I mean, sure. But it's not like that's the only bias. What are the chances it was going to pick two attractive, seemingly well to do people and not two plain farmers or shepherds or something like that? Or people of very different ages or different heights, etc.

It's not choosing entirey randomly but it isn't showing us anything that couldn't have possibly existed.

That's the most painful part of all.

The actual content is way better now than it was the first couple of months after the Reddit thing. Initially a lot of the comments were either Reddit related or people trying to force communities that didn't necessarily have the population to survive, yet. That's all fallen away now and the content feels much more organic. Someone opening a Lemmy instance for the first time is going to find today's front page much more engaging than what it looked like in June/July.

Lemmy is becoming its own thing rather than a reflection of Reddit.

In some ways a lot more responsive as well. The news that Kissinger died was all over Lemmy for hours before I noticed one post about it crack the front page of Reddit, for example.

Where they at? Apparently he's buying haircuts with cans of fish.

No, he's saying Israel built it for Israel's purposes. He's claiming that Hamas has been using it (presumably since Israel pulled out of Gaza in '05). But Israel using structures it built as casus belli to blow up a hospital looks really bad on Israel's part.

"This message is for Dr. Ben Thomson. Remove your post regarding Israel," a man's voice is heard saying in the recording. "It is disgusting, you are a disgusting human being, you do not know what you're saying, and if you do not remove it, I advise you and the rest of your staff to stay out of your office."

I wonder if these people ever stop for a moment to consider whether they might be the bad guy?

"For something this big, Albertans deserve the benefit of a rational, adult conversation."

And we are going to make one of the central premises of this rational, adult conversation that Alberta is owed over half the CPP's fund.

Please.

Better headline:

"UCP wants to raid CPP to feed more money into O&G."

Equiton's strategy is to buy buildings where existing tenants pay below-market rent, and renovate units when those tenants move so they can be rented out at higher rates, generating profits for its more than 8,000 investors, said its vice president Lavelle Lindo. Lindo shared the business insights in an interview with a wealth management company posted online in 2022.

It seems like their business strategy is buying out places charging below market rates and renovicting the people living there. Demons.

Should have called it Thatcheresque for the local flair.

Not just heat but smoke, too. Half the summer has been spent under fair to heavy smoke cover where I'm at.

Are we certain this complaint was lodged by the Linux Foundation? Frequently DMCA takedowns happen because someone who is not the original rights holder made the complaint. Even when there's no actual rights being violated. Essentially people taking advantage of automated systems or just people not wanting to deal with possible legal issues, trolling of a different sort.

The unfortunate thing is that this doesn't set a new precedent. The BCMEA is taking the stance that it is because this government has already shown previously it will act on behalf of business over that of working people. The assumption is that it can wait it out and have the government do the dirty work in it's favour, and it has good reason to think so. The results of the government backing business over people has been predictably not great for the longshoremen in Montreal.

But to be honest it was always pretty clear that things would come to this, every sign pointed to it. That's why the unions need to take a page from the Ontario education worker strike last year. Back to work legislation is in effect the legal nullification of the union, in the sense of the power of collective action it represents, and should be treated as a threat to all unions and resisted by any means.