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Poob@lemmy.cato CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•BC Greens call out Alberta fossil fuel war room’s attack on B.C. community41·2 years agoDon’t make us look shittier than we already are
Poob@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Legal cannabis labels inflate THC potency contained in products, executives say1·2 years agodeleted by creator
Poob@lemmy.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the worst a teacher's treated you?101·2 years agoI reported harassment from other students to teachers. They ignored it and did nothing for 8 years. I stopped asking for help.
Poob@lemmy.cato Games@sh.itjust.works•Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopolyEnglish1·2 years agoAre you lost? I’m responding to the previous comment
People should be able to live where they want, and any government that demands participation must provide equal services to everyone.
Poob@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.ml•What U.S taxpayers are getting for their money in Ukraine171·2 years agoThe American government is not giving Ukraine bags of money. They are giving them weapons. These weapons were made by American companies. All of the money spent on these weapons was either spent years ago, or remains in the American economy. The only thing that is moving is metal, plastic, explosives, etc. Money is being pumped into the defense industry, which you would think would make conservatives happy.
Poob@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.English1·2 years agoI’m guessing the reason for most things forcing you to use an app is less because of data harvesting, and more because it increases repeated use.
When you have to go to your browser and remember to check a website it’s harder to create a habit. If you have an icon flashing on your home screen every day it’s much easier to remember to go to their site. Sure you can “Add to Home screen” functionality, but average users don’t even know that exists.
It also feels like a bespoke app is more “professional” than a website, despite many apps secretly just being a website anyway.
That said, they are definitely harvesting your data. I just don’t think that’s the main reason for most apps.
Poob@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Federal judge again strikes down California law banning gun magazines of more than 10 rounds23·2 years agoI agree with all of this. I think almost all of Canada’s gun control laws are sensible. We have sensible laws about transport, storage, safety training, and other things. Magazine size and banning weapons that look scary is not effective though.
It’s easier to build, but much less efficient to operate
I personally think the biggest driving factor in the rural/city divide that causes rural populations to skew conservative is services.
Rural communities are criminally underserviced. It makes sense why from a logistical view. When people are gathered in small areas, they are easy to provide services to. It’s much easier to provide quality power, plumbing, roads, essential services, and prettyich everything to high density areas. It’s more effective to service cities.
It’s hard to provide reliable services to rural areas. With everyone spread out so much, you need longer wires, longer roads, longer pipes, more people, more everything. So it makes sense to allocate less to these areas. But it’s also horrific.
These are people. It makes perfect sense why rural communities distrust and resent government, and oppose increased spending on social services. They don’t see the benefits. They see money being spent on things they can’t use. Then manipulative politicians swoop in and tell them that these services are bad.
The solution is to suck it up and give everyone equal access to services. Spend more money on rural communities, even if it’s less efficient. Because they are people and deserve roads and hospitals and internet equivalent to cities.
Poob@lemmy.cato LEGO@lemmy.world•Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions"English6·2 years agoRecycling is hard. That said, carbon emissions aren’t the only reason to do more eco friendly manufacturing. Not having giant piles of garbage and polluted environments are also pretty decent reasons.
Poob@lemmy.cato LEGO@lemmy.world•Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions"English11·2 years agoRecycling is hard. That said, carbon emissions aren’t the only reason to do more eco friendly manufacturing. Not having giant piles of garbage and polluted environments are also pretty decent reasons.
Poob@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?122·2 years agoThanos was a fucking stupid character in the MCU. The human population is currently doubling every 61 years with a growth rate of about 1.14%. Assuming similar numbers across the galaxy, he didn’t do anything except cause suffering. He’s a very poorly written villain.
I guess to stay on topic, they would have looked at population growth, and determined that his plan was moronic, and fought him.
Poob@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?13·2 years agoThanos was a fucking stupid character in the MCU. The human population is currently doubling every 61 years with a growth rate of about 1.14%. Assuming similar numbers across the galaxy, he didn’t do anything except cause suffering. He’s a very poorly written villain.
I guess to stay on topic, they would have looked at population growth, and determined that his plan was moronic, and fought him.
Poob@lemmy.cato Games@sh.itjust.works•Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopolyEnglish5·2 years agoEven when capitalism serves customers well, it still takes the work of people who make things, and gives it to people who own things
Poob@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I feel like we're all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there52·2 years agoAh nice, the “everyone who isn’t a conservative is on the left” tactic. It lets you compress 80% of all ideologies into “the left,” which means you can accuse everyone in “the left” of the stupid shit tankies and liberals believe at the same time!
Poob@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.ml•India has officially labeled Canada an international terrorist sanctuary — “a safe haven for terrorists, for extremists, and for organized crime,” in the words of the Ministry of External Affairs spok151·2 years agoI think you got downvoted by people who thought you were asking for proof that India murdered that fellow.
I found it pretty clear you were mocking India’s government for not providing any proof of Canada being a terrorist sanctuary.
Poob@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Federal judge again strikes down California law banning gun magazines of more than 10 rounds14517·2 years agoMagazine size laws aren’t really effective at doing anything. Up in Canada you can’t have a rifle magazine with more than 5 rounds. However, almost all of the magazines are full size magazines that have been modified to hold fewer rounds. All of the responsible owners leave them at 5, but with a minute or two of work you could turn most of them into full size again. We don’t have mass shootings every day.
Gun violence in America is a culture issue. You’re broken.
I’m not talking about Valve giving things back to us. I’m talking about the fact the owners of the company get money simply by owning the company. They take money they didn’t work for. Even if the company isn’t manipulative or scummy, they’re enriching people who don’t deserve it.