On the fediverse moderator actions are public, so you can see what the moderators are upto by checking the modlogs. I don’t really understand what the context is here though

Down with Santa Clause

(for real tho)

Hey man, the war could end before things get bad. No one knows at this point. At least stay alive long enough to see how things shake up. You never know you could be pleasantly surprised.

Seeing how temporary foreign workers are abused even in the heart of major cities like Vancouver or Toronto, I don’t even want to imagine what the working conditions are like on these farms. Allowing this program to expand, when we can be reasonable confident that it will lead to human rights abuses, is wrong. The feds need to get their shit together

For real. It’s like the feds are actively trying to radicalize young people.

I never thought about it until I clicked on this link, but repositories are actually a really good format for investigative journalism. Allows you to organize all the supporting documents alongside the article in an organized way.

Yeah. Must be something real juicy in those call logs

The exemptions would be retroactive

Makes me think that they must have got wind of a FOI request that requests some info that they really don’t want to get out

Sounds like a great idea to me!

a snoring human kind of sounds like a large, growling animal

Yeah. I shared a campsite once with a stranger who snored really loudly, and my god, he legitimately sounded like a growling grizzly it was that intense.

And this is exactly why we need to break our dependance with US tech

In essence, where – if anywhere – do people interact with people online?

This is it mate. We’re interacting right now

That’s fair enough. It would be nice if on all the other mediums the filmmaker could say “hey the best way to watch me is on Peertube.” But unfortunately it looks like the only way to monetize on Peertube would be through crowd contribution platforms, such as Patreon, which might cause issues for some people who want to put their videos up there. The upside to this tho is that there’s no ads and no paywalls, so I think its a tradeoff is worth making

Case study: almost every other wealthy democracy in the world besides the US and how they deal with insulin. Living in a wealthy democracy and not being able to afford insulin is a uniquely American problem.

I guess it tracks that they must be satisfied with them, for them to want to make the change citywide

Yeah. Especially since the current council has been dragging their feet on other urbanist priorities (like the Wellington Crescent bike lane, which has recently been delayed yet again). And I think these speed reductions are actually pretty popular. People generally don’t like cars speeding down their residential streets.

There’s an interesting blog post on this issue from the Dear Winnipeg blog, if anyone is interested. Fun fact: the guy who wrote this is married to Emma Durand-Wood, the most recent member of council who was elected for Elmwood East-Kildonan in a by-election, only a few months ago. This was one of the issues she campaigned on. So I don’t think it’s a coincidence that speed reductions on residential streets has become an issue shortly after she was elected.

“If the province doesn’t want to deal with it, then basically what we go back to is building up our streets with blobs of asphalt, putting speed tables [raised sections] in, putting concrete bulb-outs — cluttering up the streets like that and changing the built environment — so people will slow down.”

Quote from Janice Lukes. I think this is actually a good idea. We can’t design our streets like racetracks and expect changing the speed limit to slow people down. I’m sure changing the speed limit would work to an extent, but a lot of people literally just don’t follow speed limits at all in the first place. What we need, first, are narrower streets that will naturally slow people down. A good bonus here is that those streets will cost less to build and maintain, since narrower streets need less asphalt, and asphalt is expensive.

I don’t know if I understood everything you’re saying here but I think I got the gist of it. Basically, individuals acting alone without the aid of technology can be assholes without wide spread negative consequences. But these same selfish tendencies, when found in large groups aided by technology, can cause a lot damage. Is that a fair summary?

Knowingly saying something false. I wouldn’t consider omitting information to be lying. Maybe in some contexts it is but for a lawyer that seems too stringent

Law school’s like that eh?

Yeah that is a little weird. I hope that that’s not due to complications with the municipal board. I kind of just took the city at their word when they said they were going to ignore the ruling. Luckily though there’s a lot of other cool infill developments happening, like the old Bay building or the extension of the Forks.

The situation in Brandon is ridiculous - they moved across the street to a location in the mall, and are just squatting on the lease of the old location so no one else can move in.

That is very silly. But I must admit didn’t actually realize that this new law can go as far as to dictate what you can and can’t do with a lease though. I thought this new pro-competition law was to prevent certain kind of contracts with property owners that prevent them from selling certain food items at a loss or below a certain price, etc. But if this new law can actually force Sobeys to lose some control over property it is actively renting, that is definitely much more expansive. I can see how that might cause some legal tangles. I’m all for it though.