and then I sign it "Movie Guy"
is Movie Guy your pseudonym?
no it's just a name I use instead of my real name
I love Home Movies
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joined 2 years ago
What uhhh what's going on with the hands?
Sorry, I should clarify I was making fun of them.
The PM isn't directly elected! Technically, they are appointed by the monarch of Canada, who is currently King Charles, but the monarch is constitutionally required to follow the directions of the government of Canada.
In practice, this means the party who forms government picks the PM, who is typically also the party's leader. Fun fact, because of this, the PM also doesn't actually need a seat in parliament! That's how Mark Carney became PM after Trudeau stepped down. Carney now has a seat after running in the recent election. It creates a lot of issues if the PM doesn't have a seat in parliament as well as the optics of the PM never actually winning an election, but it's allowed!
In Canada, the country is split up into a few hundred ridings and each riding gets a representative in Parliament. The political party with the most representatives forms government and their leader is the Prime Minister who is allowed to stay at a specific house in Ottawa. The political party with the second most representatives forms the official opposition and their leader is the Leader of the Opposition who also gets to stay at a specific house in Ottawa.
Pierre Poilievre lost the election in his riding, meaning he lost his seat, meaning he can't be opposition leader, meaning he can't stay in the house reserved for the opposition leader. One can assume he also shat his bed.
It's recently been announced that another Conservative member that did win a seat in a landslide victory will be resigning from it. The idea here is that a new election for just that seat will be held (a by-election) and Pierre will run for it. It's expected he'll win it easily and will once again be a member of parliament, and can once again be the leader of the opposition, and can move back into his house.
I donate monthly to Fedecan. If Fedecan wants to give some of that to the Lemmy devs, then go right ahead, but I'm not giving my money to them.
Poor lady can barely afford clothes!
The ethics violation is definitely bad, but their results are also concerning. They claim their AI accounts were 6 times more likely to persuade people into changing their minds compared to a real life person. AI has become an overpowered tool in the hands of propagandists.
Love how the youtube comments on the interview are a split between 1 year old comments saying he totally owned the journalist by being a big strongman and comments from a few days ago asking how that worked out for him.
Microsoft not being able to market a video calling app during global lockdowns should be a case study for business students.