Wandering Adventure Party

That was the main point of my presentation at #Fedicon2025, that:1. We need a real payment infrastructure here on the Fediverse.2. We need to do it well, to avoid the (numerous) sins of the past.3. I'm doing that right now, PLEASE HELP ME OMG.I can't wait until the videos are up, then I can just link to that presentation a thousand times, because I laid out my entire life's purpose in it.@mro @gregalotl @julian @reiver

everyone here is one of the 10 and is coping if they say otherwise

Privatization in general doesn’t need to be a disaster either as long as good rules are setup, allowing and pushing for competition. Any core functions for a country (you know, water, electricity, internet) should be under much, much harsher rules to ensure people get good quality of whatever the service is Internet, for example, is a shitshow in Canada. I’ll get twice more for twice less in Mexico with less interruption. Yes, Rogers, you incompetent idiots, I’m looking at you. Telus isn’t much better but at least slightly more competent on average

Sweet response that addressed almost nothing they said and only chose to condescend to them. Are cigarettes unflavored? Because I sure preferred that taste and only continue to not smoke because I enjoy vaping fruity flavours, and know that it’s better for me than smoking. And hell yeah, let’s get rid of one use devices and bring back RDAs, RDTAs and all the other stuff that initially helped me quit smoking, and then let’s further legislate and ban the sale of vapes from gas stations and crack down on vape shops who sell to minors. Bet you that works a lot better than anything you’d suggest.

I still don’t get then nazi hangout though…

It’s getting worse. They’re actively combing curriculum for bad stuff and lightening it or taking it out entirely. Trail of tears, Japanese internment, banana republics, etc. I had a conversation a few months ago with a frat bro who didn’t know the origin of the phrase “Banana Republic”. When I explained to him that we destabilized and exploited south American countries for shit like bananas and coca cola, he outright refused to believe it. And after roughly 20 minutes of online sources the only thing he relented was that “The times were different and that was just the cost of doing business.” We killed people for cheap fruit and sugar water. Murdered. Gunned them down in the streets and their beds while they slept. The American empire isn’t going to fucking collapse because we show an ounce of remorse for the evil that’s been perpetuated in the name of “our freedoms.”

Ignoring the solution and pretending it doesn’t exist is the only thing a liberal can do. Talk to me when you figure it out.

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Bet they don’t even fucking drive. Just salty cause they have to cruise around on their E-scooter

As if you were “engaging” yourself, spare me the high horse bs

It actually took two attempts with Ventoy, the first time the drive failed part way through. I think it overheated or something, it was very hot. I had to wipe it and try again, giving it time unplugged to cool down between flashing it and installing it, and that seemed to work fine. Probably a hardware issue though, it’s a cheap drive

No — the current housing troubles go back a long way. Back to at least the early 90s. A housing crisis like we’re seeing doesn’t happen overnight. It’s been going on for a long, long time. But just like climate change people ignored it when it was a more superficial problem until we got to a point where it is close to intractable. The early 90s was about when the NIMBYs took over in full force. Construction companies had by this time stopped building starter homes, and virtually nobody was building apartment buildings. Condos were suddenly where all of the vertical construction was going in Canada’s biggest cities. The big problem here is that big projects like these take time — and the lack of focus in the 90s on these types of housing really started to manifest itself around 10 years later. If you lived in one of Canada’s big cities at the time complaints about how hard it was getting to buy a home weren’t a lot different than today (smaller centres didn’t quite have the same problem, although it slowly started to spill over into them as people moved to the peripheries to avoid the soaring costs in the major centres). Projects that can take 10 years from start to finish in the “missing middle” had been ignored, and you can’t go back in time to correct that. It isn’t as if we didn’t have immigration before. In fact, the previous record number of immigrants into Canada was in 1921, at 22.3%. And the record highest per capita immigration rate Canada ever saw was in 1913, when Canada (with a population of only 7.6 million people) let in 400 900 newcomers — or nearly 5.3% of our population. It didn’t cause Canada to collapse. It may feel like the Feds just decided to bring in all these people and dump the problem on the Provinces to deal with, but that’s not how the system works. Here is what Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration under Prime Minister Steven Harper says about the process: Under Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), as adopted in 2001 and amended and updated regularly by successive governments ever since, the federal government must consult with its provincial counterparts on three issues: the number of permanent residents to be admitted in a given year; their “distribution in Canada taking into account regional economic and demographic requirements”; and what we call settlement issues, namely “the measures to be undertaken to facilitate their integration into Canadian society.” In concrete terms, this means federal and provincial officials are in touch constantly, with the minister meeting his or her provincial and territorial counterparts regularly, as well as many other groups with an abiding interest in immigration. So it isn’t as if the Provinces didn’t know and weren’t part of the conversation, and didn’t help come up with the numbers. The Feds numbers are typically the summation of what the Provinces want/need (all except Quebec have their own Provincial Nomination Programmes). But by and large, the Provinces still did fuck all about housing, even after asking for all these new immigrants (including international students).

You didn’t answer anything about why they would care about PR. Is it your position that people would stop using CCs because some entity got noisy about them being used to buy pr0n?

I think you mean “cis male” and holy fuck, brother, you need to get out of whatever nasty echo-chamber you’re in. I’m a cis male, I’m even tall, strong, white, and from a pretty well-off family, and yet I don’t feel the least bit alienated by them. Hell, I once had a firearms license and I drive a sportscar and motorcycles and shit, and I repair things with my own hands. And yet I feel perfectly fine and secure with the NDP platform and messaging. I’m privileged as hell, and I don’t mind losing some of my undeserved advantage so that those without such a headstart can have a better chance. The best part is that I still benefit from those policies, just not directly. When the floor is raised we all do better. So I guess I’m just curious as to why you would think that they don’t want you.

You think? A light emitter could be quite useful. If I am in a low-tech society, having a device or material that would emit light in the dark could be pretty desirable. It might confuse me though, because that “light emitter” doesn’t actually emit any light at all. Maybe this ancient society was full of liers or maybe their devices are all expired and broken. Probably their warnings aren’t worth anything either.

On the other hand, we got an absolutely precious scene where the one party member who wasn’t magic-affine and didn’t want to be involved with any supernatural stuff had to ride an unnaturally fast six-legged half-demon horse in order to catch up with the bad guys. Ardo still thinks that we should just leave this whole mess to the sun god’s holy inquisition and get the fuck out of town, thank you very much.

You seem OK to me, it’s still better than getting addicted to drugs or gambling. You do play those games right ?

Completely agree with this, and also fully expecting to see that with cars too. I’ve heard of some models with onboard computers and displays showing people ads at traffic stops, it’s wild as is. But I’m certain all those CEOs and owners fully believe we should just own nothing and be happy. Everything should be rentals or subscriptions to fully cement their parasitism. And then they act surprised when people feel crushed and desperate. I my humble opinion they should fuck all the way off.

Conservatives aren’t much better but we would’ve likely seen a different change of approach on how things are ran. You’re right. Poilievre would’ve agreed to Trump’s demands immediately to make them all richer and fuck the rest of us. Carney isn’t good, but the Cons would’ve been much worse. Don’t pull the same old “but Kamala” bullshit argument in here.

For fucks’ sakes