Rentlar

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 39 points 5 days ago

Trump loves making everything about himself, so I'll do him a favour: assume every redacted name is Trump.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Putting "Shocked" in a title is the journalism equivalent of putting a shocked expression in a Youtube clickbait video thumbnail.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

Goddamn NYT, the answer is right in front of you. Israel's US-backed Genocide. Stop humming and whistling around pretending you don't know.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

You sound like a troll but I'll help you anyway, in case you or anyone are using Lynx browser for your internet needs:

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7597475

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

I nominate this fellow from Ottawa and this particular speech as our trade representative to the US: (Obvious strong language warning)

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The “world’s leading Trump whisperer” strikes again.

Trump's no match for La Presidenta con la cabeza fría.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

I see garbage trucks on residential streets several times weekly. They should be able to handle delivery traffic for your neighbourhood corner store, cafe, arcade or restaurant. (And in Scarborough and Etobicoke the residential roads are full of potholes even without heavy truck traffic). Small stores probably won't be getting tractors with 50ft trailers either.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Well, I guess the prerogative is on the rest of us non-Americans to break unjust American IP laws to counteract the lack of enforcement of anti-trust laws, or make laws in other countries that better enforce competition laws on American companies.

I have a glimmer of hope that Europe is getting in gear somewhat for that.

I do like Cory's overall point about needing to think more of solidarity than individual choices, but I disagree on discounting them completely, those choices do carry a certain degree of importance as well in effecting systemic change. Saying, "well, society isn't changing, enshittification isn't going anywhere so I shouldn't bother changing my habits" won't get us anywhere. It has had real effects.

Things that start in the margins have the ability to get noticed by big players and then bring about change. A couple examples: Linux gaming is in a viable state that was unimaginable 8 years ago. The Canadian boycott of US products and travel has had a very measurable affect on US tourism and select industries, and has spread to other countries. Valve nor the Canadian government started either of those efforts, but they helped signal-boost and take concrete supportive actions when they see that even a small group of people independently have supported that change already.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm glad we have at least one Premier and Housing Minister that understand the issue of housing correctly.

Edit: you should look at Eby's reaction to the question about the letter from the Vancouver Sun journalist, and listen to Eby's full answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemiX8ammXk&t=23m10s

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

TACuO Trump

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Good job Europeans for doing your part for the good of everyone.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago

I think they're good, but I'm trying not to sound like a paid advertiser for them. Other brands could be just as good or better.

The info is there for those who need it, but I'm trying to keep from polluting Lemmy with corporate ad-like comments and allow more space for discussion and personal opinions.

 

The federal government recently passed two bills into law, C-244 and C-294. These make it not a copyright violation to break or bypass a digital access control to software/hardware you ~~own~~ have legitimate access to, for the purposes of diagonstics/maintenance/repair, and interoperability respectively. Article from The Sarnia Observer

iFixit has applauded the move but says it still keeps bans on the sale and sharing of tools designed primarily for digital lock bypass.

What are your thoughts?

 

Photo taken on a beautiful day in September 2024.

 

The ruling coalition in Japan's Lower House is facing a resounding defeat, and an opposition coalition government could be on the horizon.

This was made possible in part by Proportional Representation. Looking at the latest election data:

https://www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/database/shugiin/00/tousen_toukaku_hirei.html

The ones with a white cell on the right column are PR representative-elects, and grey cells are the candidates that won their local district in a traditional tally.

One major beneficiary is the Japanese Communist Party (violet), who only won 1 race in the FPTP portion, but because they had sizeable supports nation wide, has 7 total seats at the governing table.

This doesn't only help 3rd parties. The incumbent (red) and leading opposition (blue) parties locked in dead heats in many races, have elected some candidates from the PR field. That way the voice of the group that made 2nd place are not fully lost on the final result.

 

Just put it on the side streets - Doug Ford's gaslighting compromise might work in some cities like Montreal and Vancouver but aren't well suited for Toronto and its suburbs.

 

Mmmm. Roasted ham.

 

This is a site that has summarized and cited points from the Project2025 document (with assistance from Google's Gemini AI algorithm along with manual fact-checking) categorized by topic.

If you want a concise and accessible set of reasons on why a Trump/Republican presidency would be bad for the US, to help explain important issues to friends and family without sounding like a conspiracy theorist or a political savant, this resource may help.

 

Shadow Great British Railways created as legislation to end private operating contracts makes progress.

 

Hey everyone, just a reminder in case you hadn't seen it or forgot from months ago, the Canadian official e-petition is at this link as part of the Stopkillinggames.com campaign. Maybe we can get some clarity from our government on what our rights as consumers are when buying access to video games.

Signature collection ends at 9:30am ET/6:30am PT on Thursday 5 Sept 2024.

 

L'enquête par ISDE Canada sera ouverte jusqu'au 26 septembre 2024.

Les Canadiens peuvent envoyer leurs commentaires à l’adresse suivante : https://form.simplesurvey.com/f/s/RTR?lang=FR

 

I figured that right to repair is a topic many of us are interested in. The survey below by ISED Canada, a department of the Government of Canada, is open until September 26, 2024.

Canadians can provide their input at the following link: https://ised-isde.survey-sondage.ca/f/s/RTR

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