Well, it's /r/Canada, which is just a right winged mod-controlled shit hole. All the progressives went to /r/onguardforthee a long time ago.

I left Reddit with the API fiasco and never looked back. Happier without it.

Does no one remember the Ashley Madison leaks including .gc.ca emails?

There's a HUGE lobbying effort to convince the people in power that this is a good idea. Lots of tech-surveillance companies bidding for this to go through, so everyone is forced to use their services. You think identity theft is bad now? Wait until you need to put your ID on the internet and that gets leaked.

The Canadian conservatives are in bed with the AfD. They hang out. https://newsie.social/...

One of the people in that photo is Leslyn Lewis, who ran for the leadership of the federal conservative party the last time around and was touted as "a moderate". Hahaha.

Immediate impact:

• wealth tax.

Medium term:

• death tax.
• nonprofit land developments.
• redefinition of the goal of a public corporation from maximizing profit for shareholders to something that makes sense.

Long term:

• effective antitrust legislation, policy, and enforcement.
• worker owned co-ops
• civic education

Edit: I forgot unions and labour protection in immediate impact.

This was a tough read. In a supposedly affirming article, why would you mention the 88% detransition success rate multiple times when you're going to bury the fact that the study has methodological flaws at the very bottom of the article in tiny footnotes?

Do trans people not face enough systemic barriers?

It's that same sovereign nation's acting chief asking for a DNA test. It's between them now.

"This is my favourite Indian restaurant." It has always been my favourite too. I think of John every time I go there. He was old, but passed away suddenly.

It's weird how the strangest things like this stick with you.

If they did that, Reddit would just be an aggregator app of the Fediverse with different communities acting as a new subreddit. The difference would be that they'd have ads and algorithms.

On the Fediverse side, it'd be like having a lemmy.ml with 1000x the traffic and activity. We probably have to defederate to keep up with the traffic and the trolling.

On the plus side, 3rd party apps will be back baybee!

I'm lucky enough to not be on regular medication anymore, but some of my as-needed meds cost $140 without insurance. It's pretty steep.

Layoffs are a thing. Do people just die if they can't afford their meds? I know several people who are staying in their soul crushing jobs because of the benefits. Precarious contract work and part time workers don't get benefits.

We need pharmacare for all.

Will this still be the case after the layoffs? https://www.readthemaple.com/...

Pro tip: for the workday applications with the manual forms, I have a separate file I upload without formatting that perfectly fills out the forms in the fields they want, then I upload a formatted resume.

I'm sure Ronnie would be proud of the person you are today. Thanks for sharing.

Be warned, take out/ delivery on NYE usually takes 1-2 hours longer if you're in the city. Lots of cancellations too. It might ruin your evening.

Do you have a link to this pattern? I like the heel here and I don't love the one I currently use.

Get paid to*. This is labour and we're all exploited.

Companies like this often hire external consultants to do the layoffs. They literally have no skin in the game.

Does this not say it all? "The report estimates that students from India alone will provide Ontario colleges with $2 billion in operating revenue for the 2023-2024 school year. That's slightly more than those colleges receive from the provincial government."

2 decades ago, I was working in city summer camps. Every time there was a smog alert, we had to keep all the kids inside. Every time there was a heat alert, they weren't allowed to run around.

So on the glorious days with heat and smog alerts, you're supposed to somehow plan fun for 10-15 kids from 9-4 without running or going outside. There were not enough classrooms to keep all the kids in arts and crafts. Also, no running in the gym. Do this for days in a row.

I don't miss that job.

When we start talking to each other again without paid influence.

The troubles facing us all, middle class and below, are the same troubles. We need to practice working together locally to build something bigger before major movements are likely to work out. How do we rebuild community nonprofit hubs?