AI can’t make anything new, it can only copy what’s existing. Essentially serving slop every time. Best it can ever do is make a meme game that’s fun to play as a joke for an hour or two.

Long overdue and much needed across the country to stop the destruction of our ecosystem. Ecuador, Bolivia, India, and Panama did something similar a few years back by giving nature wide sweeping legal rights. It sets a a good legal framework to push back on corporate exploitation. That said, it’s still a long way away from actively being able to stop the force of our economic objectives and definitely needs a society that’s ready to uphold them in order to succeed.

This is a good article around Bolivia’s laws that offered some apt observations on how this won’t be enough (even though I fully support it): https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/bolivias-mother-earth-laws-is-the-ecocentric-legislation-misleading/

“The Mother Earth laws sadly have become statutory devices to legalize the exploitation of natural resources in Bolivia, instead of protecting Mother Earth. By promoting extractive activities in order to achieve the Living Well objective, on one side, and the defense of Mother Earth, on the other, these laws end up being highly contradictory, making environmental protection a secondary objective, which is contingent to the government’s prevailing economic interests. In reality these laws did not translate into any improvement in environmental policies in Bolivia and they only served to bolster the deceptive image of the Bolivian government as an international pioneer in environmental protection.

It is not enough to pass laws with abstract Indigenous visions and apparent non-capitalistic concepts if they are not coupled with concrete practices, real actions and enforceability mechanisms. These laws will never be effective if there are no new public policies to change the current non-sustainable production pattern, shifting away from extractive practices that go against Mother Earth’s survival. As long as there is this fundamental dissonance between these laws’ provisions, other legal provisions and specially the Bolivian government’s practices, there is little hope for any improvements in future environmental and animal protection efforts based on there Mother Earth Laws.”

I wouldn’t call it a con. NDP just hasn’t offered a good enough federal leadership since Jack Layton. And I wouldn’t say the liberals rule entirely on the right, they have made plenty of good progressive strides. I think this type of rhetoric is conservatives trying to weasel their way into an “I told you our ideas were good” territory. The real issue is that corporatism is very embedded in politics and the economy is highly dependent on their success.

Remember - censoring words also makes something harder to search for in the future, allowing future propagandists to skew their own metrics.

Nothing wrong with the methods. If anything they are not harsh enough.

It’s always funny seeing how stories like this get the gun nuts out of the woodwork to start complaining about local gun control. The problem will always be twofold. Local guns need to be controlled, and the traffic of contraband needs to be controlled. The end result we want is to avoid becoming a gun infested shithole like the US. NRA talking points can go take a hike off a cliff.

Because they’re just as stupid as other people, but they’ve also got the survivorship bias compounding the effect of their stupidity.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Romania and other places in European have unlimited data for under $10/month. Meanwhile here in Canada an unlimited plan is over $100/month. God forbid you have a non-unlimited plan (which is still more expensive than an unlimited plan in EU btw) and you have a cap on your data, because with the way the internet is these days the amount of bloatware on every website will kill your data allocation in a week, and then you’re left with overage charges that double your monthly fees. You either get screwed now or get screwed later. Those are your choices when it comes to telecom companies in Canada.

Get rid of the execs and their overinflated salaries/bonuses instead. How’s that for agile?

Seems to me the Township admin should be going after the private owner of the billboard sign that’s currently leasing the digital display to Morgan. Weird how this private entity has been kept anonymous in the reporting.

As uninspiring and dystopian as a parking lot is, I think in this particular place we’re at, it can be helpful. There’s lots of car traffic by the lakefront after people exit the highway, and instead of them trying to drive up the narrow streets looking for parking at various residences and roadsides they can now leave their car here and potentially take public transport for any further uptown activities. It might help relieve some congestion and it’s owned by the government of Ontario so the profit it generates can be helpful. I’m not a fan of the whole Ontario Place debacle and the 99 year lease for a spa, but I can see the upside of this one. Or maybe I’m just overdosing on copium because there’s nothing I can do to keep DoFo’s meddling fingers out of Toronto.

~$200K annual salary btw

They definitely should reduce speeds. Add speed cameras into the mix too. A society that protects non-car drivers is way more healthy and happy than one that only looks out for car drivers’ best interests.

NDP’s Wab Kinew as PM would be an amazing thing for the country. He seems like exactly what we’d need after Carney.

Procedurally generated incoherent non-permanence slop. Like playing some sort of 90s techno music video minus the campiness. Check out Google Genie for an example.

Corporate laws feel like such a joke when they can just open subsidiaries in other countries and bypass the laws their parent companies are beholden to. Canada needs to clamp down on this and show they’re better than their US counterparts, otherwise they’ll lose their soft power advantage on the international stage.

I just realized if Alberta separates Poilievre loses his seat in parliament again lol. It almost sounds worth it…but nah, there’s plenty of other ways Pierre can be humiliated.

No worries. Wasn’t trying to lecture you, just thought your comment was a good segue. I appreciated your fact as well.

Yes and that’s exactly why I use this place. I don’t want another Reddit. I want a space where a different viewpoint can be fostered.