folkrav

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[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

it becomes increasingly clear that centrist and progressive politics have failed to address the expanding inequality of the last four decades

The last four decades were decades of "centrist and progressive politics"? The same decades where minimum wage stagnated, worker rights got slowly eroded, public services slowly chipped away? All those years where building housing for Canadians was neglected to the point home prices almost quadrupled and this recent immigration wave became too much (if you think immigration is bad now, just wait for a couple more decades of global warming)? These were progressive?!

The right's propaganda is indeed working fucking great if that's our takeaway of the last couple or decades. The US Raegan era marked the beginning of turning back on decades of social policies on a global scale, yet the blame falls on the same policies we've been slowly suffocating. Insane.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Interesting... Maybe we don't see the same things as "work"? Very anecdotal, but my experience with 5 cats and 2 dogs since I was a kid is telling me otherwise. The way I describe dogs to anyone who asks is "eternal toddler". Even the most mature and independent dog requires daily attention, one way or another. I've yet to see a dog you can leave alone for couple of days with some food, water and a clean litter box without stressing out if they'll be fine like I've seem most cats do without breaking a sweat. The yard, you have to get them out there and back in or they'll shit on the floor at some point. The food, you need to ration, or they overeat. You see what I mean?

As for grooming, it's IMHO pretty similar, for similar fur types and sizes - short haired cat for short hair small dog, for example. The second it's bigger than a Shih-Tzu, cleaning their hair becomes a sport. Unless you want to ruin your flooring, dogs need their nails clipped very regularly. Short haired dogs also shed surprisingly abundantly, so you'll typically want to brush them often too. Their teeth need brushing, as well.

Agreed though, there's a wide variance, larger than most people tends to give them credit for, personality-wise, from one pet to another.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I don't even own a cat, but objectively speaking, they are extremely low maintenance compared to pretty much any other pet one could have. Is there a lot of other pets that generally take care of themselves and don't need much more than food, a place to poop, and very occasional grooming? Pretty much every other pet I can think of needs some combination of a special enclosure, foods, grooming, exercice, socializing... Even dogs are a hell of a lot more work.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The "cheesy sci-fi movie prop" look is usually either heavily influenced by, or quite literally, retrofuturism, which itself is very often inspired by the early computing era. Considering quantum computers are basically in their infancy, they will indeed look like a mix of old/future tech for some time.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago

Niche communities used to be all over the place on a bunch of sites and forums, and only kind of recently (last 10 years or so) converged on Reddit. The way "it's on another website" became enough to deter people from visiting makes it feel like we have collectively managed to forget that the internet isn't exclusively made out of the top 10 most visited sites... :(

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, by 1400 the world population was comparable to the modern US. It merely broke the billion people mark by the early 1800s, it took merely another century to double that, and it since did more than 4x straight to 8.2 billion people, so even if the proportion of whiners stayed the same, there'd be so many more of them. Now, to that, consider we now have access to the internet.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I think the reason why we've had CPC/LPC swings for decades has more to do with Canadian society as a whole eating up the neolib propaganda fed to the world since the 80s.

That part we can mostly agree on

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago (6 children)

On one hand, I really do agree PP as PM would/will be a calamity. On the other, this whole "anything but" voting strategy is a fucking travesty of the democratic process that's exactly why we've been stuck on an endless cycle of Liberal/Conservative governments for the last handful of decades.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Is that the fault of the parents, or shitty to inexistent worker rights?

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

America sneezes, Canada catches a cold

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's true that the "think about the poor owners" part is, in a vacuum, a pretty fucking stupid argument. Nature doesn't give a shit about home valuations. Water levels are on the rise, if you do live in a flood risk zone, it sucks, but you just do.

It's however pretty fucking bullshit that people who were flooded were allowed to rebuild in place to be told 4 years later that the home they literally just had rebuilt will now be hard to insure and near impossible to sell.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For a second, I was wondering why they'd ban links to the World Series Of Poker.

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