I realize I didn't explicitly say that, and that in the politically charged environment it was probably assumed I was shilling R.

I love data sets, that's all.

Hoover and Roosevelt really drag the averages around.

The way they calculated, almost half of the "credit" for Democrat growth was Roosevelt.

And hoover single handedly cuts the R number by 30% as a result of him having massive negative growth.

I didn't realize that LoRa didn't care about carrier frequency, that's for sure the root of my faulty assumption! Thanks for taking the time to explain

I don't think it's "just" LoRa on 2.4ghz, because if it were existing lora devices wouldn't be able to decode the signals off the shelf, as the article claims. From the perspective of the receiver, the messages must "appear" to be in a LoRa band, right?

How do you make a device who's hardware operates in one frequency band emulate messages in a different band? I think that's the nature of this research.

And like, we already know how to do that in the general sense. For all intents and purposes, that's what AM radio does. Just hacking a specific peice of consumer hardware to do it entirely software side becomes the research paper.

If people hated the bill on it's own, then shouldn't it be less popular than Trudeau?

No.

Therefore anything connected with him is going to have an inherent downward swing of opinion due to the association? Right?

No.

These relationships can exist, but it's not the case that they must exist. We know through polling what the favorability is of the CT: low. We know through polling how well understood it is: poor. We know through polling that people who don't understand it are much more inclined to view it unfavorably. We already have a very straightforward explanation.

Adding in Trudeau is adding a 3rd variable into the mix to explain something that's already been explained. And when you add him it, you have to start inventing justifications to make things align with his numbers.

It is the antithesis of Occam's razor

My argument is I think I don't think a dislike of Trudeau is driving the unpopularity of the carbon tax. My argument is that misunderstanding of the carbon tax is driving the unpopularity of the carbon tax.

And my rationale is what you're saying: why is the CT MORE popular than Trudeau if hatred for Trudeau is why the CT is is unpopular? I agree, it DOESN'T follow.

I think we roughly agree. The point I'm trying to make is that I think arguments around it being tied to just hating Trudeau are overblown. Even when Trudeau was net positive the carbon tax was net negative.

I think people's perception of the carbon tax are based on their understanding of the carbon tax. I don't people's view of Trudeau significantly factor into it, at least not directly.

Conservatives are most likely to see it unfavorably. They're most likely to not understand it. They might ALSO be more likely to see Trudeau unfavorably... But that's kinda post hoc ergo propter hoc IMO

Maybe. But if it was that simple then I'd expect it to be at least as unfavorable as Trudeau.

I think it's just people don't understand it, and I think that's frankly the fault of the liberals.

People hear "tax" and go "shit that's a thing I have to pay, right?" And "carbon" and say "my home is heated by natural gas and I drive to work" and then say "the government wants to tax me not to freeze and to get to work?" And then they don't connect the dots that the money that keeps getting direct deposited to them by the government is funded by the tax.

Like, if it was called "The Climate Bonus Payment" and the government had a little fucking fanfare around the distribution, it'd be wildly popular.

Sounds like they basically crafted some special messages such that it's nonsense at 2.4ghz but smoothes out to a LoRa message on a much much lower frequency band (<ghz).

Canada-wide, it's at -8 in terms of favorability.

Even if you attribute that to ignorance of how it works or even flat out hatred of Trudeau, it still isn't popular. That is the political reality. It is GENERALLY unpopular.

Considering Trudeaus favorability ratings are currently like, -30, it's actually significantly more popular than Trudeau himself, which makes me skeptical that the driving force really is just a dislike of Trudeau

Although my religion expressly forbids it, what the hell.

These 4 join the naval reserve and end up on a nuclear sub

that happened

Yeah when the ant man Halloween costume numbers come in at the end of the month I'm sure they'll be in the black.

I refuse to believe that you don't already know the answers to 1 and 2 and that you don't have an inkling about 3

Juxtaposition of pearl-clutching Puritanism w/ a 21 drinking age against beer available in a 7-11.

Pick a fucking lane

You got GOT

I think baiting rednecks into donating money to social programs so they can performatively destroy a fake guitar might be my favorite genre.

Even if it WAS authentic: absolutely worth it.

Genuinely curious, do you believe wrong ways to protest exist?

You can never be too sure. My grandson clicked a YouTube and two days later his laptop was completely dead. The Apple genius at the store said water damage. Scary stuff.

Ok good I didn't want to accidentally click a malicious link