This is hilarious … government won’t control or regulate social media because they don’t provide the news
Yet everyone suffers from lack of news delivery because it’s all being delivered by social media companies
Everyone keeps dancing around the question of Social Media yet no one wants to address the elephant in the room … the elephant that is blocking out the sun, the sky, ate our lunch and just shat on the table
Social media is our modern day newspaper … regulate it like a newspaper, or a magazine, or a cable television provider
How would everyone feel if they knew there were only two major newspapers in the country, two daily newspapers that everyone used to publish and push all their content, advertising and user contributions, only two daily papers that held all the information that everyone in the country read
I’m well aware. I wasn’t explicit enough in my complaint.
Having been forced to use the abomination that Telus built to provide Saskatchewan residents with web access to personal health records, I stand by my claim that not being able to build (or manage the building of) a website is reason enough to exclude them from anything that can actually cause harm.
This is one of the sites I had in mind when commenting elsewhere that management doesn’t seem to understand or care that modern software development requires teams made up of those who specialize in everything from security to user interface design, not a bunch of random “nerds” popped in and out following the quarterly staffing budget.
I can see it now: random doctors with random qualifications assigned randomly to whatever task is at hand.
Shoutout to a local cooperative that’s basically used by farmers to launder money and that stays afloat by moving numbers around to manage to have access to government funding and that hires overqualified workers to do shit work because they get subsidies for techs but not for labourers!
Seriously, this is an opinion article from a guy that wants everyone to switch to bicycles, and has a laundry list of downer anecdotes to support it. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of good my man.
Not like “cars” are the best option anyway, I can’t believe that with the level of technology we have we still rely on personal transportation, capitalism sure is a blight on our world.
This guy’s the worst at putting together a pursuasive argument. Almost all the problems he wrote wil have solutions we engineer in the future. Dismissing electric cars, the very real and imminent problem they have of CO2 emissions, based on cherry picking current problems they have in different countries is disingenuous and short sighted. eg. California’s CO2 emissions problems at night cannot be generalized to other places.
And the punchline of this article is an apples-to-oranges comparison - you can’t harp on transport trucks and then argue the solution is walking and biking.
Lithium batteries (or their successor) will get cheaper, lighter, and more energy dense because there’s a massive market opportunity for that now. This article completely ignores our ability to advance technology to solve problems, lol.
To cut him some slack, it’s hard when you start with a thesis that’s not actually supported by the facts. Mashing together a bunch of tidbits without actually logically connecting them is probably what I’d end up doing too.
I don’t know this guy, and I don’t know why he tried this in the first place, but I’m guessing he’s one of those people that will only accept a radical, even deliberately painful solution nobody else will go for.
It is a childish argument. A walkable/bikeable city is a chicken and egg scenario and the author has it all ass-backwards. Infrastructure to encourage walk/bike/bus comes first. People will not walk/bike if there is no safe way to do so, or places near by to go to. I love walking and biking but it will not get groceries to the store or lumber to/fro the Home Depot. It has its place, but it is not a panacea.
Ecological health will always suffer in a model that demands eternal growth. Not specifically, but where moneyed interests are faced with finding avenues for growth, any option will be exploited based solely on its ability to generate profit. So, any avenue that is not directly in opposition to that goal is fair game. Instead of implementing measures to protect ecological interests, a make-believe version is in place where the barriers to profiting at the expense of the environment are low enough to be costed and included on balance sheets as an expense that barely dents the bottom line. Until the unholy relationship between the political capital of lobbyists and the political power of governments is closely regulated and bounded by measures that are actively enforced, no real progress will be made, and that means global measures, or else the cancer of eternal profit will just shift away from countries that are willing to respect and enforce the guidelines.
Basically, not going to happen,. So every new product that purports to be ecologically friendly, like Teslas, will have to be regarded with suspicion until they are proven to be effective, and not a back door profit stream for big oil, mining, and every other environmentally costly industry looking for shareholder value.
This is a manufactured controversy, there’s no balancing act necessary between safety and free speech. Universities deplatforming hate speech is not an attack on free speech, never was and never will be. This is touted by conservatives that cry foul on their bigotry getting expelled from moderated public spaces, but we all know how hard it is to deplatform outright unhinged people - to the point that going ‘overboard’ in safety is damn impossible.
In a 2021 B.C. Supreme Court ruling, Justice Douglas Thompson rebuked the RCMP for the use of exclusion zones to control the movement of journalists, calling the tactic “unlawful.”
But at a police board meeting Thursday, the board decided to close the complaint after hearing from VPD Supt. Don Chapman. Chapman told the board that while the VPD had closed the street for one block between Columbia and Main on the morning of April 5, that did not constitute an exclusion zone.
Lol, Jesus Christ. Is this guy the head of the Ministry of Truth?
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