Marathon, via Aleph One, has been free for at least a two decades at this point, hasn’t it? Bungie open sourced it before 2000 and Aleph has been a thing since at least 2004, I think.
Conservative politicians want to be elected. And the way they want to do this is by stoking meaningless (and mean) culture war issues to keep their base a)angry and b) not focused on economic inequality caused by their donors.
In Ontario, the average wait time for the thousands of prospective patients on the province’s list looking to be connected to a family doctor is, according to the government, around 90 days....
In Ontario, the average wait time for the thousands of prospective patients on the province’s list looking to be connected to a family doctor is, according to the government, around 90 days.
Wow, so I must be much younger than I think, because it’s been eight fucking years since I’ve had a GP, in a city (not a town, a city) with no walk-in clinics and no NPs taking patients.
This was terrible under McGuinty & Wynne, and Ford’s response was basically “hold my (buck a) beer!”
I bet if the kind of things happening in the US happened in China, I wouldn’t be able to stop hearing about it. I mean, people are still criticizing the Tiananmen Square massacre, and hasn’t anything happened since then? It’s like still making conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s assassination or 9/11, those are old news.
China being authoritarian is a “Dog bites man” story. It’s expected.
Same with police misconduct in the US: it’s also dog-bites-man.
Trump and his team realized that outrage fatigue is a thing: fuck up daily and with such magnitude that being a corrupt fuckup becomes a non-story and then you can get away with anything.
Steve Bannon even had a term for it: “flood the zone”.
If I were leading the NDP, I would be banging this drum constantly. Instead, we have the fucking Conservatives acting as the party of the working class, which is insane.
It seems to work for Sanders in the US, but the NDP parties in Canada seem afraid to be called socialists, having been stung during the Rae era in Ontario.
The one social media network the amplified left-wing radicalism–Twitter–got bought and tanked by a billionaire.
I can barely recall the last time I saw real left-wing content on Youtube, and the others (Facebook, Reddit) are fine with overt Naziism, but say “eat the rich and pass the ketchup!” and you’re looking at suspension.
So you’re all on-board with funding Ukraine, right? Right?
I wasn’t aware Israel was an American state. I mean, the US acts like it is, and I suspect, in my darker moments, that Republicans would be more upset at an attack on Israel than of, eg, San Francisco was bombed.
I mean, if they didn’t actively cheer a bombing of SF.
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it comes...
I got an email from Leadnow recently and they used this phrase about Poilievre “flipping a kill switch” on the constitution. I usually trust their emails, but this is one of those instances where I wanted to double check this one. I copy pasted the phrase into a search engine and came across this video....
You know, you could fix a lot of these problems if you funded schools properly. Then we could have resources for disadvantaged students, as well as enriched programs for really bright kids.
But of course, that would mean paying taxes. And right-wingers’ concerns for children or the unborn stops at having to pay for it. Pro-life when it means stopping abortion? Fuck yeah! Pro-life when it means maternal nurtrition and healthcare? Fuck you!
So you just want to educate the rich kids and leave all the poor kids behind? That’s a great way to make us less competitive
Yes.
That is exactly what they want.
Because in their craven hearts they think we’re poor because we’re a worse class of people, and that if we were a better person it’d just shine through without any thought to the environment. After all, they’re doing well because they’re just superior, and not because they won the vagina lottery and were lucky enough to be born to rich parents in a time of opportunity. Nope, not that. It was all their own hard work. They built their business by combining the various component atoms of it, powering nuclear fusion by sheer willpower.
There’s a statistically significant number of these people who masturbate to copies of Atlas Shrugged.
Addressing a crowd of 500 members of Canadian tech during the BetaKit Town Hall the CEO of Shopify said the country suffers from a “go-for-bronze” culture.
No, we’d be quite happy for you to innovate, we just don’t want you to re-enact the opening sequence of Duck Takes, swimming in a pool of cash while most people struggle to make ends meet.
How about this? You fuck off, and someone else can do what you do without being a greedy parasite about it?
As the City of Ottawa looks to take over responsibility for parking ticket disputes next year, one councillor wants to look at a sliding scale of penalties that would give low-income drivers a break....
Penalties geared to net worth (for individuals) or gross revenue (for corporations) are a great idea. Otherwise, compliance, or failure, is just a cost of doing business.
The BC United party is in such a “precarious position” that it could cease to exist after the next provincial election, says the public opinion researcher who worked on former premier Christy Clark’s winning 2013 campaign....
