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Listen to CBC radio every morning

Visit CBC News site

Read the economist

And I’m experimenting with using AI to organize news for me (I wish RSS was still popular for this instead).


We have anti hate speech laws.

The idea of free speech is great, but there are limits. You can’t threaten someone under free speech. You can’t extort them. You can’t spread libel. And you can’t spread hate content that promotes harming people based on their immutable characteristics (race, ethnicity, sexual identity, etc.).

The Supreme Court has found that anti-hate speech laws do not violate charter rights even if they restrict freedom of expression.

I’m all for topics being openly discussed, even if I don’t like them. I’m all for criticizing the government, and nobody should fear reprisal in doing so.

But hate speech has essentially no merit to society.


There was a guy on CBC radio today who said it best:

If you see trash throw it in the bin


We just bought a new car and the guy who sells the warranties was going through how much it cost to replace things due to the electronics, and I just couldn’t stop thinking it’s it even worth the electronics then?

Obviously stuff is unavoidable, the airbags and seatbelt systems work together, that makes sense. But other stuff… Does the console need to be a full on network connected computer? I just want to play music and show maps from my phone. The different drive mode settings can be an internal rest API or physical buttons. Fuel efficiency displays are just simple polls to an internal rest API endpoint that any component could confirm to.


Unfortunately I support doing this so we can wean off American money.

I know this didn’t start with trumps tariffs, and I know fossil fuels are awful, and fossil fuel companies are among the worst.

I support this because oils create more than just fuel, and we’re in a drowning moment and need a lifeline.


My demand for solid leadership has nothing to do with conservative lack of morals or standards.

I’m pretty fed up with our conservative parties and the voters who treat this like a game instead of the most important offices of our country.


Not everything needs to be engineered to be easily replaceable, but everything needs to be engineered to be replaceable.

Cars are entering the danger zone here where used cars are going to be worth less than ever faster than ever.


Aluminum uses a lot of electricity to manufacture too.

Sure would be a shame if it suddenly became uneconomical to manufacture in the US.


In a bit of good news for the non-Carney candidates, 59% of likely Liberal leadership voters have not yet locked in their vote.

I specifically have not locked in any vote because I need their platforms to actually be released. So far all we have is both want to scrap carbon tax and cancel cap gains increases.

I’m likely voting Carney, but I won’t commit to put a person directly into the PM seat without a platform, even if it’s just for two weeks before a general election.


I thought that was a generic scam text

It started with “this is Doug Ford” for goodness sake


He’s handled basically every crisis well. It’s really easy to forget that. Remember his covid updates at the start of it? We watched those every day. I’m in Ottawa and with the Convoy every level of government massively failed, but he at least did the unpopular thing and shut that shit down. Last Trump presidency he dealt with NAFTA well.

It’s really easy to dump on him, he’s done a poor job fiscally, housing policy was awful, immigration policy did not account for multiple levels of governance and support needed… but you can’t say he didn’t handle the most critical situations well.


Mastodon is free, might be better than going totally off grid for your business.

The audience is smaller than twitter was, but if you find a niche the people are quite nice


Didn’t buy anything american this week, at all, but I’m due to go grocery shopping.

I’m making a pot pie from some leftover beef and bacon fat that I turned into roux, I’ve got some potatoes that are getting old, some carrots, mushrooms… it should be tasty


How about we make sure everyone has a doctor before we spend 20 years digging a hole that will only reduce how long it takes to drive to work.


Maybe try a position of standing for something instead of empty slogans that everything is awful here.

Pollievre barely stood for Canada the last few weeks and spent all his time politicking instead of standing united to the biggest threat to Canada in generations.



They’re not gone and they’re still doing harm to Canada.


lol I’m keeping the typo

Maybe I’m watching too much trailer park boys


Ironically, because we don’t keep all our eggs in a few baskets (how did they not use this in the article!)

This is yet another interesting capitalism lesson from the US.

You get efficiency by increasing scale, those lower costs drive out smaller producers, and then eventually a few companies run everything.

Suddenly those companies experience issues and there’s are no more meditating factors on the prices, so it’s less efficient than the system started with.


but why bother when you can sell to your neighbors with way less effort and overhead?

That’s generally my point as well. Except this time Trump’s been going on for over a month saying he should annex us and then doing bullshit like trying to make this trade impossible.

Also three days ago Trump said there was nothing canada could do. He’s a terrible business partner not worth appeasing.


I’m pretty sure Canada exists because in two wars the Americans couldn’t take and hold it.

I think you’ll find that Canadians are good friends and fierce enemies. We’d rather go without and rebuild our economy from scratch than lose our sovereignty and country.

I don’t think Canada needs you as much as you think, I think that got really clear this weekend when the entire country organized quickly and Trump backed off.


