People are remarkably naive, especially those in decision making positions.

Remember how, during lockdowns and the slow return to normality that followed, many large online businesses made decisions that indicated they believed that consumer behaviour during lockdown would continue after lockdown? Even as all the businesses – *including those behaving thisbway – started forcing people back into the office?

The people behind those decisions really believed things would stay as they were. I’ve spoken to many more of them than I ever expected to, and they all said the same thing: We thought this was the new normal, and so did everyone else in the industry.

People are wantonly and willfully naive when their choice is between believing someing will be good, or believing something will be bad. It’s kind of shocking, particularly in the face of having already gone through the thing before.

That’s heavy

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“Accidents”

This is a soundbite that does nothing but help Trudeau. There’s no reason to think it was accidental, rather than just theatrical. He was a drama teacher. He knows how to make an impact.

It will never happen. The NDP and the Liberals are just not allies, and will not get out of each others way, no matter how much anyone else would like them to.

The polls are all starting to show the Liberals gaining on the Conservatives, they’re just showing the trend starting at different times. Ipsos, Nanos, and the others are even showing the rate of change being similar to the EKOS polls (the most recent of which have the Libs and Cons in a statistical tie), just starting several weeks later.

There’s enough runway to make this interesring, and enough Trump to keep the trends going.

Downvotes are already a questionable design choice, which encourage passive-aggressive drive-by behaviour rather than engaging with and countering challenging ideas. They’re kind of a dark feature, which give the user a sense of participation, or worse, the sense of being a cop, while contributing nothing.

They are catharsis without praxis, and they almost certainly contribute to online toxicity.

Actually giving them forum or site moderation power is… Well, it sure is doubling down on that feeling like a cop thing.

And what are all cops?

Holy shit, it’s going gold!

Clearly you don’t own a significant amount of stock in FedEx.

It’s important to separate the provincial NDP from the federal NDP. They each have their faults, but they’re different faults, and we shouldn’t blame the provincial parties for things Singh has done, and we shouldn’t blame Singh for things provincial NDP parties have done.

I mean, they’re the same party. Literally. They have different entities within them focused on different geographical regions, but your provincial and federal NDP memberships are one and the same thing.

I cannot express enough how much this works for the Liberals. Trump continuing to rattle his sabre at us through the Liberal leadership campaign and inevitable general election is basically a gift to Trudeau, his successor, and his party.

If Trump wants to keep bloviating until PP’s electoral chances are dead and gone, I don’t think JT’s going to do anything to get in his way.

Boooo. Shut that shit down. We don’t need to be validating Elon’s space junk.

Cool. I don’t want companies using AI to evaluate my application. They can get what they want when I get what I want.

I like the theory that Tesla had a long term roadmap before Elon scooped it up, and that he wasn’t able to do too much to disrupt that in the early years because he was focused on LARPing as Tony Stark on the Internet, and the team that developed around him to insulate the company from him were reasonably good at their jobs. But even the best can only hold back so few bad ideas while keeping up the illusion, and the result has been gradually diminishing amount of ass.

Until that roadmap ran out, and/or Elon stopped being distracted, resulting in them designing and building the Elon.

This still assumes a president working within the law, as well as a public service loyal to the law. Trump has never done the former, and Elon’s thugs are doing everything they can to remove the latter

They might not. But then, most people aren’t going to do things that violate the IP rights in the first place, so they’d be willingly giving up sales.

And they’re welcome to do so.

Most of the decision makers for those businesses voted for this. Let them suffer for it. Forever, if possible.

Trump wants us to kiss the ring, and his puppeteers want to break NATO. That’s all that’s going on here. There’s no grand plan. There’s just “satisfy the narcissist’s ego” and “destroy the military alliance threatening Russia”.

Keep in mind, the response is targeted at products that we actually produce in Canada. There should be Canadian alternatives to all of these.

We didn’t choose him either, but we gotta deal.

Well, no point in resisting America’s bullshit if it involves changing daily routines, I guess.

Jesus, no wonder we keep failing to change literally anything.