Betteridge’s Law of Headlines in full effect

Maybe, and this is just an idea, stop being so attractive to fascist rejects?

Fuck developers.

If they don’t want to build housing, we should nationalize a few of them and build it ourselves.

It makes sense when you realize Ford won’t do anything that returns private money to the public, but will do everything and anything that enriches the private sector.

Removing tolls from the 407 would be a public benefit, so he won’t do it. You’d be more likely to see him sell the east-of-Pickering chunk of 407 for a “tax break” and claim it’s a win.

You’d think this, but so far he just seems to keep damaging more things and rolling everything up into a kind of metastasizing grift that gets it’s tentacles into everything.

Crab-bucket economics to go with crab-bucket foreign policy

Post-Soviet Russia is such a fuck-up of a nation-state that they only way they can look good is by dragging everyone else down to their level.

What the age of consent in every legal jurisdiction.

NT 3.5 was the last good version. Fight me.

You’re absolutely right about this. 7 is basically a Vista service pack that got rebranded.

All of the “good stuff” people credit 7 with came in Vista.

8 wasn’t nearly as bad as people think, and there were big improvements to the kernel that make it a definite improvement over 7.

The problem for most people was the Start screen, which if you could get past, left you with what was a really good OS.

Less ads and telemetry than 10, too.

The reason citizens feel this way is because they’ve seen the half-assed policy we have, where we don’t enforce drug laws, but don’t support addicts either, and the result is serious harm to just about any city of size in most of Canada.

The correct solution would be a) housing and comprehensive supports for addicts, so they have a roof over their head and can get clean, b) safe-supply, and c) actual enforcement of laws and bylaws so that the only place you can use your safe, free supply is the home from a) or the treatment centre in b).

All of this would cost money and political capital. The cheap solution was to just do a half-assed job enforcing laws about drug use, and a similarly half-assed approach to the crime caused by drug use, with a token few bucks thrown at safe-consumption. This looked wonderfully progressive, and it had the benefit of being cheap and keeping the riff-raff out of nice suburban spaces. Basically, we looked at Portugal’s solution, and did maybe 30-50% of it, and looked all shocked when it didn’t work.

Now we’re dealing with a situation where we didn’t address the causes of addiction, and piled on not addressing the impacts, either. And people–voters, people who live and work in downtowns scorched by addiction–are unhappy about it. And now it’s a more expensive problem then it was 10-15 years ago.

This is painfully typical of Canada: ignore a problem when it’s cheap to fix, half-ass a solution, and then cry poverty and powerlessness when the problem metastasizes into a crisis. See: healthcare, education or immigration

I’m old. That’s what I know them for.

Please do.

Especially American liberals. Please move to, eg, Alberta and Ontario specifically and knock the UCP and OCP off their perches.

Remember they made the Democratic Party primaries less democratic after Carter was elected because he was too left wing. And they’ve only been able to nominate neoliberals since.

It’s amazing that a naval officer/peanut entrepreneur/devout Christian was “too left wing”, especially since he got beat by a Hollywood union boss from California.

Mind you, we just had an anti-elite rebellion led by a thrice-divorced billionaire failson of a New York City real estate magnate.

No less than The Economist uses the BMI (“Big Mac Index”) to compare economies.

I was going to say, this is how we get “I am Legend”.

Middle-aged white men have a lot of privilege. It’s time we used it for good.

Is this white-saviour and/or patriarchial? Yup. Does it work? Also yup.

I don’t know if we all realize this, but some shitlord being told “What the fuck is wrong you?!” cuts deeper when it comes from someone who looks like their dad, granddad, or their boss.

I’m a 47-year old white guy in a leadership position in a large company. I’ve done exactly this to both young-millenial edgelord types who think I’m in on the joke, and boomer or elder-Xers who are yelling at clouds. I will tell you that, not only does it smack down the dipshit who thought that “lol rape” or “brown people bad” was funny, it also sets the tone for everyone else in the room, and it gets word around that bigotry isn’t acceptable.

Anyone can say this, but it hits harder when it’s someone privileged. Women, LGBTQ folk and other vulnerable groups don’t have this privilege, and get shut down, and if we don’t want that to be the case, we need to speak up for them.

Cellebrite isn’t American.

Representives Omar and Tlaib would disprove that point.

Ugh. That episode hits hard this week