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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Uhhh, are they going to be paying the cammed employees more than uncammed?

    Are there policies in place that ensure that footage will ONLY be used for safety and that the company will not use the cameras to police employees?

    We’ve seen a growth in violence against police and peace officers in public spaces over the last number of years, and that’s carried straight on through to private spaces…

    Yes there is increasing violence against the 2 major sources of pain for the most desperate members of society, thanks for noticing.


  • Imagine opening your email or direct messages to find explicit messages about how someone is going to kill or rape you. Or, maybe it’s a message threatening some form of blackmail - like releasing deepfaked nude photos - if you don’t comply with the abuser’s demands. Then imagine the police telling you there’s not much they can do to help you, and even if they do, living with the fear and constant anxiety of knowing there’s nothing much to stop the perpetrator from immediately beginning that pattern of harassment again. Then imagine this harassment escalating into physical violence or self-harm.

    Now, imagine this happening to a minor.

    Imagine a slope so slippery that god himself could not climb it.

    I do agree that harassment online is an issue and has been since long before the first “I fucked your mom” was screeched into an xBox, but there needs to be extremely well defined situations where law enforcement are given access to information about ISP subscribers or users of a particular website.

    Any kind of bulk-deanonymizing measures should be avoided at all costs as it undermines one of the most useful feature of the internet. If some one wants to find information on a sensitive topic, for example an embarrassing health issue or seeking help for abuse, not having a way to anonymously do so negates any help they obtain.

    Ever since the “dark web” and “VPN” made it into the mainstream media it’s been a ticking clock to the day when each government decides that anonymous communication is intolerable. “Think of the children” is the war cry of malicious politicians and useful idiots alike.







  • Until recently, Ottawa had been hoping that Canada Post would act as a major partner in the project. But the Crown corporation balked, telling the government earlier this year that it could not risk the safety of its staff and facilities by collecting guns.

    Just dump all those ‘assault style’ firearms into untrained and unwilling hands of postal workers, they’ll take care of the public facing part of this circus!

    Licensed owners with legally purchased guns are not the problem in Canada, restricted and prohibited firearms smuggled from the US are. If millions are going to be spent on gun related crime then it should be spent preventing actual crimes, tightening boarder controls and more thoroughly investigating the organizations supplying illegal guns in Canada.

    At the very shallowest vote-for-me level, it seems like shooting your self in the foot telling ONLY the law abiding gun owners that they have to give up some part of their expensive hobby.

    Bias: I don’t own any guns, I don’t have a license but I have been shooting as a guest a few time and I think it’s a fun and challenging hobby.



  • What ethical business? Our biggest companies:

    • Brookfield Corporation (finance: produces nothing, extracts value from others and concentrates it in the rich)

    • Alimentation Couche-Tard (kwikie marts: underpays employees, over charges for products, petroleum energy vendor)

    • Royal Bank of Canada (bank: produces nothing, extracts value through fees and fines)

    • Cenovus Energy (oil and gas: oil and gas)

    • Toronto-Dominion Bank (bank: produces nothing, extracts value through fees and fines)