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@jeffsamsonow@mstdn.ca
@jeffsamsonow@mstdn.ca Made unclogging the street drain (which had flooded the street plus the sidewalk to angle-deep) particularly exciting.
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@dyckron@cosocial.ca
@dyckron@cosocial.ca That's for us to call and complain there's no bike lane in our neighborhood, obviously. I hope it sees tons of use.
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@RantingCanuck@mstdn.ca
@RantingCanuck@mstdn.ca And even that is missing a detail - spending more money at restaurants doesn't pay for the event. Taxes do. So you need to be looking at increased sales tax revenue (and hotel fees, and income tax, etc) as your "profit". Doesn't help me if Bob's Diner made a killing, if Toronto didn't see any additional tax revenue.
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@ChrisCorrigan@cosocial.ca
@ChrisCorrigan@cosocial.ca @dyckron@cosocial.ca The only model I would consider is a straight P&L - what did the gov'ts pay, and what did they recieve in additional taxes?
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@golgaloth@writing.exchange
@golgaloth@writing.exchange I'm just hoping they're using standard 16mm d6s, and not those teeny 5mm ones. (Quick edit to get the right "standard size")
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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green I'm gonna take the snark answer and parrot "true capitalism has never been tried". What we have is the worst of all worlds, where rich wankers want capitalism until they're in trouble, and then they want gov't handouts (under various bizbabble terms). But I've never met a capitalist who just shrugged and went "guess the free market didn't want me".
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@DavidM_yeg@beige.party
@DavidM_yeg@beige.party @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io @renardboy@mastodon.social And didn't I just see in the news that the CCS companies are pulling out, because Alberta's new carbon tax rates are too low to make it economical? (Of course, they're crying to federal Liberals rather than the people who ACTUALLY screwed them over, but what else is new)
I was honestly glad to find out I hadn't qualified to be in a "speech" role, because it saved me the hassle of telling them no, I'm not interested in having my speech vetted by admin - if they want something said, go say it themselves.
It's so common in the US that "school shooting kills 3 at grad" isn't even the lede anymore in a puff piece. :/
The more I see of the World Cup, the more I think CA let ourselves get used as the beard for the US. Ooh, it's a three nation bid! Except CA has 2 stadiums, only one gets a round of 16 game (Toronto is done after round-of-32), and *all* the quarter final games and up are in the US. There's no way the US actually needed us for logistics, only for disguising it was a US bid.
So the US has invented another reason why they need to tariff everyone, but a question I haven't seen asked: given the US is self-admittedly a net importer, how is it that everyone ELSE is using these suppliers but one of the largest economies in the world... isn't?
RE: @glusnews_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net
Cool - didn't want to go there anyway.
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@skeletor@mas.to
@skeletor@mas.to Collarary: wise people are just folks who made those mistakes decades ago.
With all the talk about web browsers tracking everything we do, I think what I want is a browser who works for me the same way Trump's Press Secretaries do - bald-faced lying to servers on my behalf. "Yup, took that cookie, and my timezone is Arizona." "What cookie? And my timezone is New York".
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@azteclady@kind.social
@azteclady@kind.social Sounds like they're not even doing that - they're just going to take the audio recording (assuming it exists) and leave it there. Gee, sure hope the gov't keeps all those machines in 100% working order!
https://edmonton.taproot.news/roundups/business/2026/05/15
Could you imagine if Old Strathcona's BA came out with "we think all three orders of government should be mandating employees come to Whyte Ave 2-3 days a week to increase vibrancy"?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-court-of-king-s-bench-court-reporters-9.7198537
“Many Canadian jurisdictions have already transitioned away from court reporter services due to the use of outdated technology and due to the shortage of court reporters.”
Of course, NAIT cancelled the only court reporting program in English Canada last year. Might explain a "shortage".
Hoping someone smart can poke a hole in this logic: Lvl 1 charging is 1.3kW (a.k.a. "plug into standard 3-prong".) Search tells me that I'd need 2-4 panels (depending on brand/quality) to generate that much power. And that many panels fit on a RV roof. So in theory, we're at a point where you could refuel your camper while camping, yes?
https://globalnews.ca/news/11845985/valley-line-lrt-vehicle-collision-may-12/
"Global News has reached out to TransEd, which operates the low-floor train line from Mill Woods to downtown, and Edmonton Fire Rescue Services. "
"Um, dumbass ran a red light and hit the broad side of a train. We look forward to draining his accident insurance dry." ?
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@AnotherJen@mindly.social
@AnotherJen@mindly.social @w_b@mastodon.world I don't know if I'd say "really" - it's just literal low-hanging fruit. (And I say fair game, given how much the US loves to poach Canadian talent.)
