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So, here’s the bottom line: when WaPo’s opinion pages are being gutted and tech CEOs are seeking pre-approval from authoritarians, the line between “tech coverage” and “saving democracy” has basically disappeared. It’s all the same thing.

Journalistic bias exists. But most well written news stories contain enough truth that dismissing them as biased says more about the reader than the writer. I don't know about the state of journalism in the US, but ignoring entire news outlets seems excessive.

I just went to the CBC website and found most of those articles quite dull

Yes. Canadian journalists are excellent at putting their readers into a coma.

I try to follow some structure with my posts online when talking about these kinds of subjects. The last paragraph will likely be something more people can find common ground with

Nice. I've been trying to do the same. I've been trying to avoid inflammatory language and have a clear statement on top-level comments. It's harder when responding, because people tend to raise multiple points.

During my last R20 D&D campaign, the DM gave me a bunch of spell effect tokens so my wizard could accurately mark where spells hit. During other players turns, I'd have lil conversations between the wizard and his spells in chat.

It was good silly fun, thanks to Roll20's bizarre design choices.

tbf, the past few years have felt like decades

1. Councilors have established followings on Twitter. They don't want to recreate them elsewhere.
2. Journalists loooooooove Twitter. Councilors want to be where the journalists are.
3. It's a culture war battle.

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It's funny, because the whole "I don't like this article, which means it's biased" seems like a US construct. I always assumed it was an American company. But Canadians can cash in on it, I guess.

If made prime minister, Freeland said she’d ban Tesla, X (formerly Twitter), Starlink and SpaceX from "receiving any current or future federal procurement, subsidies, or incentives." The move is on top of her plan for a 100 per cent tariff on Teslas, produced by the car company owned by Musk.

Lol. Yes.

It's petty, but I'm a petty person.

I was thinking of the Global Minimum Tax, an international agreement to set corporate tax to at least 15%. That's been nixed by Trump.

I didn't downvote.

lol. Ty. Lemmy has a problem with the disagree button. 😂

As for labor standards...

You raise good points. I feel like Canada has decent regulations, and when they're enforced, it's probably better than most of the places we've exported jobs to. I don't have anything backing that up.

However, our governments definitely don't take the side of workers in strikes. I'm not sure how that stacks up overall. If workers (generally) can't be forced into overtime, how does that stack up to the feds enacting back to work legislation for trail workers?

Googling around, it seems like 996 may still be a thing, and court rulings are inconsistent and enforcement is lax.

is it assuming that everyone thought globalization was a good thing?

Yes. And many did. The 1988 election was mostly about free trade with the US, which the pro-free trade party won. The general assumption was that some people would lose their jobs, but prices would go down.

And that's what happened. But it turns out that lots of people lost their jobs, and certain sectors shrank dramatically.

Is there a client that approximate Reddit's "subscribe to post" behaviour?

Random tariffs seems the most likely.

I'm not sure that I agree with the labour standards thing. We may be lacking in some areas, but I expect we're better than the global south, and China's 996.

We need to significantly curb the amount of money/wealth going to the top and instead direct it to the working class.

I definitely agree with that. Wasn't there some global tax treaty that recently fizzled out?

That was the right choice.

It'd be cool if it was some party other than the Liberals that was getting the lift. Greens? NDP? Uh... That's about it.

The governor generals have made massive political changes in our politics.

Do you have examples of that? In my lifetime they've signed every bill placed in front of them, prorogued every Parliament as requested, and made every party with a plurality government. According to this, Canada's GG has never withheld assent.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently. We were right. We said jobs would go to low cost countries, hollowing out Canadian manufacturing. They did. The rich got richer and everyone else got poorer. And now resurgent populism.

I guess the question is what we need to do next.

I always liked the idea of globalizing rights: free trade with countries that have similar labour and environmental standards. Maybe that's the next move? Or are we back to bespoke tariffs on everyone?

Totally fair.

I feel like this is most appropriate with politicians. No politician will be everything you want, but if they have a few policies you're into, they're worth your vote.

Braun Series 7 works well for me. Safety razors and other electric razors irritate my skin, but the mesh covering thing is pretty comfortable.

I've been using the current razor body for around ten years, and I get a new razor covering whenever shaving gets uncomfortable (around 18 months).

I have no idea if the razor is produced in the EU.

The Hatchet interview with Ling was really interesting.