Like the other commenter said: Kim Campbell. Basically the same reason why the NDP haven’t been in power federally since the 90s (thanks, Bob Rae).

Well, in terms of amount of snow, northern Ontario probably has more. But in terms of snow-related recreation, BC has more skiing and snowboarding opportunities since there are way more mountains. Ontario is more suited to ice skating, snowshoeing, snowmobiling (AKA skidooing), and sometimes tubing.

What about it? It’s another software. Did you mean to reply to the original commenter?

Have you looked into KiCAD? It’s FOSS and Linux-first.

If you like remote, consider northern Ontario. You don’t even have to get super north for the population to plummet. The area is also incredibly beautiful, but so is BC and they don’t get the same snow (there’s so much snow, oh god…).

I’m voting against him later today. LFG Ontario, we can’t allow more of this.

You’re still banging on about Anthropic? I used it as an example to make my point (which is that commercial usage of copyrighted works is illegal, nothing about making/distributing copies or uploading or whatever you think you’re talking about).

But you’re up and down this thread bending over backwards to not have a good faith discussion with people who are not lawyers, so it’s incredibly difficult to take you seriously and at face value.

Why does the customer/user matter at all here when they’re not party to the lawsuit? You can have no customers yet and still infringe on copyright by using something for commercial purposes when you’re not licensed to do so. That’s how licenses work.

Of course, that limits the damages since there arguably hasn’t been any harm (which doesn’t make it legal), so lawsuits aren’t usually filed at that point; it’s usually a cease and desist. Also, I don’t have to argue anything. I’m not a lawyer.

I can show whatever movie I want at my house with my friends and that’s legal, but if I charge $10 to show it, that’s not legal. I don’t give a shit, because I pirate everything and show it to whoever I want for free, but that’s the law as written.

Receiving a copy of a copyrighted work (from anywhere) and using it for commercial purposes when the license doesn’t cover that usage (or simply doesn’t exist) is, in fact, illegal. This is why Anthropic was sued last year.

I’m interested in learning whether that’s even legal considering that discriminating based on gender identity is explicitly against the Charter.

The US is one of the only countries in the world where citizens are taxed even when they don’t live there (and haven’t for many years). If you don’t pay taxes on your way out but you have to visit for any reason, cops can arrest you when you re-enter.

Qb has a setting for monitoring a folder for .torrent files. IIRC, you can set a default directory or you can have it ask you every time. That seems like it would cover your use case.

I use it to auto-start downloading all .torrent files in ~/Downloads and it works well.

It’s pretty simple to me: the public likes that drug users are being coercively pushed into rehab because it gets them off the streets where they don’t have to see them and know there’s an issue.

I live in Ottawa: there’s at least one person begging for change or hanging out at every intersection, you can’t ignore it. Some people are just relieved to have them go away, they don’t care where or if it’s a good place.

It’s also much easier to round people up and force them to go somewhere else than it is for them to be in the position to seek help for themselves.

For accessibility, could you transcribe this to text? Might help more people read and enjoy it.

Like someone else said in the other thread, brine is still salt. Also, sand fucking sucks and barely works at all. So what’s the real alternative?

Imagine hating LGBTQ people and women having rights so much that you actively look forward to a trade war that is most likely to result in your own poverty.

How bad is the American education system that the word tariff doesn’t immediately inspire anger at national leadership? Tariffs aren’t foreign policy and don’t benefit consumers or companies.

I don’t really see that as Substack supporting Nazism per se (though that is the de facto outcome), I see that as Substack supporting themselves, because they get 10% of all subscription revenue. They’re using a fervent belief in free speech to justify it, but they just want money. At the end of the day, they have very narrow content moderation policies, so things like this will be allowed to stay (and their subscribers’ money will be allowed to remain in Substack’s pocket).

For comparison, look to Instagram’s recent content moderation policies that allow for open Nazi rhetoric to remain on the platform. But ultimately, yes, it does seem that they are openly hosting content and facilitating payments for Nazis and defending that choice. I wonder if they’re in a financial bind or if they truly are that zealous about (nearly) unmitigated free speech on a private hosting platform.

I dunno, were they? No clue, you’d know better than I would. Anyone can sign up, not sure how the funding works though.

Interestingly, some parts involved in auto manufacturing cross the border up to 5 times before being put into a car. Will they be taxed 25% every time they cross from Canada to the US?

What are we in danger of? Having too many resources that don’t belong to the US? I’m waiting for someone to wake up and realize the third time’s the charm so we can stop having to entertain this idiot.

Hm, I didn’t know Charlie Angus had a Substack. I’ll give the piece a read later today.

If anyone likes medical dramas, my wife and I really like Skymed, it’s on CBC Gem. This most recent season (still ongoing) has been a lot of fun, the producers and/or writers have clearly been given the freedom to experiment with the format.

