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  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldUnemployment
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    3 days ago

    Granted, but if the stats are being skewed to make the economy look good, so would stats from other years because the government always wants everything to look good. Same goes for people being underemployed - I’ve been hearing that since at least the 90s. The truth is that unemployment right now are not historically high - everybody just wants to feel like their experience is unprecedentedly horrible. It’s really not. And again, this isn’t taking the side of greedy billionaires, it’s just the truth. We should all be on the side of truth - even if it contradicts a meme.


  • I’m a developer but have utterly no experience with torrent architecture, or for that matter anything outside of standard web services and the kinds of things companies do. But I’ve been wondering if BitTorrent technology would be usable for federating content for things such as Lemmy. After reading that somebody was begging for money to offset the $5k/month they were spending to run an instance (I mean, that shows true dedicaton but holy crap dude), it seems like a distributed architecture would make a lot more sense than somebody having to foot the bill for a big-ass server. I just personally wouldn’t know where to begin on a project like that, but maybe if somebody with the right combo of skills and experience gave it some thought…




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    Great example of why we shouldn’t just blindly absorb memes. I’m not arguing on the side of the cartoon businessman here, but if the memesmith is talking about the US they’re just plain wrong - unemployment is NOT “sky high” or even regular high. It’s a little above the 50-year low we had a couple years ago, but it’s below historical average. But if you don’t already know that and can’t be bothered to look it up, you’re being led around by the nose. Brawndo is Brawndo, no matter who serves it up or why. Now go ahead and douchevote this like a good little trooper!

    And no, I’m not trying to make everything be about America. It’s somewhat implied by the red, white & blue and let’s face it, most posts here are already about America.