Tomorrow, I expect President Zelenskyy changes his mind again and will announce General Syrskyi will be replaced by a drone to lead the drone army.

It’s important to take things case by case. There are always going to be unconvincable supporters, you don’t have to waste time, mental energy and breath on them, I get that. But I think the fraction of people who voted for a rapist criminal liar because they like rape, crime and lying is small. Bigotry is more popular, yes, but I think that’s because blaming minorities is a clear and simple ‘solution’ to complex issues, and it makes it super easy for the wealth class to pit the bottom 98% against each other. Loneliness and ostracism are what primed many people in the latter half of the 2010s to be exploited by the right-wing online radicalization pipeline.

And beyond just Trump, if you take guilt by association too far and without injecting nuance, you risk letting the biggest bigots win because our prospective allies don’t have perfectly squeaky clean records.

This is Microsoft showing a little desperation to keep Europe from moving onto fully European cloud solutions, by integrating European solutions into Microsoft products.

I think firms can still, for now, use Mistral independent of Microsoft, but this does put into question if Microsoft may further reduce Mistral’s independence or buy it out eventually once the attention is off them.

Government bodies in EU should keep pursuing tech stacks independent of Apple, Google and Microsoft and not let this lead them astray.

Well the Trump administration should keep whining about it. Really they’re just helping to increase its popularity, since they consider their incompetent selves as the alternative to it.

This is Youtube trying to eat Patreon’s lunch, essentially.

The community !lemmy411@lemmy.ca was created to help people find other communities on Lemmy and Piefed, there hasn’t been a post there for a while now.

As for what you’re looking for, I don’t think there are any Lemmy communities with voice chat focus. There are text threads where people ask how everyone’s doing or what their weekend plans are, etc., you can ask a question like that in various spots like !vancouver@lemmy.ca, !canada@lemmy.ca, !casualconversation@piefed.social, !general@lemmy.world

I would suggest looking for Matrix servers and channels to join that do casual voice chat. You can follow this link to see instructions, once you are signed into Matrix, on how to access a directory of public channels on various topics.

Don’t worry about the explosive diarrhea!

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1338

Essentially Trump is pulling the exact same farce, just with a different law this time.

I agree with you. Trump and his White House cronies are corrupt, vile and self-serving criminals, rapists and bigots, but the fact they are in powerful office positions is a mere symptom of a wider problem with the American political, educational, media, and economic system.

Vowing to disassociate with anyone who voted for Trump and other rapists might make a good social media post or meme, but it does virtually nothing to resolve underlying issues, in order to prevent rapists from gaining power in the USA to begin with. In my eyes, solidarity is a more powerful tool than trying to find the true Scotsmen.

You can choose who to associate with or not. However, I ask that you allow others the same privilege.

We can transform our own housing bureaucracies—the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and Build Canada Homes (BCH)—from passive financing tools into active housing institutions. And we can wrest control of planning and building back from the financial interests that have turned our homes into sites of profit extraction.

See, when Carney was campaigning on making Build Canada Homes, releasing the design guidelines and all, I really did believe that he would appoint contractors to make new federally managed housing units for people. The most cost-efficient contractors with good quality workmanship could be brought on as part of the crown corp itself. When it became more like a stripped down CMHC, I cooled on it.

Avi Lewis should really publicize these many cases where left-wing governments are capable of getting things done, in Mexico, Europe and elsewhere, to point out it’s not just a coffee shop fantasy to achieve big things for people, rather than the elite class’ benefit.

I didn’t like that the US and Canadian broadcasts always had to pan to the corrupt stooge Infantino a couple times every game, during play, but I did like that I could hear the stadium crowd or my local watch party crowd boo each time.

the photographer had asked an AI platform to make the picture “look better”

Thanks for the kind words, but I’ll be frank. Wanna help? Stop making everything about yourself (individually and as a nation), go fix your country’s broken-ass system, and come visit us and buy our stuff if you like in the meantime. If you want our trust back, figure out how the worst living caricature of America achieved the highest political office a second time, and how will you collectively prevent that from happening again? Personally, I’ll come celebrate when it happens, but that will only be the start of a generation’s worth of work to rebuild what was lost.

Yours truly,

Canadian fed up with the constant BS from the states.

Not good enough, he demands people watch this film on a 70mm screen. So get out your GBA SP.

We’re going to build a border weed patch, and America’s going to pay for it!

How’s that for a campaign slogan?

Yes, the Flock system is working correctly, as a tool for police to stalk and harass innocent people.

I don’t like AI data centres, but try to get photos of the same month/season to make this point.

Not all development that removes trees are created equally, just saying. If it’s a new interstate power transmission line, solar or wind farm, new non-market housing, passenger rail line, it would be better than a data centre, ICE concentration camp, oil pipeline, intensive agriculture, etc. The end use matters more to weigh against, than saying clearing trees is never worth it as a blanket statement. If it is worth developing, officials have to weigh the importance the forest as a natural habitat compared to natural bogs, lakes and meadows as alternatives, to maintain biome diversity.

Please, DNC! Be officially pro-Jew, anti-Israel.

BC is broke af, the DRIPA issue is a court case with different Indigenous nations on opposing sides and Eby definitely played his hand totally wrong. The housing announcement was well intentioned but accompanied with so few concrete details the speculation rivals the housing bubble itself. BCNDP members support the striking nurses but negotiations aren’t easy as evidenced by the months long BCGEU struggle. Those budget pressures mean the province needs some federal help to get large capital projects underway and money in provincial coffers, but then the resource development drives former supporters to Lowan’s camp. The floor-crossing MLA undercuts assertions that the centrist voter Eby is catering towards don’t exist.

There are many tough issues that Eby is going through, he’s a lawyer and a former activist, and while I would like to see more of his activist side again, he doesn’t have the charisma of Kinew so in my opinion he’s doing a decent job given the challenges. We need the party to get on with some of its campaign promises, very soon.