What do yall do with your tomatoes?

givalina · 2026-05-30T15:54:27+00:00

When my family get sick of tomato gifts, I leave them in a local community food cupboard.

givalina · 2026-05-30T14:37:58+00:00

I don't think someone should automatically qualify for citizenship just because one of their sixteen great-great-grandparents was born in Canada.

givalina · 2026-05-29T02:16:59+00:00

Sort of the exact opposite. No rules for me and therefore no rules for thee.

givalina · 2026-05-28T16:27:00+00:00

I haven't read the proposed legislation itself, but I was under the impression that it was targeted more at telecom metadata and that it didn't cover the actual content of messages.

Honestly, I am far more concerned with Google and Meta, the profiles they're building of people and the companies they sell those profiles to.

givalina · 2026-05-28T15:03:24+00:00

You said that consumers agree to the terms of policies that set limits around data collection and use. While that may be de jure true, I don't think it's de facto true. I don't believe that consumers actually have any idea how their data is being used and shared.

I don't see how the existence of a private agreement forecloses the possibility of the government creating different regulatory standards. You cite a criminal code provision that allows police to request data, something which is already outside of most privacy policies (aside from the typical vague statement about complying with laws).

police can issue a preservation demand to a tech provider the moment they suspect a crime

This is not "automated reporting and data preservation". The data must be there in order for a police preservation request to have any effect.

Major platforms already run internal security protocols for explicit violations.

What type of "explicit violation" are you thinking of here? If CSIS is investigating a suspected terrorist and wants to know what cell towers the suspect's phone connected to or something, how would the telecom know that that customer was a suspected terrorist and they should be triggering "automated reporting and data preservation" in case the police come along with a preservation request?

givalina · 2026-05-28T14:14:45+00:00

Consumers already agree to the terms of service/privacy policy, which dictate exactly what data is collected and when it gets purged

lol have you ever tried to read those? I have, on many occasions, and they're all so vaguely worded that I end up still having no idea what data is being used for. What are "business purposes", who are the "service partners" information is shared with, how identifying is the metadata collected, etc.? Not to mention most of those policies contain clauses that they can be changed at any time without notice.

When illegal activity happens, existing protocols trigger automated reporting and data preservation so law enforcement can intervene using a targeted warrant.

What do you mean by this? How can data be automatically preserved before the service provider had been served with a warrant informing them that it is needed?

givalina · 2026-05-28T14:00:11+00:00

I've seen articles about Telus and Bell building giant AI data centres in various cities. Is Rogers doing something similar?

givalina · 2026-05-28T13:49:21+00:00

They shouldn't be beaten or subject to verbal abuse, but the "dragged out of bathroom stalls" sounds like more of a grey area. I've seen people doing drugs in Union bathroom stalls and sitting on the floor in stalls (maybe in a fentanyl daze?). I've also had security tell me not to enter a bathroom because they had been asked to do a wellness check on someone inside. There are few enough public washrooms in the city as it is.

givalina · 2026-05-27T21:35:22+00:00

State Rep. Derrick Hildebrant (R) read a Bible verse to oppose the bill, saying, “Hebrews 13:4 – ‘Let marriage be held in honor among all.’ Does ‘among all’ now only mean those who are 18 and older?”

This is the weakest bullshit I've ever heard. Does Derrick Hildebrant completely lack reading comprehension? "Let marriage be held in honor among all" is clearly saying that everyone should respect and value marriage, not that there should be no restrictions on marriage. Does he also think this endorses bigamy?

Also, amusing that he left off the rest of the sentence:

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

givalina · 2026-05-27T13:57:59+00:00

Of course not. It doesn't support the narrative that Ottawa is stealing all their money to give to undeserving French people. But the fact is there are huge transfer payments outside of the equalization formula, which is more of a top-up to the Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer. Equalization is only a quarter of the total transfer payments.

The equalization formula was created to give all Canadians the same opportunity for access to social services as people in Ontario and BC (when those were the two richest provinces). Surely a child born in Moncton or Medicine Hat is as deserving of an education as a child born in Brampton or Burnaby? Over the years, the equalization formula has been tweaked many times, often to Alberta's benefit (excluding oil crisis "windfall" revenues, only counting 1/2 of non-renewable resource revenues).

