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Jack_Burton

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  • Congratulations!!

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  • A win's a win but it really was too close for comfort. Gotta stay vigilant and keep the fascists at bay. Thank you though, it's a mice sentiment. We dodged a bullet but the guns still firing.

    Edit: responded to the other guy. Too much booze celebrating beating fascists

  • Congratulations!!

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  • The Link between Cannabis and Psychosis in Teens Is Real

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  • Humans have found creative ways to get fucked up for millennia.

  • The Link between Cannabis and Psychosis in Teens Is Real

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  • Canada legalized it years ago and literally nothing changed. Well, good vibes maybe, but nothing negative.

  • Peter Dutton to leave Coalition leaderless, conceding he has lost his seat of Dickson

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  • I dunno, I'd like to try to be hopeful. The NDP has a real shot to completely rebrand and come back swinging. Convince Charlie Angus to come out of retirement and lead the party, and spend the next however-long-this-term-lasts rebuilding support. I can't think of a better outcome than having to Sophie's Choice between Carney and Angus. Imagine having to choose between 2 legitimately good party leaders.

  • Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge

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  • True enough. I suspect that "yet" will come pretty soon though. I'm hoping all of these 'early AI adopter' companies fuck themselves out of business. With the tech as it is, most companies pivoting their products to AI on the user-end are just introducing a middle man. Once people catch on to it and realize they can just cut out the middle man, they hopefully won't last long.

  • Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge

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  • This kind of thing is what confuses me as a business model. Take audio books for example, Audible is pivoting to ai voices. Why would people spend $20 on an audio book with an ai voice when they can just spend $1.99 on the eBook and run it through an ai voice program themselves?

  • 'Did I Miss Something?': Online Shoppers Shocked as Trump Tariffs Jack Up Prices 145%

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  • This went full circle very efficiently. Well done.

  • Love to see it

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  • Yess PP lost the run for PM and humiliatingly lost his riding, but overall the party grew in influence and in number of seats tremendously under his leadership.

    I agree the Conservatives have grown in influence but I don't believe it was because of Poilievre. It doesn't matter who leads the conservative party, the Canadian pendulum was due to swing back to the Cons, he dropped the ball hard, and probably still would have won if it wasn't for Trump slapping Canada in the face and waking a bunch of us up. Any influence gained was because it was "their turn", not Poilievre's leadership.

    The question is, did the Conservatives come close to winning because of Poilievre, or did they lose a sure thing because of him? Based on what things looked like 6 months ago, I'd say the latter.

  • Love to see it

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  • Pierre Poilievre: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory since 2025

  • Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)

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  • A while back on Reddit I saw a post asking about this stuff. Companies don't need to "listen" anymore, they have much more sophisticated options now. This example will use 3 people: A (wife) B (husband) and C (wife's old friend from school).

    The question: A goes to the store without B, and runs into C, who proceeds to tell A about this cool gaming chair he just got. After the conversation, A puts the interaction aside and never mentions it to B. B later gets ads for the gaming chair. If B never had any interaction whatsoever about the chair, and A never even talked about it to B, how does B get the ads?

    The answer: A goes to the store, and her phone knows this through location data. The algorithm knows A is at the store, and now picks up that C is also at the same store. The algo then finds a connection through social media that A and C know each other, and maybe even knows spending habits and sees A and C buy similar things. The odds are good that A and C will interact at the store.

    C has been searching about this gaming chair for months, has just recently bought it, and talks about it constantly on socials. Odds are good that if A and C interact, C will talk about the chair.

    A has no interest in gaming or tech, but B does. The algo knows A and B are married, and B would be interested in the chair C just bought. There is now a vector to send ads from the interaction of A and C directly to B, even though A never mentioned anything about the chair to B, and B has never even met C.

  • What's the main reason you're degoogling?

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  • Nothing is free. If you don't pay for the product, you are the product.

    Privacy (different from anonymity) has become more and more important to me, and Google had access to nearly every part of my life in one way or another. I've cut out Musk, Zuck and Bezos, and I'm now nearly completely Google free as well.

    I've often heard "why do I care if Google reads my emails? I've got nothing to hide". 2 great answers:

    1. Unlock your phone and give it to me for an hour. Just because you have nothing to hide doesn't mean you don't want privacy. Google does exactly that.
    2. Speaking of privacy, why bother closing the stall door in a public washroom? You're not doing anything wrong in there.

  • It’s Been Canada’s Weirdest Federal Election

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  • Charlie Angus the other day: “Donald Trump, I’m going to say this once—and I might never say it again—I want to thank you. I want to thank you for bringing Canada together.”

    “It took a malignant narcissistic slug like you to make us put aside all our differences—all our regional fights, all our concerns with one another—and realize we actually had to stand up for something better: standing up for the rule of law, for democracy, for decency.”

    Angus went on to hit out at Trump and his “incel gang” who are terrified of diversity, equity and inclusion, adding, “Your DEI nightmare? Well, we are your DEI nightmare, Donald. Canada will always be a country of diversity. We will always be a country of equity. We will always be a country of inclusion. And we will defend the rule of law.”

    Edit: Source

  • Pope Francis has died

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  • Yep, and there's no way Musk, Trump, and Putin aren't trying to rig that vote. A Papal blessing would go a long way to speeding up their march.

  • Peterborough race is the tightest in the country. 1 vote could make it or break it. VOTE!

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  • For now. Conservatives have been inching further right for decades and if the US is any indication, they're gonna start speeding up. Especially if they win this one.

  • Peterborough race is the tightest in the country. 1 vote could make it or break it. VOTE!

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  • I'm sure there are a lot of other people who are thinking the same thing. This is why progression takes so long.

    If you and the others like you vote, you may not change anything, true. However, you may increase the numbers enough to turn the tide in the next election. All votes matter. It'd be interesting to see the results if the 40% of Canadians who didn't vote last election do this time, or did last time.

    There are people who strive to make you believe your vote doesn't matter. Sounds like they were successful.

  • Vote early, vote often. Keep out that Freedom Convoy ass kissing psychopath. Only takes ten minutes.

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  • Same. I went around 3pm and they said it's been like that since they opened at 9. Great to see.

  • China calls bluff on 245% US tariff: 'Meaningless'

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  • He got the highest marks!

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    China pivots from U.S. to Canada for more oil as trade war worsens

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  • Trudeau's Liberals increased defense funding from Harper's Conservative gov't and Carney's Liberals just bought a $6bil state-of-the-art early warning radar defense system from Australia. Seems the Libs take defense more seriously than the Cons.