🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@freepeoplesfreepress No worries, your good.

@MattHodges

> Ah, I see we're doing noun gymnastics.

LOL, no.. I am a professional Data Scientist... I am talking about these numbers in the **correct** way.

> In that case, you said "Unemployment is 10% higher" which, of course, it is not.

No, please stop talking nonsense... Literally the number of people who are unemployed has increased by 10%, exactly what I said. It would be highly inaccurate to say it any other way.

> The rate is 10% higher than itself.

Yes which is exactly what I said, that unemployment increased by 10% since before covid.

> But, again, we're doing word gymnastics to misrepresent a point.

No thats what your doing, I am using the technically correct terminology to describe a change in a population.

> Sure, fine, 3.8 is roughly 110% of 3.5.

Or more correctly "represents a 10% increase", which was what I said.

> It's also irrelevant to the question of a recession, because 3.8% unemployment is a fantastic unemployment rate.

Yes 3.8% is good, a recession however is relative, a 10% increase is certainly what you'd expect early on in a recession. In and of itself it would be nothing to stress too much over, other than indicating a recession is forming.

You are also picking out one indicator among many, an inflation rate that is 3x higher and a 20% drop in buying power all make it quite clear a recession is at hand... the increasing unemployment supplements that fact (though on its own could be dismissed).

@freepeoplesfreepress They may simply not make their follower list public, in which case it will just show as 0.

@MattHodges

Right, te day before the lock down it was at 3.5, today it is at 3.8

If you do the math that is a ~10% increase

So check, that one is confirmed true, next.

@freepeoplesfreepress Ahhh those are Nostr users (or this looks like a fork of Nostr)... They are ActivityPub capable but have a weird implementation that looks like that (uuid for the user, usually dont show their icons)... In and of itself they are normal users. It is possible the service is being abused though.;

@MattHodges

All of the numbers I gave were directly fromt he published numbers of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If you feel you have a more reliable source or can debunk that particular source feel free... simply saying something is wrong, however, does nothing to advance the discussion.

@freepeoplesfreepress Can you give me an example?

@freepeoplesfreepress Nah was in a hole the past few days working on a combination of my startups and https://fedipage.com (which now powers my personal site https://jeffreyfreeman.me !)

So just busy :)

So I'm going to make myself a DIY keybaord... I ordered all the parts should be here tomorrow.

I spent days researching the loudest switch money can buy, this thing is going to sound like a million angels with tap shoes on!

@fu

And your reply sounds like something a toxic person would say who is incapable of discussing things critically, if at all.

@realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world @realcaseyrollins@social.freetalklive.com @ech

@mur2501 You were asking what open source projects i am active on... I just redid my personal website and you can check it out there as I list it all on my home page now.

https://jeffreyfreeman.me/

@MattHodges

Huh? Seems we are well within the starts of a recession... some points:

* Unemployment is 10% higher under Biden than it was under Trump the day before COVID.
* The US dollar inflation rate was 3x lower under trump the day before COVID-19 than it is today (~2.2% vs the current 6%).
* The buying power of the US dollar has decreased by 20% since the day before COVID-19 and today.

Yes all of these indicators suggest the recession has already begun... it may or may not get worse.

So I'd really love some input on my new personal page! I am kinda excited about it.

Here is the link, feedback welcome: https://jeffreyfreeman.me/

It mostly looks like the old version but the home page is revamped (I really like the real time git heatmap I created! ) and it is totally built from scratch. Some features I love:

It even supports the Fediverse as a full activity pub end point. It uses the following handle:

@freemo@jeffreyfreeman.me

Here are some of my favorite features:

* Fedipub / ActivityPub support, it rungs https://fedipage.com
* Clean and simple theme.
* Git heatmap (seen on the home page)
* Tags support
* Hugo static site based

#Hugo #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Vercel #StaticSite #Git

I feel like linkedin islike that ex who is obsessed with you so they just keep sending you messages every day and you dont even know she still exists cause you had all her shit redirected to the spam folder since you broke up.

Meanwhile Twitter/X is like that ex who gets hooked on meth and you just feel sad for them but keep your distance more cause your scared for your life.

@AlphaCephei I think we are getting bogged down with technical terms... let me put this in a technical but practical way.

If you have a camera in a otherwise dark scene with a large bon fire (non-point source), the exposure time, iso, etc would be the same no matter the distance you are from the fire. In addition the light meter would measure the same brightness of the fire no matter your distance from it.

@Axman6

I guess thats just it.. I dont **want** a vote to represent everyones view... I want the results of a vote to represent the view of the people passionate about politics, since these are the people talking and thinking about it.

@jasonetheridge

@Axman6

I have certainly not been impressed by australia.. that said it isnt as bad as places like the USA, so I guess there is that...

Sorry too busy to give you the lengthy answer this deserves right now. But thanks for the response. I will try to come back to this if I remember.

@jasonetheridge