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Pellerin: Public transit is a public service. Treat it that way
That's why it's bad policy to think about transit in terms of making a profit. It's a public service, that's the profit, and we all get it.
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Pellerin: Public transit is a public service. Treat it that way
That's why it's bad policy to think about transit in terms of making a profit. It's a public service, that's the profit, and we all get it.
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Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau announce separation
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Not that weird. The kids are the priority, and they should be.
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What's a piece of fanon that you suspect the writers believe? OR, What's a piece of fanon that has been recently (ish) canonized?
Star Trek has always talked about Starfleet and the Federation as organizations that are worthy of trust. But practically every series has had examples of badmirals and evil bureaucracy, typically with 'our' heroes being the ones to fight against it. From stealing the Enterprise in TSFS to The Drumhead to Section 31 to petty theft Archer to Control and the Zhat Vash to the Illyrians, being and/or fighting against a compromised or infiltrated or just simply bad Starfleet has been a long recurring theme. That's why I loved when they turned that theme on its head in Lower Decks, with an entire episode based around fighting the evil Starfleet ended up superfluous because Starfleet was actually a fundamentally good organization and, as it turned out, the system actually works. I feel like the writers of Lower Decks are the only ones who really believe that...everybody else seems to want to scratch at the surface to see what they feel really lies beneath. Although, having said that, they ended the same season with a badmiral, so idk.
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McDonald's franchisee group says new $20 minimum wage California fast-food bill will cause 'devastating financial blow'
Don't threaten me with a good time.
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It is beyond me that so many plazas, representing over a dozen stores, do not have bike racks.
They only have handicap parking because they were forced to by law. They only have wheelchair ramps because they were forced to by law. They only have accessibility features because they were forced to by law. See where I'm going with this?
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Costco now sells gold bars. Are they a good investment?
If they were really that good to hold on to, why would Costco sell them to you?
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Soldering is getting harder.
Wait till you get older and your fine motor skills get sketchy.
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Massive Changes Could Be Coming From the Vatican. Conservative US Catholics Are Mad as Hell.
Wow, is Catholicism really ready to enter the 20th century!?
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CEOs are having their worst year in decades
In unrelated news, this corresponds directly to a record low in the both the breadth and the depth of the quantity of fucks I have to give about them and their bad year. Insiders are reporting the level to be at or near zero, and expect that level to maintain, for at least my natural lifespan. Film at 11.
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BBC is starting its own Mastodon instance. The CBC should do the same.
idk if I want an entire instance made up of CBC commenters.
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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x06 "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place"
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It's been an ongoing plot line that Migleemo is sort of a lemon at counselling.
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Racism and the CPC
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Is that seriously the most important thing you are concerned about?
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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody"
We all must have done some pretty amazing stuff in our past lives, to deserve this season we are getting.
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With Google & Meta blocking Canadian news, what next?
This whole situation is really showing me how weak Canada and Canadians are. Yes, this is a dumb law, and Google and Facebook are right to be angry about it. But the hyperbole about how Canadians just won't be able to find any news afterward is embarrassing. It just comes off as lazy, entitled people whining about how their spoonfeeder has weaned them off and now expects them to spoonfeed themselves. Are we really a nation of children? Cmon.
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B.C. announces details of single-use plastics ban | CBC News
What about shipping plastic? All those pallets wrapped? Or is the burden entirely on the consumer, like usual?
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Anon freezes time
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What if you spent your frozen time, determining the problems of everyone in the world, and solving them? So, when everybody got unfrozen, it was a utopia.
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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
I wonder if we trained an AI on the entire corpus of articles about how Google is gonna kill adblocking, if we could keep these articles going after most people switch uneventfully over to Lite.
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‘Social’ issues distract from Poilievre’s focus on economy, affordability
I love how they are all about bodily autonomy, until someone wants to use it in a way they don't like.
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B.C. family evicted for demolition but found new tenants were moved in - BC | Globalnews.ca
Renoviction should involve some sort of lien, discharged when proof of renovations, sufficiently disruptive to need vacancy, are available. If the landlord can't prove they did that kind of work in say, 3 years, then they automatically owe the tenant as if it were a bad faith renoviction. Because, cmon, if they didn't do the work they had to kick you out to do, in three whole years, they evicted you in bad faith.
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Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI?
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Start using free software now, while you are still on Windows. Whenever you want to do something new, do a search for free software you can do it with. Then when you do finally switch, all the software you've been using is already right there.