https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBvFWXQX-lA&t=540

My information is based on this portion of a CBC Rosemary Barton interview with Kinew on how they plan on implementing the social media ban.

We’re just going to simplify things. I think will help parents too, who are probably spending a lot of heartburn and stress trying to navigate these issues with their parents [sic]. If you know, maybe mom and dad don’t have to be the bad guy, they could just point the finger at the Premier and say it’s his fault - I’m happy if that helps the average family out there.

And then just when it comes to implementation, we’ll be working over the next few months with families and teachers in the province just to make sure we get the message out. To be absolutely clear, the accountability is not to be on the parents or the family or the kid. The accountability will rest on the big tech platforms. When it comes to parents and kids, our approach will be education. But when it comes to the accountability and living up to this ask, that’s where we will be going to the big tech platforms, most of whom are American.

So what he’s saying doesn’t necessarily preclude age verification, but the principal emphasis seems to be on normalizing social media free schools and homes than prescribing a verification policy. We’ll see Saturday if it’s anything more than that. I’ll come back and say I’m wrong if such a ban comes with prescriptive age verification.

I think the NDP approach is the ideal one. We don’t need to legislate a requirement for mass age tracking and surveillance, but we need to give parents and schools the appropriate tools and a legal reason to keep kids away from big tech, and penalties for companies that through dark patterns entice kids and teens to be addicted to their platform.

“If I were PM everything would be good!”

In an alternate dimension:

“I’m the PM, but everything’s not good because of Trudeau!!! Waaaaah!”

Oshkosh definitely is like “We’ll haul anything: Your missiles to the launcher, your tank to the front line, your garbage to the dump, your firefighting ass to the blaze, your concrete to the construction site, yo mama up and down, your broken down truck to the mechanic, your mail someday… and uh… no idea how that sports car got in the shot”

Yeah absolutely there’s a lot of topics and subjective stuff where agreement to disagree can happen. Being capable of admitting wrong is different than readily admitting wrong at the first disagreement and I do not expect that, but there’s a stubborn kind of tone that I can tell someone will not consider any contrary evidence, which lessens the need to continue the conversation.

If a Democratic President makes it in, I’d want the White House to become the Rainbow House, and the East Wing to become the MAGA Wall of Shame- memorial.

I will defend someone who says something I don’t agree with, if they’re being respectful and willing to admit they are wrong or open to changing their mind.

I won’t defend someone saying something I think is right or I totally agree with, if they’re being a jackass about it.

I’ve seen threads where both things happen consecutively, and they both get downvoted anyway 😅.

Doesn’t lag for me, but it has a ridiculous animating background visual that doesn’t cover the whole vertical screen.

Shifting… now that this dinner postponed thirty days, all the journalists’ schedules are out of whack and it is absolute chaos.

And it would be perfect to convert this into a California annuity/state wealth fund that would turn it into, I estimate, some M hundred million dollars or more a year.

There was one particular drama I have in mind but I knew as I was writing, but people may come back months later and think the same thing. I still kept it that way as it will still ring true regardless of what the next drama will be.

I know reddit used to have a “general” reddit.com page at the beginning, but here it is more like world shitpost where people put whatever.

You may or not have seen recent cross-instance dramas, but that is part of the reason why I think it is better to have a fragmented and decentralized set of instances instead of one melting pot, so that it’s not one set of admins calling the shots on behalf of all of Lemmy.

The thing is, with the amount of education funds available, the way how kids with special needs were able to school before was more or less to seperate them from the other kids, and operate their classroom more like a prison. Sending them to a combined class but ejecting them partway through the day almost every day seems no better for anyone.

Usually I get into a game because I have a goal, which could be directly related to the storyline, or an explicit in-game objective (get all the collectibles, get an achievement, etc.) but other times I make my own goals, often like completing a challenge with different tools than the one the game expects a player to. Or in open ended non-story driven games I essentially figure out what I want to try to accomplish over one or more play sessions, tends to happen with factory builder games.

For tractor’s someone in Canada has figured it out.

Zed if I refer to the letter itself, but if it’s part of a phrase, like “Gen Zee” etc. I will use that.

USB-C in the EU, micro USB-B in the US that breaks after 100 plug cycles, and a bespoke 36-port parallel connector in Japan just to mess with people.

Oh yeah you may be right. They have a way larger presence here so my impression was it’s Canadian, let me fix that.

Minnesotans are as about as close as you can get to a Canadian so…

My rec is Hardbite Chips.

*But honestly try any Canadian product you see available.

I know we’re in a meme community but it would be better to use the more accurate picture…

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/did-fall-asleep-again-trump-144559185.html

Or just go all the way and post a screencap of the ai slop version making the rounds where he sticks out his tongue…

https://x.com/PaulleyTicks/status/2047433174490464564/mediaviewer