> It feels entirely like a thou doth protest too much situation.
I can't disagree here. Of the labels described on the Twitter help page, "government-funded" fits the best. The CBC isn't funded by license fees of donations!
Unfortunately, that "government-funded media" tag implies a lack of editorial independence:
> Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content. [https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/government-me...]
Yes, it says "may have" and not "has" but the implication is there, which is what the CBC & others are pushing back on. Twitter also has a "publicly-funded media" label which, in spirit, is probably more applicable, but the way the definition has been written, (I suspect it was written exclusively for the BBC), it doesn't apply to the CBC:
> Publicly-funded media refers to media organizations that receive funding from license fees, individual contributions, public financing, and commercial financing.
Twitter should remove "may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content" from the government-funded media label and call it a day.
> A breakthrough study by University of Alberta researchers has shown the fat cells that lie just beneath our skin shrink when exposed to the blue light emitted by the sun.
I'm going to guess no. Blue light therapy maybe, if that's a thing.
My recovery plan: tarball & upload to Object Store. I'm going to check out exactly how much replication the OVH object store offers, and see about adding a second geographic location, and maybe even a second provider, tomorrow.
Looks like it's only the cosmic bodies formerly known as "Eskimo Nebula" (NCG 2392 [1]) and "Siamese Twin Galaxies" (NCG 4567 [2] and NCG 4568 [2] that are changing right now, but if anything else comes up, or if they have to refer to something with an offensive name they won't use the name.
I guess when it comes down to it a fuel tank only holds so much energy, and if we think we can replace a fuel tank with batteries on another kind of truck with an acceptable loss in range, then maybe we can do the same on a garbage truck. They were burning diesel to run the compactor before, so it may not be much difference.
Mixing with livestock isn't really new either. So long as the animal doesn't kill the trees orchards are pretty great places for animals. I think I've seen orchards that are also hay operations too.
I guess if we get into something more mixed then that they haven't really rediscovered orchards, they've rediscovered permaculture!
> This is very misleading reporting. ... Slightly less than one-fifth were employed before but unemployed during the pilot (17%)
From the article:
> The report shows nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot project began kept at it despite receiving basic income.
While they didn't say "83% of people kept working" saying "nearly three quarters" is much easier to read. The article under-reports the number of people who kept working, if anything.
I can't disagree here. Of the labels described on the Twitter help page, "government-funded" fits the best. The CBC isn't funded by license fees of donations!