I believe OnlyOffice may be problematic from an ethical perspective if I remember correctly because of Russia or something. But it’s FOSS, has a linux desktop version, and its compatibility with Excel has been absolutely rock solid for me.
I don’t drive an F-150. I drive a quarter-tonne specifically because I wanted to balance my need for a truck while lessening the impact as much as possible. That’s called “working within the construct of reality” because as a homeowner, I need to make those kinds of decisions.
Solutions need to be based in reality; and the reality is that getting rid of vehicles for bikes doesn’t change anything in the real world because 20 people sharing a single truck for an hour each week to do their shit uses just as much fuel and causes just as much pollution as those same 20 people using 20 trucks for an hour.
And that single truck, seeing twenty times the usage, will wear out faster and end up using exponentially MORE fuel and causing MORE pollution as it ages and wears out; eventually needing to be replaced 20 times faster.
THAT is what I mean when I say “really real world”. Saying some hippy-dippy bullshit about how let’s replace trucks with ebikes isn’t contributing to any sort of serious discussion about realistic solutions. It only exists to make you feel better about yourself without needing to examine the long term repercussions.
Have fun getting groceries. Have fun renovating your house. Have fun taking a load of household recycling to where it needs to go.
Basically have fun doing anything actual real adults have to do in the really real world.
I swear to god, you people who think that replacing vehicles with bikes is actually feasible are so laughably naive about how the actual world works that you must just live on a commune somewhere drinking ayahuasca and playing fucking bongos.
Bikes are great. Ebikes are great. But here in the real world, adults need to do adult stuff. You might as well be telling people that we should all be skateboarding everywhere…
Management pulled similar shit during the Christmas strike.
Union offered a rotating strike so as to affect christmas package deliveries as little as possible. Management refused and then did whatever they could to blame the workers for “ruining Christmas”.
Fuck corporations. Even government ones.
Anything whose primary motive is profit should be bombed.
Trump will be dead and in the ground, either by bullet or by hamburger, long before any of this ever reaches the functional stage anyway. I can virtually guarantee it.
Advertising isn’t the problem. And before I get my balls cut off, I’ll back away slowly while explaining myself…
We’ve always paid for ads. Back in the old days you paid for a cable subscription and got to watch ads every 15 minutes. That’s not a new phenomenon. Hell, television was designed around the advertising break. The entire one hour series 5 part script model was created with the “cut to ad break” in mind. You think about your CSI:Miami “sunglasses of justice” stinger, or your fourth ad-break plot-twist as the Romulan war bird uncloaks and the music dun-dun-duns into a commercial for cheese-its…
That’s not a problem in and of itself. In fact I kind of miss it when shows were written that way. Heck, Tubi and Pluto TV do it and no one complains about that. And if Netflix wants to add those back into their free tier, more power to 'em.
But advertising is not about getting served a few commercials every fifteen minutes anymore. It’s literally in front of the content, within the content, etc… It’s not about “hey look, it’s an ad break, let’s go refill our 7-up and take a piss”, it’s inlaid with the content, as well as taking up as much, if not MORE time than the actual content itself. and THAT’S part one of the problem.
Part two is the fact that if you’re going to make more money by making me pay for your service AND watch advertisements, you better damn well be giving at least some of that new money to other creatives that are MAKING those advertisements. Make a commercial with actors and actresses; pay them. Hire a writer to create ad-copy, just like we used to do. But if you’re going to charge me AND make me watch lazy shit you made with A.I. slop, than THAT is where I’ll happily take my ship and head onto the high seas.
I’d be perfectly happy to sit through two or three traditional advertisements every fifteen minutes just like we did in the old days. But what I WON’T stand for is watching five minutes of lazy A.I. ads after every five minutes of actual content and be expected to PAY for the service on top of that.
I use Cromite. It’s a more hardened fork of Bromite. Which itself is a hardened fork of Chromium.
The only thing I’ve found so far is that it likes to block the discussion threads on some websites. But other than that I’ve had no issues whatsoever.
Perfect example of the causation fallacy.
If one were to look at that map out of context, once could say that if the temperature is too cold or too hot, murder rates increase.
We all know of course it’s a map of economic disparity, and a whole host of other societal concerns contributing. But without the context of any of those things, we’re liable to think that correlation equals causation.
It’s an important lesson.
It’s not designed to be an anonymous service, just a private one.
I think this needs to be said a lot more often and a lot louder. Anonymous and private are NOT necessarily the same thing, nor should the expectation be that they are. Both have a purpose.
If this goes through, it’s going to fuck up a lot of those “other companies” that Parkland owns
I work for M&M Food Market, and we are owned by Parkland. If they get bought by Sunoco, our “Proudly Canadian” legacy goes tits up immediately.
Trump threatening Canadian sovereignty
While I agree that that was definitely a big part of it.
I’ll have to disagree when you say that PP’s similarity to Trump didn’t factor in. It most certainly did. In fact it’s the primary reason that PP wanted DESPERATELY to get an election done before Trump’s inauguration. because even before that he had been getting comparisons between his brand of populist rhetoric and Trumps.
He badly needed an election before the idea of a Trump presidency became the reality of a Trump presidency. And he knew it. He knew Trump’s stink on him would sink him, and he was right.
Yeah. I get what you’re saying now. Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were saying that the only reason Liberals won was because of foreign interference on their behalf.
Yes, I know very well how pervasive right wing misinformation is. I live in a part of Canada that is surrounded by it. (Saskatchewan).
The CPC deeds to de-reform itself and go back to pre-Preston Manning/Stephen Harper days. Until then, they’re all complicit, regardless of who leads them.
Much like MAGA took over the Republican Party, The Reform Part (later the Canadian Alliance) essentially took over the narrative after first breaking off from and then later rejoining the Progressive Conservatives.
if not for foreign interference
I guess that really depends on your definition of interference. Conservatives lost because Canadians took one look at the reality of Trump and decided “fuck that…we don’t want a politician who acts like him, even in any small way.”
Poppingfresh was leading only because the only person we were more sick off than him was Trudeau. Once Trudeau was out of the picture, voters basically said “Oh thank Christ…we don’t have to vote for Maple Maga.”
Trump being an ass doesn’t count as interference. And it’s ultimately Poppinfresh’s fault that he refused to pivot away from Trump-style rhetoric and polemics when even his own advisors were telling him it was a losing strategy.
No…it doesn’t point to a *deterioration in people’s faith in institutions" like the article surmises.
It points to the fact that Right Wingers especially are so enshrined in the cult of Maple Maga that they’ve adopted the “Anything I don’t agree with is rigged.” Saying that it’s about “faith in institutions” is disingenuous because they know damn well there was no rigging, but they learned from Trump that if you cry loud enough, people believe you.
If conservatives don’t figure out that he is 100% of the reason they lost, they’re 'effin stupid and blind.
It’s plainly obvious what the problem is when your party gains seats, but your leader loses his because the only person people hate more than him, resigned. (Trudeau)
When the public is sooo eager for any reason to no longer vote for you that you lose a super majority the moment the first opportunity presented itself, you are the problem.
Irrelevant. It’s not about changing their mind. It’s about making them afraid to spread their bullshit.
Maybe Telus will hire him back. It’s literally the only thing on his resume.
I’m not interested in a homelessness solution put forward by someone with “Green” in their title…