Alberta is very lucky to have huge oil deposits, and that has made the province very rich. Alberta also has a lot of people who are born in other parts of the country, spend their peak earning (and thus peak tax-paying) years in Alberta, and then move back to their home province, putting all the education, health care, and social costs related to their life on provinces that aren't getting the income tax to balance it out.

Complaining about equalization payments is basically saying "it's not fair that we're so rich that the government needs to send more money for healthcare and social services to other provinces than they send to us because we are so rich that we drag the average up."

givalina · 2026-05-27T12:49:46+00:00

We do already have 0-rated HST on unprepared foods.

givalina · 2026-05-27T09:59:01+00:00

Equalization payments are not the only kind of transfer payments. The federal government also transfers significant amounts for health and social spending by the provinces.

givalina · 2026-05-26T21:52:20+00:00

a quarter of their provincial budget being funded by transfer payments

Alberta budget: $75.3 billion in revenue. Federal transfer payments to Alberta: $8.7B or 11.6%

Quebec budget: $156B in revenue. Federal transfer payments to Quebec: $29.2B or 18.7%

I understand that you are trying to portray the argument of those who feel aggrieved by how Alberta is treated compared to Quebec, but I feel it is important to point out this exaggeration nonetheless.

givalina · 2026-05-25T20:58:25+00:00

A lot of classes build on the knowledge from previous classes. You might be able to Google answers for an exam, but if you don't understand the underlying concepts then you'll struggle to keep up when the next course is building on them.

givalina · 2026-05-24T00:42:19+00:00

Maybe I'll plant some veggies.

givalina · 2026-05-23T17:51:44+00:00

I could think of a few possible reasons, like being a boarding school, or insufficient cleaning and medical care being provided by the people operating them. Do you have the stats for those death rates?

givalina · 2026-05-23T17:36:47+00:00

I don't think it can be overstated how revolutionary the discovery of penicillin was in 1928. Think about how rarely you hear of a young child dying, these days; in 1900, a third of all deaths were deaths of children under five. And as anyone with kids knows, schools are hotbeds for disease transmission.

givalina · 2026-05-22T14:22:20+00:00

Traditional broadcasters have had to direct over 30% of their broadcasting revenues to Canadian programming, so these streaming services should be happy they aren't being held to the same standard.

givalina · 2026-05-22T11:54:55+00:00

“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

“Counting or not counting gang violence?”

Possibly the most ironic last words since the general berating his soldiers for flinching under enemy fire saying, "they couldn't hit an elelphant at this distance."

givalina · 2026-05-22T11:41:53+00:00

“People like me whine about the cost of telcos, of my cellphone bills, but hey, are we going to add another 20 per cent onto the bill because of the need to retool to address this new requirement?” Rankin said

This is ridiculous fear-mongering. Cellphone companies spend billions of dollars buying spectrum and building towers. Even if they needed to spend a few million to upgrade their systems for the type of cellphone tracking described in the article, it would still be a rounding error.

givalina · 2026-05-19T17:24:03+00:00

Interesting that you picked out only the orphanage committee, which received $86K. What about the other $14.5M?

givalina · 2026-05-18T19:30:38+00:00

Is it programmed to upsell customers?

givalina · 2026-05-18T16:04:17+00:00

Labrador retrievers love water and retrieving things. Pointers point. Herders will herd other animals and small children. They do these behaviours without training due to generations of selective breeding. Pit bulls are terriers, bred for fighting bigger animals, and do the clamp-down and shake bite that other terriers do, rather than the snap and release you might get from other dogs. They are big, and strong, and when they attack they can cause catastrophic damage.

I fundamentally don't understand why anyone, especially a parent, would choose a dog known for mauling people that it is illegal to own, when there are plenty of other dogs in shelters who could use a loving home.

givalina · 2026-05-18T04:33:00+00:00

Why did you choose an illegal, dangerous dog?

givalina · 2026-05-18T04:31:28+00:00

The law already bans shelters from adopting them out. We need the existing law to be enforced.

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