My mother’s maiden name was also Spartacus!

My other name online is Spartacus.

If it tries, yes.

I highly doubt it will, despite the efforts of a few MPs and MLAs.

So they’re fined the amount I pay them annually? What about fines for all the other Canadians they’ve defrauded?

None of them until there’s infrastructure in place for domestic repair and parts replacement, also at a reasonable cost.

South Korea managed it; China should be able to as well.

(Yeah, I know you put it in the disclaimer, but I’m not even willing to consider the vehicles until there’s local support in place).

Isn’t “theshamblog” AI generated? So in this case, including the Ars article it’s referencing?

The pieces are dated 2024.

https://beehaw.org/post/24684848

I think this may not be the best time for them to do that….

So… the human brain can act like a spider’s spinneret… we just need a way to extrude the human silk instead of letting it gum up our brains.

A concept of an agreement on trade.

I thankfully can still afford food.

However, what’s changed is that my food options have shrunk dramatically, and where I used to be able to choose between high nutrient chemically boosted produce and organic, now I have a sparse selection of “naturally imperfect” produce that doesn’t even indicate how it was farmed.

Essentially, back to where things were at in the 1950s but taking a significantly larger chunk out of the paycheque.

Are people really getting government updates through LinkedIn?

Government employment and employee updates.

This just gave me an idea: someone should make a mastodon instance that is purely website RSS feeds.

Government websites amazingly often still support RSS.

Isn’t that functionality built in to the OS? Set up parental controls, and you can do this with no extra apps needed. It’ll even generate reports.

Using Shortcuts, you can even map these profiles to different Focus modes.

This might be romanticizing the early Internet.

I can remember plenty of flame wars in the late 80s and early 90s that were all about shutting down meaningful discussion. Informed debate flourished in niche areas, but it still does today, in a similar volume. What’s changed is the massive volume of social media that’s grown up around it, including many types of voices that were in short supply on the Internet in 1989, and many of which are uneducated and/or tribal in nature.

All Canadian government orgs should have migrated to self-hosted Mastodon instances years ago.

You can help the masses via importing cheaply made EVs, or you can help the masses by employing them to build EVs they can afford.

Only one of those options really gives them a break in the long run.

And if they argue that it’s about the land… they’d probably be shocked to discover how little land the Province of Alberta actually has control over.

RTO initiatives don’t just hurt taxpayers and the employees; it also clogs up the roadways and increases traffic incidents.

Sure there are downsides to WFH, but they’re far outweighed by the downsides of WFO.

Sandstone is a rock, as is soapstone.

If they’d only dug in BC instead of Alberta, they’d have zero decommissioning costs; they’re could just shut down their shell companies and leave with no repercussions.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/54661228