Catelli

Consumer of beer, smoker of cigars. Also camping and cycling

IT guy, from Cambridge, Ontario

On BlueSky as @catelli.bsky.social

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2025-05-05 17:02:02 UTC

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Well. If the translation makes sense, you did it wrong!

2025-05-05 16:52:08 UTC

The entire IT industry is bafflegab.
This paragraph is 100% meaningless. It tells customers nothing useful whatsoever.
#Innovation
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2025-02-25 16:46:09 UTC

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And look how well a two party system without vote splitting went....

2025-02-25 16:44:27 UTC

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Yes, FPTP has issues, but that doesn't mean we solve it by making it worse by making it less democratic and more dictatorial.
"If only everyone did as I did" is a path to autocracy, not democracy.

2025-02-25 16:44:14 UTC

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his is something that is really starting to offend me to be honest.
The "vote strategically at all costs" campaign subverts democracy, and establishes one goal as the only goal for everyone. It's dictating to the people what they should do, individual desires be damned.
Don't think, do. Don't believe, just act. Don't have preferences of your own, just follow ours.
That's not a democracy.

2025-02-25 16:36:08 UTC

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I only have one vote. It cannot be split.
Therefore "vote-splitting" is a made up concept that's improperly used to describe an overall result, and should be abolished as a descriptor.

2025-02-25 16:36:00 UTC

"Pressure to avoid vote-splitting intensifies in Waterloo region"
It's only "vote-splitting" if you believe the only goal of the vote is to remove the Conservative government.
However, if you just vote for your preferred party... that would be called "voting."
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/thing-pressure-avoid-vote-splitting-152917739.html

2025-02-04 14:19:32 UTC

If Donald Trump “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist” then someone that supports him 100% is also a fascist.
https://catelli2oh.medium.com/moral-clarity-8d368828d4d9

2025-01-24 20:25:59 UTC

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There's that, but there's the total apathy about the entire issue. I know several "Conservatives" that had bad shit happen to immediate family members, and it still didn't cause concern. It's just "the way things are."
Your wife doesn't matter? Your parents? Holy eff.

2025-01-24 19:18:15 UTC

One of the facts of society that I cannot comprehend is the level of support Doug Ford still has even though Emergency Rooms regularly close.
I may have the wrong perception of the society I grew up in, but hospitals regularly denying access to care would've quickly sunk any other government. Right?

2024-11-21 00:07:59 UTC

Being on BlueSky the most useful feature is the Quote Post.
If the person quoted, doesn't like it, they can detach from your quote.
Encourages respectful information sharing with context and nuance.
Mastodon needs that feature too.

2024-09-12 19:27:39 UTC

This is how I'm going to go.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10751872/eastern-equine-encephalitis-virus-ottawa-death/

2024-09-05 17:02:26 UTC

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Far too late for that. They tied themselves to that ship when they signed the deal.
Regardless, I think they would have been better off focusing on the positives accomplished. Focusing on the negatives just reinforces the message he was "on board" with those too. A deal is a deal.

2024-09-05 16:58:43 UTC

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Little old me thinks the NDP could have let the deal expire naturally, and then campaigned on what they accomplished. "Look at what we did for you under a deal with the governing party! Imagine what more we could do if we were in charge!"
But nope. He's trying to gain more attention going negative on the Liberals. That's Pierre's schtick.

2024-09-05 16:58:24 UTC

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said a supply-and-confidence agreement between his party and the Liberal government “accomplished a lot” but that he had “ripped up” the deal with the Liberals, arguing that they have “let people down” and “don’t deserve” to be re-elected.
So NDP “accomplished a lot” and Liberals “let people down” executing the same deal. Huh.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10734350/ndp-jagmeet-singh-vision-liberal-dea

2024-09-04 18:51:11 UTC

"The live action Minecraft movie trailer..."
Oh god.
Can we not just end it all instead? Nuclear apocalypse? Asteroid? Something?
Just make it quick and painless.

2024-08-28 16:39:08 UTC

Woah!
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l2s5qmjedc2b

2024-08-01 17:42:11 UTC

What people think IT is and what IT is actually like
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