I agree but we don’t even have to get that far. No institution should rely on SIN secrecy. It’s as simple as that. It should be treated as semi-publicly available information like birthdates and important stuff like opening a bank account should require more factors of authentication.

Several countries don’t create these secret numbers that “no one should have but you” without having to rely on revoke-able tokens and whatnot. Like many things, crypto has a clever solution for this but the current status quo is so bad that a not-stupid approach would already be quite the improvement.

Do you know how much of our “Canadian” media is US owned? It’s massively disproportionate.

I do know, but I don’t understand what that has to do with what I’m saying.

I follow almost a dozen news sources, all of them Canadian-owned

Look at a headline, then look at the different outlets covering it. For me, a Canadian, it’s important during elections so I can cut out all the US owned newspapers that have a very conservative / US bias to them.

You get that for free by… not following any US owned newspapers? Looks like GroundNews is solving a problem that GroundNews created for you.

This is good to know, but I honestly don’t see a lot of value in it… I got weekly emails like:

News from the left, for the right: (the most unhinged shit, actual news for things we should care about)

• Microsoft reports detection of Russian election interference targeting Harris
• Nevada will use Google’s AI to help decide who gets unemployment benefit;
• Private Prison Stocks Soar After Trump Win

News from the right, for the left: (yes I guess that’s also news, technically)

• Navy Seal unit that killed Osama trains for China invasion of Taiwan
• Prisoners should jump housing queue to cut crime rates, says politician;
• Amish turn out for Pennsylvania vote in ‘unprecedented numbers’ (to vote for Trump)

Like seriously, what’s the point of exposing myself to this bullshit?

Not voting doesn’t signal that people are happy either way, it could as easily signal that people are sad either way.

Being “sad either way” is equally stupid. Feel free to argue that both options are bad but anyone with two braincells should be able to understand that one option is worse. Choosing to abstain is choosing to enable the worse option. Vote independent if you want, but fucking vote.

Looks good, but I’m curious about sources showing to what extent Libby is profit sharing.

Kobo HQ is Toronto, but it’s owned by Rakuten of Tokyo so… not sure how to categorize that

One in three Americans voted for Trump

Or in more effective terms, only one third of Americans voted against Trump. Counting votes against eligible voters instead of votes cast isn’t the win you think it is.

No one here needs a reminder that 2/3 isn’t 3/3, thanks.

So smart. Lots of big words

Is that sillier than forcing people who are not interested in owning a car to get a place with parking spots anyway? Because that’s where we are today. It is hard to find a building like this, and I’d love it.

If only we could decide whether having a place for people to live was more important than dedicating public spaces for storing private vehicles

I would be an embarrassment in one of these interviews. First of all I’m not a very musical person. Secondly I have terrible memory and I don’t even remember much about pre-college life. Being a charismatic politician really requires a different type of being.

Those of us who didn’t vote for trump were supposed to be your brother’s and sisters, but you all are weak little traitorous bitches.

Ahhh there it is, I was wondering what’s the source of that anger. You’re butthurt that Canadians are holding you accountable for your governments aggression towards us.

Yeah, fuck off. We don’t owe you anything. And by the looks of it, we were right all along that you’re not really an ally.

I don’t think so. Sure first step is regularizing sales and not going after existing owners, and the ones already on the streets are a long term problem, but these things will eventually break down, they don’t last generations.

I think no one disputes that we need a clear separation of electric bicycles and electric motorcycles and the presence of pedals ain’t enough.

Presumably once that’s sorted out, e-bikes can and should become the norm. They’re the “all ages and abilities” equalizer.

If I could vote, idk. If no one can take a principled stance on what should be an extremely obvious issue, then nobody.

See, that’s the kind of thinking that makes me say that “strategic voting” should have its taboo status removed…

Because of this one issue, you’d be washing your hands on taking a stance for all other issues that humankind face?

If you say yes, I guess I have to respect that. Principles are principles. But well, it’s so not how I would go about this.

The technology is not at peril here, Starlink the company is. Competitors exist, and they’ll take Starlink’s place, and the technology will live on. Competition is what’s to like about capitalism, isn’t it?

Funding might be a misleading word here. The title is technically correct, but within context.

Government has funding for increasing internet connectivity in remote areas. Some of that funding is spent on Starlink contracts. So the ask is more like to stop considering Starlink for contracts that consume government funding.

can absolutely be a super power, our landmass, resources and technical know-how can allow us to prosper and lead on the global stage

I mean, sure we “can”, just like many others can like Argentina or Norway… but this superpower thing is a bit tired. Let’s just worry about not being pushed around instead of aiming for pushing others around - because that’s what being a superpower means, really.

And this is what you get with a chain anyway

Those are all important things, but CBC shouldn’t be sacrificed for it