No offense but you all need to dig deep down and get some of the anger that the MAGA group has.
we’re really going to give up.
You would never hear them say this in response to elections becoming unfair. They’d be burning down the house. Turns out they got everything they wanted from doing this, so why is the left absolutely collapsing and instead focusing on demonstrations akin to whatever happened on the 4th. Time to put on your vagina hats and go for a walk.
then they vote left for unfunded spending
Explain how the Doug Ford victory falls under this with his $400M spent on rushing the beer in grocery stores policy instead of waiting 6 months and getting it for free, or the proposed $800B highway tunnel under the 417 (which would likely be over 1T). I suppose I just don’t see the left being the party of unfunded spending, because I don’t think he’s going to make the profits from this just by selling Ontario Place.
Maybe I’m missing something, but he ripped up a contract that was just recently signed. This seems to be related to existing contracts that are separate from the 100m contract.
It’s tough to balance the worth for me on this one. Should we expect these communities to have to rely on internet when they are clearly so broken off, or should we be providing these services as infrastructure as a country through installation of cables to connect them (which would likely admittedly be tough with the distances through bushes).
I’d argue the best option is to continue funding this service separately, just to keep the users up north online for their court visits, while working on establishing our own service. I’d prefer if we didn’t have to litter the skies with satellites for our solution as well, I don’t like the amount of space junk above us currently.
At which point that would require funding from our government, and it looks like regardless of who gets in, we’re going into austerity measures, so I won’t be holding breath that our R&D goes into this service.
Tough one and unfortunately it looks like the north is going to be underserved. Which, also unfortunately, with the number of voters/people up there, is likely to continue as I doubt this will be a focus on people’s voting decisions. Especially not 4 years from now when we have another provincial election.
Agreed with this. Started in the CIV world with 5, then a buddy introduced me to Rome:Total War and it was like finding crack. I still like to take over all of Europe at some point once a year.
Just a heads up OP, the games are limited to regions of the world, it’s never the full globe.
Holy shit between this and the Governor hot wheels comment recently she’s just showing that she might be just as much a liability as she will be a newfound asset lately. The passion is great, but it feels like there’s not as much of a filter on what she’s putting out there in some heated moments. Not like I’m perfect, I’d probably pull some similar petty shit after enough speeches but that’s why I’m not in government.
If you don’t mind me asking, just because I’m curious, what age range do you place yourself in? I don’t want to know your actual age because I hate asking people for that direct of information online, but just using 5 year intervals, are you 20-25, 25-30, etc.? Only if you’re comfortable answering because I’m interested in understanding trends as best I can.
I’ll probably keep voting Democrat for local elections because I like the things my local reps have been doing
I also think this is important to note, because a lot of the time the work is done at the lower level. Obviously with the current admin that has changed for America, but I’m at least happy to hear you feel represented by your local reps.
Counterpoint, but CREATING content like this is 90% of the reason, and these people should be remembered in history as the cockroaches they are. I can at least understand people who get mad at bait.
So who do you plan to vote for next election then?
They have to live with the fact they didn’t vote as the next Hitler takes hold, it’s also the only thing their stupid little minds can use to go on without acknowledging their conscience that wants them to yeet themselves out a window.
We’ve been trying to warn you americans not to just do idle threats.
Do the not so idle ones without the warning. If you’re going to get sent to El Salvador, make it worth while.
The way I understand CSIS is it’s more focused on tracking online actions, akin to chats plotting terrorism. I dont think they focus on actual bodies in other countries or tracking other country activities.
“We need people to have the threat of death to work” isn’t the offer you think it is you fuck.
Absolutely a fair question, and to answer, I have a number of friends that I skate with who represent many swaths of the community. We get along great and enjoy each others company, but at the same time, most are also younger than me, mostly younger to mid 20s, so I’m aware that how engaged we are is different.
These youths are engaged heavily, being involved in the Palestine protests, and very vocal about the war since it began. I’ll admit I’ve known about the settler issue in Palestine for the better part of a decade now, so I did find it upsetting that at the beginning it felt like there were a number of people “jumping on the bandwagon” of protesting, but after a little introspection I remembered that I was young and didn’t know about these things, and it had to be taught to me too.
