streetfestival @ streetfestival @lemmy.ca

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I agree. But I think the frightening thing is while the US is at the forefront, fascism is rising more broadly. The UK designated Palestine Action a terrorist group and arrested 28 people the other day on charges of supporting a terrorist organization - a charge associated with imprisonment- for holding placards saying they denounce genocide and support Palestine Action. Netherlands head of state mentioned introducing a law whereby it will be a crime to help someone who is in the country illegally (i.e, an Anne Frank law). Canada, BC, and Ontario just passed bills where government officials can circumvent a whole bunch of regulations when they see fit. Our nation is still sending or selling supplies to Israel, who's committing ethnic cleansing in plain sight.

I'm not just concerned about Americans being asleep at the wheel. I'm concerned about a lot more of the global population being asleep at the wheel. But chicken and the egg. Things wouldn't have got this bad if people weren't asleep at the wheel.

And I feel the rise of late-stage capitalism leading to fascism is strongly associated inaction and denial of climate change.

It made me feel something to see David Suzuki recently say that the fight against climate change has been lost and to hear many others say "this resonates, at least in part, with me."

I'm not sure things will turn around until civilians do start fighting back and overthrow a government. I don't know if it will happen in my lifetime or not. But I'm starting to think it might be a good idea to prepare for that, so that I'm ready and can contribute

So I am a full-fledged Canadian, lol, but this is not stuff I know a lot about. Reddit might be a good way to find more suggestions for local things like inexpensive places to stay or fun things to do. AirBNB is a place to find short-term rentals. Hostels are a thing. How East of Toronto do you plan to go? I think you'll find Canadians quite welcoming. Check out the things that are up your alley and I'm sure you'll strike up some friends in those spaces. A solo vacation is really cool, good on you. I haven't done it, but I hope to in the next couple years

Surely with Toronto Police Services' budget they could better protect speed cameras if they wanted to

Crypto's the path towards a fairer society economically-speaking, good to know /s

Regulate society for the greatest good. Living in a playground for the ultra-wealthy is not it

I'll have what he's having 😜

Agreed. AB's made lots of bad drug purchasing decisions, like this one: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-turkish-tylenol-donation-1.7573150

Seems like overreach into healthcare decision-making from an incompetent government. And their solution to the problem of government overreach reducing healthcare efficiency seems to be reducing public healthcare services (i.e., provincially covered COVID vaccines)

Where does that extra money that we now pay for groceries go?

There was a huge boom in profits starting in 2022 through to today. We’ve never seen profit-taking like this. It was an unbelievably great time for corporate Canada. When you break it down by industry, most of those profits were going to oil and gas. For example, in the supply chain of potato chips there’s diesel used to farm the potatoes, cook them, and move them to stores. A lot of that increase didn’t go to the grocery store selling the chips. It went to energy companies.

Kakistocracy is not natural

I can't believe the notwithstanding clause was used to restrict the rights of trans youth. This @#$%ing world and all the right-wing assholes in decision-making positions is depressing

I objected to "horribly written" but I 100% agree with "should be written more accessibly." I'm going to drop the author a line, because this is important info for Canadians to know about, and as you say it should be more broadly accessible.

I see how residents-internists is confusing. The general work-study term "intern" isn't used at all in medicine. Probably because it's vague with respect to training (and thus responsibility) level. Trainee doctors go from "med students" (3-4 years) to "residents" (2-4 years) - and sometimes "fellow" (2-3 years) - before becoming a staff doctor. I'm not a doctor but I work with some

It's all part of the business model. The LLMs won't be free forever. Build dependence on LLMs and destroy alternatives, to create future paying customers. Convenience is the trojan horse of all corporate tech these days. What tech bros want is for access to human knowledge to only be accessible through proprietary pay-for-access LLMs that they can manipulate (e.g., re-define all racism as anti-white racism)

It's written at a college level per Flesh-Kincaid readability stats obtained from MS Word.

The more often you 'ask ChatGPT the explain it to me' the more often you'll have to do that, instead of investing a few extra minutes, looking up some new terms, and expanding your vocabulary and reading comprehension - gains that you will take with you to everything you read subsequently.

There is some jargon and it's not the simplest piece. But your complaints are more about your decreasing independence at reading texts. Use it or lose it

shields them from “accidentally” oversharing it

Could you please clarify? Is that referring to legal protection in the case of a consumer data breach? Because that'd be highly objectionable

Liberals are the conservative party now. The CPC is the Reform party

omgosh. Yes, I'm rooting for that adorable baby loon 😥

Gorgeous! Well done, all involved :D

Fascism and democracy not compatible, more news at 6

Yup. I also think big money realizes it can do whatever it wants now (post-COVID; grocery price-gouging, Palestine genocide, Trump and ICE, etc). People just take it these days. A good part of that is they don't know any better, because of the highly-biased infotainment they consume and regard as news, either in the mainstream media or social media

I live in Toronto and can speak to what's happening here. The financialization of housing is to blame. Most new builds are condos, many units are smaller than most people would want to have a family in.

https://thehub.ca/2025/05/17/chart-storm-five-graphs-on-torontos-historic-condo-market-collapse/

Some of the condo units for sale in Toronto are about 550 square feet, are cheaply made, have poor layouts and are listed for over $760,000; small, subpar quality, and expensive.

The quantity of unsold completed units has more than doubled compared to last year, marking the highest level of unsold completed units in Toronto since the first quarter of 1993. Experts at the real estate think tank Urbanation anticipate that the increase in completed and unsold inventory will persist in 2025, with an additional 2,411 unsold units expected to be finished by the close of 2025.

So what's being built is designed to meet investor interests but not community needs.

These units are also listed at incredibly high prices, so that if interest rates drop a bit, units lose the value they are listed at pre-construction, and quickly become negative assets from the perspective of a homeowner versus a long-term investor.

And all this is market-priced housing, not the subsidized housing we desperately need in addition to affordable and adequate market-based housing.

Affordable housing was a non-partisan issue before the financialization of housing in Canada in the 1990s