kfet @ kfet @lemmy.ca

Software Engineer, AI/ML, modern languages, sailing, Nintendo (Metroid and

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love it so far! not finished yet, but it is a lot of fun

The new Prince of Persia demo, and Child of Light, which I just started the other day.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely with you that there should be places for supervised drug consumption, as well as safe supply.

I just don't understand how restricting drug use on playgrounds harms anybody, it's got only positives that I can see. I would even go as far as saying that allowing drug use on playgrounds is harmful to drug users, because it encourages conflict with the public.

But I don't think we are discussing criminalizing drug use at all. Criminal records for drug use is not part of this act amendment, like not at all.

The NDP act amendment, which got suspended, is a project to restrict the drug use in some places, by directing police to approach the drug users, ask them to move elsewhere, and make sure they do. That's it, that's all there is, there's no jail and no criminal record involved.

As for the argument that barring playgrounds the only place left to do drugs is jail, that's just not serious, they occupy a very small part of the public space.

This seems to be an argument to forcibly allow drug consumption absolutely anywhere. Schools, pools, restaurants, in the middle of the mall, etc.

This doesn't seem like a reasonable argument to me, there are and there should be limits to where open drug consumption should be considered welcome. The question is why do we now decide to explicitly include children playgrounds in the list of those places, it's entirely illogical.

A bit misleading title of this article, the judge did not rule that the act is unconstitutional, instead they ruled that there are enough serious issues with it to suspend it until those issues can be tried.

IANAL but the injunction seems to be granted mostly because of the OD crisis, which is a worsening public health emergency, i.e. the risks of keeping the act in effect, before it is tried, are too great.

I don't get it, why is asking people to consume away from very specific places, like playgrounds, considered pushing them to the fringes?

Reading the article consuming is already prohibited (AND deemed constitutional and good policy), on school grounds, how is a playground any different?

To save you a click, this is about union members voting for general strike in Quebec over wages.

Almost like it is not a for-profit company, and the investors interests are not a priority...

I was talking about Chomsky. He is not trustworthy.

This is the guy who went on record claiming that it is somehow NATO's fault for Putin's Russia invading Ukraine. Do not trust him with anything related to politics, he is out of his mind.

Hamas is an internationally recognized terrorist organization, which just executed a bunch of civilians on a music fest. There is no grey area and no room for interpretation.

Maybe the released few were treated well. Very few out of hundreds. Hamas have not deserved an ounce of trust, don't give it to them for free.

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“Citogenesis” I chuckled:) XKCD is great

Oh and here’s the wiki article on the subject! With a link to the comic no less:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting

Do it!

Good! Saying "I will not condemn Palestinian resistance" at this specific time is a quite literal endorsement of Hamas. It's the only "resistance" and it is 100% based on slaughter of innocents (both Israeli and Palestinians).

A really horrible stance to take, with the very much expected consequences.