“We are immediately implementing electoral reform like we promised initially”

Ironically the plan is kinda to know nothing so he can say anything to rile up is base.

so

much

damage

Given the fact that it’s almost a foregone conclusion that PP is going to win the next election, I think countering disinformation through “influencers” did not work.

Jobs killed: Landlords.

Success, methinks.

The other problem is that the other parties have nobody to run. I don’t even know who the NDP candidate is although I would happily vote in their favor.

The problem is that the older generations have all these grudges from shit that happened before my lifetime. I don’t care about Rae days, but they apparently made the NDP entirely unelectable in Ontario. I don’t care about gas plants, but every time the Liberals put somebody forward we just hear screaming about how much money they wasted.

Is it too much to ask that my goddamn social services work? I’d vote for anyone who came out and said public services should be allowed to operate at a loss because they exist to provide a social dividend that cannot be easily calculated in hard cash values, but that seems increasingly less likely these days.

Anything that would facilitate money going into his pockets has his attention.

Pray he doesn’t pay more attention to the health care and education systems more than he does, because they’d be on a faster track to defunding and privatization.

It still baffles me that he won because less than 20% of the population got out to vote.

Yeah but it’s NatPo, so you have to have some conservative angle about how spending money on social issues is literally the devil.

Classic conservative playbook, accuse the opponents of what you’re doing.

Kids should not be allowed on the internet in my opinion, because we get posts like this.

Sour cream glazed blueberry was the last good donut I had from them. Existed for like two weeks a few months back.

It’s been a while since I’ve been to Tim’s but is McDonald’s coffee not similarly priced?

Nah, it was way better back in the day. Everything was baked in-house, and your meals were served to you on proper dinnerware with porcelain cups. It was closer to a diner than a fast food place. They changed suppliers for their beans in the mid 2000s and it all went downhill from there.

I was happy with them when they were actually baked in store and not at a factory.

Between Chinese police stations, election interference, and Indian assassins, yeah we need to tighten up our security.

The decentralized nature of the fediverse means nobody can “control” it really. You can have control over your own instances and that’s pretty much where it stops. I doubt the Canadian government would want to run more than a Mastodon instance like we’ve seen in the EU for open communication.

I would rather they invest in this with a tiny tiny sum to keep open communications available with the populace as compared to being beholden not only to corporations, but corporations that are generally outside of our jurisdiction.

I love infinite growth. Why care about your employees when you can care about your margins and shareholders instead?

We’ve mitigated some of that stuff though; with fast food we’ve required calorie counts to be displayed alongside the menu items, which allows you to make an informed decision, even if it’s a bad one.

With TikTok there’s just being forcefed without knowledge of how any of this black box algorithm bullshit works. It’s like going to McDonalds and being able to have unlimited hamburgers of infinite uniqueness and getting unhealthy in the brain.

It’s not a moral panic this time though, it’s a legitimate concern.

Nothing has ever produced these billions of sub-30-second, algorithmically curated dopamine blasts.

Video games were a moral panic because they “promoted violence” and TV was supposed to make you stupid, which, it kind of does depending on what you consume. They both required you to sit still and focus on something though.

There are kids who can’t sit through a movie without pulling out their phone because they’re just used to being onto the next thing in 10 seconds.

So you can bitch about it being a moral panic or whatever you want to do to make fun of people who think it’s a concern, but it’s very clear to me from seeing how damaging excessive screen time is on young kids personally that things like YouTube shorts and TikTok are actually super damaging in a number of different ways. They were right about phones, because they’ve facilitated the mass delivery of this content.

I don’t care what America is doing, ban it because it’s fucking awful for society. Algorithmic short-form content is literally destroying the attention span of an entire generation, regardless of if gathers data on you or not.