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I like the idea of short videos. But guess that's not the best way to make money, so instead we have long videos. 🤷‍♂️

I feel like video rolling onto the scene was the beginning of the end. I don't like video as a medium, so that's an easy place for me to draw the line. Before Youtube&co link zines and blogs would link to other readable stuff. Sometimes it had pictures, but it was complex and thought out (usually). Over time, as monetization become more of a thing, Youtube became more of a thing, along with influencers and unskipable ads. And here we are.

Thanks!

Into the jar

Do you have a link to the product page?

Developers wanted to build and deploy apps to end user machines. The round trip for page loads was lousy for usability.

Java applets were too shitty. Flash was too janky and hard to work with. So Mozilla started adding JavaScript as a hack. It filled a need.

a barrier-to-entry that makes it difficult to develop new browsers,

It definitely adds a barrier to entry, but JavaScript was really perfected in chromium, which is a different codebase from the folks who proposed and built js to begin with.

I'm not saying JavaScript is good, but it fills a need.

a little too close to reality, tbh

This seems like a fairly consistent story we hear about the RCMP. It seems like there's a regular release of studies showing mismanagement, a toxic culture, and favoritism. The two that stand out are the missing women enquiry in Vancouver (which included the RCMP and Vancouver Police), and the Nova Scotia mass shooter enquiry.

This one doesn't include incompetence, poor training, or sexual harassment though.

Agreed. She defrauded refugees. I feel like Canada has generally treated newcomers and existing citizens poorly, but this feels like a new low.

The 15th Federated will remember our sacrifice at the Battle of the Erie. As long as there's a Fifteenth, we'll live on. o7

Cyberpunk is a critique and warning about hypercapitalism with cool aesthetics and technology. Somehow we ended up with zero aesthetics, meh technology, and we're far down the road to actual factual shit down your throat hypercapitalism.

I always try to end depressing comments with something positive, but I can't think of anything. Hug your favourites, and good luck in the Climate Wars.

Same boat. Somehow, the magic is gone.

They're pretty awful, but the stats in the article don't support your assertion:

In Scarborough and increasingly here, those businesses are often diaspora-owned. They’re cultural and community hubs offering personal services, groceries, restaurants and more. In Toronto, there are more than 200 of these strip plazas (as they’re called there) that are 97% occupied right now. They depend on that plentiful parking to serve customers coming from across the city, and the space tends to be affordable.

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Those small enterprises are likely going to be challenged to afford the rents in a brand new, modern building. Even if they can secure a lease in the new building when it’s completed they’ll certainly struggle to find affordable space in which to temporarily re-locate during construction.

Typically, an abstraction maintains the essence of the original. Asking "what if

<good thing>

<bad thing>

I'm not aware of a proposed solution to climate change that involves mass torture or murder.

The question feels more like one of those terrible parlor games where you have to pick a few cards and then argue some randomly generated point.

The expansion of commercial activity into residential neighbourhoods to offer alternatives to expensive main street locations

More of this. Local hubs please.

It's kind of the same question, isn't it?

Mmm very wise

Isn't there a relationship between the road surface material, angle, width, and surrounds that dictates a safe speed range?

I don't know that I would agree that newcomers are necessarily getting screwed, not anymore than anyone else anyway. And I think that's why I have worked with so many. (Corporate greeeeeed)

Agreed, I think they're getting the same lousy experience the rest of us are: food and housing are expensive, the job market can be tough.

I do have first hand experience in this place so I feel comfortable offering an opinion

Thanks for posting. It's good to see that many immigrants are still finding Canada to be preferable to their home.

This is the crux of blaming immigrants for low wages, if the wages didn't suck already then you wouldn't have so many immigrants coming here. That's not on them, that's on domestic policy and employers fucking everyone over.

Happily, I don't think many people here are blaming immigrants for the system that's taking advantage of them. Most of the comments I've seen on Lemmy get that this is a policy failure by our governments, and that newcomers are getting screwed.