So if I’m understanding correctly:

Doug Ford is using bike lane removal as a distraction, to bypass criticism of the parts of the bill that bypasses oversight and accountability, in order to build the bypass that bypasses Toronto’s overcrowded bypass?

Setting long-term expectations right👍

Hey Bibi, you’re invited to a special Canadian Christmas Party in the slammer!

Yeah, why set an income limit at all if it’s 150k… would be more cost effective to just claw it back in tax from top earners later.

I like craft beer IPAs, but yeah my wallet and my health can’t afford 50 drinks a year or more as if it’s a routine. 2 (Canadian) pints often gives me a headache at some point later. So the beer and the wine is left for special occasions like holiday get-togethers.

Absolutely love it!

Flying Squid takes things personally rather often, and can get heated especially on controversial topics. I don’t always agree with their behaviour as a user and as a mod, but tbh they are the more reasonable party in this particular exchange, though some of the responses are more annoying. The conversation could have easily ended like 1/4 of the way through by either of them. It’s unclear if it’s harassment to me, because I am reading it as both persistently acting childishly at times.

If they leave they leave, that’s fine. No matter who is right in this, Blackbeard has no obligation to deal with stuff he doesn’t want to.

Sounds like this was already resolved within the mod team. So if OP you’re posting for history or were unaware, fine (but you ought to look for, ask and add surrounding context and actions, next time). If you’re posting just to cause drama and a flamewar, shame on you.

Lastly, discord? Come on, we’re on Lemmy here, harass people on a federated FOSS protocol like matrix! /s

It’s so well done, because I hate it!

“My lack of tariffs is the only moral lack of tariffs” strikes again…

This is a hilarious game! A little wonky on mobile but i’ve kind of figured it out after sacrificing 20 cyclists lives how to survive 2 minutes.

That’s the spirit!

As long as you avoid dropship crap, check for registered CSA certification in Canada.

It would be another hilarious bit of the White House Reality Show Sequel, if the Department of Government Efficiency board just kept growing and growing with people that wanted a cool title from Trump to feel important.

I totally believe that having the same first name is totally going to be an asset when negotiating with the buffoon.

Yes it’s wonderful having an e-bike. It really takes the dread of being tired going up a hill or carrying heavy luggage away and makes you want to take it everywhere.

Just make sure you have an appropriate place to put it and charge it.

Right now my mind is at, “it very well could be, but time will tell”.

Had Trump had the right people in places to make certain decisions, it could have very well ended in 2020 just as much. Well the world did change in a big way near the end of his term, with COVID, how he botched it and how he gave corporate handout after corporate handout which caused the inflation that Biden is being blamed for.

I’ve been still grasping for ways that the US still can be saved, which there are many, but they hinge on

1A. Trump going back on many of his worst promises and not doing them, because reneging is his thing, or

1B. Trump and his team being too incompetent to enact his agenda, or

1C. The backlash to Trump’s unpopular moves creates disobedience within government, military and writ large, preventing him from enacting his agenda, and

2. Democracy not being rigged during his tenure, avoiding where elections become just as meaningful as Russia’s or China’s during the 4 years.

A plurality of Americans gave Trump and Republican facsism basically all the dragon balls of power, so it’s up to him pretty much whether he can use them and the most Americans can do is organize and resist.

Ok, while your points have merit, you have not tabled any better, realstic or alternative solutions than NPVIC to these problems, and have only offered criticisms to the solutions in progress. I will therefore conclude the discussion. Please have a enjoyable day.

Yeah I would. Honestly, I would best prefer a Proportional type system, that way 10% of people voting yahoos get 10% of the power, even if I disagree with them completely. Of course I would want a fair system that is suitable for something more modern than horse and buggy information transmission. Working within an unfair system to try to undo it is understable, but why defend it only when it suits your interests? That’s the kind of thing fascists do.

For a national government I would like to have the support of the nation behind it and the states/provinces to have the support of each state. We already give unequal power to each piece of land in a Senate, and in the US HoR now too because it hasn’t changed the number of seats in a while.

I know, I am still putting too much faith in the US as a whole. I know the Constitution only means things when it suits them (14th Amendment? What 14th Amendment, it’s not in the Trump Bible) However I am spending the aftermath of America’s own-goal to think about the ways they could potentially dig themselves out of it.