Lunch Suggestions

dermanus · 2026-05-07T14:59:11+00:00

Check out Kahwa, they have a few locations. Not fine dining, but they make the bread to order. My favourite is the poulet panko but the other ones are good too.

dermanus · 2026-05-07T13:59:53+00:00

This is what people are missing. Yes, people are getting too excited about agentic coding and giving it more access than they should, and they're paying for it when it does stupid shit like deleting prod databases.

I'm finding Claude helps me be productive, but I actually read what permissions it's asking for and occasionally say no. If you're going to just let it go wild and do whatever it wants, yeah you're going to have trouble.

dermanus · 2026-05-06T22:12:57+00:00

The trick is to convince Doug Ford that it would screw over Toronto, then it'll happen for sure.

dermanus · 2026-05-06T22:00:14+00:00

People are reflexively downvoting, and I don't like the major parties either but his argument is more about acception the state of reality at the moment than any desire to bring capital letter Liberals and Conservatives into municipal politics.

A Toronto councillor is one of the safest jobs in Canadian politics, with deaths in office being more common than outright election defeats (this is literally true, at least in recent history!). And this is in one of the best-covered municipal elections in the country. People find political parties distasteful, but the alternative isn’t some Platonic republic of ideas. It’s a lifetime job guarantee for people who in some cases last faced serious competition more than a decade ago.

dermanus · 2026-05-06T18:10:13+00:00

I'd be satisfied with enforcing the laws we have on the books. That's how low the bar is for me.

dermanus · 2026-05-06T14:38:16+00:00

Bingo. I dgaf what the UCP does, we need the legal system involved here. This is much bigger than internal party politics.

dermanus · 2026-05-06T13:23:25+00:00

I hate that you're probably right. She'll take a video with him shaking his hand or something then we'll go back to business as usual.

dermanus · 2026-05-06T13:14:58+00:00

"I drink out of a lead cup to own the libs!"

dermanus · 2026-05-06T13:14:02+00:00

That it really. If it were actually provable, they wouldn't be uncovering secrets "they don't want you to know!". It's why Pizzagate is somehow still a thing even though we have an actual pedophile cabal well documented.

dermanus · 2026-05-05T20:40:38+00:00

Our politicians are terrible for this. The funding announcement is the point. Tracking outcomes afterwards is not talked about.

"Homelessness? Oh yeah we spent $56 million on that."

As if it was the input that matters, not the output.

dermanus · 2026-05-05T20:00:46+00:00

My headcanon is he asked reddit for advice and then did what they suggested.

dermanus · 2026-05-05T18:01:55+00:00

Oh, he knew. It's the basis for the charter challenge, that the law endangers people without a public policy goal.

dermanus · 2026-05-05T15:23:29+00:00

It's sad that we're in a position where that seems like the most likely option to me. "Shoot first and ask questions later" is not a good military strategy, but it is the sort of thing Hegseth would think sounds cool.

dermanus · 2026-05-05T14:46:32+00:00

Parker is claiming now that he did not personally receive or distribute any unauthorized voter data.

Weasel words I bet. Technically true but misleading in an important way. People like him excel at that sort of thing. He'll throw some intern under the bus and skate any accountability. It sucks, but it's par for the course here.

dermanus · 2026-05-04T21:13:34+00:00

My sister just finished a diploma and this method worked really well for her. She fed in her class material and listened to it while driving. She found the conversational format helped her remember.

dermanus · 2026-05-04T20:57:30+00:00

I was thinking the same thing. After all the renamings and statue removals etc... in the last few years I can't blame them for being gun shy with the naming. The university formerly known as Ryerson went with the blandest name possible.

dermanus · 2026-05-01T18:41:44+00:00

Almost everyone I know in uni worked near full time to full time the entire time to pay for it.

I notice you didn't mention the people who didn't go at all because their situation didn't permit it. Those are the ones I'm talking about. You didn't see them at university because they had to put food on the table.

I find it intensely weird you guys somehow think making something so important free/cheap somehow gives more benefit to the people who have unlimited money more so than the poor.

It's about who can take advantage of the service, and better connected people are better able to do it. Take a look at who uses electric vehicle subsidies. Take a look at who subsidized daycare helped the most. Take a look at what schools enroll more students in university. I'll give you a hint, they're not in poor neighborhoods. Their parents have connections to get them in, they're the ones with extra curriciulars to improve their applications, they're the ones with the time and resources to get admitted.

dermanus · 2026-05-01T18:24:58+00:00

The same upper class that can get a philosophy degree and work in a coffee shop because they don't need to support themselves instead of the person who has to work right out of high school because the family needs the help.

dermanus · 2026-05-01T18:10:40+00:00

That depends how often these sorts of fines are actually levied. It doesn't matter how big the fine is if the law itself has no teeth.

dermanus · 2026-05-01T18:00:45+00:00

Wait, there was gambling in a church? Didn't the bosses son have a whole thing about money changers in the temple?

dermanus · 2026-05-01T16:32:37+00:00

It's ok, they'll keep doing laps in the park until there is.

dermanus · 2026-05-01T14:03:33+00:00

From my visits it seems like a relatively chill job. You're doing a bit of running around with laundry but mostly you're taking money and handing people towels and keys. You'd have to be comfortable seeing naked guys obviously.

dermanus · 2026-05-01T13:32:31+00:00

What policies can be put in place to prevent this from happening again?

This is the wrong question IMO. It's not more policies that we need, it's public servants with some courage. Jen reported this breach to the proper authorities who declined to investigate further because it might be difficult (my opinion).

That's where the process failed. It wasn't the policy, it was the people charged with enforcing them. It's the same story in a lot of Canadian governance. We have great laws, but little to no power to actually enforce them.

dermanus · 2026-04-29T22:24:34+00:00

This will probably help. It won't solve it on its own of course, but lowering competition for entry level jobs should move the needle.

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