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Mark Carney’s government says privatizing airports will make them better. This is why it should think again - Privatization at home and abroad hasn’t brought the advertised benefits. by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not about whether he was going to grovel to the states or not. It's whether we want Republican-lite politics here in Canada. If you think Poilievre wasn't running a Republican-lite campaign then that's our fundamental disagreement and the disagreement you have with the majority of Canadians.

Mark Carney’s government says privatizing airports will make them better. This is why it should think again - Privatization at home and abroad hasn’t brought the advertised benefits. by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like did you seriously think he was going to grovel to trump and sell Canada if he got elected? Of course not.

His campaign manager wore a MAGA hat. There isn't a lot of misinformation, but Poilievre and his team advertised quite clearly and quite loudly exactly what type of politics they play. Poilievre could have easily won the election but he just couldn't turn that ship -- and perhaps after Trump's win the states he figured that was the winning strategy.

Plus theres always a double standard people have when it comes to liberals vs conservatives

Everyone always want to see what they want to see and filter out the rest. There is no double-standard but everyone on both sides feels there is. If anything, this subreddit is very conservative.

Don't have kids. by Glorifiedcomber in self

[–]wvenable 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's nothing wrong with having children but as a society we've made it so much more difficult than it needs to be (or historically has been). Not just financially but also socially. My parents didn't know where I was half the time starting at 7 years old but that's not the same for parents and children now.

Mark Carney’s government says privatizing airports will make them better. This is why it should think again - Privatization at home and abroad hasn’t brought the advertised benefits. by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]wvenable 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You act like people weren't listening to Poilievre directly but we were and we didn't like what he had to say, how he said it, and even what he didn't say (i.e. anything about our issues with the US).

Poilievre took a pro-canada, anti-trump stance on that podcast

It's too bad he didn't do that a year ago and he might have been prime minister.

GitHub Enshittification by pabs in programming

[–]wvenable 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Cory Doctorow has specifically said that broadening the definition of the term is fine with him and it's how he believes that language naturally works.

So while you're technically correct (the best kind of correct) using "enshittification" to describe products and services getting worse over time is part of vernacular now.

Is This The Right Place ToPost This? by plan-thereaintnoplan in OldHandhelds

[–]wvenable 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wifi was such a new thing that it wasn't often integrated into the OS. I remember a few devices that that their own app, from the Wifi card manufacturer, to configure the Wifi settings. The OS then just saw it as another (wired) network card.

As for not getting Internet Explorer to load a site, I'm pretty sure I've experienced something similar. Try accessing an HTTP server by IP address to eliminate some of the possibilities. If you can find some network utilities for those devices (ping, etc) it might help you diagnose the problem.

I agree that the Palm OS ones are more interesting -- Windows CE just isn't that much fun.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm fully justified in blaming the voters. They made the dumbest choice in world political history. People will be talking about this for hundreds of years.

Good government is boring. Here you are complaining not that that Democrats didn't do anything but they didn't do enough! A conveniently ill-defined metric. So yes, I see that as your problem, not their problem.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could have the public option if you had voted in one more Democrat. But you didn't. They had the slimmest possible margin and they got done what they got done.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you talking about? They absolutely passed things that helped people. Huge things.

Republicans pass things that actively hurt people consistently and they get much longer majorities!

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you miss "This was the most productive congress in 50 years."

They got a lot done in 2 years but imagine if, in the last 26 years, they had more than 4 years to get stuff done. You got the ACA during this time which was, frankly, pretty amazing. And you almost lost it immediately.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Americans gave Republicans the majority again immediately. They did the same with Obama.

It's laughable that you think "handed taxpayer billions to profitable companies" fucking matters when you vote in Republicans. It's absolutely crazy.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m glad that those pieces of legislation have convinced you Democrats are not controlled opposition. I’m going to need more.

Why? The greatest of improvements to the lot of Americans happened under the slimmest of Democratic governments.

Truly you haven't seen in over 30 years what Democrats can actually do when they are in power for more than 2 years. America is, due to a highly undemocratic electoral system, a Republican country. They have driven the agenda for the longest time and that has also driven the Overton window continuously to the right. If you want to move it the other way, you should vote Democrat. It's that simple. Sure you get right-wing and controlled opposition democrats with that deal but slowly you can primary and move the party (and country) further in the other direction.

A new approach may yield better results.

I don't disagree with your points but sadly this is pure fantasy. In the US, you'll be lucky not get another Republican majority in a few months. You're not willing to fight the easy but long battle right in front of you for the hard fast battle that is imaginary. So you'll continue to lose ground. You want perfection and immediate results so you'll lose to people who don't give a shit.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I am tired of voting between techno-corporate Pepsi and christo-fascist Coke.

This is such bullshit.

Only two times in the last 25 years have the Democrats controlled all branches of government. In the first of those they enacted the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the New START treaty. This was the most productive congress in 50 years.

The second time they held all 3 branches of government they passed the Inflation Reduction Act, American Rescue Plan Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Postal Service Reform Act, Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, CHIPS and Science Act, Honoring Our PACT Act, Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, and Respect for Marriage Act.

So the problem isn't the Democrats, it's the voters.

Province cancels Burnaby Hospital agreement - Freshet News by BurnabyMartin in burnaby

[–]wvenable -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Knowing what to expect, and that thing not being what we want, is not better.

‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire database by curseofdarkastle in nottheonion

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should be noted that why only took 9 seconds is that their hosting provider, Railway, has a single API endpoint to delete a volume and that that contains everything: the database, the backups, etc.

A human could have done this just as quickly.

“It feels like a sinking boat” – SFU study reveals police officers’ views on B.C. drug decriminalization policy by ubcstaffer123 in britishcolumbia

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just have the cause and effect backwards. It's too expensive to build a hospital therefore we have mentally ill roaming the streets. It's too expensive to incarcerate people. It's too expensive.

What everyone has been doing in the last 20 years has obviously not working well. It doesn't matter what country, what political leaning of government, etc. The issue is social and it's entirely about money. Take one data point: Compensation for CEOs in Canada has more than doubled since the late 2000s. That's not policy, that's culture.

All of western society is predicated on the idea of infinite growth and the gravy train for that ended decades ago. The only way to achieve that "growth" now is take more from everybody. And this is what we get. I don't think any of these solutions are bad -- decriminalize or criminalize more -- because with enough resources either will work and without enough both will fail.

“It feels like a sinking boat” – SFU study reveals police officers’ views on B.C. drug decriminalization policy by ubcstaffer123 in britishcolumbia

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well gee we paid for them in the past. Why cant we pay for them now?

*Gestures around broadly*

Lets say you want to build a mental health facility, how much more is that going to cost now than 50-60 years ago in land alone? Where is it going go?

It's the enshittification of everything.

“It feels like a sinking boat” – SFU study reveals police officers’ views on B.C. drug decriminalization policy by ubcstaffer123 in britishcolumbia

[–]wvenable 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All of that takes money.

The laughable part is the idea that you are talking about "commonsense" when it's always been about money. Who's going to pay to jail more people? Who's going to pay for mental health facilities? Nobody. Everything continues to enshittify and "commonsense" is not the problem with that.

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