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I like it! Not as good as Google *used to be,* but works for 97% of stuff. I find myself switching back occasionally remembering how easy stuff was to find on Google and realizing how bad it is now actually?! One thing G is still better at is retail, but am in Canada and geo-features are better.
I now do all my Google searches with the "-AI" flag (when I need to use Google at all. Bing-based Duck Duck Go does fine for most things, and no sponsored results to wade through.)
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
The GPL philosophy of morally-necessary open source (in particular) is an artifact of comfortable, individual developer/users. It’s looking increasingly difficult to sustain in a world where software businesses aren’t sloshing in easy money.
Alberta could have had the best infrastructure in the world with a high oil royality. Instead all it got was this shitty airport.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
That thing looks so confused too, did it do such a bad job at the pool delivering drinks that it got demoted? Is there some sort of bot hazing ritual going on and all the other bots told it some ridiculous story to convince it to do this and are filming and laughing at it? I need answers.
Rage bait. Pick an issue, lie about it, rile people up, come up with some asinine bill, make other MPs vote against it, use that to rile people up further. Repeat for any issue.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
I'm team "massive aneurysm" but I understand and respect the position of the "widowmaker" people.
I remember when people stopped asking me if I was a grad student. Bam, suddenly went from a fresh faces youth to being a 79yo emeritus prof who shuffles into the office monthly for a book and everyone is deferential and you are like ?? because you had no idea that they invented chairs or something
Well that's not ideal
You have been Algorithm'd, all hail the algorithm, you are now a breast pump expert and have no choice but to become an influencer and monetize this knowledge. TANSTAAFL.
Even when they get cancelled they rehab themselves like four weeks later, "I've learned and grown as a person!" Kyle you took a vacation and mowed the lawn without your wife asking you once, absolutely nothing about you is different than before.
(That is to say, I see people getting fooled and have good pattern recognition about who they are likely to be. I think 'digital innovation' is possible, but it's like 18F in the US setting universal standards and stopping consultancies from taking gov to the cleaners, THAT, yes. AI ...no.)
I said this when he was appointed, he is EXACTLY the type of guy - personality and demo - to get totally fooled here, and his appt to this portfolio by Carney over literally anyone else was a huge red flag. Granted I work in tech, but it was my first big sinking feeling. Others have followed.
Except it's as if your car actively degrades your other skills, negatively affects your health, and causes massive pollu-- You know what he's right
Yes, it's Trudeau's fault! If it wasn't for env assessments they could drill baby drill! Oh they gutted those? Well then it's Carney's fault for, um, let me check my notes... not negotiating a treaty with Germany in three months? Idk guys it's really hard to keep track of the firehose of bullshit
Much like the last government, this government seems content to wildly underestimate the power of the CPC's -- specifically Poilievre's -- perma-campaign of social media and country radio rage bait. I think they think they should "rise above" it. They are wrong.
What the National Post, National Post
Pre he alters the deal no further...
Ahh okay, I see! (I'm in Canada so I'd probably be waiting a week 😂)
Right?!!! Ten million facepalms.
This article claims that microwave radiation is the likely culprit, in case you're wondering about the state of medical reporting in 2024.
Okay, angry letter to the editor written.
Jfc the article is blaming *microwave radiation*?! Wtf
Which, by the way, was the very nuance I said was being lost in my first skeet. So now I'm putting you on mute, because you, stranger, cannot be trusted to reply in good faith.
Ah, imputing motivations and emotions to strangers and then when they deny those things you made up, accuse of gas lighting! Nice. A+ bad faith arguing, no notes! I don't hate kids. I dislike *parents* who think specific behaviours are excuseable due to a sense of entitlement to shared spaces.
Oh do I? Fascinating reading into things I didn't say 🤔 I must be made of straw.
I'm pretty sure that's illegal in almost every province, and all the territories. And grows hair on your palms... 😂
Or really from much of anything else: povery, giant vehicles, communicable diseases, woo...
On the one had I do think it's good to identify them as dolls for boys rather than "action figures." On the other, dolls for boys are great and fun and nuts to that homophobe.
Debt isn't the full story but we also have issues re foreign corporate ownership sucking money out, productivity gaps from labour being cheap so no push to modernize, downloading aging infra costs, & massive inefficient sprawl. Shrinking investments in public services p/c means debt in another way.
