Ah shit, I woulda totally had you over in Vancouver, if I wasn’t away on a trip myself around when you arrive. Maybe after Aug 5th I could, if you haven’t moved to another city.

1. hostels in Canada are generally fine, not luxury but social. Vancouver’s Chinatown is cheap, downtown and well connected. However the downside with the cheap area there is the street can smell and there are plenty of homeless people, minding their own business. Otherwise you’ll be on the outskirts.

2. if you’re getting to know people my age, instagram is pretty popular (i dont have it)

3. people are generally nice all over Canada, hospitality will vary by area and person. Go to nightclubs Fri and Sat mostly if you’re into that. Social spots are cafes bars and beaches.

Gardaworld also let $30M in cash get stolen from a facility they were contracted to guard…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/los-angeles-heist-gardaworld-1.7164442

Ross is definitely concerning himself with a whole host of issues that would be overwhelming for any one person.

I’m glad he’s focused on the one issue of getting more signatures and increasing reach, right to the end of the collection period. Ignoring most of the drama llamas I think is a good way of managing his remaining sanity.

He got many non-budgetary provisions out from the Byrd rule, which is essentially enforcing the rules that allow the thin Republican majority to pass a budget.

But the Republican Senate also made up an accounting magic trick to pretend that a several trillion dollar budget line item has no effect on the deficit. And pretended that this is now a rule because 51 senators think this is a good idea.

Senate Democrats did virtually everything within the legislative process that they could on their own.

House Leader Jeffries did at least delay the vote for 8 hours, 44 minutes to talk about the bill, and bring it to the afternoon news cycle instead of at 4am.

We’ll need a camera to watch the security camera watching the speed camera.

From Obama-care to Republi-kill.

Trillion-dollar taxpayer giveaways to billionaires also bring down the deficit, because reasons.

Well Mamdani is a sign that they (billionaires and establishment politicians) aren’t just ignoring progressives (if that’s what you mean by us), they are actively campaigning against reform, we are pushing back. I know it can feel helpless, but don’t just assume nothing is happening.

Clearly it’s just safety minded individuals acquiring it. This app helps keep communities safe from unmarked armored vehicles filled with masked criminal cop impersonators.

To address your first point. Yes it applies to other software, this initiative applies to games because the “buyer purchases a license to allow the seller to remove your purchase at some indefinite time later” practices have been most prevalent in gaming.

Extending the scope too far will bring in more opponents than allies and muddy the discussion. Getting a decisive answer here will inform laws on how other industries should be regulated in separate but parallel legislative processes.

This this this this this.

I keep saying this refrain. The time to reform the party is after elections, until the primary (NOW). The time to vote for the party is during the election period. Sure, state your grievances anytime or all the time to get your politicians to listen. But handing the win to chaos to state your case gives the way to fascism.

Good job everyone! And to remember that 3 weeks ago we weren’t even halfway…

We still want to call for more to buffer against unverifiable signatures, but even the fact we made it to 1M is a noteworthy achievement.

It’s a hunger games for people trying to get through this online form…

We’re at the final 1K

(Edit) final 200

(Edit2) 1M signatures passed! Woo! Keep it going!

Parliament will have 7 days after it closes before their planned summer recess. You think they will work that quickly to churn out a boilerplate debate?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/politics/trump-continue-control-california-national-guard

Note that the Court has allowed the Trump admin to control California’s national guard, for now. The full case is still ongoing.

It’s always felt funny to me how dumping things turning into the environment rehabilitation are often presented as feel good stories, like throwing subway cars to make coral reefs. Sure they help revitalize ecosystems in many cases but it’s just a weird feeling to me.

The number keeps climbing even though it’s late at night over there! I expect it might slow a bit over the next few hours, but at this rate, we’ll beat it before 11:59pm CEST!

50k more to the goal!

Edit: goal reached before 5:45PM CEST!

In fact CBS execs are holding their mouths to his feet so that Trump can keep holding the threat to deny the merger over their heads.

In Scarborough, Canada where I grew up, shootings occur once every few years at the malls I go to, a library or neighbourbood park I’ve been to or like yeah even if i don’t get a gun pointed at me in my life, knowing that shootings have happened in places I’ve been to is harrowing to know. In the US, it happens several times a year in many neighbourhoods. Compare Chicago and Toronto, cities of similar size and climate, one has 2726 per year shootings, the other has 461…

When mass shootings happen regularly, and knowing that gun ownership is ubiquitous (rather than largely connected to presumably illicit criminal weapons), active shooter drills are as commonplace as fire drills worldwide, it’s a structural fear, of course we’re not paralyzingly afraid all the time, but it’s built into peoples’ upbringing. The effects bubble up in other areas and affect overall happiness.