LostWon

joined 2 years ago
[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Only a fourth playthrough of Hollow Knight? I'm waiting on Silksong too for now, but I'm sure I easily exceeded that, just getting the achievements back when I first got into HK. 😅

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I've definitely heard of RCMP basically being on call to oil corpos in the past.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

While I recall seeing some columnists who seem to have a specific agenda to back certain industries, I think what most people are concerned about is not that breaking reports are done by cartoonishly evil journalists, but that foreign interests have undue influence over editorial decisions. (As I see it, billionaires from our own country are equally as bad and media concentration in general should also be addressed, but it makes sense to have reasonable restrictions on foreign-ownership of media.)

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Sounds like the start of Cory Doctorow's book Radicalized.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

The UN has expressed concerns about Canada designating the US a safe country and asked our government to stop this. I'd be surprised though, if either major party listens to them about it. :/

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are grassroots support movements and even legal assistance. You just won't likely hear about them in establishment media (probably because they don't expect their intended audience to be in a financial position where they might need it). Even with smaller news sources that focus on talking primarily to activists and/or the actual people affected by the issues (like Status Coup News), folks only briefly touch on it. This is where local news has an opportunity to shine (even if it usually doesn't).

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I was following this and was sad to hear about this happening despite excellent counterarguments from people like Zarah Sultana. These are scary times, but I was encouraged there was at least this response yesterday (just watch the first ~45 seconds): Invidious | ~Youtube~

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's up to us, since it seems more and more every day that Carney really can't be trusted. Either outright avoid US online services or do NO financial transactions and block all ads.

*edit - Also, I wonder how long it will take Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" to properly bankrupt the US? I hope the US people can do something about him for their own sake, and ours.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, he would probably do well for them at this point, so I wouldn't even cheer for him to be federal party leader.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

2010 was too long ago. :')

(Rest in peace, Paul Vasquez. Thanks again for sharing the beautiful sight you saw that day.)

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What ad hominem argument? I directly responded to the substance of your comment (specifically the premise that we start with immigration even though your comment contained an acknowledgement that was not the cause of Canada's economic troubles). I said nothing about you directly or your motivations. If you're going to ignore relevant criticism, there's no point continuing this conversation.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So you realize the problem didn't start with immigration, yet that's where you put your focus? The outcry should be against policies that promote exploitation of workers, regardless of where they are from. That by itself would stop any excess immigration equitably, without dehumanizing anyone by going back on our word and treating them like garbage.

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