NarrativeBear

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[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Geeses on Meeses

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I wouldn't touch that shit with a 10ft pole

 

Kryptos is an end-to-end encryption app for iOS and Android that works through any messenger or SMS. You encrypt a message inside Kryptos (or on its keyboard), paste the resulting code into WhatsApp / Telegram / iMessage / Signal / VK / SMS / anything, and your correspondent decrypts it with Kryptos on their side. The messenger only ever carries what looks like random noise — the plaintext never touches it.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I honestly am hating the amount of unnecessary information being collected by all these types of big corporations all over the place.

Who's idea is it to jam all this surveillance tech into a store just to see my buy a expired box of Twinkies?

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You're probably not to far off.

Really upset me to drive past where new suburban developments are happening and seeing the field cleared off all the existing trees first before a single house goes in.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Tell me you never went on vacation without telling me you never went on vacation.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I don't know with $120 a week that some good grocery shopping there.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Anything but subsidizing transportation directly hu?

That $120 a week for every resident should just go directly into better and free transit.

Hell I would bet most car infrastructure is subsidized at a higher amount per week per person.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Tree suburbs used to be very common, but now most new suburbs don't even have these either.

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Most stuff just looks like this now

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[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

The answer is yes!

Our north American minds can't comprehend walking past ten or fifteen outdoor patios in the span of ten minutes on the same street, but we call it normal to spend 1 or 2 hours driving to a restaurants.

How often do I find myself driving between two stores within the same plaza/parking lot.

When you live in a area where everything is within walking distance of everything else, going out is trivial.

 

The car brain is strong in this one,

 
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Packaging has stayed the same size but the content has decreased 50%

Edit: Thank you all for pointing out these are infact two different types of fruits. I guess I really am fruit blind.

I did not have the older raspberry packaging, so I am comparing to the older strawberry packaging still in my freezer, of the same line/brand. All new packages are now 300g while the older packaging was 600g. Once (or if) I buy these again, I will snap a picture of the new 300g strawberry packaging.

Here is a comparison of older Blueberry packaging of 600g still in my freezer, the ones in store are now 300g.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47296462

For now, your encrypted messages have a lock on them.

Only you, and the person you're talking to, hold the key. Not the app. Not the company. Not the government. You probably don't think about it. That's the whole point — it just works.

Until, possibly, the end of this summer. Every messaging app in Canada would be required to build a second key.

With Bill C-22, the government would hold the copy. The lock you trust would no longer be a lock only you can open. It would be a lock the locksmith was ordered to duplicate.

Find and email your MP here to voice your opinion.

https://dontsurveil.me/c22/mp/

 

For now, your encrypted messages have a lock on them.

Only you, and the person you're talking to, hold the key. Not the app. Not the company. Not the government. You probably don't think about it. That's the whole point — it just works.

Until, possibly, the end of this summer. Every messaging app in Canada would be required to build a second key.

With Bill C-22, the government would hold the copy. The lock you trust would no longer be a lock only you can open. It would be a lock the locksmith was ordered to duplicate.

Find and email your MP here to voice your opinion.

https://dontsurveil.me/c22/mp/

 

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles tells reporters she'd call a public inquiry into the Greenbelt scandal if she were premier.

Ontario Opposition Leader Marit Stiles suggested on Monday that she would call a public inquiry into the Ford government’s handling of several files if elected premier and that Doug Ford could end up in “prison.”

“When I’m premier, I’m going to call a public inquiry into all of this, and we’re going to get our hands on all of that. And you know what? Maybe you won’t get another mandate, because you’ll be in prison, Doug,” Stiles told reporters during a scrum at Queen’s Park Monday.

She made the comment while discussing the lack of public access to documents around the cancelled purchase of a private jet, as well as the Greenbelt.

“I don’t expect we’ll ever get answers. I know he doesn’t want to provide answers about the luxury jet and how much it really cost, and what happened there, and he also doesn’t want to hear how I was asking the questions about the Greenbelt,” Stiles told reporters.

“And he was willing to pass laws to make it impossible for journalists or the public, or ourselves in the opposition, to find out why decisions are made, or who’s influencing his decisions.”

Legislation recently passed by the Ford government halted public access to hundreds of documents that were set to be released through Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs).

The government rushed through the legislation and made it retroactive, preventing any previously submitted requests from being fulfilled, and also relieving the government from having to comply with a court order to release the premier’s phone records.

Ford has not been charged with any crimes and has previously apologized for a decision to open up a portion of the Greenbelt for development, calling it a “mistake.”

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are investigating the Ontario government’s decision around the Greenbelt, but they have not said who exactly that investigation touches.

Earlier in the day, Ford confirmed the government has handed over to the RCMP whatever records have been requested from them concerning the Greenbelt.

“To every agency that’s ever asked, it’s all been transparent, we’ve given them everything they need,” Ford said. “But again, I’m focusing on the economy. That’s what I’m focused on. That’s what matters, not something that happened years ago.”

Asked if she thought her comments were appropriate given how the suggestion of imprisonment for political rivals has been used in heated political discussions south of the border, particularly when Donald Trump infamously called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up, Stiles reiterated her belief that the premier has been involved in “dirty deals” in the past.

“I feel like I’ve said before, that I think this premier is corrupt. I think he’s made some dirty deals. I think it’s pretty clear,” she said.

Stiles also said that she believed a “a lot of terrible stuff would come out” if a public inquiry into the Greenbelt were called.

“I think if we call a public inquiry, which is what it took to get to the bottom of some of the questions around other governments, I think a lot of terrible stuff is going to come out,” Stiles said.

“Why is the premier hiding all this information from the people of Ontario? Why doesn’t he want anybody to know what is on his phone. Because there are dirty dealings around the greenbelt, the RCMP is investigating and at the end of this there might very well be charges laid. Absolutely. Other governments have had people end up behind bars for less than this.”

The premier‘s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Stiles’ remarks.

 

Government MPPs passed the bill that will retroactively exempt records of the premier, cabinet ministers, parliamentary assistants and their staff from FOI requests.

The Ford government has passed legislation to end the public’s ability to access the records of the premier and other top provincial government decision-makers.

Progressive Conservative MPPs voted on Thursday to pass Bill 97. The omnibus legislation enables plans announced in Premier Doug Ford’s government’s 2026 budget, along with rewriting the province’s records-access law.

Bill 97 is expected to soon receive the lieutenant-governor’s Royal Assent, to become law.

It will rewrite the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) to end the public’s ability to retrieve certain records of the premier, cabinet ministers, parliamentary assistants and staff in their offices with freedom of information requests (FOIs).

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Doug Ford’s Government Isn’t Working For You.

Every Premier makes choices. Who gets the government's attention. Who gets the contract. Who gets the call returned.

Doug Ford's choices have a pattern: insiders, lobbyists, friends and donors. And every time he chooses them, he's choosing not to choose you.

That's the cost of his corruption. It's your hospital understaffed while billions flow to insiders. It's the cost of ground beef going up while well-connected developers turn protected land into an $8.3 billion windfall. A government so busy covering its tracks it never gets around to you.

It doesn't have to be this way. We can have a government that delivers better, faster public health care. That actually does something about the cost of groceries. That helps workers weather the storm and protects good jobs.

 

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is planning to skip public hearings to pass its omnibus budget bill that contains a retroactive clampdown on access to his cellphone records.

The retroactive FOI law would shield Ford and cabinet members — along with their offices — from public access to documents, with Ford admitting that part of the rationale is to kill a request from Global News to obtain his cellphone records.

 
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