I think there’s a good reason for them to present realistic numbers for wages, especially in manufacturing. It’s because western companies need this data when they decide whether to move production to China. If the bean counters made projections based on a set of numbers, then in reality thigs were significantly different, that would be a problem. If PRC inflated say the wage numbers, it would have a negative effect on offshoring, fewer firms would decide to do the move or would move elsewhere. That’s why I think these topline numbers are likely not far from reality.

You clearly are providing your thoughts on these and the other measures you highlight. There’s no point saying it’s not relevant. If it wasn’t, posting or commenting on the topic would be pointless.

Of course I know they’re differrent and I was wondering whether you’d go for that gotcha. I provided a very quick back-of-the-napkin context for how things look in Canada while taking a break from work. If I had more time I would have ideally found median for both. Do you honestly think median and average rent in this context are so wildly differrnt to make the conparison “not make sense?” Do you think the median rent would be so much lower (or higher) than 64% of disposable income as to make the picture invalid?

Median disposable income in Canada is CAD $39K. Avg rent is $2.1K. That’s 64% of disposable income. Disposable income is a nice metric but it requires price levels to be useful.

StayFreeOfJail card.

Nice, they called Netanyahu’s bluff. Now watch him torpedo his own peace proposal.

Incoming increase of homeless population as prisons dump their unprofitable populations on the streets.

That’s right. It’s an upgrade by virtue of supplying the material means to do large amounts of science. To provide the education people need, give them labs, tools and materials to work with. All of us would benefit from those scientific discoveries.

The same mechanisms that limit it on Kijiji and Craigslist, plus community labour by mods I imagine.

Sounds like they want a better deal either from PRC/RU or from the EU. It looks like 30% of their exports are going to PRC/RU and a bit over 30% to the EU.

In case you needed more proof that this system does not reward hard work.

A few datacenter-adjacent-community’s cubic meters of water later…

Perhaps Servo isn’t apolitical enough. 🥹

Remember, technology is political and our major technology-related problems are political, not technological. We wouldn’t be building alternative browsing engines if Chromium was a community-built project, unaffiliated with an ad company.

E: FWIW, this comment suggest the initial political Ladybird snafu may have been remediated.

“And I have another message for you: it will not happen. A Palestinian state will not be established west of the Jordan River.”

Okay, now that he says this in English to our faces, can we stop talking about Israel’s cooperation in a two-state solution?

There are reports of people noticing it two years ago.

Wow. Apparently legalised same-sex marriage and adoption in 2022.