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Canadians voted for someone who they thought was going to stand up to Trump, and they were bamboozled.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•New data shows how rapidly political violence in Canada have risen in recent years4·7 days agoI love that it’s a photo of a big truck being investigated.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Keep away from wokeness and DEI, new minister warns municipalities3·18 days agoYuuuuup! Especially silly when I work with someone who rides their bike in every day. They are a hardcore UCP and Trump supporter. They complain when the bike paths are not cleared in the winter.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Keep away from wokeness and DEI, new minister warns municipalities23·19 days agoThe amount of useless meddling these conservatives do just pisses me off. How much money is it going to cost for them to police paper straws? Fiscal responsibility my ass!
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Hackathon King of San FranciscoEnglish10·22 days agoI’m going to guess they’re companies without software expertise in house, so nobody to review the code anyway.
If companies continue hiring people like this, it’s only a matter of time before the exploits roll out.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Which 'next' is Danielle Smith's Ottawa-affairs panel steering Alberta toward?10·30 days agoThe fact that they keep pushing for this, despite people telling them repeatedly they don’t like it, tells me this is a scam.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a game you've played that you're surprised isn't really popular?3·1 month agoWow! I still have my Dragon Dice in a box somewhere. A few of my friends had it and we played about 4 games before we got bored. Still something nostalgic about it for me though.
I also agree about Tsuro. Great fun!
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Ontario leader Doug Ford announces plans for five-storey $400-million parking garage221·1 month agoI had to double check that the link wasn’t for The Beaverton. WTF?
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•New rules see province screening sex education resources before they hit classrooms4·2 months agoYup. Conservatives all about responsible spending 🙄
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977English412·2 months agoIts because of all the people saying that LLMs can reason and think and the human brain works just like an LLM and… some other ridiculous claim.
This shows some limitations on LLMs.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Global streamers fight CRTC’s rule requiring them to fund Canadian content13·2 months agoWe have Jellyfin at home:
Joking aside, Gem is pretty decent actually. The software does have some issues, but there are several shows I’m looking forward to watching and I get to show support for the CBC.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Frustrated Air Canada pilot slams air traffic controller shortage to passengers on flight26·2 months agoBut privatization makes things better and cheaper! 🙄
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada should buy Tim Hortons and nationalize it21·2 months agoWe should be nationalizing infrastructure where having a single vendor (ie. monopoly) makes sense.
Cafés are a great example where many small businesses are ideal.
Let Tim Horton’s fail and let small independent cafés flood the space.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Financial firms are driving up rent in Toronto — and targeting the most vulnerable tenants1·2 months agoNope. This is just an attempt to muddy the waters and redirect the conversation to something else. The article is about market concentration in housing.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Financial firms are driving up rent in Toronto — and targeting the most vulnerable tenants6·2 months agoWhat is “the problem”? Do immigrants own the largest 25 financial landlords in Canada holding nearly 20 per cent of the country’s private, purpose-built rental stock?
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Financial firms are driving up rent in Toronto — and targeting the most vulnerable tenants6·2 months agoIncreasing market concentration is because immigrants. Got it. 🙄
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Carney signs order to prioritize middle-class tax cut, after first meeting with new cabinet91·2 months agoI assume by “them” you mean the government?
The government doesn’t manage housing or food. That’s all the work of the free market baby! If there was a government run food store, for example, it would be able to operate at cost since it doesn’t necessarily need to turn a profit. Heck, it could even run at a loss if we as a society agreed it has value beyond dollars. In other words, we could offset the loss with tax dollars if we agreed it was of benefit to society.
I agree that monopolies are a problem though and that the government needs to actually start enforcing some anti trust. But taking an active role with crown corporations will also help reduce monopoly power, so its a tool to use along with enforcement.
As for health care, that’s a provincial concern but I also agree. Where I come from, the people around me keep voting in the very party who for over 40 years has proven to be incapable of managing health care. And yet there are functional public health care systems out there. So it’s not a matter of a government being incapable of managing health care. Rather, we have strong evidence that a conservative government is incapable of managing health care.
Of course there are lots of examples of governments managing things poorly, but there are also countless examples of private companies managing things poorly. The difference I think is that with the government you at least have some say. I don’t think the government should run everything, but certain key industries (mostly infrastructure type things) I think would be better off in public hands.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Carney signs order to prioritize middle-class tax cut, after first meeting with new cabinet24·2 months agoWhat if the government just started running crown corporations again? They could price things a lot lower and take business away from the private entities. It’ll take some initial investment, but that’s money well spent I think.
Maybe start with insurance and undercut that entire industry. Then use the profit to fund the establishment of other crown corps. Since they don’t have to appease shareholders, all of the profit can go towards this.
It would also be interesting to see what meth is like but I’m still not going to do it.