KILL. ALL. RENTSEEKERS. Make them earn, not profit. Do provide your service, do not gouge and we can all get along.

secure core’ vpn It’s a Proton system that is designed to fortify online privacy by routing traffic through privacy-friendly countries before it exits to the public internet. Harder to track means less ad revenue for the corp - boo hoo - so they throttle the hell out of users to drive them away and protect their ad revenue stream to track-able “clients” who foot the bill for this malfeasance.

Not sure where you are, OP, thank you for posting my Friday pick-me-up!

Thereby rendering the US PMoF a valueless trinket destined to disappoint someone on the Antiques Roadshow in 2055.

On Saturday I was charged $0.25 for a bag at their chic boutique. Last time I’ll buy anything nestle. They have incessantly raised prices, chopped down service, and now, according to the cashier, they’re charging for paper bags on their $$$ pick up orders.

FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.

Fucking liars. If the gave a tenth of a shit about THE ENVIRONMENT, they wouldn’t evacuate groundwater sources to re-sell people the water to which they are already the owners.

Off the list!!

well said

AI didn’t take your job, you priced yourself out of the market.

I’ve been on the technical side of delivering translation for better than 35 years. In that time I’ve had to adapt and learn new technologies as fast as they came out. What started as a challenging, if poorly paid, position has morphed into being a TV producer, director, camera operator, audio, lighting and video tech, translation specialist, computer programmer, network admin, and client handler.

In that same 35 years interpreters and translators haven’t changed one iota: still handsomely paid, catered to, self-righteous and entitled; still prima donnas who reek of imagined superiority.

Now I read about AI “taking” work from them? Guess what - AI won’t fall asleep while on the job. AI won’t shut down because it can’t see what kind of mic a speaker is using or there’s no water in the booth. AI won’t whinge and whine because lunch isn’t provided. AI won’t bitch because their hotel room is too hot/cold/noisy/near the pool/near the elevator/on too high a floor/on too low a floor, or show up to work uselessly hung over.

Suck it up, buttercup, we’ve all had a tough go since Reagan and Thatcher decided corporations and profit outweighed the needs of people. You’ve been pampered forever, now, you have to work. Tough it out and learn to deal with it or fuck off.

It’s seems unfathomable that anyone with even a passing view of trump’s behaviour over the past months - since the commencement of v2.0 - would find his lying even mildly shocking. He has lied about every single thing he said during his coup, errrr, campaign. It begs the question: “How far will voters let him go before they actively revolt?” He’s not a president, he’s a piece of meat waiting to be soaked in his own urine and hung from a meat hook in a town square.

Nationally, violent crime is down 32% since 2000. Ticketing is automated (and business is booming) so what exactly is the reason for demanding more taxpayer dollars? Penis envy? ACAB

I’m havin’ a marg right now, cheers, my marg-mate!

Are you dense? Does every article written need full referencing for you to hold your smug comments? You are the reason a difference of opinion devolves into irrelevant diatribes on supposed tangents.

Fact: the “artist” is a right wing proponent Fact: the federal government does not support a point of view. Fact: the spewing of a political agenda is no sanctioned Fact: Even the Canadian champion of the right-wing nut-o-sphere, career political hack and recent loser, l’il pp, knows better than to spew his pus in federally funded venues.

Grow a brain. Or a brian, as the case may be.

Well, no. While the right-wing industrial outrage complex might perseverate over some suspicious and hidden agenda, the truth is much simpler. Outside the bubble of red-right performative pearl clutching it is an Occam’s Razor solution that is factually and blatantly clear: when your objective is to incite violence and intolerance, there is no Federal coddling or Constitutional protection. Even when you screw your toe into the ground and bat your fluttering eyelashes claiming innocence, you cannot pretend away the true meaning of this shill’s tone-deaf rally. Hate-speech is dangerous to the public good as so is anyone who defends it.

Racist and tone deaf. Tracks for pigs. I’ll allow it.

And surprisingly tasty. It’s a complete package.

Well you helped…? FUCK OFF. What “local options”?

Service before Uber was non-existent with a monopoly controlling the market. Uber, Lyft and their ilk introduced competition into a stagnant monopoly. And yes, I supported them with my dollars. Eventually they also started nickel and diming we the paying public. Now, there’s no service anywhere and all the whores are mimicking each other, so I’ve abandoned my “new” whore for an “old” whore.

The race to the bottom of the barrel is complete. Service matters naught. Only money. There were never any local options: a cab monopoly whore, they the likes of Uber who became whores, and now a whole ecosystem of money-grubbing whores.

Fuck you for thinking anything else…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/landlords-real-estate-agents-1.7584678

Sooooo glad he won, and now we get to watch him shit all over centuries of foreign affair and military diplomacy. It’s not “drill, baby, drill”.

It’s fascism and classism holding hands and chanting: “Shit, baby, shit”.

How does anyone not see the complexion of the population and not see a breeding ground for racist fascists? Over 76% of Ablertans are white. In BC it’s 46% whities. So go fuck all the way off, dickheads. We are inclusive, welcoming Canadians not rabid, NIMBY nazis. Deport yourselves to your true home in the despotic usa.

Yes, yes, ban all cars, cars bad, drivers bad, noxious exhaust bad, aggressive drivers bad, and so on and so on, ad infinitum. See y’all in December-March at -40⁰C on your electric scooter that is totally non-polluting (what? is electricity totally non-polluting?) trying to navigate uncleared, dilapidated, pot-holed. roads to get anywhere.

Or better still, let’s spend billions beginning with car-friendly infrastructure destruction; neglect regular road, bridge, and tunnel maintenance; and create nodes of community: 15-min walking cities. (*walking times vary by mobility, weather, and your health).

Well, villages.

Well, enclaves.

Well, compounds.

Do car-haters ever think farther than the end of their noses? Do they know what cause and effect is? Do they understand that 15-min walking cities make NIMBY communities? New mental health facility? NIMBY. New correctional facility? NIMBY. New addictions treatment center? NIMBY. Who gets them? The Untermensch who cannot afford to resist their placement.

All in the name of regressing away from cars and making tribal enclaves of like-minded, equally righteous, and (perhaps, most importantly) fiscally advantaged homogeneity.

Hating on cars is the tissue paper veneer of classism and, by extension, racism.

You really want to fight climate change? Too late: you have missed that during your fixation on one aspect (exactly as the petro-industry wanted) of the fight. Now start looking at how you’re going to survive it’s effects. Cause while you were raging against cars, we have passed the PNR on climate devastation.

And if your scooter doesn’t have A/C, it’s pretty useless in the April-November +40⁰C period as well. Because that’s what climate change is: extremes.

I like reminding my friends in professional law enforcement that these cameras are exactly what losing your job to a machine is about.