Damn, that was something I had wanted to do actually, but I definitely can’t right now. Should’ve done it earlier.

Maybe those interests that want to ship via Churchill will be turned down again? Even Heather Stephenson declined to ship AB oil via Churchill a couple of years ago (despite putting some funding into the rail line even), and Wab Kinew would hopefully be less amenable to it than she would.

It’s actually precisely so they don’t have to solve those problems. Most politicians don’t campaign on accomplishments alone. Increasingly, they campaign on empty promises and real threats.

I think they’re still stuck on the part where the corporations might be lying about costs being the reason for layoffs or price hikes.

CN says recent regulatory changes have made it harder to find crews and necessitated a “modernization of the compensation model.”

CPKC says it has been negotiating in good faith since September and offered compensation boosts and more schedule predictability, but that the railway and the union “remain far apart on the issues.”

Any industry people around to confirm if these claims are as BS as they sound? CN taking breaks away is self-explanatory I guess, but I get the feeling CPKC’s “predictability” of shift scheduling with “compensation boosts” means more hours and/or regular overtime. Obviously they could hire more people if the job was made more attractive, but I highly doubt they want more people. I expect they just want to squeeze more out of fewer people, as usual.

Weird story. I’m not sure what we get out of this as citizens though, especially without context. Was the kid suffering delusions? Did he have a past history of violence towards others? Did he think it would be fun to pretend to open the door as a joke? What are we supposed to be learning here? How does this apply to our lives?

It feels more like gossip than a news story.

Yikes, that’s disappointing. If the tracks are beat up by freight trains though, doesn’t that also affect the luxury riders / tourists? I guess there must be soundproofing for them?

Trains I was on in other countries (crowded or not, higher price tiers and lower) were always smooth and quiet rides at the least. Also, I only saw crowded trains a few times, so in most cases they were quite comfy as well.

Seems the lowest cost trains are double the cost of the lowest airfares (at least that I checked), but I bet the train is still more comfortable. I’ve only ridden trains in other countries though, so I can’t say for certain.

Or they eat processed foods, most of which have additives.

Cool, if that’s the case then it actually was the same thing I was saying. If someone had just made harmless fun of the misunderstanding I would have laughed right along. Too bad the atmosphere got weirdly ugly for some reason. Anyway, thanks for taking the time.

OK, sure. I appreciate that explanation but I wasn’t unsure about how ways the Flipper Zero or devices like it might be used (just as I’m aware there are reasons for and against the existence of backdoors in software). Based on your response, did you think I was in favour of banning it? I never intended any value judgments about how it might be used, but perhaps some people are reading into my use of the term “exploit” even though it’s not always a negative term.

I added the edit above because I was trying to figure out the intended meaning of the comment I was replying to, since it didn’t make sense to me. Probably it’s just awkwardly worded and that threw me off, since it doesn’t make sense otherwise.

Wow, I check back to see if clarification is available and now I have downvotes? People really are getting meanspirited on here.

Seems more to me like vulnerabilities are widespread in everything, and this thing ended up being made to exploit them?

*edit
Wait, did you mean the same thing I said? Phrasing wasn’t clear to me.

I’ve never heard that and I’m pretty sure I used two in the last year, with no issues. I can’t find an article about it. Can you link one?

Thanks for the article. Private business models have no place in our healthcare of course, but this is actually the tip of the iceberg. I find it disturbing how easily the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater because if profit-seekers can’t have the business model they want, apparently we’re to assume nothing else can be done and the whole concept of a virtual service must be scrapped.

I wish the focus for media stories about shitty implementations of tech was to highlight the very large gap we are seeing between how tech can and should help the public (especially those who could use increased accessibility), and how it is instead being used by all forms of private industry to manipulate markets and control people. Instead it’s a shoulder shrug and people keep getting progressively trained to believe any and all innovation has to benefit shareholders first, and everyone else last (if at all).

We can’t ever move past racism or other forms of prejudice by ignoring them. Rather, that’s how they get preserved. But more important than that, African Canadian history isn’t just about slaves or oppressed people any more than European Canadian history should be considered to be about slave owners or oppressors.

Polls these days aren’t necessarily that accurate (though they can skew things when they get used in media so much and people believe they are).

I wish it were, but why should Canada be at the front of the pack in human rights?

Real estate investors often try to “limit liability” by creating multiple corporations.

“It’s not that uncommon, but it does create this really complicated corporate structure where you have multiple companies, multiple lenders, and sometimes the links between them are hard to unravel,” Fellowes said.

You don’t say?

It’s scary to think how far they’re willing to let environmental devastation proceed. Merciless-but-accurate ridicule and shaming are warranted for responsible parties in both the private sector (for polluting and leaving citizens the bill) and government (for allowing this / selling out). I’d love to see more media figures (particularly comedians) consistently exposing and speaking truth to power. But I guess “power,” so to speak, owns most media. So that’s not likely to happen.

Same, except I was at a Goodwill recently and they’re going the same route. I will say the quality of what they had was better than expected, at least. I was expecting not to want anything, but there were a few good items in each section I checked. Just too bad it was like $15+ for some of the skirts. I found dresses for the person I was shopping for in good condition under $10 (I think ranging $7-$10?) though, lol.

People who didn’t put in the 2 minutes-- to prevent them from doing it, I imagine.