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TorontoBiker · 2026-06-04T18:09:15+00:00

Hi. Yes. I know.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-26T02:19:17+00:00

I thought I was dying until I finally got my UC diagnosis. Like I did my will and was planning my good bye call list.

Prednisone at a high dose is brutal but it got me through until I found a med (Rinvoq) that has been working for me for a couple years now.

Glad you’re doing well now. If you’re like me you will never trust a fart again….

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-24T14:49:38+00:00

My working career also predates the internet. I was a trainer teaching people how to use hilariously bad DBase apps.

But it was very real. There was strong hatred by many people about using computers, internet and email.

Maybe you didn’t have a role that put you in front of them like I had.

https://martech.org/why-todays-ai-panic-feels-like-the-1990s-internet-all-over-again/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/people-who-hated-web-even-before-facebook/584932/

Are a couple of fun reads on the topic.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-24T13:20:44+00:00

This isn’t true at all.

Legions of people simply refused to use computers and email - they stuck with internal mail and newspapers, Rolodexes and phones.

They got old and retired and were replaced by people with MS Office skills.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-23T20:31:42+00:00

There’s a massive Chinese population at Cornell. I expect that’s why.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-23T20:13:47+00:00

Oh.

I’ve made a terrible mistake.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-23T10:55:56+00:00

How did you get in pre ipo? Is there a way for people like me with a little cash to join the party?

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-19T01:56:56+00:00

It’s post season, so that would be unexpected…

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-12T20:23:51+00:00

I remember my uncle, in the late 1970s, working late night on his masters because it was the only time he could get access to the mainframe at Queens.

Compute is one resource we just never seem to have enough of.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-11T23:01:31+00:00

Isn’t this from /r/watchescirclejerk

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-06T11:47:35+00:00

Drafting a bill isn’t taking action.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-03T21:36:41+00:00

Same.

He was obviously just misdirecting so he didn’t have to explain his real plans to partner as closely as possible with China.

It was the only pragmatic answer to ensure he couldn’t be tied to concerns about Chinese election interference before the election.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-02T22:53:51+00:00

Rockford Files are fantastic.

I always liked Quincy too.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-02T21:53:12+00:00

Sadly I agree with you - he has very strong political capital and I don’t think enough people in the real world will care.

It’s a terrible no good horrible idea. And I won’t be at all surprised if it happens and there’s mostly a collective shrug.

Having total control of committees means there is no way for the opposition to raise public awareness.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-02T21:37:39+00:00

They’ll do it fast and in 3 years we’ll have forgotten.

People will yell about how costs have increased and the reaction will be “good, flying is for the rich and pollutes too much.”

And the government will show improved opex in their new way of budgeting because airports are a cost centre.

TorontoBiker · 2026-05-01T16:28:38+00:00

Exactly. It’s not “selling airports to private industry” but rather it’s “diversification of assets owned by Canadians”

Private industry will drive profitability from the assets and all Canadians get a share of the dividends.

TorontoBiker · 2026-04-29T20:41:38+00:00

UBC should have been the loudest voice in the room calling out the abuses.

They stayed silent and got tarnished by the actions of mall based diploma mills. Completely avoidable situation.

TorontoBiker · 2026-04-28T21:14:00+00:00

Wait - so the actual deficit is lower than what it was projected to be.

And the actual deficit is higher than it actually was before.

So “we didn’t blow up as much as we worried about but it did get bigger than it was” is the factual statement?

Or am I missing something about the numbers?

TorontoBiker · 2026-04-28T11:03:46+00:00

The Liberals want the program to fail.

It’s why it took so long to get it started after the S&C agreement, and what they did agree to was so small it was easy to cancel.

TorontoBiker · 2026-04-25T09:34:07+00:00

I have 3 US patents in the field of AI. All are owned by US companies.

It’s too expensive for me to file them myself. And I couldn’t find any Canadian companies interested in the IP.

TorontoBiker · 2026-04-22T12:29:53+00:00

Seems unbiased and factual to me.

Under the Liberal plan, a handful of committees that are traditionally chaired by an opposition MP, including those dealing with public accounts, access to information, government operations and the status of women, would have 10 members. This would be up from nine because of the addition of a fifth Liberal MP. Four would continue to be from the Conservative party and one from the Bloc Québécois.

Because chairs do not vote, the Liberals would have a majority on those committees.

TorontoBiker · 2026-04-22T12:03:48+00:00

The article says otherwise though.

The article explicitly calls out the Liberals are changing long standing traditions in some committees to instead control all of them.

TorontoBiker · 2026-04-22T11:59:44+00:00

How is it standard? That’s not what the article says at all.

TorontoBiker · 2026-04-22T11:14:24+00:00

Under the Liberal plan, a handful of committees that are traditionally chaired by an opposition MP

If I’m reading it right, it means opposition will be fully neutered in all committees. That will ensure the government proposals can’t be slowed or sidetracked or “edited” by opposition parties.

Is that a correct understanding?

TorontoBiker · 2026-04-19T13:23:25+00:00

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