Would it be too much to ask for security keys next?

Its all bullshit for maximising ARPU. Public Mobile exists for users that are price conscious but you don’t get any international roaming. Koodo is the step up for people that need roaming (if only SMS 2FA wasn’t a thing). Then moving up to Telus is for people who don’t know any better or don’t give a shit about price.

I’ve complained to my bank on multiple occasions about their shit password and 2FA policies and they just don’t care. The excuse I got one time was “don’t worry about it, if your account gets hacked you are covered”

Support for App based 2FA codes should be supported at minimum, but really they should also be supporting security keys. Especially if they are going to use insecure SMS 2FA as a reason to deny covering you for fraud.

Where is the option for “They are all pieces of shit that shouldn’t be running a country” ?

It sucks out there. I got a good job right out of university at a growing company which put me in a much better financial position than many of those around my age. I’m in my mid 30s and while i could afford a small place, the idea of owning a multiple bedroom place or a house just seems completely out of reach. Pretty much everyone I know that owns in my age range has two incomes and moved away from the city.

I don’t see how anyone younger than me has a chance to do it without help from family.

I feel like this applies to everywhere. I visited Montreal a couple months ago and was expecting somewhat lower prices than Vancouver just due to the insane lease costs in Vancouver, but the prices were essentially the same. I’ve also been in the US a couple times over the summer and the prices were usually worse once you took into account the USD/CAD conversion.

So mandate the grocery stores to not take a profit on the items the government subsidizes or have a crown corporation grocery store?

Who pays for it? The issues come from the food supply chain charging more and more to increase profits, as well as other increased costs that get passed to the end customer.

I wouldn’t support the cost coming out of the government as that just subsidizes corporations that are overcharging. Can they add competition in the food space to drive down costs? Can they mandate food pricing and profit limits instead?

You do realize that it is added in low quantities to cured meats to make them safer? Don’t believe it when the packaging says it is “Natural” or “No added Nitrites/Nitrates” either, that just means the producer used celery extract/juice instead which ends up as the exact same chemical.

It is one of the reasons why you should limit your ingestion of cured and highly processed meat products though.

Agreed, I was visiting earlier in August and it was such a pleasant experience walking around the city in general but especially the pedestrian only roads. The ones they have implemented in Vancouver aren’t nearly as lively and nice. Especially with our new mayor and council essentially just paying lip service to the concept this summer.

As someone who is well above the limit of getting any help these payouts pisses me off. The people that get them only have a temporary reprieve from their expenses and the money goes right into the pockets of the people profiting from the current high costs. Where if they actually fixed the problem everyone that is dealing with unaffordability would benefit long term while the people profiting off it would pay the cost.

The US divide is really less Blue vs. Red states and more rural vs urban areas.

As far as I can tell there isn’t a single one that isn’t a steaming pile of shit. Where have you found acceptable ones?

That said I’m against them because it reduces the employment that a business requires while pushing the work onto the customers. Unless they are giving me a discount for using the self checkout you are effectively being an employee for free for the store.

As a fairly early Reddit user I’ve seen a lot of change as the website got bigger. I would agree that growth is not necessarily good, there is a minimum size of community to keep content fresh and a maximum size before it loses the personal connection. Right now a lot of the larger Lemmy communities are getting active enough, but Lemmy is lacking the users to support the niche communities. Maybe it is best if Reddit keeps those and the two websites end up with a happy balance for all the types of communities.

At some level I can’t really blame the tech companies for making it convenient to browse through their sites, but rather how they have used it to track and influence people. At some point everyone using the internet should have learned how to find websites they find it worthwhile to visit and use their critical thinking to identify whether a site is trash. That skill hasn’t changed in decades.

Agreed, it sucks to sit here and see every party doing easy things that makes them look good rather than tackling the real problems under their jurisdictions. It extends far past the topics you mentioned, including inflation, housing prices, healthcare, infrastructure, etc.

I’m beginning to think that the Conservatives drank their own kool-aid and actually believe Trudeau only won due to his hair.

This seems like they are trying the political version of the trope where the “ugly duckling nerd” come back to school after summer with a new haircut and contacts and is suddenly “hot”.

Do they really think the people on this country are that stupid? Polliviere is still the same cretin he was before.