See, this is the more reasonable concern. Moderating a fediverse instance is hard, and the flood of posts coming from Threads might be a bad problem. That's a case where I understand the need to defederate. But on the other hand, that doesn't feel like a solution that needs to be done proactively - defederating from Threads if/when Threads users become a problem seems perfectly reasonable.

They seem determined to destroy one of the top 3 most prestigious universities in Canada.

In ac6 it's about the inventory and not the gameplay. Before the multiplayer unlocks you simply don't have enough stuff to go online to fight.

Yes, it would be nice if they had some kind of fixed inventory multiplayer mode, but the main game is about getting stuff and early on you don't really have enough for a decent fight.

I mean the conspiracy theory side of it is questionable but the basic facts are true:

1. Wikipedia has a policy against non-notable things. They were always embarrassed by the fact that every detailed version of every Pokemon had its own page, whereas the pages for important historical events were stubs. The WP:Notability standard has been the bane of every garage band and open-source game and DVD extra that was booted off the site because trivia cannot meaningfully be checked, trivia that otherwise allows hoax articles to live on.

2. Jimbo Wales decided to profit off of the desire to create fan-encyclopedias or even complete nonsense (like, for example, Penny Arcade's Elemenstor Saga wiki, which details the history of a novel series and anime and cardgame that never existed) by creating Wikia, the for-profit Wikipedia that had no standards about what you could put on it besides legality. Just create your own Wikia and run it with an iron fist.

Now, the question is whether he did (1) in order to drive profitable users to (2). That's where the conspiracy question lives. And I tend to assume good faith. People's morals erode over time, not all at once. Since both (1) and (2) are totally legitimate, but profit motive encourages the millimetre-by-millimetre enshittification of Wikia into the horrible thing it is today.

I keep my phone in my back pocket. I wear a shoulder bag. Sometimes when I'm walking start hearing dialing noises as my shoulder bag bonks against my butt. I pull out the phone and find it at the emergency dialer.

Just let people buy the same stuff people take for prescriptions, at the same prices they would pay if they were uninsured.

If you're uninsured, a month's supply of cheap ADHD stimulant meds is like $40, and that's for somebody taking it daily not recreationally. Fancy patented stuff like Vyvanse costs like 10X more but there you're paying for timed consistent long-term release, which isn't exactly a huge concern for recreational use.

"I wanna buy some ritalin"

"Do you have a prescription?"

"No."

"Can I see some ID?"

"Okay."

"Okay. That'll be $40. Since you've never taken this before we strongly recommend you take your first hit now and sit in that chair for 40 minutes so we can make sure you don't OD and die. Fill out this consent form, watch this video, and give me another $40 for this one-time onboarding."

Note on the players involved here:

Alvin Tedjo, the guy pushing for this upzoning, ran for leader of the Ontario Liberal party as a minor also-ran against Del Duca and Coteau in 2020. I do wonder if the Ontario Liberals wouldn't have been re-minivanned with his presence.

Also, the mayor of Mississauga, Bonnie Crombie, is the front-runner in the current leadership race of the Ontario Liberals.

She did not show up for this vote.

In a statement to CBC News Thursday, Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie said Ontario's approach to housing needs an overhaul, which is "why I support implementing all 74 recommendations in the Housing Affordability Taskforce.

Under her leadership, the city of Mississauga released documents loudly lambasting the HATF recommendations she champions in this article, and she personally campaigned against them:

https://twitter.com/BonnieCrombie/status/1507080290602299392

I will do anything for love but I won't go through the proper processes for operating a safe and certified kitchen.

Anybody in the process could've stepped in so much earlier. Did nobody in the process of taking this guy downtown and booking him in for trial did nobody say "oh shit he was arrested while calling in a medical emergency cut him loose!". This should've been handled long before the lawyers got involved.

Yeah, it's not like they did real horrible crap like providing vaccines or telling kids that trans people exist.

Yes. Shout it louder for those in the back!

But not too loud or the wrong Google Assistant will hear it and you'll get an incoherent answer muttered from the other room about not being able to do that instead of being answered by the phone in your hand.

Blaming corporations is a cop-out. Small "mom and pop" landlords are just as capable of gouging their fellow Canadians for profit. At least there are real-estate corporations that build stuff instead of being purely parasitic.

And at least the corps have to pay tax on their profits. Private owners who bought when things were cheap and are now multimillionaires got all that money effort-free and tax-free thanks to the principal residence exception.