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That conversation has to happen now as well. But the points I raised are related to despair of the Reconciliation bill passing and those climate setbacks.

Democrats' window of opportunity to change ahead of midterms is NOW until the primaries. (I've said my spiel about it before in this thread)

A survey with the takeaways really gussying up AI and how people that don't use AI haven't had their aha moment yet.

That's where the resistance has to last 16 to 40 months, slowing down and making people aware enough of these things:

• how unserious about budgets Republicans are
• how much they are trying to punish regular people (poor middle and moderately wealthy class),
• while also looking to use the they are spending to subsidize companies, multi-millionaires and billionaires.

Because waste and recycling is a provincial matter (like many things)... saying Canada doesn't have a standardized federal framework is fine, but kind of a shallow take considering this article didn't bring up any provincial examples at all.

BC is on the ball with recycling, reporting and auditing composition.report

Ontario is trying to standardize their system and it puts cost and collection responsibilities on producers supposedly, but it could lead to lower recovery rates.

Alberta or Saskatchewan probably don't care that much, or will support it to the extent it helps oil and resource companies.

Ah shit, I woulda totally had you over in Vancouver, if I wasn't away on a trip myself around when you arrive. Maybe after Aug 5th I could, if you haven't moved to another city.

1. hostels in Canada are generally fine, not luxury but social. Vancouver's Chinatown is cheap, downtown and well connected. However the downside with the cheap area there is the street can smell and there are plenty of homeless people, minding their own business. Otherwise you'll be on the outskirts.
2. if you're getting to know people my age, instagram is pretty popular (i dont have it)
3. people are generally nice all over Canada, hospitality will vary by area and person. Go to nightclubs Fri and Sat mostly if you're into that. Social spots are cafes bars and beaches.

He got many non-budgetary provisions out from the Byrd rule, which is essentially enforcing the rules that allow the thin Republican majority to pass a budget.

But the Republican Senate also made up an accounting magic trick to pretend that a several trillion dollar budget line item has no effect on the deficit. And pretended that this is now a rule because 51 senators think this is a good idea.

Senate Democrats did virtually everything within the legislative process that they could on their own.

House Leader Jeffries did at least delay the vote for 8 hours, 44 minutes to talk about the bill, and bring it to the afternoon news cycle instead of at 4am.

From Obama-care to Republi-kill.

Trillion-dollar taxpayer giveaways to billionaires also bring down the deficit, because reasons.

Clearly it's just safety minded individuals acquiring it. This app helps keep communities safe from unmarked armored vehicles filled with masked criminal cop impersonators.

To address your first point. Yes it applies to other software, this initiative applies to games because the "buyer purchases a license to allow the seller to remove your purchase at some indefinite time later" practices have been most prevalent in gaming.

Extending the scope too far will bring in more opponents than allies and muddy the discussion. Getting a decisive answer here will inform laws on how other industries should be regulated in separate but parallel legislative processes.

Parliament will have 7 days after it closes before their planned summer recess. You think they will work that quickly to churn out a boilerplate debate?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/politics/trump-continue-control-california-national-guard

Note that the Court has allowed the Trump admin to control California's national guard, for now. The full case is still ongoing.

Vote me in once, shame on, shame on you. You vote me... you can't vote again.

In fact CBS execs are holding their mouths to his feet so that Trump can keep holding the threat to deny the merger over their heads.

In Scarborough, Canada where I grew up, shootings occur once every few years at the malls I go to, a library or neighbourbood park I've been to or like yeah even if i don't get a gun pointed at me in my life, knowing that shootings have happened in places I've been to is harrowing to know. In the US, it happens several times a year in many neighbourhoods. Compare Chicago and Toronto, cities of similar size and climate, one has 2726 per year shootings, the other has 461...

When mass shootings happen regularly, and knowing that gun ownership is ubiquitous (rather than largely connected to presumably illicit criminal weapons), active shooter drills are as commonplace as fire drills worldwide, it's a structural fear, of course we're not paralyzingly afraid all the time, but it's built into peoples' upbringing. The effects bubble up in other areas and affect overall happiness.

If the EU petition makes it, then it will provide the UK petition support too as part of whatever debate goes on about it.

In suburban North America... steps outside you have nothing but roads with cars going 50km/h+, no shops or cafes to walk to because of zoning laws, maybe a small park a 15 minute walk away.

You have to have your parents take you places, you cannot go anywhere alone. In the USA you also have to worry about potential shooters because people play fast and loose with gun laws there.

Spent a moment at Kitsilano Beach it was unrecognizably crowded, which is great!

Got to reconnect with friends, play some games (finally some time for Civ 6, PEAK), enjoyed a day of rest.

It's a good day to be proud of our country and proud of each other. With this confidence we should recognize the Indigenous roots of our country and write a new chapter in reconciliation and collaboration with our diverse population across our nation.

Any Linux OS with Steam installed, but yes most likely the same on SteamOS.

My experience with games on Steam:

• 75% of games: Click to Download, click Play, nothing more needed.
• 20% of games will work, might need to select a special Proton version or put in one command.
• 4% of games need tweaks specific to that game, to enable multiplayer, get around certain crashes etc., OR the game works fine but multiplayer doesn't work at all due to anticheat set to block Wine users.
• 1% of games don't work at all due to either anticheat, DRM or another problem.

Workshop works just fine, 3rd party mods will often work, but then you'll need to get into the weeds of Wine to properly set it up, since installers are separate to the game.

That's what I fear. I know Carney is smarter than Orange Shitbag, and has some idea of when to fold and when to hold em'. But what he did with the DST could very well embolden Trump to say:

• "No negotiation until you repeal Supply Management!"
• "No negotiation until you make your crossborder water/power agreements fully in our favour!"
• "No negotiation until you pass legislation that gives us free access to data on your citizens!"
• "No negotiation until you sufficiently erode your environment, Indigenous and woke DEI laws!"
• "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"