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Pffft, Trudeau would rather set himself on fire than enact electoral reform.

FPTP is too critical to Canadian neoliberalism in that it prevents coalitions (which would encourage compromise and diversity of opinion) and allows the major parties to force their will.

Edit: Do I have to explicitly state that neoliberalism is bad? Lol. Obviously electoral reform is needed - but there’s clearly a vested interest among politicians in it not happening.

I feel like the charges are important to note, especially given that the prosecutor wanted 25 years for this offence and that black Americans are handed very harsh sentences compared to white offenders.

It really does seem like black Americans and rappers are treated with a different set of standards and government data back me up on that.

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/mandatory-minimum-penalties-firearms-offenses-federal-system

Black offenders also generally received longer average sentences for firearms offenses carrying a mandatory minimum penalty than any other racial group. In fiscal year 2016, Black offenders convicted under section 924© received an average sentence of 165 months, compared to 140 months for White offenders and 130 months for Hispanic offenders. Only Other Race offenders received longer average sentences (170 months), but they accounted for only 2.2 percent of section 924© offenders.

Not really, this is basically punishing him for the thoughtcrime of talking about using guns.

They also ordered him to do 400 hours of community service, I guess for the “trouble” of having a hearing. If his songs are too spicy, they can revoke his right to supervised release (AKA send him back to prison).

How many times have you heard of a situation where there’s a man threatening to kill his girlfriend and the cops do nothing? Let the man write his lyrics, he was put in prison for illegal gun possession resulting from a traffic stop - he didn’t fucking kill anyone.

Is Regina at least better to live in? London is the armpit of Ontario. I hated it there, lol. But there is an excellent shawarma place near the college (Hadi’s).

Edit: Just found out Hadi’s is closed and there’s a new shawarma place there now. :( Hope Hadi is doing well.

Yeah, I was hoping my comment might prompt someone from Saskatchewan to chime in with their experience, but that didn’t happen. :b

Yeah, I could never get NPM to work right on my system either. I use the NGINX Docker image and set up my certs manually.

If I were to do it all over again today, I would probably go with Caddy since it now has a bunch of that stuff built in with automatic HTTPS by default and the basic reverse proxy setup is literally 2 lines of code.

You could try Logseq, it’s like Obsidian but open source. I use Obsidian for most notes and I also have a personal wiki built with Otterwiki.

I use NGINX for my reverse proxy, you could check out NGINX Proxy Manager which uses Certbot to automate the SSL certificates.

I’ve heard a lot of people also like Caddy and Traefik. Can’t remember which is easier to use, maybe Caddy.

It’s mostly my wife that buys fruity herbal teas and stuff, but my favourite tea is Twinnings Vanilla Earl Grey. Very rich and fragrant.

I’m basic though. I don’t even know the difference between different types of tea, like black, white, green, etc. I usually just go by smell.

I started working at 14 (in Ontario). For my first job:

• No, there is a “student wage” that is less than minimum wage
• EI yes, CPP no
• No
• Only if there are promotions available at the part-time level (my “promotion” increased my pay by $0.50)

After 2 years of working there, I got a $0.05 raise. Yes, 5 cents. The biggest increase in my pay came when the minimum wage was increased in Ontario, which also increased the student wage.

Earl Grey Pie, it’s really easy if you use frozen pie crusts.

I’d have to agree. I met my wife on OKCupid in 2016 and almost immediately after that it changed several key features and became complete garbage.

I smoke weed and watch TV. I also take Zoloft every day and it works pretty well at minimizing my intrusive thoughts too (which mostly happen at night) so it’s like multi-pronged for me.

Idk, if you’ve been going through this for a while and nothing in this thread works, you could look into antidepressants; you don’t have to be on them forever. A lot of the common ones are somewhat affordable without insurance.

If you’re going to speak for all conservatives, you’re also going to take responsibility for all of their beliefs and decision-making, like the desire to outlaw contraceptives. If you don’t want that, don’t speak for others.

It’s exceptionally difficult already for a woman to get sterilized. The decider may be whether sterilization has the same stigma/religious fervor around it that abortion has in that people will willingly waste their weekends off protesting against it.

I’m optimistic, but America likes to disappoint me.

I’m not streaming it, it’s on my media server, so there are no ads. I don’t pay for any services except Shudder because it’s still cheap and niche.

Same, been watching Dead Like Me and Xena: Warrior Princess and it’s pretty distracting when it happens.

Why not try running your own local instance of Nitter? No Nazis that way. I would if I used Twitter more.

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What a distressing miscommunication.

All conservatives hear is:

unemployment has been dropping like a rock from its peak

That’s all it takes for them to think, “wow, they’re doing a great job!” Even when austerity measures mean they can’t feed their families. It seems like it’s true no matter where you go in the world.