Employment is a mutual arrangement - never be concerned about looking suspicious. Be prepared to explain your choice honestly and stand by the actual work you’re producing. Asses-in-chairs style management is toxic and you should push back against it.

Everyone who would see some difference by using a mouse jiggler should use one. If your supervisor is tracking mouse activity they can get fucked. If your machine auto-locks after a fixed number of minutes it can also get fucked.

I’d suggest just installing Caffeine though.

Thinking that NDP voters want a CPC government is a fucking conservative fantasy.

Let’s bear in mind that Trudeau handed this win to the CPC by repeatedly failing to pass any kind of voting reform - the CPC will never be able to win a majority vote among Canadians.

Can we backsies? I’d honestly love a serious conversation about nationalizing Air Canada.

Yea, my partner has mobility issues, so we tend to wait until most of the other people are off before trying to get canes out and the deplane without the stress of being in front of people pushing to get off.

Dear antitrust folks… where the fuck are you.

Sincerely, Canadians when buying anything.

Gosh, the conservatives are doing such a good job managing provincial services!

Slammed

Fuck the natpo.

I’m pretty sure the movie industry made it up to dodge taxes.

Any weird flags you don’t recognize that don’t involve rainbows are either sexual orientation flags (biaexuals have the best by far!) or some weird right wing shit.

Also, continue to deny the existence of mythical New Zealand.

Here’s the thing conservatives generally can’t get through their thick skulls… if you respect most people they’ll respect you and take a modest amount - those folks that will hoard are generally not worth policing more than the minimum amount… it’s cheaper to just account for their greed than hire security personnel.

I don’t give a damn if some people are taking advantage. I’d rather a small proportion of people exploit the system than folks who need it be denied.

Ew.

Lotteries are a regressive tax - we should just use federal funds to subsidize journalism.

I feel like we skipped over the ‘truth’ bit in Truth and Reconcilliation here.

I feel like you skipped over the “truth” bit if your source is the natpo - also, the only reason we haven’t dug up the graves is due to respect… we know they’re there - it’s just a conspiracy theory that they aren’t.

Oh, wtf - I thought Saveon was a Loblaws subsidiary… well, to Saveon I go then.

Yea, I think it’s worth the cost… it may result in a trade war with America, but the US response to this genocide is absolutely reprehensible.

Oh, definitely… and the consolidation of assisted living into fewer and fewer PE firms should scare the shit out of everyone - but it is important to remember that a few people would be screwed if the housing market suddenly collapsed… that said, we absolutely should deflate this market - we just need to consider some fixes for the house-wealthy cash-poor older folks who might be really fucked by this.

I also have serious moral reservations about shopping at Walmart. We’re trying to use Costco when we can, but for small things, we don’t have a reasonable alternative. For the moment, we’re using Walmart when we must just to help discourage Loblaws’ bullshit, but I’d really like literally any other option.

I think we should clarify what devaluing mean - I think it’s reasonable for a house purchased in the 90s to not decrease in value if proper maintenance is applied - but what’s our rationale for housing to be a profitable investment? Why, rationally, should it gain value over time… and why should that gained value outpace interest rates, the stock market, and wage cost-of-living increases?

I’m in favor of devaluing real estate because it’s currently astronomically overvalued and viewed as an investment vehicle - if it were reasonably valued I’d be in favor of land having a flat value relative to inflation and construction having a slow depreciation rate as the materials age and require more active maintenance… with the only real increases in value coming from renovations or other active investments in the quality of the house.

Why is it that teleporting back in time, surrendering cash according to inflation, buying a house, teleporting forward in time, selling that house - then repeating that on a loop… why is that an infinite money glitch?

Similar to nature abhorring a vacuum - capitalism abhors a free money glitch (and in all other cases, free money glitches get absorbed by arbitrage).

Hey, no worries… I’ve been getting deep in the weeds on this one as my mom is in her eighties and trying to decide how to allocate her savings for her EOL.