Correct. Me neither.

V disappointed upon realizing this is not, as I initially read, satirically-typed

Ew no. Begone

So say we all, especially when working outside in the cold and being poor.

It is not.

Possibly Canada’s most lucrative coffee, but I don’t know anyone who genuinely likes it. The best review you can coax even out of daily drinkers is “it’s hot and caffeinated.”

I hope they do. Coach. With mandatory use of those vomit-covered blankets.

Yeah. You’re absolutely right. But it’s fun to pretend we could all be reasonable together.

If “don’t be an asshole” worked, we wouldn’t need most of the rest of the laws. Sadly it doesn’t. I don’t quite understand why.

A police officer points out a firearm as police display guns seized during a series of raids at a press conference in Toronto on June 14, 2013.

What the fuck was going on at that press conference

A little worried about what you already got “help” with given this is a request for more help.

I don’t disagree with their approach to inflation. Frankly I’m unequipped to comment, so I didn’t. You assumed that, which is why you seemed to have taken it personally.

I think it’s natural that people misread their actions given that finance is basically voodoo to most non-economists. This plays a part in keeping people poor, especially across generations. I am, apparently controversially, not a fan of this fact.

Have you ever actually read the CRA’s literature explaining various parts of the tax code, for example? Opaque af. It’s not in the least surprising that people misunderstand the application of various economic levers when applied by fancy men in tall buildings.

Any attempt by experts to explain this shit can be juxtaposed with a similar attempt by another expert who says the complete opposite. Conclusions can generally be boiled down to “a will lead to b unless c, d, e, f, g…y, or z.” Hence: nonsense.

Y’all weird. No one is upset here. Calm down.

If you think my opinion that economics should be made accessible and that we’re so far failing at that is “pointlessly cynical” then I have some other boots for you to lick after you’re done with the banker train.

Bullshit != most bullshit.

It can be the lesser of evils, and still be based in needlessly gatekept prognostication. It can be bullshit, but still préférable to some other bullshit over there. I made no comparative judgement.

Are you an economics student? You seem to have taken this really personally.

Go for it.

I didn’t say they’re doing it wrong, not sure what your point is?

God forbid their arcane tea leaf reading, bone tossing, star-chart influenced bullshit should confuse anyone.

Bold of you to assume they went for the $24 end of that range instead of the $5 end.

That absolutely cannot be what they call these 3rd party cleaners. Right?

If you’ve firmly but politely articulated what your skill set is, and they’ve told you it’s fine, you’re literally being paid to skill up. I don’t see the problem. You haven’t lied about your qualifications, instead you’ve been told they want you on the project, even though you don’t know the language yet. This is a good thing.

It does have a free tier I believe.

Yeah, the issue of your having one guy who is the only news source for your area is a big problem that a lot of communities face. At least it’ll be easy to follow him wherever he moves, I guess?

I’m sorry your area is under reported on. It’s a very serious issue.

Try Ground News to build yourself a list of sources you like to check directly. It’s a pretty good aggregator.

Lack of local reporting has been an issue since long before these new rules. CBC exists, and it’s really weird to go directly to CTV for news if you’re going to pick only one. That’s the thing that plays silently in the dentist’s office waiting room with scrolling rage bait and, as you say, cats up trees.

That’s awesome, thanks for tip! I’m at 13GB and tbh it’s not worth 10GB for me to touch Twitter lol, but I’ll check out the other options.

Honestly I’m just happy to get the word out and support a cloud provider that isn’t (as far as I can tell) fking creepy. I like the company, I’m as confident as I can be in the security of the platform, and want people to develop stuff like that.

DM’d ya! Yay free extra storage. Thanks!

Good tip, might give it another shot next time I’m between gigs and can start fresh.

I use it for:

• documents I use regularly (contract worker so I’m constantly emailing the same things to accounting departments, etc)
• current contracts / union constitution and bylaws / published standards / some tables of data I regularly reference for work / stuff I have to reference for workers
• any “current projects” like a photo set for a project, plans and drawings, documents and literature for a vacation, etc.
• study materials if I’m going for any certifications, so my waiting in line time can be reading up instead of candy crush or whatever

Since my mobile is all ios and I otherwise use syncthing, I use sync.com for cloud storage basically for anything that I’ll want without having to get a laptop out.

I use Bitwarden for passwords and authy for 2fa so that’s all fine.

This also means I can zero a device and have access to this stuff once I load an app back up on the other side of a border, when that’s a necessary step. Not possible with syncthing.

Totally not a robot, fellow human.

Hey congrats! If you’re exploring, I’ve had great success with the free tiers on sync.com (cloud storage) and notion (notes). I also have the iOS sad re:syncthing, which I use almost exclusively now.

If you want to try sync get yourself an invite from an existing user for free extra gigabytes. They’re a solid, sensible company and their free tier is more than enough for the few things I need handy on my phone.

I tried both notion and obsidian and for some reason notion just stuck for me. I like that I can share notes with coworkers. Ever note went down the tubes a few years ago, which was a drag.

Edit: reading that back I sound like a fucking shill. I do not get kickbacks lmao. Just wanted to share the programs that help when I can’t self-host.

So immigrants are people we let in because their home countries are doing the same things ours is doing, but… worse? What’s that thing we get all mad about when techbros do it - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?

Dismal assessment. I’d never thought about it that way and now I’m depressed lol.

Agreed on the conclusion tho.

That means your footage would have invalid date/time stamps, making it useless when you need it for its intended purpose.

Went looking for sources and this is all I found on Ground…

https://ground.news/article/rip-richard-bilkszto-a-toronto-educator-who-stood-up-to-woke-bullyingand-paid-the-price

Not exactly the balance you were looking for…

Edit: here’s another, slightly more sane reporting:

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/former-principal-who-sued-tdsb-over-alleged-bullying-during-anti-racism-training-dies-by-suicide/article_4b9f98a9-7394-5517-909b-c69eb581aec9.html

I guess that’s the alarming part - if people don’t change their habits and read ads as news.

Thanks for the explanation!

Those aren’t required for the rest of the C Suite, why would CTO be different?

That “Theories” tab is a great read. Thanks for the link!

Genuine question, not trying to be a snob about it…

Who actually uses Facebook and Instagram and stuff for news? It’s such a foreign idea to me that I’m interested in how many people actually get their news from these sites (as opposed to coming across it and interacting with it just because it’s there).

Are there actually people who will consume less news because of this? Is it specific demographics?

It’s incoherent so I have no idea. They could also be asking why the government isn’t nationalized the way power plants are.

There is no news link, so that’s unlikely. But it also doesn’t specify what country they’re in or which government / level of government they’re talking about.

Mistook your tone. Hazard of internet text comms. Apologies for my part, and no hard feelings.

The filler words here changed the meaning of the title such that it has to be read several times and the meaning inferred.

Filler words that don’t make the product incoherent are fine.

Hi. Thank you for your indignant and righteous reply.

I pay for several subscriptions to other news outlets, this isn’t one of them. I’m not from Winnipeg. I’m definitely not going to be reading it every day. While I’m sure it’s a lovely paper, it’s absurd to suggest that everyone should be paying for every single paper because they’re “worth it.”

Have a lovely day and try to chill tf out a bit :)

This post title gave me brain cancer

I’m a doofus I didnt see that.