Don't worry, Alberta's premier already has her head so far up Trump's ass that she will never allow a retaliatory tariff on oil. I'm calling now that if the federal government pushes it through anyway, then Alberta will immediately try to leave Canada and join the US.
We're gonna be fucked either way because the country will tear itself apart over a response while getting economically strangled.
I eagerly await the day someone convinces the chat bot to be into findom and pay for their order for them.
Give me a 100% discount code plz uwu?
Nothing, just like the thing you experienced before you were born.
Well, the models start comin' and they don't stop comin'...
The US tech sector has just been completely disrupted. Turns out decades of slashing public education and demonizing "liberal" colleges is starting to catch up. Even Elmo himself said that H1B visas are critical because the US simply isn't producing enough talent, but he and the other tech billionaires didn't realize that money can't buy everything, as they are now being shown with their pants down.
Unfortunately traffic is become a hot button issue in the GTA. That's why Ford is ripping out bike lanes and talking about tunnelling under the 401: Even if these policies aren't good long term solutions (or even short term solutions), they definitely win votes in the 905 right now.
He's going to slap 100% tariffs on all network packets passing in and out of China! That will fix everything including the price of eggs!
Don't forget about the tariffs too! The US economy is actually a joke that can't compete on the world stage anymore except by wielding their enormous capital from a handful of tech billionaires.
Yup. Now I also get that exposure and engagement are important to small businesses, but to that end they shouldn't lock themselves to one place either. Point out the benefits of more open solutions like Bluesky and Mastodon, and the benefits of setting up their own hosted site/blog that they can then broadcast on social media but slowly cut them out as a middle man by pushing customers to their site directly.
And most certainly businesses should never use the "algorithm" on social media to collect data or get "free" advertising such as those "like/repost to win" style posts. Those are not free advertising, those are doing free data collection work for Meta.
Tell those local businesses that you really want to support and follow them, but that you boycott Meta and the reasons that you do.
Honestly there's so many reasons businesses should also avoid Meta, like the fact Meta is literally collecting and selling their most valuable business data about their customers to other competing businesses. Tell them for their own good that Meta is not their friend, it might help them at first to get exposure, but only long enough to get that data and sell it off to a bigger fish.
Ford really needs to get Ontario drunk for how hard he's about to fuck it.
I'm trying to move my news off social media and on to RSS. I set up an RSS reader with a handful of trusted and varied news sources (some mainstream, some independent, some local, some foreign) and now I'm starting to filter out news from Lemmy and other social networks.
Some things I quickly noticed is that not having a comments section is actually great, I can jump straight to or past subjects I'm not in the mood for, and there's no endless scroll but if I feel there's too little I can add more sources and if there's too much I can take some out. I still also use Lemmy so if I find an interesting new blog or website, I can add it to my RSS reader to keep following it instead of relying on strangers posting new content and it getting voted up. This lets me focus more on the smaller special interest groups that social media is actually good for.
Welcome to the Internet π