It sounds heavenly.
Yep. Grey goo feeding grey too.
I mean, you joke, but if you fuck with capital, the invisible hand will quickly become visible and slap you senseless. Capital does not like being fucked with. It's the reason we are in this mess in the first place (it's not smart. But it doe know how to defend itself.)
Mah buoy's whicked smaht at additional and subtraction
Great, Trump gets a golden shower and the US geta nothing but crumbling infrastructure and a ruined social safety net. Neat!
Using poverty or special needs to excuse all incidents of people letting their kids scream or run wild is bad faith. Yes, there are exceptions. That doesn't excuse parents who just won't parent, or find it inconvenient to have plans ruined. Yeah, well: kids can do that. Sorry. Plan accordingly.
--It's gotten worse. As I said it's oddly region dependent. I've travelld. Very much less a thing in many other countries. Why? It's cultural. Yes, kids should participate in public life. But parents need to understand they don't always get to have a good time, may have to set boundaries or leave.
Yet as I said in the skeet you ignored, parents removed us from public so we could lose our shit in private. We still lost our shit! We were kids. No hitting even! I'm also neurodivergent, I'm aware some kids have soecial needs. Boundaries can still exist. I have been an adult the last few decades
Shit. Missed the sleep window. See you all at 4:00am
For the evening crowd, my Loonie Politics column: Canada's drought crisis a sign we need more climate action, fast #cdnpoli
Not just that. Reliance on China, which is: 1. The biggest foreign investor in Africa. By a wide margin, and 2. The biggest producer of solar panels in the world. China has its eye on African natural resources as they're running out of their own. The US will be left in the dust.
Same. And the thing is, it wasn't that long ago! Living memory for people in office and media *right now.*
Hmm in my memory there's ice in the cup tho (and yeah, condensed milk at the bottom.) but it's been too long.
Lots of evangelicals want exactly this and will pay a LOT for plausible deniability.
Isn't this just Vietnamese coffee?!
Maybe worse! I just work for *money,* not the momentary admiration of people I'll never met and never will, which is FAR more important.
If I was pitching a fit we would *leave the store* until I had calmed down. My parents weren't perfect in most ways, but they and all my friends' parents seemed to have had a strong sense of what was okay to inflict on others and recognize when it should be their problem, not everyone else's.
I think some nuanced is being lost. They should be badly-behaved-child free. Not to back-in-my-day but the behaviours I see kids engaging in with zero correction is pretty wild. Not all kids! But enough. And it's way more a NA, esp America, thing than elsewhere. So it's not kids per se.
I hope he realizes that lemonade stands are very much a seasonal industry 😂🤔
A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences, which play out slowly. On average, incomes fall behind by nearly 15% over 15 years. For the U.S., this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime, that's million bucks.
I never did, the heyday was past and I didn't have the gear!
On my first messaging chat system in the early 90s we called our display names "handles" in a nod to ham.
STRANGER DRAMA! is the best drama.
Jfc the blatant sucking up is shocking. Like how these people go home at night and don't feel intense embarrassment and shame when they look in the mirror is a mystery to me.
"He explained that real police officers do not wear ski masks." 🤔 And yet there are ICE cowards in their full face balaclavas, cosplaying as cops.
You're gonna plotz when you learn about all the toxic impacts and wildlife deaths form fossil fuels and the massive subsidies it gets 🤔
Because that's what Eric Adams aide hid a bribe offered to a reporter for favourable coverage in. It's a meme/joke now.
🤔 I don't want to be intrigued but now I am
How many people and how many animals, crops, insects, birds dead I wonder. I wish we'd start reporting the full and appalling ecosystem and downstream effects of climate change. We need to live in the environment and can't live if it is devastated.
I'm sure, like losing Whammagesdon a day before Christmas last year, my time will come.
Having avoided this cursed knowledge until now I'm not looking up the new Cracker Barrel logo nor will I learn what a labubu is or does...
There are a tonne of little package places across the border from Canada in the US for places that don't ship here; Cdns bringing things across the land border also means lower duties (no broker charge, and they even often just wave thro.) Maybe that in reverse will be a new biz opp for Canada...
God I feel this in my bones. I'm at best a disappointing flawed baseline, there is so much I don't know and understand AND YET
(I mean, obviously it was and very good satire, but now that's just literally how things are. The times defy satirization.)
