It's the dismantling of the free press, one of the things that is critically important for a healthy democracy.

I'm hoping for more of a "let them eat cake" kind of moment.

Because rampant over consumption is the reason the planet is doomed.

My face is too good looking to be eaten by the face eating leopards!

bUt ThE eCoNoMy...

I find it ironic that the federal government sends out carbon tax rebate cheques and the majority of people hate it, but the provincial government sends out random cheques and the majority of people are going to eat it up.

I'd like to preemptively note that both cheques are in fact sourced from taxes. 🤷

Yeah, Tesla made this claim about the model X being full self driving in 5 years and being able to become an autonomous taxi while you weren't using it. Still waiting on that one...

There are still a lot of workers needed in agriculture, but increasingly they are either undocumented migrants or on restrictive visas (like temporary foreign workers in Canada) that limit their bargaining power and let their employers exploit them with poor working conditions and rock bottom wages. This means that these workers often don't have the means or income to participate much in the local economy beyond the bare essentials. This is actually a case of "trickle down economics" where paying workers fair, living wages would lead to healthier local economies where these workers could spend those wages and support having or starting a family.

I always find it funny that people make fun of Starbucks and their funny cup size names when I have to explain to my American friends what "regular" and "double double" mean.

Well if Meta is the "industry leader" of tools designed to prevent this yet it's still happening at a large scale, then he's basically admitting that there is no way the industry can solve this. I hope they get legislated into the ground.

Copyright infringement is about the act of reproduction, not the tools used to reproduce it. The court effectively said the LLM itself is not illegal just like a photocopier or CD/DVD burner is not illegal. It's illegal if someone used an LLM, or photocopier, to make an unauthorized copy of a protected work though.

Mill Street was bought out by Labatt in 2015, which is ultimately owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, so now Mill Street is technically a Belgian owned brewery.