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@thetyee@mstdn.ca
@thetyee@mstdn.ca As an Albertan, this bit is just *chef kiss*:
" UCP, Trump, Putin — you could call it a ménage à trois. The Albertans couldn’t, though. That would be bilingualism."
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@yngmar@social.tchncs.de
@yngmar @smallsolar If you're renting, how do you get the power into the system? Or do you just power batteries/specific items off the panel?
Building a shed, and not only are the instructions rather terrible, and the website is largely useless (yes, show me some Youtube short where they montage through the build - that's flippin' useful)... a larger search finds a completely *different* instruction manual for the same model number. So now I'm trying to figure out if they mix-and-matched on me.
So, max penalty is 1 year of prison (yeah, *right*) or 100k fine. Which in modern election fundraising is easily considered "cost of doing business".
And that's assuming the gov't even decides to do anything about it.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260430_10/
I don't think any nuclear state has standing to say "oh, we can't let THEM have those DANGEROUS weapons". Y'all clean up your own backyard first.
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@jepyang@wandering.shop
@jepyang I'm presuming this is something baby shower, but my spouse and I took *great* pleasure in trolling family who were sure WE knew and were just being mean and not telling them. (We did not know, and the pleasure was trolling them by randomly swapping pronouns midsentence.)
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@dark_stang@kind.social
@dark_stang@kind.social Companies are getting wise to vendor lock-in. And in a space where every 2.6 seconds some new breathless announcement declares that OmniFriendv420 is out and is 69% Faster than MemeFriday101z, who wants to find out they can't switch?
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@KayOhtie@blimps.xyz
@KayOhtie@blimps.xyz @mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org Also, "rogue" implies it didn't do what you told it to do.
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@ned@beige.party
@ned Counterpoint - I don't need a politician's approval or permission to shun the US. And you better believe I will remember which politicos forgot who they represent next election.
Worth reading, because not only (a) was she legally here, (b) her step-sons weaponized it to punish her over husband's will.
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@LoadingReadyRun@kind.social
@LoadingReadyRun@kind.social Just goes to show that you never get to choose what you're famous for.
(Or your own nickname.)
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@Wearwolf@kind.social
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@JEmphatically@mstdn.ca
@JEmphatically We have great standards; we just don't burden anyone with enforcing them.
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@camertron@ruby.social
@camertron The dream world:
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@neckspike@indiepocalypse.social
@neckspike@indiepocalypse.social @LibertyForward1@beige.party @adhdeanasl@beige.party And you have a completely legit reason - if they're going to discipline or sanction you, they should be clear on precisely *what* you did that they disapprove of.
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@adhdeanasl@beige.party
@adhdeanasl@beige.party I'd also ask for clarification for what "boundary" they consider you to have crossed. Insist on details. In writing. Make 'em sweat a bit. What are they gonna do - double-fire you?
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@Paulatics@mstdn.ca
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca Bravo! And worth mentioning this issue is so old we were making fun of it 60 years ago - perhaps it's time to bring the march back? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHDBL7dVgs
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@hweimer@fediscience.org
@hweimer@fediscience.org Fair, but FT isn't exactly my first choice for unbiased media either. So this is data, sifted by a conservative/right source, further sifted by an even further-right wing US source. (As a 🇨🇦 I get lots of practice in checking US media sources - the cherrypicking, if not outright astroturfing is very real.)
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@hweimer@fediscience.org
@hweimer@fediscience.org Which leads to the next gotcha - even the polling in the US is partisan. Quantus Insights, for instance, leans right - their owner also runs "I Love My Freedom", purveyors of merch with such slogans as "Are you American or a Democrat".
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@KathyReid@aus.social
@KathyReid AOL - when people got it in their head that they could make the internet "profitable".
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@Pepijn@mastodon.online
@Pepijn@mastodon.online I think I've only done it once though, and that was at a distant relation's acreage (they owned horses). I can't think of when else I would have had the opportunity without deliberately seeking it out. And I live in Cowboy Country.
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@SonofaGeorge@mstdn.ca
@SonofaGeorge@mstdn.ca Also, let's fix the framing - Iran is "defending" the strait - it's their territory. The US is calling on suckers to go conquer it.
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@chriscorrigan@mstdn.ca
@chriscorrigan If only - I suspect most of them haven't read any of them at all.
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@chriscorrigan@mstdn.ca
@chriscorrigan What blew my mind is the "oh, we had to remove vol. 3, but the other 8 volumes are OK" (or the even funnier "vol 1-11 aren't safe, but 12,15,16, and 17 are OK"). Oh, and make sure to ban Alison Bechdel - can't be having women talk to each other in media unless it's about boys! 🙄