Bob Roberts, in retrospect, was not satire.
Legally they're on thin ice, but of course I'm sure they've run the numbers and they'll put their stateside business above international because it's an order of magnitude bigger. I also think they're gambling that there is no other game in town.
Gahh, this is one of those things I hate to be right about: www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science... I've often said a lot of data sovereignty demands are meaningless when the cloud provider is a US company because of the CLOUD act. So AWS region, or Azure region doesn't give you sovereignty.
Eating a hot dog while wearing a white shirt, in defiance of the laws of God and man
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
(The movie, not the TNG ep)
I think one of the more on point episodes was First Contact (not the movie, the one with Bene Neuwirth) where the society is just beginning warp flights and contact STILL messes up their society.
Oh yeah, though sort of retconned because we get that from First Contact right?
Mary Two-Axe Earley lost her Indigenous Status when she married a non-Indigenous man. She saw the impact that had on other women like her. So she decided she would do something about ending gender discrimination in the Indian Act. This is her story. 🧵 1/11
Thank you! I knew that at one point women lost their status when marrying out, but I didn't know the story of how this injustice was righted, until today!
I don't see privately owned airlines on that list at all. 🤔
No, she's not. The flight attendants walked out. THAT made the difference.
Do Americans really need to show papers to the gestapo on request? Whatever happened to land of the free?
Maybe Air Canada shouldn't have dragged their feet knowing the government would legislate the union back to work then 🤔 Glad CUPE called their bluff and went out anyway, but they shouldn't have had to.
I hope they all go on strike -- faculty, support staff -- in support and shut it entirely down. Solidarity is the only way.
Ah, the goalposts to flying by! I thought we were just worried about that excess capacity? No airline could do it but AC! The funniest thing is that the Porter CEO a few years ago said there wasn't enough domestic travel for all our airlines. 🤔 www.biv.com/news/transpo...
If you say so!
Then why are you listing so much non-essentual travel? Weird thing to do if you know the difference. Sounds like you're just digging in to justify why you voted for arbitration in a totally different situation at totally a different time.
140000 sounds like a big number btw but that's 400-600 flights over what, four months? Given the service reductions between US and Canada, might not be so hard to make that up across the many airlines that service Canada. Porter alone flies 180 flights a day.
Then some of those people might have to make alternate plans. That's too bad. Doesn't make their plans essential. You seem to be making a right out of a luxury here. People didn't used to be able to just hop on a plane at the drop of a hat, and sometimes they might have to not get what they want.
Ah, you've added to the list! Used to be a right of passage to drive across the country for uni. Trade deals? Well, they can fly THAT country's airline for a change. Job interview? Zoom works, that's how I got my last three jobs. None of these things are *essential* bc you might *really wanna.*
None of that changes the fact that people do not NEED to fly. This is evidenced by the fact that flights to the US are half empty and being reduced because enough people are choosing not to fly there. That proves it's possible.
There are more than two airlines in Canada. And there are more than three airlines who fly into and out of Canada from elsewhere. Dozens, I daresay! But that doesn't matter, because flying any of them does not justify infringing on the labour rights of Canadian workers.
Again, there are multiple airlines in Canada. We even have trains! Nobody owes you a vacation, or a reunion, or even a funeral, on the backs of their labour.
Ahahaha you understand that flying around during summer vacation is... not essential, right? It's not even something most people could *afford* to do until very, very recently. Not even a generation. Comparing AC to military and busses is n absolutely risible.
Ah yes, reporter interviews a bunch of CEOs who all have lucrative board positions about whether airlines should get bailouts during COVID, definitely nothing to question here re its applicability to this situation 🙄
Ah yes, reporter interviews a bunch of CEOs who all have lucrative board positions about whether airlines should get bailouts during COVID, definitely nothing to question here re its applicability to this situation 🙄
That... is not what essential means. Air Canada has a duty to rebook on other airlines and cover expenses for people stranded. Instead they refused to answer their phones.
That... is not what essential means. Air Canada has a duty to rebook on other airlines and cover expenses for people stranded. Instead they refused to answer their phones.
Trudeau whose government legislated Canada Post back to work? That Trudeau?
Can't even really argue there are places only AC flies to in Canada because in 2025 that's not even true. Those tends to be small local carriers these days.
Essential? There are a few airlines in the world. Like, at least three.