Make a big flat pancake of batter and use a cookie-cutter?

When a Canadian pays for anything from a Canadian app maker on their iPhone, a third of the money goes to California. And it’s illegal for anyone to circumvent Apples App Store because we agreed to America’s anti-circumvention rules in trade negotiations that they no longer respect.

Seems like a weird contrast between the tone of the article and then mentioning the $175 million over 5 years being invested. What the heck does 35 million a year buy for an international sea port and arctic railway? A fresh coat of paint for a few of the warehouse buildings? Reporters should always put numbers like that in some sort of context. That’s their job.

The canned answer is standard-fare in politics because the media has been so happy to play clips of any mis-spoken comment on a loop starting in maybe the 90s?

The problem here is that he should have a goddamned canned response ready for such a soft-ball question. “We don’t tolerate that, I’ve told them if they are not for Canada, they are out!” (crowd cheers, he wins the election, yada yada). He can’t even manage that low bar.

Okay, but I hate the reaction guy’s reaction video even more than pp’s response.

I have a hard time believing he’s this dumb. His whole career was as a barking attack dog, and he can’t bring himself to say anything particularly negative about Trump or Putin? That’s his whole personality, and suddenly he’s meek?

This has to go down as the biggest face-plant in Canadian political history. The guy who’s entire political career has been as a barking attack dog, and all he had to do was come out swinging when a foreign psychopath started making threats against the literal existence of Canada. Not only that, he had a perfectly good example in Doug Ford of a conservative politician reaping huge rewards for doing exactly that (both in polling and an actual election!), and yet he manages to squander the biggest lead the Conservatives have ever had leading into an election? If the polls bear out on Monday, he should never be allowed to set foot in the Conservative party again. lol.

Any reference to “fleeing” Germany would be referencing the scientists that left before, or early in the war. While they were a minority, they did include some extremely notable examples like Einstein and the Polish scientists that figured out the Enigma machine. After the war, those left were given choices (orders) by the victors, and followed them as cowardly or enthusiastically as they did during the war.

What, no OpenBSD? (Just kidding!). Are there no decently friendly Canadian Linux distros? I miss Vector Linux.

Reusing successful stupid from Ontario’s Ford. Hurting the right people is Conservative gold.

Poor or “working class” (fuck I hate that term), male, under 50. The most disgruntled group. Maybe it’s less pro-conservative, and more just anything-but-status-quo. Frustrating. They should have an option that is constructive instead of conservative.

The main reason for the charter challenge will be the clause that people can’t sue the government for death or injury as a result of removing the lanes.

Your last paragraph makes it sound like you don’t understand what starlink is. Your middle paragraph is just wrong - peaceful protest is legal in Canada, and your paragraph doesn’t distinguish from unlawful activities like property damage. Finally, your first paragraph - I would 100% be behind you if they were talking about banning you from privately purchasing a starlink kit. This isn’t that. This is a huge public works investment, so there are many options available, and they have to consider things you don’t consider as a simple customer.

The sun is reactionary propaganda intended to mislead you for the profit of people not even in this country. If they write something that makes you upset, that probably means they are manipulating you. There are real publications across the political spectrum that will discuss the nuance and realities of these issues, but this isn’t it.

Wow, what a dumb thing to claim when you have surrounded yourself with “free speech absolutists”. They are going to lose it on him, right? …. Right?

Being told something and getting it are two completely different things. Most people just don’t understand the difference -we have failed at educating here. One thing I have noticed is that people understand avoiding American companies, even when they don’t understand avoiding closed/walled gardens. It’s a decent hook to get people reconsidering, but it’s a long slow process.

It’s a literal national security threat to become dependent on starling, as demonstrated in Ukraine. We can build our own networks and support other LEO internet projects.

You identify with the term fiscal conservative, but in practice, everything you advocate is straight up liberal. It proves the point that the term is meaningless. Everyone wants to spend efficiently, it’s just the priorities that distinguish conservative from liberal.

Looks like a LOWESS curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_regression). They always overfit, but are still useful to show trends. The main danger is that they get wonky near the limits of the data. Note that that increase at the end of the left plot for Democrats looks like it is increasing -but that increase looks to be 100% dependent on that single data point for '25. Obviously, you never want your analysis to be dependent on a single point like that.

I’m not sure you are vehemently agreeing with me, or somehow arguing the semantics that “even worse” and “much worse” mean something substantially different.

Indeed, see the context - I’m referring to the fact that Firefox is nearly 100% funded by advertisers, but separated by an arms-reach organization. Chrome is precisely 100% funded by advertisers, and under the complete control of an advertising company. Chrome is clearly worse, but Firefox is long-term problematic because that advertising money is going to whittle away at that separation eventually.