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Small pp is afraid of questions from kids!
  • The kinds of things you tell children as advice or to encourage them are directly opposed to Poilievre's messaging. Let's think about the usual type of things:

    Stay in school; conservatives are anti-education
    Be kind; his strategy is anger and division
    Stay safe; tough on crime, because it is out of control (and its Trudeau's fault)
    You can do anything; (you can't do anything because) Canada is broken

    CPC values are literally inappropriate for children.

  • Four Tesla Dealers Said They Sold 8,653 Cars in 3 Days in Canada. Did They?
  • Tesla does not have dealerships in the sense of dealerships being middleman franchises that have their own owners. Tesla is direct to consumer, meaning Tesla owns its stores.

    I'm not saying this to negate what you said, rather to emphasize that the "suspicious" sales were not the act of some rogue local dealership owners, they are the actions of Tesla itself.

  • E-Reader recommendations
  • You might possibly be interested in checking out the YouTube channel MyDeepGuide. Guy does in-depth reviews ofbmostly e-ink writing tablets, which perhaps is more functionality than you're looking for, but some of those manufacturers also do standalone "just" readers. Or maybe you'll be convinced to get a writing tablet :p

  • Victim speaks out after woman allegedly tried to light her hijab on fire inside Ajax library
  • For a serious response to your probably hypothetical question, I would give enough leeway to consider mental illness if the attack was truly random and the victim happened to be a hijabi. Of course, that would have to be substantiated with a medical history and what the ("alleged") perpetrator said at the time of the attack, as the article is not specific about that.

  • Danielle Smith is Mark Carney's secret weapon
  • I also hate attack ads, but... Is it really an attack ad if you simply play the recording of what someone else said without editing it to make it worse (because it's already sufficient bad in its whole, truthful self)?

  • What TV cancellation are you most upset by?
  • Firefly and Pushing Daisies are staples in these conversations, so I'll throw in a less common one: NCIS LA.

    I watched that show for over a decade. It was something predictable and comfortable. The show ending was like losing my favourite hoodie I've had for 14 years. Does it really impact my life? No. Do I miss it nonetheless? Yes.

  • Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek
  • A little over a year ago, a guy tried to ask me out and I'm the process said a few dumb things in an attempt to impress me. The dumbest of them all was that he was planning to buy a Cybertruck as his next vehicle. By the time he'd said this, I'd already long made up my mind about this guy. Mind, this was the period of time when Elon was just an asshole and hadn't gone full Nazi yet, but even then, this dude's choice of vehicle told me I'd made the right choice.

    Theseadays I wonder if that guy ever got his idiot truck, and, whether he did or not, if he's changed his mind about it.

  • Canada condemns China after it executes Canadians over 'drug-related crime'
  • This is just one example of why Canada should not cozy up to China, as some have suggested in recent weeks. China is not an ally to Canada, to freedom, to democracy, or to human righta. We should never forget that their government held Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig hostage. That's just what they've done to specific Canadians, they've done much worse to other people groups (Tibetans, Uighur) and their own citizens. As far as feasible, we should be avoiding China the way we are avoiding the USA. China is more enemy than friend.

  • Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.
  • Librarians go to school to learn how to manage information, whether it is in book format or otherwise. (We tend to think of libraries as places with books because, for so much of human history, that's how information was stored.)

    They are not supposed to have more information in their heads, they are supposed to know how to find (source) information, catalogue and categorize it, identify good information from bad information, good information sources from bad ones, and teach others how to do so as well.

  • Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.
  • I had to tell a bunch of librarians that LLMs are literally language models made to mimic language patterns, and are not made to be factually correct. They understood it when I put it that way, but librarians are supposed to be "information professionals". If they, as a slightly better trained subset of the general public, don't know that, the general public has no hope of knowing that.

  • How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
  • This is insanity. I'm glad she's safe here in Canada and edit: HOPE she will be granted status to stay and complete her PhD that she's almost done. It sounds like Srinivasan is the kind of person we want to welcome here: intelligent, hard working, slides with justice.

    I hope Canada will continue to be a safe place for people who work hard for a better life not just for themselves, but others also.

  • Quebec aluminum towns aren’t feeling the sting of 25 per cent U.S. tariffs
  • Personally, I'm not sure we can assume there will be an election in four years. Or if there is one, that it won't be an "election", like in Russia.

    (Likewise, if the US ever did take over Canada by force, I'm sure we would be a territory like Puerto Rico and not have a vote.)

  • Let's stop playing around and talk about ditching something big: Visa and Mastercard
  • I had a booking/confirmation number and everything. I even showed the CC statement from my phone, which also had the booking number, too, but the counter agent didn't have the ability to change it even though he could see my name and seat on the flight. I had no time left, so I paid again and ran to security and then to the gate.

    At least the the counter agent gave me a voucher for the trouble. I got myself a beer on the plane with it, because I needed it at that point!

  • Let's stop playing around and talk about ditching something big: Visa and Mastercard
  • In general, I prefer using cash because of less information being generated, but I agree that we shouldn't pretend that CCs don't also have advantages (if you're not one to rack up debt). Smaller purchases where carrying cash is reasonable? Absolutely. Larger purchases where you need some insurance? CC.

    The other day I made a purchase at a store and noticed I was charged for something I didn't buy (not that something was charged twice, it was an entirely foreign item that wasn't even physically there). The transaction had to be voided and then re-done. The cashier and the manager (who was needed to void the tx) both said it was good I had paid by credit instead of debit because it's a lot harder even for them to return money via debit. I have no idea why, and neither did they.

    Some years ago, Air Canada's system said I didn't pay for my flight when I tried to check in. But I was already on the manifest and had already been assigned a seat. How could I possibly have an assigned seat if I hadn't paid? The desk agent was sympathetic but could not overrule the system, so I had to pay again for the seat that was already assigned to me. Air Canada could not refund the original payment because I supposedly had never paid it in the first place. I had to use a chargeback to get my money back. If not for CC chargeback, I would have lost that money entirely.

  • Still Plenty of Strange New Worlds for Star Trek to Explore: Interview with Bob Picardo

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