Kichae @ Kichae @lemmy.ca

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And the 338 model now has the CPCs firmly in minority territory, with the Liberals potentially able to maintain power with NDP & Green support.

You the People cannot be trusted to keep fascism at bay.

Of course they can't. The founding mythology? The military fluffing? The pervasive propaganda over American exceptionalism?

It's a fascist country. It just doesn't always have a totalitarian government.

It's probably not cheaper than just shooting orphans for sport.

Totally. Sobeys also hasn't thrown up any plexiglass mazes, at least around here. That was the last time I ever stepped foot in a Lowblaws.

Fuck Loblaws, but don't expect Sobeys to be better at properly labeling Canadian products. The number of Canadian made products, by Canadian owned businesses that don't have the little maple leaf tag next to them is very questionable in its own right. American brands selling the same product types have been getting the label, though, which is highly suspect.

Just assume those little stickers have been paid for at any big chain.

Gotta go further south this time. Warching Mar-a-Lago burn will be fun.

Yeah! We should all be handing out swords in these uncertain times!

Most employers don't truly care about productivity or output. They just care about getting to control other people.

I mean, none of these people ever question Tesla's valuation in the first place. Why is the stock losing all of this value?

Maybe it's because Tesla sells a tiny number of units, cannot turn a profit without government subsidies, and produces by most accounts a really meh fleet of vehicles. There was no sane reason for it to be valued equally to the rest of the auto industry combined.

Even at half that value today, the number is beyond unjustifiable.

My understanding, though, as a Canadian, is that refusing to sell Jack Daniel's is over-stepping, and that they have the unalienable right to be on whatever privately owned shelves and sold in whatever privately owned facilities they wish, regardless of threats made to autonomy or safety.

Sub-forums here expect people from remote sites to comment on them. They're not just for local users. Most sites aren't going to have an Ali Express community on them for you to comment on.

Check the community's rules before posting, in case it's very specifically Ali Express discussion for software developers, and also so you know the nuances of that particular community, but don't feel like you can't engage with communities on the other side of the fence.

This whole space is best thought of "This forum I'm a member of, plus all these other things over there that I'd like to see, too!"

So, there are a couple of issues with 'streamlining', the big one being that Lemmy isn't a single service, controlled by a single entity. It's a website engine, that lets anyone create a reddit-like content aggregator service. There are a thousand "Lemmys" out there, each one owned and operated independently from each other. Most of them are just engaged in an implicit content free-trade agreement.

So, how do you streamline that?

The apps are also made by whoever wants to make them. And none of them are made by the development team behind the Lemmy software.

How do you streamline that?

And, importantly, do you want to? Because stream-lining means centralizing ownership of it all, which leads us right back to the kind of situation that every major social platform is currently experiencing: taking away control from the user.

The tech isn't the barrier. It's the communication. People keep saying "join Lemmy!" as if it's a place you can go to, and not 1000 different places.

Thank you!

It doesn't take that many people to create an active forum. It takes even fewer to make for an active sub-forum. And it's so easy to pull in content from elsewhere here if you want to discuss it with your little group.

The push towards centralizing Lemmy has always seemed like an artifact of people not actually wanting to leave Reddit, but drawing a line in the sand anyway.

Tankies are people who play apologetics for authoritarian dictators who have claimed to be socialist or communist, and who will often excuse any action in opposition to "the west".

More formally, they're the cathartic branch of Marxist-Leninists (MLs). Lemmy's a small space, and it's a place that many MLs landed after bouncing off of Reddit, and the core developers count themselves as MLs.

The flagship Lemmy server is lemmy.ml, but the Tankie trolls have their own server, lemmygrad.ml where they go and be all 4chan-like.

Smith's been behaving rather strangely around all of this. She's doing the Tulsi Gabbard routine, getting her face out there next to promanent conservative talking heads, which is an exit strategy when you've just torpedoed your political career in a more liberal riding.

But she in True Blue Alberta, with no real sign that the NDP is resurging.

Is there reason to believe she's going to fail her next leadership review?

I noticed many of the same things mentioned in the article, and I noticed it almost immediately.

There's a New Brunswick-based company -- Bourbors -- that makes, among other things, peanut butter. Sobeys does not list the product as Canadian.

Right below it is Kraft peanut butter, which gets a big ol' Maple Leaf next to its price tag.

Now, I know little about peanut butter, but what I do know is that A) we don't grow peanuts in Canada, at least not to scale, B) Bourbors is a Canadian company, and C) Kraft is not. Even if Kraft is grinding the peanut butter in Canada, its operations are not more Canadian than Bourbors.

I wandered the store looking at other products, and noticed the same thing: Products from bigger companies were labeled as Canadian, with very little pretense, while things I knew were made in Canada and sold by Canadian companies were not. Almost anything with Compliments branding was labelled as Canadian, even if I knew the product likely wasn't made in Canada.

You can't trust the big grocery stores. Not for a second.

These are not protectionist tariffs. He's not trying to encourage US manufacturing.

He's trying to get other countries to bend the knee, and abandon their right to regulate their economy and their environment.

A company headquartered in Canada and "Canada" are very different things.

I can't believe I live in an era where we celebrate blocking ourselves off from space for the sake of private interests selling higher resolution porn to rural communities. Especially when we could just be investing in public, terrestrial infrastructure.

Jesus F. Christ, that's a stunning victory.

I cannot stress this strongly enough: You have not been "using Lemmy" for 1.5 years now. "Lemmy" isn't a service the same way Reddit is, it's a web engine, like Joomla, or like phpBB.

You've been using lemm.ee for 1.5 years.

Nobody wants to hear this, but there's no "Lemmy". This emergent network of social media sites isn't a coherent thing, and it's not a stable concept. The attempts to make this look like a singular space are to the ultimate detriment of the network, because implicitly lying to end users about what they're doing informs how they behave.

You've been using lemm.ee. Lemm.ee has copies of content on other websites, but those websites have different rules, and different expectations than lemm.ee. You don't get to pretend otherwise because of where you're reading the content, and there is no guarantee that you will have further access to content from any other website than lemm.ee.

This is a reality that people simply do not want to face, for some reason. Everyone wants to imagine that federation is just centralized social media with some voodoo in the background, but it is a fundamentally different paradigm, and this is the wild fucking west.

You're going to get your toes stepped on if you treat it like something it's not.