Rentlar

joined 2 years ago
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Well speaking of that, Trump's not going to have to spend a dime, he will have all of America's money at his disposal.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Now we know how much it costs to assemble an army of bots and bootlickers, enough to net you a seat of power in government.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago

This time we'll have all the evidence in the world... plus a 900 page booklet of stuff they were planning to do.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bracing for impact on Canadian elections.

Upon hearing the news, I felt despondent and a pit in my stomach... I went to do a bit of karaoke and my mood has recovered from that at least.

Clearly political con-artistry is effective. Ford, Smith, Moe, Poilievre and any wannabe dictators of Canada who may emerge in the future, are all taking down notes.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago

States that think the feds will actually be hands off are in for a rude awakening.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We need a lot of stickers that say "Trump 2024 - You Did This" put it on gas pumps, in front of stores, hospitals...

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

From what I gather, Trump has said basically everything in response to stuff, and people selectively hear or social media just filters through the message from him they want to hear.

Some of the stunts like swaying to music for 30 minutes and play-acting a McDonald's worker make him look a bit cute and silly, but Harris isn't held to even the same dimension of standards -- by media, by voters and even by her own supporters.

There are hundreds of things Trump has done that would have tanked any other person's campaign in the last 60 years. But his case is that he would do all of these things to somehow fix the country. He is selling fake snake oil solutions and people bought it hook line and sinker again.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe not about elections, per se, but I think you forgot what happened between 2016 to 2020. Almost every day news headlines were like "Trump tweets dumb thing", "Trump announces dumb thing", "Trump does dumb thing". This election period was quieter on the scale of things compared to then, and we're headed right back for it.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 94 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm in shock... Good luck to you, American Democracy. It was nice knowing ya.

This time there's no saying you didn't know. This time there's no saying "well more voters wanted different". You get what you get, apparently enough people fall for "look over there" types of distractions in politics.

The clock to progress has been set back at least 10 years. I know digital-age low-information fascism is on its way to Canada and I am definitely not ready.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I get your point, but the folks at MSNBC have been consistently more critical of Trump than the other networks.

And you're not wrong that the USA is fucked for even entertaining the idea of Trump, but you'll be waiting a long time if you're sitting around hoping people become less dumb, selfish and would cut off their nose to spite their face. Try not to lose sleep over it, but at the same time if you were able to get even one person who was Trump supporting, undecided or uninterested to vote for Harris that is a positive thing.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I hope you are right because I am feeling your username rn, I have confidence in Harris' campaign but voters have to do their thing too.

Spoiler: voters did not do the thing.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Ford brothers have had a massive vendetta against Toronto for the longest time... they try to screw the City over at every turn.

If you're in Ontario, please comment on it before Nov 20, 2024

Douggie ran on "governmental efficiencies", this is about as inefficient and counter-productive a method to reduce traffic as there can be.

 

Context, a thread on rising fast food costs and comparing local joints in terms of value: https://lemmy.world/comment/10015048

 

Petition E-4965 is the one that is posted to stopkillinggames.com, Ross Scott (Accursed Farms)'s campaign to end the practice of bricking games people have purchased, whenever the publisher doesn't want to support it anymore.

It is open for signing by Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents, until September 5th 2024.

Please spread the word to your Canadian friends and family who take interest in games, and please add your name to it to support this campaign to help preserve games in some form in perpetuity.

Thank you!

 

In 1974, Ivan Illich wrote that the typical American male spent 25% of his waking life either driving a car or working for the income required to pay for one. 50 years later, is this true? And, which cities consume the most -- and least -- of our time with driving?

 

Including their brandname chains:

  • Atlantic Cash & Carry
  • Atlantic Superstore
  • Axep
  • Bloor Street Market
  • Dominion
  • Les Entrepôts Presto
  • Extra Foods
  • Fortinos
  • Freshmart
  • L'Intermarché
  • Loblaws / Loblaw GreatFood / Loblaws CityMarket
  • Lucky Dollar Foods
  • Maxi / Maxi & Cie
  • NG Cash & Carry
  • No Frills
  • Provigo
  • Real Canadian Superstore
  • Shop Easy Foods
  • Shoppers Drug Mart / Pharmaprix
  • SuperValu
  • T & T Supermarket
  • Valu-mart
  • Wholesale Club / Club Entrepôt
  • Your Independent Grocer / Independent CityMarket
  • Zehrs Markets

Yes there are other big oligopoly chains like metro, Sobeys/Safeway, Pattison, but I think it's best to start with one major chain to see how much coordinated action can affect them.

 

Train #641 is being introduced starting May 27th, 2024, which departs Ottawa at 4:15, Kingston at 6:15, arriving in Toronto at 8:48am, which would be useful for anyone trying to get into a Toronto downtown office at 9am.

 

Photo taken in July 2023.

 

They found and caught some of the perpetrators of the gold heist last year at Pearson, some of whom were in the illegal arms trafficking market.

Spoiler: It wasn't Russell Oliver

 

Costs I estimate to be typical for 1 HDD, about 120USD which is about 170CAD

For 5 HDDs, I estimate about 485USD which is about 685CAD.

Ymmv, and these drives are if you just want bulk capacity at the lowest price over all else.

 

Here's a table I adapted from Louis Rossman's video on the levels of piracy, grey areas and his morals and ethics on it. (spreadsheet file)

I tried to condense each rank and make it less about a specific type of media like CD audio or DVD video, along with a table of simplified characteristics of each situation. Of course more levels can be added and there are many situations not covered. This hierarchy is simply the way Louis ordered it from more to less justifiable; he respects people can think about it differently and I do too. He suggests that he doesn't really care about people that pirate without giving a shit about creators, and that he only has a problem with people who aren't honest with themselves about their motivations.

Setting legality aside, what 'level of piracy' is morally or ethically acceptable to you?

 

Also, terrorist travelled west therefore West is involved.

view more: ‹ prev next ›