One restaurant owner doing something shady is decidedly not newsworthy at the international level. The local police is going to go enforce legal tender laws, and that will be the end of the story. The only context in which this is news is within some kind of “China is encroaching into Thai sovereignty” narrative, but for that you’d need …more than the sketchiness of one restaurant.

“Mr Puzder, does the President know that you don’t take him seriously?”

“Mr Puzder, can you please list which of the President’s statements are unserious?”

“Mr Puzder, is the White House aware of your attacks on the credibility of your President?”

It should be exactly like this, journalist after journalist should hammer this line on him until he fucking breaks.

I’ve had it with Americans getting a pass with the “hahaha just kidding” tactic.

There is zero reason why professional journalists should let slimes like this wiggle without pinning them down and mercilessly made to squeal the goddamn fucking truth. The media is complicit at this point.

So free software is actually about freedom, huh.

Yes but: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-china-and-india-for-first-time-in-52-years-after-clean-energy-records/

In modern Greek, singular: χταπόδι, plural: χταπόδια.

Transliterated using standard ELOT (that maps χ to ch) singular: chtapodi, plural: chtapodia.

The word is composite and contracted. First part originally is οχτώ (8) (transliteration: ochto) but has been uncommonly shortened to χτα (chta). Second part is the word for foot (singular: πόδι/podi, plural: πόδια/podia).

So without the uncommon shortening in more archaic Greek it would be: οχταπόδι (ochtapodi) and οχταπόδια (ochtapodia).

If ELOT is ignored and οχτώ is transliterated as octo, then you can get to octapodi, octapodia.

Shut up money hoarder.

As a native greek speaker, I find anything other than “octopuses” to be silly. In greek we don’t say (any more) octopodes, we say “chtapodia” (the “ch” is the canonical (ELOT) transliteration of the letter χ).

I don’t know, I’m just a citizen. My civics education tells me that holding the government’s feet to the fire with critical articles like this one should have some effect by creating a public sphere where the government doesn’t have the cover of obscurity. Informed citizenry and all that.

Cool. Then you should really care about it done without corruption and waste, right? Because that’s what about half of this long article is about.

Cool. Then you should really care about it done without corruption and waste, right?

Also, don’t you think that if the pro-peace crowd shuts the fuck up, and the only criticism of Carney’s policies comes from the Right then we would be entering a very hazardous territory, with the center being dragged ever rightward?

The article is incredibly useful from a systemic point of view because it allows us to calibrate the tension between maintaining and building security and the maintenance of internal democratic legitimacy. If you’re going to ask people to defend something, they get a say on what that something is supposed to be. People do get a say when the government goes all in on defence while cutting services. This is not a wartime command economy, nobody has said it is.

No no, don’t you see, the white cats are nothing like the black cats.

I mean I’m no capitalist, but even his argument for capitalism here is bullshit. The only world where surveillance pricing is sensible (from a free market capitalist POV) is where you make an argument for surveillance perfecting market actors’ information to achieve a better equilibrium. But that just isn’t true, because with surveillance you have perfect information on behalf of the seller but wildly imperfect knowledge and lock-in on behalf of the buyer.

You’re entitled to your opinion, I guess. A shitty opinion, throwing people who do such important labour under the bus, but, sure, you’re entitled to it.

Look, I’m not going to go down the stupid hole with you. No, we’re not just brutes who don’t know any better. We do know better, and we try to become better. The past is written, but the future is left for us to write. That’s the national story of Canada. Not that it was created perfect, but that we work to better ourselves.

So, here’s the crux of the issue:

The B.C. government passed DRIPA in 2019 unanimously and with celebration, making the province the first to commit to aligning its laws with the 46 articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, or UNDRIP. Eby, who was attorney general when DRIPA passed, says the need to pause sections of the act arose from a December B.C. Court of Appeal decision in the Gitxaala case about mining claims. In a 2-1 decision, three Appeal Court justices overturned a B.C. Supreme Court decision and ruled the province had incorporated UNDRIP into its laws through DRIPA and that the province’s “free entry” mineral tenure system, which allows claims to be staked online, was inconsistent with UNDRIP. The lower court had already found that the system breached the Crown’s duty to consult under the Canadian Constitution and needed to be modernized to allow for consultation with Indigenous nations.

So, sorry, no, Canada, BC, us common citizens, should be throwing away our constitution, and our laws and our national aspiration to build a future of Peace, Order and Good Government for a few shitty mines.

Sure, let’s ignore that this country is built on the genocide if indigenous people and pretend it’s just another interest group with no other context.

But it does have an effect on dental health! A positive one!

Why? It’s already in place in the US. Preemptively banning the practice here makes 100% sense.

Fight against AI? No sir, Carney is pushing AI like crazy.

A part of our heritage, one might say.

The truth is a bit too rude for Berliner sensibilities.