The government could literally spin up their own Mastodon instance with minimal investment and management needed

But then comes the hard part: getting people to use it, especially normal people. Even just getting the politicians on it would be difficult.

He said a number of people were looking into the bushes nearby, and that’s when he saw the animal, which looked lethargic and confused.

“I just started talking to the skunk because I’m an animal person. I like to do that,” Haché said.

“I was saying, ‘Hi, buddy, how you doing?’ And the skunk looked up at me, and turned toward me, and it walked on to the sidewalk and it bit my leg and then it bit my shoe.”

Isnt most people’s reaction to seeing a skunk in a bush to just get some distance? Also any wild amimal that was acting weird would be giving me alarm bells, maybe thats just hindsight but animals can carry diseases don’t you know!

Or the ones that become too powerful.

That’s the concern with it looking like a potentially great malware vector as things move forward if people are trusting more and more things to AI generated code and not doing thorough review processes.

Kind of a sci-fi thought… what happens if AI uses AI slop code as a vector to insert subtle bits of code in multiple projects that seem innocuous on their own but are actually creating a distributed AI hive mind.

I’m not saying I think that’s what’s happening right now or that it’s possible any time soon, but we’ve seen malware inserted in apps, bitcoin mining on iPhone apps, etc. Skynet Super Claude being created without us noticing isn’t maybe the craziest thing? Someone else said this project is 57k lines of code; aint nobody got time to check all that.

Was that basically the uniform of all non blue collar men of the 60’s or something?

Some employers with ties to other countries were sort of selling work visas. They’d get the LMIA permit (or whatever its called) and then get someone that wanted to come to Canada but couldn’t immigrate any other way to pay 10’s of thousands to come work that job.

It was nice knowing you.

Maybe we’ll see a federal party that’s a provincial voting block, similar to the PQ, spring up in the west in the semi near future.

You mean like the reform party but more spicy?

eventually settling on the winning side

Hardly… but I don’t see why picking a side on anything in the referendum mattered. The referendum was to see what Albertans wanted and they told her.

Jim Pattison owns a bunch of grocery stores of different types. I believe its the same rewards program for ALL of them so thats like 60% of all grocery stores in BC.

It IS way deeper than just the stuff happening right now. The problems go back many decades, almost a century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfX_Qkcgi2k&t=7544s

Thats why the USA is pushing it and welcoming these separatist leaders to special meetings. If Alberta separates then we’ll hose them on the pipeline and there will be no future pipeline expansion. The USA is the one that stands to benefit from that because they’ve been hosing Alberta for years on the oil.

I had a sienna for a while and it had TONS of room, had a corolla that was great, and a couple of older toyotas that had decent room. Recently I got a ride in a newer RAV4 taxi/rideshare and was absolutely shocked at how shit the headroom and seat was… I was in the front seat as well.

If you’re on lemmy it’s well within your wheelhouse.

Sigh… ya probably.

Maybe only a semi-related rant, but I think people should also really consider the security and privacy risks of having random apps from these companies on their phones.

ooof then yeah, she’s being pressured into being eye candy for the managers, disgusting

Without saying too much… no.

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“lots of Jews died” not because Hitler “hated them specifically” but because there were so many of them.

This is almost comical. I mean, its not… its horrific. I’m baffled at how someone could use that to explain away the deaths of millions of jews, the basically walking skeletons, physical gas chambers, and all the other evidence. What an absolute looser.

Ya, I kind of gathered that from the way it was described but this wasn’t even remotely customer facing. Not that it makes it ok in customer facing jobs either but it blew my mind.

I didn’t realize how bad some of these issues were until I was talking to a woman I work with. She was sort of half considering going back to an old career (white collar, not public facing) instead of our workplace (very much blue collar/male dominated) but she mentioned that she doesn’t want to have to start wearing makeup again. I was a bit confused because I didn’t think that makeup would really be seen as a requirement there. She said it wasn’t a requirement but there was a lot of pressure to do it.

Daily makeup looks almost as bad as occasionally wearing heels to me, but I do neither so IDK.