A few of my older friends who identify as gay though also had a similar hesitation of getting involved in the protests. I think there’s a subset who have been harassed by the religions communities (and I don’t just mean palestinian religions, Christian and others as well) and would prefer that the pride parade stays a reminder of what they fought for in the generations before, and have overcome to have a much more free society for them today. Liberation does mean liberation for all, just that some people don’t feel like that group wants them to be liberated. I think the difference in age gap is what has interested me about this difference (is dichotomy the right word?
All of this to say, I just didn’t attend. I was happy that the people attending felt seen or heard, and I went on with my day. It’s a reminder that while I had an opinion and didn’t agree how things were handled, it’s not the end of the world and doesn’t really affect me that much.
It likely won’t be the best received, but I wasn’t a fan of the Ottawa Pride group making this decision last year to allow the pride parade to become a Palestine protest as well.
The largest reason for me is that here in Ottawa, we have had Palestinian protests each week through the summer. There was no shortage of Saturdays where Elgin and other areas were shut down for the protests to move through town. All of this I have no problem with, and it’s part of living in the nations capital.
The problem I had with it was including the movement in the pride parade because I’m uncomfortable with a pro-palestinian message from the LGBTQ+ community because it just doesn’t exist over there. There’s a positive vibe during the pride parades about what the community has worked through and what it continues to work through, and I’m sorry but I still think too much about what some religions want to do to these groups, so mixing the messages doesn’t sit well to me.
This inclusion of the Palestine protest in the pride parade ended up with it losing a lot of funding, and supporters as well who didn’t want to get involved in the Palestinian protests, whether they supported them or not. For some of them pride is a celebration and seeing it turned into something else didn’t sit well.
Just a local opinion and the vibe that I sensed from the less-online community (read:older). It’s really not something that ended my support of anything, just something that I felt tried too hard to be inclusive.
If I had to guess for NFLD, it’s likely it’s distance from everything. Costs to ship foods, plus I don’t know what sort of ability there is to grow their own food there, isn’t most of the province just rock? Maybe someone from there would know that better but otherwise I think just fuel and shipping costs are enough.
Not sure what the need to be a dick about this it, but I don’t agree that just because they are a “sliver of phone users” doesn’t mean what they’re talking about isn’t still important. It’s good for users to try and think of ways to keep things the least expensive for themselves, while increasing their technical knowledge. I’m seeing a lot of younger people without any basic knowledge of technology who are going to be at the whim of changes made by tech giants because they don’t know how to modify their own systems.
The more people work together and ask questions to try and grow as well as try and share their discontent with design decisions of those tech giants in hope others might take note and stop, the better. It’s a small effort by one person, but it’s more than just throwing up their hands and saying “just get a thumb drive and stop crying”.
Yeah maybe I’m just a soft user but all of my SD cards have held up over the years. Although to your point I try and always get brand name cards.
Yeah I saw this and all I could think was “Mad! The guy is going to be mad about all of the stupid while also knowing he can’t use his fists to make it (actually) better”. A constant cycle of never having all of the solutions or a way to feel better.
I’m one of the people who have helped set up a community for skaters/longboarders in my city which has seen a great regular base of people coming back weekly. The ages vary from all spans. Do you want to know what I’ve found the key to be?
A) The meetups have to be accessible to the group, meaning something which doesn’t require people to pay for. People can’t afford anything right now, especially the younger people. Having somewhere public to go and hang out together and skate is a huge benefit. The costing leads us into the second more important step;
B) community willing to gift old gear to new riders. If people come join our community, there is often someone available with an extra board they don’t use as much and are happy to gift to new riders who seem interested in following meets. Finally, and actually the most challenging;
C) making sure to limit political discussions. People in our group of over 40 people obviously have a wide swath of beliefs, and if anyone gets discriminatory, we shut that shit down and explain to those people that the group is inclusive and has no interest in those discussions here. We always have the risk of members clashing, but with a larger group we’ve found over the past couple of years we’re able to at least shut that stuff down sooner, since the majority of people involved just want others to skate with and make friends with for their hobbies, and less so their beliefs.
All of this to say the most important part is free third places. If people don’t have places they can go together that doesn’t empty their wallets, then yeah, people are going to stop going out and will stay inside instead. It’s another failing from the generations that have come before closing down more public spaces and trying to monetize everything, including government services.