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  • ‘Very Little Value’: Judge Frustrated by Health Canada at DULF Trial | The Tyee

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  • “So if an issue goes strictly outside of your box into another bureaucrat’s, you just stop paying attention?”

    I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was in fact the case. It's how bureaucracy tends to work. No matter how stupid that is.

  • [Episode] Gnosia - Episode 15 discussion

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  • Nevertheless Racqio could not keep his mouth shut and screwed up by revealing too much to Yuri.

    Racqio is both very smart and very impressed by their own intelligence. As such, the writers picked a very in-character way for them to screw up. 😉

  • Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline

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  • Problem is, we've never found a better system. They all suck, in various ways, many of them far worse than representative democracy. And that's even if no one's messing with the details of the setup to keep a certain group in power.

  • The state of Linux music players in 2026

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  • Personally, I favour Aqualung. But really, it's all a matter of taste.

  • In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power

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  • If we actually had superintelligent AI, I might be concerned. But what we have instead is stochastic parrots with no innate volition. In and of themselves, they aren't dangerous at all—it's the humans backing them that we have to be wary of.

  • Disabled man feels shut out of accessible seating as venues — including Rogers Arena — fail to stop abuse

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  • It's an American business (headquartered in California, which I'd bet is the jurisdiction where whatever law they're citing is actually in force). A shame that can't (yet) be used as a reason to prevent them from doing business in this country.

  • Canada is going all-in on AI, without the guardrails workers need

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  • There are some circumstances where you'd be better off delivering pizzas. (As someone else already said, though, this guy is probably management and being very well-compensated for his on-call time.)

  • [Episode] Fate/strange Fake - Episode 4 discussion

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  • Yup, I nailed Saber's ID. We now have names for 6 of a presumed 13 Heroic Servants,

    although I don't think Enkidu's class has been mentioned yet (by process of elimination on the first group of six, it would have to be Lancer or Rider).

  • Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

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  • We haven't had an entirely Canadian company, headquartered here and without significant cross-border supply chains, building consumer-grade vehicles in my lifetime (some commercial/industrial/military vehicles, yes, but not the kind of car you'd find parked in someone's driveway). Vehicle design, one of the more important skillsets involved, isn't done here for that segment. I don't expect this to change in the near future. Basically, we have little chance of doing anything but importing this type of vehicle, either in complete form or as most of the parts. Doing the final assembly here uses similar skillsets to other manufacturing industries, so the workers could, in theory, be trained elsewhere.

    That doesn't mean we will lose the knowledge and skills needed to build transport. Those small actually Canadian producers of commercial, etc. vehicles can help us keep the important technologies in the country. Preferring them for government purchases and (if necessary) subsidizing them for corporate ones, even if they're a bit more expensive, can help. And it doesn't require us to compete in the consumer car market, where economies of scale are much more important. Given that, we should be importing consumer cars from as many places as can meet our safety and roadworthiness standards, to keep ourselves from becoming too dependent on any one source.

  • Extreme cold across Canada heaps pressure on utility companies, airlines

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  • Yeah, where I am we're getting what would have been typical January weather in the town where I grew up . . . which is ~400km north of here. And we'd had ~40 less years of global warming back then. This weather isn't unprecedented or anything, but it's still pretty damned cold.

  • Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

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  • Because AIs don't understand physics. Or anatomy, given that Tux has three flippers here. (Nor do the upper swooshes make visual sense.)

  • Clevatess Season 2 Key Visual

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  • Looks about the same facially to me. He might be taller, but it's hard to tell when they're only showing him from the hips up.

  • Trump to Carney: ‘Canada lives because of the United States’

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  • I've often thought we should have continued burning the White House down every thirty years or so, just to keep 'em humble.

  • 17 per cent of Americans want the U.S. to annex Canada: survey

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  • So what percentage of them would like Canada to annex the US?

  • DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM

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  • Someone too lazy to update their listings to reflect a rising sticker price (or not wishing to do so for other reasons) isn't too good to be true. If they're an established business selling new-in-box items at more than the wholesale price they would have paid (around 50% of the lowest sticker price the good's ever been sold at isn't a bad estimate), then you may have found a genuinely good deal.

    It's when someone starts selling at below their cost (unless it's obviously to clear out old inventory or the like) that things get suspicious.

  • DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM

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  • You only need one piece of (timeless) advice regarding what to look for, really: if it looks too good to be true, it almost certainly is. Caveat emptor.

    Seriously, ending up with nothing is always a risk you run when buying something advertised as non-functional in the hope of fixing it or recovering any undamaged parts. The fact that the components on this card weren't original is almost irrelevant, because the result would have been the same if they were authentic but damaged beyond recovery.

  • Judge hears case of Calgary man accused of tunnelling into neighbour's apartment

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  • Beyond weird. Dude tries to push this off on workmen who had scaffolding up against the building exterior, but what reason would they have had to make a tunnel between the units? This is just insane.

  • [Episode] Gnosia - Episode 14 discussion

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  • Thing is, if Yuri says outright that one of the humans aboard is (in effect) a pathological liar, Yuri will probably be accused of being a gnosia making an inept attempt to sow dissent. It might not even be the ACF making that accusation, because it's such an outlandish thing to say. If Yuri is voted out, then they've failed Yuriko's test.

    As for Kukrushka, if she really is the Guardian Angel (there's nothing that says she isn't the ACF and lying about the other, technically), she might have chosen to protect Jonas on the first round, due to emotional attachment or something—we still don't know what's going on with those two.

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 04]

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  • Maybe it's just confirmation bias on my part, but it just seems like these kinds of shows are more likely to actively receive bad reviews than be ignored, which is what happens to most of the stuff that I would judge as truly bad. Compare, for instance, Hell Mode, an utterly cliched isekai that's also currently running and which I would say was more deserving of bad reviews, because its creator wouldn't recognize an original idea if it bit them—not one word's been said about it. Even Beheneko, which was an unapologetic brainless boobfest held together by a thin surface skin of plot, didn't draw as many bad reviews here as Sentenced to be a Hero.

    Upon reflection, the answer might simply be that the people who are giving this one bad reviews watch a lot less trash than I do and therefore have a differently calibrated evaluation scale.

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