If we had enough units available for anybody looking

That’s what literally what price is for. The higher the price, the fewer people actually looking. Eventually equilibrium is found where what is for sale matches those serious about buying.

If you think there are more people looking than there are units, expect prices to climb a whole lot more.

If it were a small mom and pop business, maybe. You can usually find compromise when the numbers are small enough that you can sit the entire company around a table and hash out your grievances.

But we’re talking about a big business. One of the (if not the) largest businesses in the country. In big business it is really hard to get everyone on the same page at the best of times. But in this case every worker is the employer, which complicates things even more. If the accounting department says, “Nope, deal with it.” what are you going to do? Say “You’re fired” as they say “No, you’re fired!”

You’re right that being an employer doesn’t magically give you control over other people. They’re going to do what they want, even in small businesses, but especially in big businesses. If the workers don’t want to fix this, what are you going to do? It is not going to automatically fix itself. Only the workers can fix it.

When the search engine pulls so much more than just a link, there is no need to actually go to the site. … I don’t have a solution.

Luckily you don’t need one. Facebook came up with the solution a long time ago – one that all the major media sites adopted. It’s called OpenGraph. It lets the publishers decide exactly how they want to present their content on these sites. Give too much information and the users won’t click? Change what information you specify. It all happens on the publisher’s side, so they are in full control.

How is it possible for any employer to not be subject to labour law and contract obligations.

Some agreements were made to compensate. But it’s hard to take this particular employer to task too harshly as the employees own the business. The workers are the employer.

Nothing embarrassing about having those links in my browser history at all. It is not seedy content and I wanted to double check before posting my original comment. That’s just good due diligence.

Yes, we already discussed at length how the media focuses on the celebrities because people only care about celebrities. That is as true in politics as it is Hollywood or anywhere else. Such is human nature.

But they don’t matter. It’s just entertainment.

Yes, it looks like I may have some links in my browser history.

Thanks for sharing your doubts.

For sure. A lot may even be an understatement for how many hyperemotional crazies have bought into his schtick.

Haven’t half of all Canadians always lived paycheque to paycheque? We can find the same headline going back decades. I thought the news was supposed to deliver that which is… new?

For example, I will be calling you “asshole” from now on.

I gotta admit, that is a pretty good name. I am going to adopt it myself.

I am here to study the arrow button pressers, who are known to be found in this particular landscape. It is a fascinating to watch the ritualistic button pressers press a button that does nothing in what is, to the best of our current understanding, intended as some kind of display of dominance used in an effort to attract a mate.

We certainly stand by the right to freedom of association. But that is, again, only of concern to those in the union. It’s not of concern to the population at large. Our concern is only with picking someone local who we want to talk to on the regular. That is why we go through this hiring process, to select the person we want to talk to for the four years that follow, so that we will talk to them and not run away and hide from our democratic obligations. People have a tendency to do just that – that is, undemocratically never speak to their representative again – if they don’t like the person, which entirely defeats the purpose of hiring a representative in the first place. Choose wisely.

Wait. He wants us to believe that he is intelligent? I’ve known toddlers that have an easier time getting words out.

I thought his whole shtick was portraying himself a bumbling idiot to bring out the hyperemotional crazies who get worked up about people not being just so? It is always fun watching the hyperemotional crazies.

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Best to bring up when the person is a sexual predator as it brings out the crazies who can’t separate their emotions from thought.

even the article admits they’re not even trying to produce as much durum wheat as they have been in the past

Who is supposed to try? Durum is quite picky about climate. Western Canada has the right climate, at least historically, but yields have plummeted (perhaps because the climate is changing). That’s how we got into this situation.

Our whole agricultural system is broken.

Or perhaps it is the consumer demand is broken? As the article notes, you can use softer wheats in durum’s place. It’s doesn’t quite give the same texture, but it’s still pasta at the end of the day. Softer wheats are far less picky about climate, and have been crashing in price of late. The traditional hard and soft wheats are down in price by ~25% in just the last month!

It was a ban on Meta’s side. Of course, not with an intent to dent their own user’s usage. That part does not logically follow.

The headline (and probably the article) was written by machine, is all. That has been standard practice in the news business for many years now. Just another machine-generated hallucination that we have come to know and love.

If you really live your life in constant terror over the idea

If there is any to be terrified of, it would be having only one career. Even if there is no risk of being “cancelled”, there are many other threats to careers that are completely beyond one’s control. No normally functioning person would need to be worried about having a career ruined as they would never put all of their eggs in one career basket in the first place.

Granted, a full grown adult who thinks having a sexual relationship with a teenage student is a good idea is not normally functioning.

The scarcity that is being measured in units of dollars here.

Doesn’t that imply someone else is going to be elected?

Yes, what I figuratively referred to as the guy who lives next door. Maybe not literally the guy next door, but someone who lives in your general area of the country, who is familiar with the people who live in your area of the country. This is who matters. They are who you are going to have to talk to every week for the following four years as you exercise your democratic obligation. You’d better like him!

they’re very much the figureheads of their parties in a given election.

That might be pertinent if we had a party-based electoral system. There are party-based electoral systems. Many think Canada should adopt one of them. But, for better or worse, we haven’t. We chose, and continue to use, the electoral system that encourages people to vote for individuals rather than parties. As such, this doesn’t mean much either.