Again, I’m not debating the problems with surveillance for non traffic related issues. However these examples in your video are very clearly traffic cameras. It does not help the issue to carry water for aggressive car driver culture in the guise of being anti-surveillance.

Most of these cameras are traffic cameras. Personally I’m finding it a little gross that people against traffic cameras are putting on an anti-surveillance state image to take them down when in reality curbing aggressive driving is a pretty important part of pedestrianizing and democratizing urban centres. I’ve always had the vague feeling that this Flock camera debate has been hijacked by people who don’t actually care for improving communities.

You can always count on CEOs and Board Chairmen to be first in line to betray the country. Spineless cowards.

I’ve discovered some really awesome local bookshops that have great deals on their used books selections (where I can find some really obscure books that previously I thought I could only find on Amazon). I like to go browse them on weekends now and always come out with a few books. I’ve also discovered I really enjoy A&W.

In general I’ve noticed that in trying to shop more local and being mindful of spending Canadian I’ve become happier and more satisfied with my purchases while also spending less money in general because if I can’t find a Canadian alternative, I just won’t get it. It’s been a pretty fun and fruitful exercise.

I disagree with your assessment that he understands the first question. His answer is just your typical responsibility deflection (“He wanted to do it”) combined with vague praise (“He is a good touch”). It’s akin to Maurice’s generic answers about football in IT Crowd (“Did you see that ludicrous display last night”). The only thing Trump DOES understand is using the military for his problems, which is why his answers ultimately land there.

“You think the Rockstar marketing team is trying to scam people with a shitcoin?”

Absolutely. Did you forget how predatory GTA Online is? Seems absolutely on brand for them to monetize their guerrilla advertising tactics.

There’s something extra sinister about advertising these days. Can’t decide if it’s the context of the greater world or something different about the ads themselves.

Goddamn I love the First Nations. I appreciate how hard they fight for this beautiful country.

All religion is fanfiction.

America, Russia, what’s the difference?

I wholly agree that Hogster is a perfect representation of America and its admin. I also wholly agree that having a target to hate is a good unifier for Canadians. That said, I still signed this petition because another good thing Canadians need right now is a loud voice that pushes back. Canadians need some morale boosting wins. Getting Hogster out of Canada would be such a symbolic win. I have faith in the average Canadian’s intelligence that even with a subtler and smarter ambassador replacement they would still be able to smell the bullshit and continue their focused hate of America’s current fascistic vector.

A pattern seen across many industries and corporate-government contracts. The brochure says “new funding!” but the reality for the workers is lots of upper management patting themselves on the back while working conditions remain strained, abused, degraded and gaslighted. New tools promising the world while serving a lesser utility for the people that actually use them while all responsibility for failure (higher and higher probability!) falls on the shoulders of the personnel. Meanwhile their pleading for new coworkers to help them with their work goes unheard and instead deflected with vague ramblings about efficiency and AI. It would be funny if lives and livelihoods weren’t on the line. The only positive from all this is getting a nice inside look at how stuff like the French Revolution fomented. If you’re a lover of reruns, you’re truly in luck!

AI can’t make anything new, it can only copy what’s existing. Essentially serving slop every time. Best it can ever do is make a meme game that’s fun to play as a joke for an hour or two.

Long overdue and much needed across the country to stop the destruction of our ecosystem. Ecuador, Bolivia, India, and Panama did something similar a few years back by giving nature wide sweeping legal rights. It sets a a good legal framework to push back on corporate exploitation. That said, it’s still a long way away from actively being able to stop the force of our economic objectives and definitely needs a society that’s ready to uphold them in order to succeed.

This is a good article around Bolivia’s laws that offered some apt observations on how this won’t be enough (even though I fully support it): https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/bolivias-mother-earth-laws-is-the-ecocentric-legislation-misleading/

“The Mother Earth laws sadly have become statutory devices to legalize the exploitation of natural resources in Bolivia, instead of protecting Mother Earth. By promoting extractive activities in order to achieve the Living Well objective, on one side, and the defense of Mother Earth, on the other, these laws end up being highly contradictory, making environmental protection a secondary objective, which is contingent to the government’s prevailing economic interests. In reality these laws did not translate into any improvement in environmental policies in Bolivia and they only served to bolster the deceptive image of the Bolivian government as an international pioneer in environmental protection.

It is not enough to pass laws with abstract Indigenous visions and apparent non-capitalistic concepts if they are not coupled with concrete practices, real actions and enforceability mechanisms. These laws will never be effective if there are no new public policies to change the current non-sustainable production pattern, shifting away from extractive practices that go against Mother Earth’s survival. As long as there is this fundamental dissonance between these laws’ provisions, other legal provisions and specially the Bolivian government’s practices, there is little hope for any improvements in future environmental and animal protection efforts based on there Mother Earth Laws.”

Intelligence helps you understand how certain choices affect you in the long-term, and morality tends to align with long-term self interest. It makes sense people with low intelligence tend to appeal to an authority to derive their morality.

That “company” is the key part of the scam here. Your father will be asked to invest money in it for various reasons. Whether they’ll go for the “it’s a great deal” or “help me Obi Wan” angle is dependent on the mark.

I wouldn’t call it a con. NDP just hasn’t offered a good enough federal leadership since Jack Layton. And I wouldn’t say the liberals rule entirely on the right, they have made plenty of good progressive strides. I think this type of rhetoric is conservatives trying to weasel their way into an “I told you our ideas were good” territory. The real issue is that corporatism is very embedded in politics and the economy is highly dependent on their success.

Remember - censoring words also makes something harder to search for in the future, allowing future propagandists to skew their own metrics.

Nothing wrong with the methods. If anything they are not harsh enough.

There is a severe lack of attractive coworkers these days. Terrible for morale.