Sometimes I think it better we don’t talk about these things, so that when they reach the Find Out era they get to find out, instead of trying to seize our mines during the Fuck Around era.


Cool.

Promises of purging trans and LGTBQ people, firing minorities and women, reducing women’s rights, and mass roundups of minorities, “dictator on day 1”… 100% happy.

Costing companies money, no that’s wrong.

I’m also against the tariffs, but I have trans friends who I’m not turning my back on ever. You can’t look past the shit they promised on the campaign trail.


I kinda want that 100% performative job

I’d probably walk around the wilderness near our borders taking daily pictures of Canadian nature and showing that there’s no fentanyl out there.

Of course if I find any I would call it in.


It’s been a long time since I’ve unfurled my sails. I wouldn’t even know the good places to look.

In the long days ago had a bot that would crawl google for mp3 filetype files, then bulk download entire directories full of music. Then that got turned into a honey pot.

Actually I miss when the internet was ammenable to bots… used to have a bunch, but eventually things like Twitter turned off the taps and everyone removed their RSS and json APIs.



Shit or get off the pot Donald.

I’m not going to get bothered waiting for him to go “oh just 30 more days, but now I want this” for 4 more years.

To me, it’s already dead. You don’t put a gun to a friends head, say “give me your wallet, you know what, maybe I’ll kill you anyway, I’ve always wanted you dead, but here’s 30 days” then go back.

You don’t treat friends this way. We can’t depend on America in any capacity anymore.


I want to go around stores putting stickers on the US products directing shoppers to local ones.

Maybe just post it notes so I don’t get on trouble for vandalism.


My dad buys the salted caramel by the case!

It’s too sweet for me, but he loves it and probably singlehandedly keeps his LCBO restocking it.


I’m torn on dumping apple music for Spotify.

On the one hand, they’re not US based. On the other they keep giving Joe Rogan dump trucks filled with cash.



America: how are you gonna trade now?!

Canada: Boats, boats boaaatttss!

(Sorry guys, I’m very tired and stressed today, and I’m overly excited about the small wins)


Hopefully never.

I don’t even think he needs any event to declare an emergency, he’s declared everything an emergency anyway with no justification.

Trade with Canada is not a national emergency.


People fight much harder when they have a clear cause and clear enemy.

Right now Trump is giving us one: we’re fighting for Canada, our home and native land. We’re fighting for ourselves, our neighbours, our friends, our families. We’re fighting for our way of life, our healthcare, we fight for everything.

The US is fighting for nothing. Even MAGA conservatives don’t know what Trump is doing. Sun Tzu teaches that is the weakest position to fight from. The US people will falter before a unified and galvanized Canadian front will. Our backs are against the wall and the only option is to fight.

My family came from a small northern Ontario mining community. Times were always hard there but people looked after each other. My grandma grew her own food to stretch their budget. She took in boarders who needed a place to stay and shared what she had. They made do with little and everyone supported each other — that is the Canadian spirit that makes this country great.

Now it’s our turn. I’m supporting whatever our government decides, I want us to fight back tooth and nail. I want to support all the Canadians who are going out of work, and the Canadian businesses that are going to struggle, I’ll pay more taxes to support them, whatever is needed. I’m not buying American products wherever possible, local first always and forever after this. Anything but American. I’m increasing donations to my food bank. I need to start volunteering too.

God keep our land glorious and free!

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.


Every dictator is prefaced by declaring emergencies to seize power.

That’s where the term dictator comes from — the Roman’s created the role to bypass the senate in times of emergency (though it was originally limited to just a specific issue).



Nice, I’ll look into moving to them after over a decade on namecheap


I thought that was only physical goods, nice to see a large list of tech in there


Alternatives to US tech?
What are your suggestions for email providers, domain registrars, GitHub, etc. That can either be self hosted or is hosted outside the US?
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Not getting sensitive.

We forgot that we stand on the shoulders of all those before us, and now we’ve decided to learn first hand their struggles.


There’s nothing wrong with what you’re doing.

Family always should come first.



[vent/rant] CBC News is talking about Melania’s hat
Just turned on CBC News Network Live and they were talking about how “by far” Melania’s hat is getting the most attention of the day. I’m so tired of our media. Trump [issued at least 26 executive orders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_orders_in_the_second_presidency_of_Donald_Trump), Elon did the nazi salute multiple times, Trump commented on tariffs… but we *have* to talk about this hat! For what it’s worth, Wikipedia’s news section seems highly factual and not editorialized. It shouldn’t be this hard to get news though.
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Poilievre says ‘biological males’ should be banned from women’s sports, change rooms and bathrooms
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms. "Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont. The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters. "A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said. "But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms. "Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont. The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters.  "A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said. "But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added. 
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