I'm mad at both, alas the NDP or Greens didn't campaign hard enough, and the liberals campaigned really well under the threat of Canada electing a conservative government that would threaten their sovereignty.

Thankfully, it wasn't a majority win for the liberals. But I think you're right that a lot of the existing problems will continue.

We can only hope that we get a labour party rebuilt from the ashes that can make some stronger plays.

Also I do want to say, Carney did mention housing crisis prior to the election and campaigning. Just so no one does a "gotcha" on you because of it. My memory is vague but it was still the same hand wavey acknowledgement the previous liberal government gave. So your technically right, just trying to get ahead of anyone else saying it.

I hope that if they go ahead with changing the laws surrounding guns, they do so in a clearcut easy to understand manner. I feel like anytime gun laws in Canada are up for reworking they really sensationalise it and it never really accounts to anything different.

Like one concern I had about the past is what about replica fire arms that are airguns, do they fall under this categorisation? It would be nice to have it be clear and easy to understand.

I say this also as someone who has always been around guns, and has had a passing interest in the hobby.

I also have very complex feelings about weapons for self defense. Like it really is true that an armed minority group is harder to oppress. However, I dont think its okay for a functional society to just have everyone walking around strapped all the time. Ugh.

This is annoyingly complex, and nuanced and I wish I could just go "Yay! They're taking dangerous things off the streets"

I mean we can only hope that in the absence of Zoos we maybe gain something better like an accessible way to see animals in their natural habitats.

Sure you'd not get to witness animals from more foreign climates close to home, but honestly I'm fine with that.

For the election in question, and I guess the political structure of the country. Do you vote for like a local representation of a party, like a seat in a parliament or council or are you straight up voting for a party?

Cause that makes the situation a bit more muddy right?

In my country local representation tends to have more of an impact on my day to day then the person at the top.

Imma be honest with you chief the amount of times I come here for funny leftist memes and then see a bunch of pro imperialistic takes or starting school yard "nuh uh your crimes are worse then my crimes" is so draining.

I get that when you gather a bunch of people under one banner of a nuanced concept you are gonna get a range of people from mild mannered to fanatical about it.

Like this must be why people throw around "othering" loaded terms like tankie and liberal in here.

This is why I wish it was just high level concept lefty memes, cause you'll never get satisfying low level discussion online, just high level screeching and slap fights. So now I just try to not engage, just look for memes to talk to people IRL about instead.

I mean if I'm allowed to have a non true or false pride and can have some level of granularity, I'm proud of a lot of things.

I think we've done pretty good with national pharmacare, and dental care. I know its not perfect, and it came to slow, and the roll out wasn't great, but I have pride in the fact that were offering it.

I'm proud of the way we extended the way EI covers maternity and sick leave in the 1970s.

I'm proud of the legalisation of marijuana, because it now means that people have access to a product that gets tested for quality and health concerns.

Sure none of it is perfect, but I'll take 30% of what it should be as long as its a start. If we wait for perfection well never get anywhere. We just have to keep striving for better.

Based on the track record of the US trying to roll back rights at a federal level and make them handled on a state level, wouldn't we be basically in the same boat of our rights being eroded?

Honest question, have you thought about joining an organisation locally that advocated for the changes that you would like to see? They say the first step to change is local change. I know municipal and provincial government is less buzz worthy but it impacts people daily a lot more.

That shits gotta sound like a hoard of angry bees right?

I'm gonna preface this with "Holy fuck I don't think I can convert this to a great comment"

I have to wonder if its possible to make these people understand the difference between hiring someone where their name or skin colour shouldn't be a factor, vs hiring someone because they have a work visa and are easier to abuse (not the exact right word I'm looking for, but close enough).

Like yeah there's probably less white guys being hired at big tech companies these days, and I don't think its the big friendly diversity thing companies are pushing, but rather let's fuck over contract workers and foreign workers.

Idk maybe they're just to brain washed into the "They took er jerbs" mindset. I have to hope someone out there can help deprogram these silicon valley idiots.

Yeah I'm in the same boat, but wow do I still get a sizeable amount of dread going back to work when I'm getting burnt out on a specific task.

Like I am lucky to find myself working in the public sector and having a direct impact on the public, and I love it! But my goodness, do I dread days where its back to the same task I've been doing for the last 2 weeks, without much change.

Maybe the issue with that is the way I manage my time tho and am constantly forgetting to take regular vacation.

What you could do is get some store brand soda water / club soda / seltzer or a non-sodastream water carbonator. Then get like a cola syrup online. I know some ones that do use sugar are 1883 and Torani, they both have a cola flavour. I also havent seen a lot but I saw one brand called Zerup that has a zero sugar cola syrup. You could try that.

Are you looking for cola specifically or something like cola adjacent? And do you like it sweet or are you not super particular?

I mean the point of the original post is that it sucks to do stuff when you line the pockets of someone else just to scrape by, and they get rich off of doing basically nothing.

So in this hypothetical berry picking scenario someone could be picking berries because they are a part of a employee owned coop, they still sell berries, and they don't line the pockets of some ultra rich berry mogul. And maybe the employees feel good about being able to provide berries to people to buy.

I think this is important to think about regardless of capitalism vs communism. Human society is founded on the concept of humans doing effort to provide value for other humans. And there are people who abuse this fact and try to milk all the value for themselves. Helping yourself is great until you need the services or value of another person.

It all boils down to that old saying "No man alone is an island". To loop back around to your original question. The berry picker picks more berries then they needs, cause they knows a guy who knows how to fix a lawnmower and that guy looooves berries.

I mean it would probably still be someone else picking berries as per the second half of the post. They're talking at a high level about a system where people do things not to make money for the guys on top but to help out each other.

So someone who likes picking the berries would be the one picking the berries, and you would still get berries.

What's the name of the song?

My days of full desktop environment customisation on either Linux or Windows is long behind me, but I stop in here every now and then to keep up with the community, or so I thought.

I LOVE Catppuccin theme for my editors, and I didn't know they had this many themes for other applications! I do wish it had a warmer variant of mocha tho, but that feels sorta against its vibes.

I always assumed that it was a matter of a lack of infrastructure to do water processing and reclamation, and or just it takes time for water to cycle back around to being fresh water. I never thought about how a shift in climate means the air holds on to more water.

Goes to show, despite it being bad news, you really do learn something new everyday.

Ehhh better to be safe that have a discussion on religion and persecution in the issues board. Then it doesnt linger as an open ticket.

I feel like discussion about something like this is better suited for like a forum or a dedicated discussion channel. They discuss in a followup on the issue thread that they think even one offended person is too many, and they want to be as neutral as possible, which I think is commendable.

I think even if its a troll, its better to err on the side of "what if it is a real person, and they are offended." Obviously, this needs to be taken within reason, like intolerance is not a valid reason etc etc.

Hard to build and use a guillotine without a buddy who knows carpentry and a cheering crowd of folks!

Plus organizing means a bunch of people to ask for glass beer bottles for molotovs!

I really don't see how you got that assumption at the end. It more seems like the commenter above is saying that if you would benefit from living in a rural area because there is less people and less possibilities to encounter nuisances, and that it would also be better for those people who are nuisances to also live in rural locations cause they would bother less people.

I think its also worth mentioning that with the way housing costs, and availability for utilities is these days, not a lot of people have as much freedom to live in a space they find 100% perfect. Like i love living in urban areas, but some cities design streets so poorly that people are freely able to speed loud cars down quiet residential roads. So, we either gotta get involved in our community we find ourselves in to make the changes we want, hope someone else does it, put up with it, or pack our bags and go somewhere else.