Yes, that’s how leverage works. I think they know that when they themselves are negotiating from a place of power.

Ronald does tend to mix in his “flamebait” bit with actual pointed content, which isn’t always welcome, but there’s something to be said for actually spotlighting the kinds of things people say to content creators.

Sunlight and disinfectant and all that.

Oh fun. Who is Elon going to just haphazardly drop the ISS on top of?

Depends on what kind of input logging your employer is doing. Some of them are monitoring keystrokes and mouse activity, not just whether your system is locked or asleep.

I’ve been saying this for a while now, but AI articles read like bad high school essays. “State your thesis. Write a paragraph that echos your thesis. Say something that may or may not be related to your thesis. Finish by repeating your thesis.”

BC doesn’t exist, as far as the Cons are concerned. Western Canada is Alberta (and sometimes Saskatchewan), and Eastern Canada is Ontario.

Hey, if we don’t have any cargo to transport, maybe it’s just… not a factor worth discussing for the vast majority of us?

Same. My car’s turning 18 this year. It’ still in good shape. I should be able to get a few more years out of it. After that? Who knows?

I feel like you’ve misread me in every way possible.

They’re way more ok with the CPC taking power today and getting it back tomorrow than they are with potentially having to broker compromise dels to maintain government in hung parliaments forever going forward.

The potential for regaining total control down the road is way more important than things like the poor suffering, and minority populations losing rights and standing.

It’s Press Progress. This is less a “poor farmer” article, and more a seat at a wrestling match where everyone hates both guys.

I kind of suspect this was an attempt on the IA’s end to get parts of copyright struck down by court ruling. Laws can be clear and still found to not be in the public’s interest, or in violation of some other legal doctrine, and sometimes you’ll see groups come at them sideways.

Ownership laws are really tough ones to chip away at, and IP law in particular has been getting worse and more unassailable over time.

It’s totally a “remote communities” thing, likely by someone who has never been to the remote communities. You want to meet people where they are and work within the context they live in.

This is meeting people where you imagine them to be.

Sure, but if you install DR, then you have DR to do other things. Like chase that YouTuber dream, or field annoying calls from your great aunt who knows you can edit videos to digitize her parents super 8 family videos that are have rotten.

This way they can spend more time rearranging the store so nobody knows where anything is, in turn making us walk past a bunch of stuff we don’t need in an effort to try and induce an impulse purchase!

Efficiency!

Hey, that’s like every other work, and people still get paid for their shit output in other fields.

There’s no reason for any of us to compete to survive. Especially when the metric that determines whether one succeeds in competing is just how much money some rich fuck makes off of your efforts.

Nothing pseudo about it. This is the natural progression of capitalism.

It’s really, really difficult to get small business owners to see how they personally benefit from social goods. They spend too much time grinding and struggling during the establishment phase. I think it’s something of a traumatizing experience.

Like, trying to get those who primarily sell to working class folks to see how raising the minimum wage actually benefits them, because it means that all of their customers have more money to spend is nigh impossible. All they see is that they’ll have to raise prices, and it makes them even more hostile toward their employees.

And the kicker is, they have no reason to trust in any of the social benefits, because we’ve lived in a society that bas spent the last 45 years dismantling them. And one of our two parties that actually makes government now explicitly runs on destroying social services of every kind.

The term that’s causing my alarm bells to ring here is “Canadian interests”. The interests of the state often do not align with the interests of the people, and it’s not terribly difficult to tie behaviour that interferes with the state’s interests to the benefit of foreign entities that may oppose the state.

“Roll acrobatics, I guess.”

“Natural 20!”

"Ok… You contort your body in ways that no humanoid creature should be able to, and successfully fit inside the jar.

"Can I get everyone else to make a Wisdom saving throw, please?

"Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh.

“Ok, everybody else now thinks you’re a djinni.”