Yes.

Yes it is.

This is the most aggressively anti-trans bill enacted in Canada. It is a desparate attemot to keep David Parker from trying to get her ousted, in favour of someone even more extreme,

Flobikes/Flosports has the rights to the TdF and most other races here. I tried to use them once and gave up. They are incompetent, shitty, greedy, and evil.

So if I’m going to watch, it’s down to pirate streams.

Honestly, these policies are 100% successful, if you consider their goal.

Forced treatment isn’t intended to help people get clean. Nor is it intended to even keep them off the street.

The goal of forced treatment is to PUNISH people for using drugs. It is intended to hurt them, and drive them farther from a support network.

And at this, it is incredibly good.

Could actually be MCA - Make Canada America.

I’m with you on this, but don’t forget that most polling companies are run by conservative sympathizers. Angus Reid was reposting anti-Trudeau posts on twitter only a week ago. Quito Maggi, head of Mainstreet Research, was actively trying to sabotage Naheed Nenshi’s re-election campaign a few years ago.

And the media…well, pretty much all of the print media is owned by Postmedia which in turn is owned by a MAGA-loving US hedge fund.

Don’t despair - fight.

I’m saddened that the Medium is hosting this white supremacist asshole.

Hang Loose (both gesture and phrase) goes back to at LEAST the early '70s.

So a third of the country are Nazis.

Not racists, not misinformed, not uneducated, but actual Nazis.

In ~20 days, the most powerful and dangerous country on earth may well elect a party of Nazis to rule them.

God help us all.

First cousin, once removed.

For the record, ‘once removed’ refers to the generation. Your cousin’s grandkid would be your first cousin twice removed.

My thought process:

"Hah! The Beaverton really went beyond silly this time.

Oh, fuck…"

So I’m in my mid-50s, and I’ve honestly only come up with genuine lasting interest in my friends’ lives in the last few years.

I noticed that I’d get together with friends and they’d say “hey, how did your kid’s sportsball tournament go back in July?” What struck me about it is that they cared enough to actually hear what I said, and remember it - not because they have a deep abiding interest in my kid’s life, but because they cared about me and the things that were important to me.

And I wasn’t repaying the care.

So I’ve tried to change. When people tell me stuff about their kids or vacation, I make a concerted effort to remember it and remember the significance of it, because the fact that it’s important to the people I care about means that to some degree, I care about it as well.

Manufacturing detritus. Machine oil. Pollution. The rancid sweat of 100 hands they’ve passed through.

That smell is an excellent reason to wash your clothes before wearing them.

I would agree, except that it may be legally prohibited. At present, I believe JT would be violating national security laws by revealing the names.

Meanwhile, PP would much rather falsely scream “LIAR!” than admit that BS like that is exactly why he refuses to get a security clearance.

Depends on what you mean “effective.”

The structure is very similar, and on the surface, it works about the same way. So in that sense, yes.

The lack of centralization improves on reddit - no authoritarian rule-making, no limitation of content by the laws of a single country, etc. - but also adds flaws. The biggest one is the potential for redundant groups on different servers, but also a concern is the potential for someone taking down their server and leaving the users high and dry. (I don’t know exactly what happens to the content in this case, but that could be another issue.)

Practically speaking though, it is not a meaningful replacement for reddit because it is lacking content. I browse “all”, and get fewer total posts that I saw on reddit on my 20 or so subscribed subreddits alone.

Community is the key. Community is what made reddit, and lemmy doesn’t have a developed community. Yet. We can get there, and then discover what other problems with the platform are.

Here’s a feature I want that doesn’t seem to exist in any modern flashlight:

DON’T DRAIN THE BATTERY WHEN TURNED OFF!!!

Seriously, the constant drain on the battery means that you cannot have an emergency flashlight in the drawer. How FUCKING STUPID is that?

My bike lights aren’t bad.

Hold to turn on (to the last mode used), hold to turn off, push to switch between three modes: High, Low, and Flashing.

Wrong community.

Hockey parents are the absolute worst.

You run into shitty parents in any sport, but hockey attracts the frustrated assholes living vicariously through their poor kids. How many stories per year do we see about brawls or assaults at kids’ games? Too damned many.

Gymnastics isn’t as violent, but the parents are almost as bad. Usually the actual abuse is directed at their own kids.

Most ‘fringe’ sports have a strong, supportive community. It’s possible, but the culture of hockey is rooted in toxicity.

And late-stage capitalism claims another victim.