zaphod @ zaphod @lemmy.ca

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I couldn't agree more, but it's very clear that right-wing parties in both the US and Canada have decided to turn trans rights into a wedge issue they can use to divide and distract voters, just as they've always done with marginalized groups in the past. It's a playbook as old as time (just ask the gay community, or the black community, or the Jewish community, or...), and it's always been incredibly disgusting and very successful: pick a group that's too small to be an actual danger and pump them up into a threat that only the right wingers can save us all from. And if you're thinking "huh, didn't I hear somewhere that that's what fascists do?"... well... yeah, exactly.

Well, I can say Picard has been pretty well flawless for me. And in those few instances where it misidentifies something, you can always do a manual search and match.

Nine times out of ten my process is to load the tracks into Picard, cluster them, look them up, do a quick scan to confirm it looks good, and then save the updated metadata. For those few times it messes up, I just reload the files, cluster them, then do a manual search to find the appropriate release. It really is very good at its job.

You mean the economic uncertainty that's led to another quarter of huge wage gains and job growth? That uncertainty?

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-job-gains-triples-expectations-september-wage-growth-accelerates-2023-10-06/

Canada's economy more than tripled expectations by adding 63,800 jobs in September and wages continued to soar, data showed on Friday, upping the chances for another rate hike.

The jobless rate stayed at 5.5% for a third consecutive month, Statistics Canada said. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a net gain of 20,000 jobs and for the unemployment rate to edge up to 5.6% from 5.5% in August.

Please. This is yet another corporation using economic fear mongering to justify cutting jobs to goose their quarterly earnings. Nothing to see here.

But, I'm sure that recession is right around the corner!

Good to see at least someone around here has some fucking clue regarding the purpose of this law...

1. Just "feeling mentally unwell", as another commenter put it, is not enough to qualify. The law specifically requires the applicant "experience unbearable physical or mental suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline that cannot be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable" and "be in an advanced state of decline that cannot be reversed"
2. If someone makes a "request for medical assistance in dying, 2 independent medical practitioners (physicians or nurse practitioners) must assess it."

From: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html

And that's just a couple of the high bars one must clear to qualify.

But, I can say this about Lemmy: given the quality of the discussion on this post, this place really has turned into an excellent replacement for Reddit!

Beat me to it. Here's the quote in context:

I think we're on the right path in terms of ensuring we've got a work environment and culture that allows people to be productive, to have balance in their lives, and to grow within the company. Everyone has the right to form a union, and certainly in the future, wherever it takes us, we'll respect that. But we're very much focused right now on how to create the best work culture and environment we possibly can.

We're always listening to our workers and we want to make sure we have both formal and informal ways of getting worker feedback and understanding the needs of our employees and where we can improve. And we always act on that feedback. And, as I said earlier, there is always a right to form unions and we respect that.

Well, yeah, congrats, he basically just stated the law: yes, everyone (in the US and many other countries) has the right to form unions. To "respect that" is to acknowledge that right.

I know the bar is damn low for good corporate behaviour, but man, it's apparently way lower than I realized...

It's called a distraction. Give voters something meaningless to be mad about and they won't notice the things they should be getting mad about. Smith is doing the same thing in Alberta with this whole APP thing. It's 100% a distraction so voters don't notice the crumbling healthcare, overpriced heating and electricity, etc.

Seconded. Precisely how I organize things. I use MusicBrainz Picard to clean up metadata before adding music to my collection.

"Fall apart" as a pretty strong statement. I'm not gonna claim the second two trilogies are as amazing as the first, but the entire series is damn good.

Can confirm. The survey they put out, for example, is cartoonishly biased. E.g., paraphrasing a real question: "How should the province invest the massive savings from switching to its own pension plan?"

I'm shocked they didn't just have one question: Do you think the APP will be a) a great thing for the people of Alberta, or b) the greatest thing for the people of Alberta?

Seconding Synphonium, it's surprisingly good and gets updates very regularly.

Brussel sprouts are delicious. Modern versions have had their bitterness bred out. Roasted until crispy with olive oil and garlic and salt and they're fantastic.

Problem is the fools that boil or steam them. That way lies little green brains.

Ah, I see you skipped the "tyranny of the majority" section during social studies...

Some people don't. That's why air sickness bags exist.

Maybe he's afraid the public will find out he's ineligible for some reason...

It's already been heavily reported that Canadian officials did bring this up with Indian officials behind closed doors. India refused to assist in any way. So now the government is going public because a) Canadians deserve to know what's going on and that they're defending our sovereignty, and b) to create pressure on the Indian government.

This isn't that mysterious.

Another vote for Debian stable. You can use Jellyfin's repos to get an up to date version and bookworm will be solid for years which is what you want out of an appliance. And when you are ready to upgrade from stable to stable, Debian handles in-place upgrades better than anything else out there.

You know what they say about the right: every accusation is a confession.

I totally agree with you. The article is just shitty (which seems to be a pattern with coverage of this story).

It's also wrong. We know the five eyes have been involved in providing intelligence on the incident. Canada hasn't publicly released evidence, but to therefore conclude there isn't any or it hasn't been shared privately is a pretty big leap.