28/F trans lefty sheep thing. I stream, I edit video, I play guilty gear and struggle to wake up in the morning.
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I am at Bluesky and Twitch. Later, Cohost.
anyway link for submitting comments is here and you can remain anonymous if you aren't cool with putting your legal name out there. the deadline for comment is december 19th!!
especially as COVID-19 disables more people. there's only gonna be more of us
ah yes, let's go from openly asking people "yes or no," to giving them a fake scale which still only has two possible outcomes, but doesn't tell you which ones mean "yes" and which ones mean "no"
the purpose of a four-point scale should be to get four numbers! if you want two numbers, give two options!
i'm not surprised anymore by politicians being incompetent and ignorant but like. people who work with Data???? one would think you'd have to be nerdy in a specific way to survive in that kind of career without either spinning out or sleeping at your desk all day. it feels like something you shouldn't be able to do incompetently but alas,
i work in data and unfortunately a lot of us do just do what’ll give us the numbers we want to see (rather than numbers that are correct)
yeeeahhh this is what i've gleaned from-- too many podcasts and articles to name addressing too many topics to summarize that all feed back into the same set of Capitalism Problems. it's easier to massage data to look better than it is to fix or acknowledge problems. 🙃
Anyone wanna take conspirabets that they're terrified of the long covid and covid complication disability numbers coming i 2030 and wanna preemptively tamp them dow ?
I had not thought of that but now that you have said it I would be willing to bet actual money that that is at least part of the reasoning for at least some of the people behind this change
