"this hour" new year special was actually pretty good except that the Poilievre bit dragged on far too long.

Trudeau's interview was excellent, given the constraints that a PM is under.

Jujitsu with Jagmeet was fun too.

Exactly. Any analysis of "embrace extend extinguish" WRT Google/XMPP needs to answer a simple question: how many daily active users did XMPP/Jabber have in 2004?

It's kind of a moot point anyways? I mean, how good do you think they're going to be at parrying under this circumstance? They're both gonna get stabbed in the chest.

You probably did use it if you're a nerd under its old name, Wikia, back before it got enshittified.

Look, I know we used to call it the hellsite but I miss Twitter. I followed a million amazing artists and musicians and and Podcasters municipal politicians and activists and journalists. Real people doing real stuff.

Twitter was the place to follow all the Internet Famous creators.

And now it isn't.

Lemmy/Reddit is still the best workflow for following topics, but Twitter's flow was the best place to follow people. And now that's been broken up into Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads, and Twitter. Sucks.

Children with bone-cancer control the narrative?

Edit: also, this is often phrased as "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" which is a quote from a literal neo Nazi and kiddie porn enthusiast, Kevin Alfred Strom.

Uh, I'ma go ahead and assume "gamecensor" isn't a legit source and we should probably be reading articles written by actually reputable organizations reporting on this merger, because there's no way that line is real and also the punctuation is so incoherent in TFA I can't tell who supposedly said it.

Exactly. Steam is a load-bearing member. After seeing what happened to Twitter, Reddit, Unity, Wikia, etc. it's reasonable to think ahead. If Valve gets enshittified that's basically the end of PC gaming.

Stop running so many redundant school bureaucracies for one thing. Why do the Catholics need their own publicly-funded school boards?

Buggywhip salesman demands accomodation from the horseless carriage industry.

Yes, I'm upset at the licenseification of the gaming industry as much as the next guy but that died long before physical media did. As long as a game can die without its first-party servers, games are leased and not owned.

I'll give them credit, they took a hard crack at mashing up the classic styling of Lara and the modern realistic version of her to produce a novel-looking character who I do not recognize at all.

The thing that always boggles my mind is seeing cheap materials in Canada. This is one of the highest cost of living places on Earth. We should expect that anything involving manual labour will be stupid expensive here... But materials? Basic ingredients? The minimum hourly wage in Canada higher than the average daily wage in a country like India. If raw materials really cost what people charge us, most of the world would suddenly become corpses laying unsheltered in the sun.

If I'm paying you over $20/hr, use the good stuff because the cost of ingredients or materials is going to be a rounding error on the bottom line!