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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOaUaISaMM

Here's the video from her YouTube channel, which is really the main part of Rachel's content, the Substack posts are just a side platform with an introductory blurb.

Democratic members of Congress, write down this decision to stay the order, with the footnote: "Bad Behavior from Supreme Court". You might need it later if you get a chance at governing again.

I'm still concerned about Bill C-2 and the erosion of Canadian Privacy right that we have by default that could be legislated away. Some other parts of it make a lot of sense, but it needs significant revision in the fall before I can get behind it.

I'm not a fan of how "American" the whole bill feels in general. Service providers (which have been clarified by the government to mean virtually any public-facing business) can be more or less compelled or effectively encouraged to surrender our information to the government on premises much weaker than currently. The mechanism is that by volunteering the information (and barring themselves from disclosing it publicly), they are legislatively protected from lawsuits. They can not do that but lose that protection from liability and conversely, risk prosecution if they disobey certain orders in "exigent circumstances". Most firms are not really going to care about their customers as much as their own liability risks.

The standard to obtain this info is also lowered by a lot and the "warrant" is being defined in this act more loosely.

These are all concerns to me because it is much harder to obtain our rights to digital privacy back once we lose them, and every reason in the book has been used by governments across the world to try to erode these. Yes, we should prosecute crimes and creating a "framework" to handover data does make sense to me but there needs to be a lot more transparency in the process, and I'd prefer not to embed a gag order/non-disclosure provision without clear availability of recourse. A lot of things are changing in this bill, so we need more time to look at this one (I'll give C-5 more of a pass since it is actually part of what Carney campaigned on).

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/over-600000-near-miss-incidents-with-pedestrians-cyclists-recorded-at-intersections-across-canada/

One in every 770 pedestrians and one in every 500 cyclists experience a high-risk or critical near-miss at intersections across Canada, according to a new study commissioned by CAA.

CAA and Miovision—a traffic data analysis company—watched 20 intersections nationwide between August 2024 and February 2025 using cameras and artificial intelligence.

They logged over 600,000 near-miss moments, indicating that at least three serious incidents occur at a single location every day.

This sounded like undercounting it, until I realized this is one in 770 times a pedestrian crosses a single intersection a near-miss occurs, not within a year, and 600k near miss events happened at 20 intersections over 6-7 months.

Because yeah as a cycling commuter that sounds about right, several times a year there's a near miss situation where I had to stop suddenly because the drivers weren't looking at all.

I called it:

https://lemmy.ca/comment/17316878

Yeah it happens a lot (well with at least 10 mins more). At my job people are given 40 hours (or more, without overtime) of work to be done, and then call meetings that eat up into those hours, so ending early gives people back the time the meeting took away from them.

On that https://cardsagainsthumanitystopsthewall.com/

C.A.H. hired an eminent domain expert lawyer to stall the process, probably you'd need legal advice for your idea.

I think contributors were given a recognition that they helped buy 0.00067% of the land, it wasn't officially subdivided between the contributors nor were they given a share.

Yeah Republicans, you can't put this provision through the budgetary process...

You have to pass it using the "incredibly unhelpful and stupidly evil" lawmaking process. Then Democrats will have your back.

Would be great if they could do Twitter next.

Good labour laws can foster a work culture that can make people feel dedicated to their line of work, and give them room to wind down projects rather than be cut off inmediately.

He admits he made some bad decisions:

One of those decisions was working my butt off for years. Nobody told me to spend 20 hours on weekends or to work as hard as I did, but I did it because it felt like the right thing to do.

For one, servers running Amazon's ECS/EKS can switch to self-managed Kubernetes.

Even if Trump is bluffing as usual, European governments and local councils should get the hint that the tech hegemony Google Amazon Apple and Microsoft is going to be used as an arm of the US government.

Time to switch! Wololo

Watch out for the Don Quixote gambit...