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Just give yourself plenty of time (arrive 3 hours before departure or earlier). Review your flight number and look at the screens every half hour to reassure yourself you're at the correct gate.

https://theonion.com/democrats-huddle-to-decide-how-best-to-let-massive-republican-fuck-up-slip-through-fingers/

Mr. Doctorow has expressed before he doesn't mind enshittification being used casually as it helps proliferate it. But strictly speaking by his original definition, there are three stages:

• Offer something extremely good to your customers, to expand reach even at a loss.
• Once enough of the market is captured, offer something very good or unique to your business clients, at the expense of customers.
• Once enough of business is captured, extract value from the platform at the expense of business clients and customers in favour of shareholders and owners.

Now, yes, this type of thing has long been common, in terms of oligarchic, monopolistic capitalism, cartels, mafia, colonial market exploitation, etc. But the original context of the word, to clarify, has to do with the kind of changes enabled by technology (twiddling), where digital firms can A/B test, degrade the experience in minor increments or for algorithmically based sectors, pretending certain failures are accidental glitches, so that it is hard to notice and the justice system can't keep up. With traditional rackets, a court with enough of an anti-trust mindset can effectively identify the affected class, identify and effectively deal with the scheme. The modern "enshittification" is much more elusive, and we're only beginning to think about how to tackle this form of subtle yet widespread manipulation enabled by digital technology.

Thanks Senator Joni Hearse.

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I just had a thought. Are any of these absolutely bonkers statements from both of these fools going to be brought to court one day, and are the US justices going to have to rule whether these X-cretions are related to "official acts"?

CRINGY EDGELORD SHITPOSTER

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SENILE FELONIOUS CONMAN

Neither can get enough of themselves. Neither have any real friends. WHO WILL WIN?

I suppose yes there are a sizable portion of First Nations Métis and Inuit that want nothing to do with the Canadian government.

But I do think there are legitimate pathways to partnership with willing communities, that can involve a mix of Eurocentric and Indigenous culture and technology. It would be in First Nations communities' interest to seize upon this moment as much, if not more than your average Canadian. I think Canadians have brought in a government on the premise of being constructive and collaborative with Indigenous partners as part of speeding up projects, but that predicates on the government holding up their end of the bargain for accountability, due involvement and both the prosperity and burden being shared.

As an example: Look at Air North. The Vuntut Gwitchin people around Old Crow, Yukon had brought their community together to invest in Air North, allowing them the purchase of passenger jets enabling access for southern Canadians to the North, better access for Northerners (Indigenous and not) easier access to urban centres and its goods and services, and easier access for Northern Indigenous comunities that have no permanent roads or no roads at all into them. And not the least, as 49% shareholder the Vuntut people get a big chunk of the profit. That's a win, win, win, no?

Thanks for the nuanced response.

I agree, at lower levels physiological differences really should matter a lot less, and there ought to be considerations for each sport that we should think, beyond gender being the boundary. In a sense other types of categories do exist already: e.g. Kid's hockey separated by age (despite their growth spurt being super variable), wrestling by weight etc. The issue as you rightly point out is that a certain section of amateur and junior leagues want to take themselves as seriously as their elite counterparts when there's no self-evident need to do that.

I'm a bit comme ci, comme ça on this opinion. Why are we unable to re-define nationalism to incorporate the rightful Indigenous roots of the people that were here before settlers took that land?

Must we still divide ourselves between those lines and labels of Indigenous vs. not, instead of letting the label Canadian be inclusive of all groups who call the northern part of Turtle Island home?

North Americans writ large have largely forgotten the idea of solidarity, so international solidarity is not just like a light we can flick on. We have to learn care for each other again, starting locally, then building out into neighbourhoods, towns, cities, regions, provinces, countries, then the world.

The drive to make Canada in our image is a great unifying force, but IMO, we must focus our efforts towards bending that force towards goals of equality, equity and caring for the disadvantaged among us, reconciliation with the land's roots, accomplish big things hand-in-hand for the betterment of us all. The momentum is building and all we have to do is nudge this in the right direction and avoid the grips of entrenched interests.

The alternative suggested, to reject, diminish or shut down this unifying force altogether will just make us more divided, nihilist, apathetic, discouraged, and weak.

I mean in a sense we got the Canadian version of Harris-mini in place of Trump-mini, a Bill Clinton, or in our terms a Paul Martin type. We avoided the mistake our neighbours made, thanks to a glimpse of the consequences.

That said, I am still confident that with enough attention paid to resistance movements, Carney's Liberals will be able to turn it around. Liberals aren't always conservative or progressive, all the time. There's ebb and flow, give and take.

So I'm not saying "relax, everything's fine" but it's not "the sky is falling" panic situation either. Targeted action, supporting progressive bills and protesting regressive bills is what we as Canadians to do to deliver the federal government we asked for.

definitely Ontario