The number of times I’ve seen “BC housing strategy working out” and “BC actually slowing the trend of doctor loss” posts confuses me, because as a resident of a province ruled by a Conservative government I can’t imagine why you’d want to switch from a government that’s trying to do something for the electorate to one that’ll sell everything that’s not nailed down, and then sell the nails.
What’s even scarier is those same people seem completely oblivious to the alternative, which is Mr. “Muslim Ban, Shithole Countries, I like Jewish people counting my money, I’d just nuke the whole place” Trump.
Like, your problem is genocide and you’ll basically pave the road for the candidate that explicitly said they’d do a genocide, and whose supporters would cheer him on as the missiles launched, over one that you have some influence over?
Bungie's first big hit, Marathon, is now free on Steam thanks to a fan revival that has Bungie's blessing (www.pcgamer.com)
Conservatives want to bring back the smoking rooms in Tim Hortons ultimately, and fuck the planet. (lemmy.world)
Thousands of Canadians are on doctor wait-lists. Are they effective? (www.cbc.ca)
In Ontario, the average wait time for the thousands of prospective patients on the province’s list looking to be connected to a family doctor is, according to the government, around 90 days....
Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter (www.businessinsider.com)
I'm so tired of hearing about US police brutality and China being authoritarian. Why does it feel like everyone is a hypocrite here? Where are the posts about Chinese protests and police brutality?
I bet if the kind of things happening in the US happened in China, I wouldn’t be able to stop hearing about it. I mean, people are still criticizing the Tiananmen Square massacre, and hasn’t anything happened since then? It’s like still making conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s assassination or 9/11, those are old news.
Rex Murphy, the sharp-witted intellectual who loved Canada, dies at 77 (nationalpost.com)
As he battled cancer, Murphy continued to file, writing about Hamas and Christmas and interviewing Pierre Poilievre with his usual panache
Israel's far-right lashes out at Biden over Gaza war stance as Netanyahu vows Rafah offensive will happen (www.cbsnews.com)
Grocery giants paid for friendly Liberal, Tory policy with decades of donations (breachmedia.ca)
Republicans Funded by Arms Industry Fume Over Biden Threat to Withhold Bombs From Israel (www.commondreams.org)
“What did we do after we were attacked in Pearl Harbor?” asked Sen. Lindsey Graham. “We dropped two nuclear weapons on two Japanese cities.”
Canada's foreign student push 'mismatched' job market, data shows (www.cbc.ca)
Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles (www.psypost.org)
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it comes...
Blinken Says Israeli Units Accused of Serious Violations Have Done Enough to Avoid Sanctions. Experts and Insiders Disagree. — ProPublica (www.propublica.org)
Will Poilievre flip a 'kill switch' on Canada's Constitution? | About That (youtu.be)
I got an email from Leadnow recently and they used this phrase about Poilievre “flipping a kill switch” on the constitution. I usually trust their emails, but this is one of those instances where I wanted to double check this one. I copy pasted the phrase into a search engine and came across this video....
ALLISON: Schools shouldn’t sacrifice student performance to vague notions of ‘equity’ (torontosun.com)
Indeed, highly equitable and inclusive schools do a disservice to students and society at large.
Shopify CEO says Canada must overcome “go-for-bronze” culture at BetaKit Town Hall (betakit.com)
Addressing a crowd of 500 members of Canadian tech during the BetaKit Town Hall the CEO of Shopify said the country suffers from a “go-for-bronze” culture.
Should parking fines depend on how much your car costs? One councillor is asking (www.cbc.ca)
As the City of Ottawa looks to take over responsibility for parking ticket disputes next year, one councillor wants to look at a sliding scale of penalties that would give low-income drivers a break....
Poll Finds Surging Conservatives and NDP in a Dead Heat (thetyee.ca)
The BC United party is in such a “precarious position” that it could cease to exist after the next provincial election, says the public opinion researcher who worked on former premier Christy Clark’s winning 2013 campaign....
The Maxx - 30 years later (archive.org)
I wish there was a remastered animation.
A Majority of Democratic Voters Believe Israel Is Committing Genocide (zeteo.com)
Mehdi’s Memo on the results of our new poll on Gaza and Iran
TD May Face US$2 Billion Money Laundering Fine, Third-Largest Ever: Analysts - Better Dwelling (betterdwelling.com)