I haven't thought of that meme in a long time.

In a just society, there can be no tolerance for intolerance.

The intro to the article pretty much sums it up:

If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order. The move follows raids on the homes of leading dissidents and comes as armed men seen as loyal to the president, many of them masked, continue to pluck people off the streets …

As a Canadian with young children, I worry for what their future will look like, with an American dictatorship to our south.

True; this is lazy journalism.

That said, it's absolutely a real problem. Women aren't safe participating in many online spaces because a minority of misogynists make it a toxic space for them.

It starts young, too. Girls just don't show up when I make "gaming" spaces at school. They don't feel welcome.

I get why journalists go to Twitter, too. It's a lot easier to find and provide "receipts". Women who post about their experiences are dismissed regularly with statements like "I don't see it so you must be making it up," completely missing the point that they don't see it because women have been eliminated from these shared spaces already.

Nuclear waste is way overblown as a concern. The total volume of waste is miniscule, relative to the power generated. Nuclear also uses almost no land for the reactor, compared with solar, and is essentially 100% dependable 24/7/365.

Solar is great, and costs are diminishing incredibly rapidly. And if the news of sodium-based batteries at ~9% the cost of lithium batteries plays out, then storing solar becomes cheap. Still not dependable for Canadian winters, of course. Solar also uses lots of land, and lots of mass of semiconductors (which of course has its own climate impacts to produce, ship, and recycle/dispose of).

I'm not super looped in to the technology specifics, but I understand that some modern nuclear designs are meltdown proof, too, so there isn't really any rational NIMBY case to be made against them.

Having read the whole article, they don't have any specifics that justify their concerns. They quote the price of nuclear facility construction, but don't contrast those costs against any competing technologies, so the numbers are effectively meaningless. They complain about nuclear waste, but their only evidence is quoting NIMBYs who don't want a facility put in close to them.

I'm open to being convinced that nuclear isn't in Canada's interests, but this article did not make a compelling case.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555

This is my first time linking to Lemmy from Lemmy. Hopefully, that works.

Edit: Cool. old.reddit link syntax works, too.

TL;DR: They demodded OP, the founder (I think?), of /r/piracy to force them to reopen. This shows that Reddit thinks it's very important for users to have access to piracy information and a place to discuss piracy on the platform.

This is tacit support for posting piracy on Reddit, and, really, the only reason not to list direct link to pirated content is now gone since the threat of taking the sub private is what "we" want anyway. I suppose you could also get your account banned from Reddit, too.

I'm not a lawyer, but I wonder about legal challenges this opens Reddit to. It would be amazing if Disney now sued Reddit for encouraging piracy of their content. You can definitely trust Disney to be lawsuit happy assholes, right? I'd get a lot of shadenfreud from that.

D4 is worse, imho. It forces you to play multiplayer at all times, completely destroying any immersion in the lore.

Sucks, too, because they nailed Diablo's atmosphere (from games 1 & 2, not the WoW-ified D3 aesthetic.)

Poilievre said the Sovereignty Act would also include his campaign promise to exempt people from capital gains tax when they reinvest the proceeds of an investment in a Canadian company.

This one is insane. The 1% would accumulate so much more wealth, tax free, with this. JFC.

In recent months, all of Canada’s big banks have reported a vast expansion in the number of mortgages on their books with amortization periods of 35 years or longer.

Holy shit. Longer than 35 years? Like... People are buying a home at 30 and not planning to pay it off until age 70?

That's absolute insanity. I get that payments are rising with interest rates, but holy hell.

Then again, I've heard of so many people having their rentals sold out from under them that maybe I'd take a 40-year amortization if it was the only way to afford payments on buying a house. I can't imagine being forced to move year after year with kids, yet I literally met a guy who's had that happen to his family earlier this week.

The lack of touch controls was a red flag for me, too. Having a trackpad as a backup input device for menus and things seems like it'd be pretty important, but I don't have a Steam Deck so maybe I'm wrong.

Just wanted to add that not all instances are allowing new community creation, including Beehaw.

Exactly my thoughts. $3/month would pay for a lot of server power for a Lemmy instance!

If Reddit charged a reasonable fee for API access and gave at least 6 months notice of the change, and, while we're at it, didn't write libel about Christian then we'd be in a very different place right now.

With Reddit doubling down on their misguided changes, I'm just done.

The incel terrorists in Canada were both on Reddit, iirc. There are some incredibly fringe communities on Reddit. And Lemmy, for that matter.

So, yeah. Agreed. If 1 in a million is violent, that's enough people for someone to get hurt.

It's funny hearing about the decline of Reddit so much this past week because I was mostly ignorant of any of it. I'm pretty quick to prune any subs where I wansn't enjoying the content coming across my feed, so I wasn't subbed to many of the big subs. (And the big ones I had were very narrow in scope, which helps.)

I guess I noticed the decline in quality in specific subs, but my general experience with quality on-topic comments has remained fairly steady.

Actually, I remember the decline in Reduiquette was really noticeable about a decade ago, but that's old news.

With Star Wars, they didn't even do the main film franchise well. Episode 7 was okay, but 8 was such hot garbage I read up on why and found out there was no overarching plan for the trilogy, and different directors for each. No wonder they pulled a J.K. Rowling to completely change the rules of their own systems to meet the needs of the (bad) plot, and shit all over their own franchise. Skywalker might as well have been given a Super Time Turner to save the day in 8.

Disney Star Wars films are bad fan fiction, not canon.

Eh... I was also going to say Heroes, but I think it jumped the shark partway through season 1.

The "Dave the Cheerleader, Save the World" story arc is done if the best television ever, but it rapidly goes downhill from there. Then in season 2, they tried to get fan involvement in the story and, predictably, it was terrible.

But for anyone who hasn't seen it, you'll know the story arc I'm talking about, and it's obvious when it ends. Well worth watching up to that point!

Yeah, it's owned by Burger King, and the new owners accelerated the reduction in quality that had started a decade before the buyout.

The reason for my particular gripes with Tim Horton's is their over-the-top Canadian branding of an American company. It should be illegal, as clearly false marketing.

They're also franchises, and are notorious for most franchise owners being borderline abusive to their largely teenage and immigrant staff, who may not know better or have the resources to fight back against illegal labour practices.

And the food is terrible, and the coffee is the second worst in the Canadian fast food industry (after A&W).

What is there not to hate about Tom Horton's?

Right, but if the beans they roast come through the US, then locally roasted beans will still have American tariffs applied, and it's often not worth applying to get a refund. The goods were not for final sale in the US, the tariffs don't apply, but the paperwork is more onerous than the refund, for smaller businesses. That's the point.

Yeah, idk what parent poster is talking about. I totally didn't spend the bulk of yesterday afternoon redoing a small project from scratch because I couldn't decipher what I did two months ago. Nope. That would be ridiculous! So glad my human-written code is so much better than AI code.

That's what I'm going to miss the most. It was so hard to find quality content outside of Reddit already, and with "AI" it's just going to get worse.