Of all the issues coming out - ridout, iswaran, this - I still think ridout is the most politically difficult because it shows the disparity with normal citizens and not as strong a closure. Since not everyone is going to believe the CPIB outcome in that case.
@maskapony I can believe their process, but the principle of avoiding the appearance of impropriety stands. Shan and Vivian could have followed every rule in the book and it wouldn't have saved them a single bit of negative perception.
If anything, I think this just exemplifies that our ministers are no longer in touch with the experience of middle- and low-class Singaporeans. They will never have to budget a third or even half their income for mortgage or rent. They will never worry about noisy neighbours or dubious tenants. They need not concern themselves with missing the bus to take the train to walk to work. Money doesn't buy happiness - but it eases a lot of headaches the average citizen must live with.
I sure hope this headache cannot be relieved by their money nor power.
There's some comments on what people think about snubbing Malaysia and Philippines, but I'm curious about Indonesia and Thailand. Or even Vietnam. Could be worse with bands interpreting Asia as only Japan
Or they didn't want their workers to get into fights with the aunties who insist on bagging things (even plastic wrapped stuff) once because water might condense on it and once because it's heavy.
There's also a bigger one on lemmy.world with 62 people, and one on lemmy.ml with 20 people, so about a hundred people. I've been creating accounts on a bunch of servers and I can't tell if I'm making a mistake or there's some glitch. Some servers can see the others, some can't find anything whatsoever. Kbin can see some, not all, but apparently can't join any. At present time, I can't imagine most people having the patience to sit through this.
I think what you need to bear in mind is that it's still early days, I was there for the birth of both Twitter and Reddit, even before there was subreddits, the userbase was similarly very small.
I think what is important is that Kbin now starts to develop as an alternative, the reason the Digg exodus was so brutal was that Reddit was there as an alternative and a small but loyal userbase and so when Digg did what they did then everyone migrated almost overnight.
Before Kbin there wasn't really an alternative and now there are 130k or so users here and maybe we can grow over the next months too.
If we start to build the communities here too then there will at least be an option for an alternative.
I thought it's joining all the sub to go dark for 3 days, 12 through 14. Didn't know they only do it for 2 or maybe I misunderstood the original intention.
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