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Orgs like Canada Proud are political operatives that work on behalf of parties. They are deliberately manipulative and misrepresent themselves as normal people, rather than political hacks. They game social media algorithms for klout, so they can skirt advertising rules. Worse, they post stuff that is demonstrably untrue to manipulate the public.

I'm not aware of unions deploying deception or trying to manipulate the public. Generally, their advertising is earnest and states exactly who they are.

tbf, Canada Proud is Canadian owned 😬

Does blocking work?

I had to change the email address to gmail.

In the first two months of 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized fentanyl on 134 occasions, down from 197 seizures in the same time frame in 2024. Meanwhile, CBP intercepted egg products on 3,254 occasions this January and February, compared to 1,508 occasions in the first two months of 2024.

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I'm not overweight, I'm prepared for the gathering storm.

This shows dedication. Not only was someone willing to harvest raw shit, but they clambered up the statue to smear it on the face.

I've worked with three incredible developers who I'd consider 10x: people who can reliably build a solution quickly, or debug problems that go deep into the OS. One would fit your description, one is a mom who shuttles her kid to after school stuff, and the other is a really nice music nerd.

Like the post states, some people are in the right place at the right time: they have the right background and temperament to do really well at their job. They don't need to be shitty people.

This is an interesting episode. The presentation is a bit cringey at points, but the speakers raise good points about the different roles a movement needs and how housing justice must be presented.

I don’t really get what selling Chrome and Android would accomplish.

There was a leak of Google's old page ranking algorithm (not PageRank, but how they change the order of results on search) - it looked like they used a bunch of signals from Chrome about the amount of time users spend on a page, how quickly they go back, etc. Chrome gives the search side of the business an advantage.

Conversely, Android feeds a bunch of extra data to the ad business about what people do in real life.

Both products give the rest of Alphabet a significant advantage over their competitors, and make it harder for new entrants to get a foothold.

you can never go home

Summit is open source now.

All the parties have already pledged to training more tradespeople. Carney pledged to during the leadership race.

Carney didn't say his government would encourage more skilled construction workers to immigrate, which I thought was weird.

We did a few prenatal classes. That made me feel a bit more prepared. The big ones for me:

1. How to change a diaper. It isn't hard, but I had no idea where to start.
2. How to swaddle a kid. Realistically, I'm not sure it made a difference for our kids, but it made me feel more prepared.
3. How to install a car seat. I'm pretty sure I still screwed it up, but I felt confident about it.

I can keep a house and I can cook

Then you're most of the way there.

She'll probably be physically messed up from the birth, so have a conversation about how work should be split up. Volunteer to cook, clean, and do laundry. If she's breast feeding (which some women have trouble with) then she may need lots of time parked with the kid.

This part is gonna sound weird, but: don't expect to fall in love with the baby immediately. Newborns are not like babies on TV - they're immobile, unaware, and totally dependent. I would have jumped on a grenade for my newborns, but the emotional side didn't grow on me for a while. That came when they were a few months old and they started to react to the world.

Congratulations, dude. It's a big change, but it's something you can handle.

Dads also described feeling a lack of agency and fearful of voicing their own preferences and needs, which is referred to as being a passenger parent.

Yeah. Sometimes we play a supporting role. Recovering from pregnancy and birth is hard on mom, so we step up. Our preferences take a back seat for a while.

There's a legit question about splitting work fairly. Negotiating that can be difficult. I didn't see a discussion of that in the article.

Andy deals with his dad guilt by trying to find ways to be an active and productive parent.

"Things like getting the next load of washing ready or cleaning up the dishes while my partner is trying to get Frances into bed," he explains.

This gets to the work splitting. If you feel guilty, and you're sitting on the couch, find something to do.

It's fair to say that we don't prepare people for parenting. Our society isn't great with those kinds of role models and archetypes. But asking your spouse what needs to be done, or taking over some of their responsibilities is doable for most of us.

BREAK IT DOWN

Be aware that the comparison was for a previous election. Platforms will be different this time around. And they probably won't be available until part way through the election.