This is definitely a scam. I guess it was inevitable these would come to lemmy, but it's still a shame

I don't like it. I might be able to get on board with read-access to my brain (especially if I end up paralyzed or something) if I felt the tech was secure enough, but I'd be very worried about abuse of write access (writing in loyalty to the community party, for example)

There's a story about how Bill Gates plans to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years (on causes like eradicating polio, decreasing child mortality, etc) and all the Lemmy comments are "he'll still have a billion dollars" or "he shouldn't have that money to begin with". Can't we appreciate some good in the world?

president of CPA Nova Scotia, said under the bill, member accountants could flock to whatever regulator charged the lowest dues, threatening the association’s very existence

Good! Competition between regulators will mitigate rent-seeking. Professional licensing is (mostly) a tax on everyone for the good of the priestly class of licensed. IMO there are very few professions where a license makes sense, and it seems like the complainers are those who would stand to lose their political power over their profession

I tried to hide my identity as much as possible when I made the account. This included using a pseudo-random email address, fake name, fake address, and (unfortunately) fake birthday, as all of those things could be used as foreign keys to try to match my identity

It asks for your birthday to delete/access your data, but I used a fake one when I signed up...

I'm convinced the guy is literally doing this because of how it would look on a map. He took a look at how big Canada looks (partially due to Mercator) and thought "Wouldn't it be great if the my country was that big?"

The best language learning app IMO is Anki. It's FOSS and very powerful (although the UI isn't great).

Seriously, once you learn how to use it, it's incredible how well it works. However it is also much less forgiving than Duolingo. You really need to use it everyday. If you skip more than 1 day, you'll be so behind that it gets tough to catch up

My apologies, he does make that point. I mis-read into your comment that the poor people using credit cards (who pay interest) pay for the rich person's credit card rewards. But it's worse than that, anyone who doesn't use a credit card (which includes many poor people as you point out) are subsidizing the rich person's rewards

Good video showing how credit card culture basically makes poor people pay for rich people’s luxury.

That's not what the video shows. The real issue is that credit cards are a monopoly which takes ~3% cut on almost all consumer purchases in the economy and adds little value

This video is incredible! We need more action on this. Anyone know how one could get involved to ensure there are more reliable indicators of ethical meat

And any really unscrupulous actors will just setup their own encryption...

Conservatism != racism

Frankly I'd love to see more non-racist conservatives on Lemmy! If we want the fediverse to replace big tech, we can't be a left wing echo chamber

But yeah, you can't be a dick

I learned the basics of CS from this course online 7 years ago and it lead to a great career as a software dev. Hat's off to the whole CS50 team for creating such an incredible resource and making it available for free!

This doesn't read as batshit as Project 2025. The 4 memos they've posted are:

1. Build more transport infrastructure
2. Modernize our healthcare info system
3. Prioritize high skilled workers in immigration
4. Cultural programs to encourage Canadian Pride

IMO only the fourth one is somewhat questionable

In Canada it's a politically successful strategy to agitate the suburbs

This is true and depressing. But "the gov't will probably undo this" does not mean we shouldn't try

The way that London has done a congestion tax, by law, all the funds raised from it go towards improving public transit. It has been an enormous success there! The transit is much better, the city is less polluted, and if you do choose to drive in the city, you have less traffic to deal with.

I'm sure you can find a niche of people who are worse off in this situation, but Londoners overall are very supportive of it given the fact it has been in place for 22 years now without a gov't repealing it.

1. Many taxpayer funded services still have additional fees for the users (postal service, toll roads, etc)
2. This is a common argument against congestion pricing, but it ignores the fact that the lowest income people cannot afford a car/gas. Implementing congestion pricing and shifting resources towards public transit would be a huge win for the poorest in our society

He didn't sell most of the drugs, he just provided a platform that allowed anyone to sell anything anonymously. Drug dealers used it because it was useful to them.

Drug dealers use private messaging apps like Signal as well. Should Signal be held responsible for drug deals facilitated by their app? (I know it's not a perfect analogy, what he made was more blatant, but it's an important distinction to make)