The only ones I liked other than OKCupid (which is owned by Match) are Scruff and Hornet. But they’re mostly only for men who like men and are hookup-focused, so not really suitable for dating, necessarily.

He doesn’t understand that. He sees “trade deficit” and thinks he’s being ripped off because he’s a fucking idiot and doesn’t like to be corrected, so new information literally cannot enter his brain the same way as for us.

I guess he’s heard Greenland will be first, so we’ll actually be the 52nd state. /s

Yeah, I get that. I read the article. But knowing that aspirin has a greater mass than fentanyl has no purpose, it’s not useful information. It’s not relevant to anything at all, so it’s just strange to mention.

It’s like saying 40mg of a banana would fit on the head of a pin to emphasize the point instead of using baby aspirin… yes, that’s a very small amount, but it doesn’t really provide additional context (other than to force someone to realize, “wow, things that weigh the same can do different things?!”) since it’s so obvious.

In the context of fentanyl, isn’t that completely irrelevant? So 5mg of fentanyl is 1/8 the mass of a tablet of baby aspirin. Now what?

I completely understand the aim is to illustrate how arbitrary outlawing possession of 40mg would be. I’m aware of the implications and I agree. But comparing fentanyl to baby aspirin generally doesn’t make sense and especially not in terms of mass or concentration.

Let’s hope that US senators and congresspeople can give the wittle baby a big new idea to distract him from starting WW3 in a way that minimizes collective suffering.

We didn’t make a czar, we are changing the title of a position that already exists. Just because Trump is a bully doesn’t mean he can’t be placated by sweet nothings that caress his ego.

If Trump wants to play a game, we can play too. If you think that’s rolling over, that’s a you problem. Trump is obviously using this situation to allow him to declare a false national emergency to bypass Congress. These actions are technically illegal under both US and international law.

In a world where lying had consequences, this wouldn’t be happening. To expect Trudeau to fight back aggressively against a nation with the most powerful military in the world while it’s controlled by the most volatile and capricious politician in modern history is to expect it to rain cream soda - i.e., it’s stupid.

Ah, so it’s so you can edit out inappropriate stuff for your kids or students or something? Yeah, that’s hard.

You’d think there’d be some sort of extension or database with a crowdsourced filtering system like SponsorBlock for this purpose where you could just look up the timestamps for the stuff you don’t want. I don’t have a reason to edit out content so I haven’t looked into whether such a thing exists or not.

Edit: Check out Clean Media Player or Movie Content Filter. It looks like one of them might have at least some of what you’re looking for.

Why bother with screen recording Prime when you could torrent it? I feel like I’m missing something.

Is there any reason you want a self-hosted service for this rather than making an account with TMDB or TVDB? Trakt fetches all of its metadata from those 2 sites (it prioritizes TMDB).

Not that you shouldn’t self-host an alternative, but you don’t have to.

It’s just a name. They’re right-wingers.

Guys, we need more money or we won’t be able to do the job that we never do!

I think that this is shortsighted. Imagine a scenario in which a person might use a Nazi salute in public: it is unlikely that it would be used by a single person just out doing their normal routine. Consider the recent context of Elon Musk, who was at a very large political gathering and was expecting people to respond in kind with their own salutes.

Do you want more visible Nazis? They show up when you summon them. They don’t go away when you outlaw their symbols, but they do find it less appealing to promote themselves online or have rallies to recruit more would-be Nazis. I understand your hesitance to let the state do these things, it’s a large part of the reason why I don’t believe in capital punishment. But if the state doesn’t have the power to stop this peacefully, the next step (no matter what “side” is doing it) is violence.

The comparison to saying slurs is just not equivalent whatsoever.

Sorry, are you really saying that a Nazi salute is a simple gesture and not overt hate speech against racialized groups? That a Nazi rally in a public place is totally cool and a reasonable expression of political ideology in a democratic society?

That is not a centrist position, it’s a pro-Nazi position. Nazis are not acceptable in public. If a Nazi wants to salute up and down the street, they should be prepared for people to take it as it is (an act of hate speech). In some countries that’s not a crime, but it sure is in my country and, soon, Australia too.

Even that’s not really unique in the retail investment space, just look at Robinhood’s marketing from before /r/SuperStonk happened and they pissed people off by limiting trades on GME. A lot of it is like, “even you can hoard wealth like your favourite billionaire”!

Punishing Nazis for attempting to rally support from the wider public is dystopian? I definitely don’t want to live in your perfect society.

I’m not, I’ve hated them since they bought out SimpleTax and made filing my taxes less fucking simple. Still mad about it years later. Anyway, they’re an investment company with all of the baggage that comes with, so it doesn’t surprise or disappoint me at all that they’re lobbying for deregulation.

You shouldn’t need to make a post, just private message a sub moderator.