That vote increases funding to the area for progressive outreach and causes. You won’t change the entire province with a wole new order but you are part of showing that Alberta isn’t a lost cause to the left.

Seriously, this shows left wing lobbiests, charities, politicians, etc. That they can do something in the province. In the end all it may mean is easier access to insulin pumps or less cuts to medical services but that definitly matters.

It’s easy to look at the big picture and grow hostile but your vote does matter.

Yeah that’s exactly what I thought would happen. Come in here thinking “of course, people will find a way to blame the NDP here instead of the liberals” instantly proved right.

NDP incumbent beaten by people moving to liberals? Those NDP voters, who still had more than the liberals, should’ve voted libral. Green voters move to the Librals against the incombant? Nah, those dastardly NDP caused this. Cons win by a landslide? Somehow, you guessed it, NDPs fault

Yeah I’m terrible at this. Almost put man in this sentance twice. I don’t stop myself unless explicitly asked as it would be quite patronizing to treat them like they’re somehow different than all the other women I call man or my guy however but when asked it’s hard to stop. I do my best though

Yeah but I’m glad they’re not here.

I liked this stats but don’t like that I liked them. I shouldn’t feel so happy at number go up. Lemmy is way less adictive for me and I’m happy with it

Good question though

I’m fully against it’s use here and completely support a ban.

I’m not fully against AI but it’s essentially the same as an artist tracing art something well known and hated in the artist community. All AI art must take every piece from somewhere. Every section is traced. That’s scum behavior.

If, let’s say, one were to use an AI generator that only used art it had permission to use, that’s fine and lile tracing cc0 art. It’s lazy as hell, and going to likely look terrible, but no moral issue. Currently however you’re just stealing other peoples art.

As for the “we already do this for shitposts” argument:

1.) It’s reasonably easy to still find the original artists ifthe image isn’t generated by AI.
2.) Using it just supports this awful practice.
3.) An insane amount of electricity and water are burned to get that image.
4.) Just find some random, already available image if quality doesn’t matter. Photoshop it to fit if you have to and who cares if your skill is trash that makes it so much more funny.
5.) You should put a bitmore effort into your shitpost. Make it a nice, long, fiber filled log of a shotpost.

I’d argue this is more like “I want to build a competitor to spotify so let’s decide between using mariaDB or writing an SQL compliant database from scratch”

In your example, a database is the end goal and you can either start with a premade or make your own.

Here, a social media platform is the end goal. Activitypub is a very important part of it but it’s not the entire piece.

If we replace the parts of your analogy with the original your example would parse out to “I want to make a competitor to lemmies ActivityPub integration, so let’s start with fedify” which is not the same as the article states.

Now, should you re-impliment a protocol yourself or use a generic library is the real question. Both have their benefits. With option A you have full code ownership and can wrap your solution around your end goal without the issue of dealing with the original to get needed changes accepted. You don’t have to worry about code not written by or understood by you. With option B, you get a more robust and almost certainly more accurate implementation. Along with, for free, better integration with any service using the same library. Very useful for a federated service when talking about cross platform.

Both have many more positives and negatives of course and each person should decide on their own how to proceed.

My opinion? I think it’s usually best to own anything which could feasibly be understood by a single dev. Even if each dev doesn’t. Anything larger shouldn’t be internal in my strong opinion unless very good, specific reasons apply that makes an external solution impossible or increadibly difficult. Most negatives of an external library also apply at that point with enough time.

They must exchange currency for consumable goods which are eaten for survival

I guess there’s not much to this argument at this point between us. I hope you’re right, and I would assume some resistance, but do doubt it to be significant. The courts are captured, national dems are weak, and even when talking about the power of state dems I’ve not seen much strong and resilient push back. Lastly, national dems have quite a bit of power in state politics. Don’t doubt the ability of a crab to pull down it’s fellow crab in it’s own attempt to leave the bucket.

Thanks for the conversation. Though I’m a bit more pessimistic I can see you’re at least a reasonable person

Not really if it’s threatened and the dems instantly fold. A dozen or so congress members and few senate members in support of freezing elections, the threat of violence, and a continuation of what see we now. That’s about all that’s needed.

Still, though it’d argue it unlikely, military intervention cannot be ruled out

On this being a separate situation it’s not really. It’s just an expansion of your own hypothetical. In a world where red states halt elections they would also pressure blue states to do the same. Blue states would likely fold as they have to many of the more important issues recently.

OK. That’s a wild thing to say. If you’re willing to say that the red states may illegally fail to hold elections can you not recognize the likelyhood that they’d stop, by force, blue states from doing the same?

Do you seriously think blue states wouldn’t fold if pressured to stop elections?

I’m not convinced that any of this will come to pass and elections will be stopped but if they want to they can and will.

This has strong kingdom of loathing vibes

Tim Hortons isn’t American owned, but technically brazillian of you go by the major shareholderof the toronto headquartered company.

Still though, it’s heavily degraded over the years and isn’t in actuality Canadian owned.

Hey man as a nova scotian I think we should give a little love to our lower Sackville. Many great things come out of it

We already stopped selling Russian alchohol after the invasion so there’s plenty of precident for a full stop.

I do miss Russian standard though but I was able to switch to ketal one when I drank more quite easily

On a differet note Ironworks also from Nova Scotia makes some great tasting rum. Smooth, sweet, and a bit thicker like it should be. Might sound a bit dumb but their maple rum is absolutely beautiful too. Not at all a gimmick like I first thought. For context I drink both neat

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Glad you’re using GOG too. Great platform considering the alternatives

Crumb is legit. Good music otherwise too

Nova Scotia has some nice mountain ranges within driving distamce to areas with good internet. Particularly in cape Breton, though they are more right wing than the rest of ns.

We also have donair if that helps.

Oh wow thanks for the knowledge. I’m a Canadian too but haven’t been to the UK. I would agree with that sentiment if the UK style of the 11th was popular here. It does seem to be getting more popular sadly.