Martin

Magna International is all right.

[Martin @Philenose]

@davepl1968 @JohnWKowal1 I don't think it's pretentious to dislike overtly low-class behaviour. Society used to strive for better things, now it's popular to simply hit rock bottom.

[Martin @Philenose]

@JulianWaller The primal mid-19th century need to be Zouavemaxxing.

[Martin @Philenose]

@walkerpj1 @JeromyYYC Calgary is not a “world class city”. It’s an overbuilt downtown that sits mostly empty, due to the residents living in the surrounding suburbs. It has less city life than any small European city with an order of magnitude smaller population.

[Martin @Philenose]

@pegobry_en This is completely made up. This phrase «не читал, но осуждаю» only came into common usage in the 80’s, as a sort of shortened retelling of the type of criticism Pasternak’s work faced in the 50’s.

You don’t need to become a fiction writer to criticise these show trials.

[Martin @Philenose]

@BrendanEich @GrapheneOS Not wanting driving habits, PII, private conversations, contacts (and all the rest) shared was seen as a big problem to be tackled. All of this can be provided to the state. We will only see more of this as local software continues to become ever more rare.

[Martin @Philenose]

@BrendanEich @GrapheneOS I work in automotive, we have a similar dynamic. At a conference I remember the sneering attitude of panelists who couldn’t understand why the NA consumer was so “backwards”, in regards to a lack of desire for connected auto services vis à vis their Chinese counterparts.

[Martin @Philenose]

@ThatchEffendi Hard to believe that “true X has not been tried” still exists unironically.

[Martin @Philenose]

@saeverley @pmarca Much of this hype is lifting everyone downstream (on a bubble).
A former colleague works for a large cooling unit manufacturer. They have multiple FOMO contracts for 1000+ units when their yearly production doesn’t crack 250. Everyone knows they won’t be made (nor needed).

[Martin @Philenose]

@saeverley @pmarca Thing is, many promised data centres don’t even have to be opposed, since they’ll never be built due to being complete vapourware. There is even more manufactured hype to justify many builds, than there is in opposition to them.

[Martin @Philenose]

@Slav636 @BrendanEich @LundukeJournal @brave What an interesting, and recursive argument. By that logic any market dominant player can pay to force their product on consumers, since they’re already dominant anyway.

[Martin @Philenose]

@viktoracoric @BrendanEich @LundukeJournal @brave It’s not copyright which incentivises a recurring revenue stream, over a single sale.

[Martin @Philenose]

@kamilkazani The idea that forcing one’s will on someone requires the ability to beat them into submission, is quite funny. Women have been getting what they want in non-violent ways for as long as they’ve been around. Thinking this doesn’t apply to voting is, of course, wrong.

[Martin @Philenose]

@BrendanEich @LundukeJournal @brave Only the cheese in a mousetrap is free.

I can only wish we’d get back the days of owning what we buy, and buying what we use. Paradoxically, we’re at a stage where (free) open source offerings are the alternative to live service/SaaS, with little in between.

[Martin @Philenose]

@BrendanEich @LundukeJournal @brave Maybe I came off too harsh, and clearly did not articulate very well.

I meant to say that to my eyes, it seems unusual that the streamlined, debloated version of a free program, is the paid product.

I only wish you and the team the very best.

[Martin @Philenose]

@manifestrhythms @bronzeagemantis This is not including certain costs which are borne by the individual here, but which are socialised in most European states. I take multiple weeks off when I’m not even paid, because the vacation times here are a complete joke.
We’ll probably simply leave once we’ve had enough.

[Martin @Philenose]

@manifestrhythms @bronzeagemantis The problem is I don’t want to spend this money in North America. I work in the US/Canada, make good money with my wife, but there is nothing to do with it here. I have to go back to Europe to actually enjoy life. Like an oil worker making money away, but coming back to the city.

[Martin @Philenose]

@RightKindOfEyez @QuetzalPhoenix This happens widely to this day. Too big of a litter? In a bag, then a barrel of water. Otherwise they’ll just starve slowly.

[Martin @Philenose]

@iamrobinskies Well, these people came during a certain moment in time and preserved in their own mind an idea, or vision, of what Canada was to them. They then watched how the locals allowed much of this to be destroyed out of boredom with the success of their forebears. What a shocker.