

Unless you have meaningful examples there isn't anything I can say here.

• makes it impossible for farmers to meet (Co2 etc)regulations
  • and government buys them out..
  • and Schiphol etc buying that land for extra CO2 credit.

Once again I need some sources on this, this sounds like something you heard and are repeating without taking the time to understand what was being talked about and now you're trying to pass it off as fact.

• has crazy 'sustainability' demains, which makes international production business move elsewhere

Not sure what you're talking about here. Is this referring to businesses "offshoring" the production of goods? This has been happening for a long time and I hope that we can start bring more manufacturing back "onshore"

• increasing poverty. People requiring food-bank support is increasing, but because of increasingly harsh business environment the food-bank actually obtains less from industrie.

Yes poverty is up, but not for the reasons you're suggesting(unless you have some new data I haven't seen). food inflation is going to be the new norm until the world gets the climate crisis under control. Our global agriculture system is not built to handle the rapidly changing climate we've created. droughts, floods and war are likely going to continue to cause price instability.

• many small/medium businesses are going bust because they can't repay the corona-loan. (which many have warned is a slow death trap)

This is also normal? Many economists believe that economic downswings every 7-15 years is good for an economy because it helps wipe out under preforming businesses. if a company took out 60k in loans, and after 4 years hasn't been able to pay back the 40k they owe (20k was already forgiving), and also can't find a bank to move that loan to, they are likely not running a very good business.

I'm glad that we gave these businesses a lifeline during covid, but at some point they need to prove that they can adapt to the new market conditions. No one forced them to take these loans...

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So ya, to me most of this was a mix of unsubstantiated opinion and vague concepts, which I feel is acceptable to call nonsense

All of those things are recyclable today with wind turbines being the hardest and batteries being the easiest. But the quantity of materials that needs recycling is still low so there are only a handful of companies doing it.

Solar in some cases can actually address the [over exaggerated] concerns regarding EV charging. By bringing power generation closer to where the power is being used, there can be less load on the long distance transmission lines. In some cases it can also reduce the load on local transformers.

But all of that is mostly irrelevant, the transition to EVs will happen over the next 30 years. Even if we weren't looking to move to EVs if we ignored the current grid we would be in trouble. But like anything we'll upgrade parts slowly as needed.

What a load of nonsense.

Publish date "2019" ya that makes sense. If this was the case before the pandemic it certainly isn't anymore.

The methodology of this study isn't very convincing IMO. Study 1 is irrelevant (self reported subjective data). Study 2 implys that a small sample size picking to use stairs instead of an elevator to go up one floor means one group is more healthy, this is meaningless IMO,. Study 3 just looks at which groups intend on quitting smoking, with the conservative group being more likely to be wanting to quit. I could jump to a number of conclusions from this that have nothing to do with "personal responsibility".

Overall what a waste of my time.

Edit: I just went and looked at the Reddit comments on this post, they also tore it apart with some decent numbers showing how wrong the this is.

Fair, I may have misunderstood. I assumed the only way the city could help would be financially.

You likely had something else in mind.

Why on earth would you expect a city to jump in and fix a provincial issue???

I never understand why so many people are constantly making excuses for provincial governments who don't do their job.

Sponsors pay more upfront. If creators are only using sponsors than their whole back catalogue is basically valueless. If it costs a creator 2-10 cents a month to host a video (based off S3 pricing), but they only made 1000$ on it upfront when the video was made, overtime the back catalogue becomes a pretty significant financial burden if it's not being monetized

Also it's worth keeping in mind that many people are also using tools to autoskip sponsor spots, and the only leverage creators have for being paid by sponsors are viewership numbers.

Patreon is irrelevant, that's just like Nebula, floatplane etc, it's essentially a subscription based alternative to YouTube.

Discoverability is pointless if the people discovering you aren't going to financial contribute. It's the age old "why don't you work for me for free, the exposure I provide will make it worth your time", that hasn't been true before and likely isn't here. Creators aren't looking to work for free (at least not the ones creating the high quality content we're used to today)

The protocol isn't the hard part. It's the monetizing that is. Creators aren't looking to provide content for free, especially if they are also now paying for hosting costs.

Ad spots (like Google does) work well because they can inject an up to date ad into an old video. In something like the fedeverse today a creators only option would be ads baked into the video, but they would only get paid for that up front which isn't ideal...

I fail to follow how a competitor can pop up if the main users it's attracting are ones that don't want to view ads or pay for subscriptions.

Which is totally fair. There is so much misinformation flying around about this tax. The rich are flexing every muscle they have to try to make the general population dislike this change.

This change has no impact of the sale of a primary residence.

If they are selling a secondary residence and that sale is resulting in over 250k in profit than they are impacted, as they should be.

I had read that post already. Even if there are things that she's doing that isn't great, it doesn't really justify a group of people circlejerking hate about them.

From the posts I've seen so far, it feels like the community is stating that they only exist to criticize what they see as a misleading influencer, but to me it all comes off as bullying/harrassment.

If they want to encourage change of some sort they could try and do that, but that's not what the posts are encouraging, it feels like generic woman hate targeted at a single woman.

You keep suggesting opinions are fact... Anonymous posts aren't facts regardless of how much you want to believe their contents.

Yes education does give people abase for learning how to fact check, but anyone (including you) can learn.

The post in this case isn't even creded let alone creditable.

Things like the NYT and Washington Post are only creditable in the sense they link to their sources when they can, and when they can't they can stand behind their reputation because they do share sources when they can.

But a single source isn't enough to suggest that something is true. You as a reader need to be reading multiple sources and angles onbthebsake topic to get a healthy view on it, but those sources can't be mostly opinion pieces (which is all you post).

An opinion piece in the NYT or Washington Post is just as useless as the majority of what you're posting.

It's frustrating because this government didn't make up the name. This is a well understood system. By calling it by the typical name it should be easier for people to look into it understand it.

But so many people lack the ability to look into things and instead just listen to what politicians say.

But of course none of that matters these days. 😞

I certainly don't think I can tell the difference in every case.

But the most basic validation (is this a creditable source, does it reference creditable sources) is really a good starting point.

This post doesn't pass either of those.

There are more advanced techniques that can be used to fact check after that. But as a general rule (unless you really enjoy fact checking), if you're not reading an official source and what you're reading isn't referencing an official source, it's likely not worth giving any weight to.

Where there's smoke, there's a good chance there's a fire!

The trouble is, it's often just fog. And at somepoint you need to start recognizing the difference 😉