The government was quite upset when De Gaul said “Vive le Quebec Libre”. Similarly when US officials are meddling with Alberta separatism.
None of which is at all relevant, because neither of those involves a foreign government trying to tell us what to do about relations with a third country.
To be honest, I’d start with the following four rules about what data is presented and how:
No secret sauce: Any ranking algorithm, and all the inputs to that algorithm for any post, must be available to all logged-in users. If that clashes with privacy laws, that information can’t be used in the sorting algorithm.
Keep it simple, stupid: If, given the algorithm and a randomly selected set of posts with attached information, a person of average intelligence cannot order the posts according to the algorithm in a reasonable amount of time, the algorithm is too complex and should be discarded.
No means no: All social media must provide the following basic filters: “Don’t show me any more posts by this account” and “Don’t show me any posts whose algorithmic inputs fulfill these conditions (for instance, “Don’t show me any posts with >100 downvotes”)”, and showing a user a post they have indicated they don’t want to see will be treated as a crime.
Little by little: Endless scrolling is not permitted. Feeds and search results must be paginated, so that the user is occasionally jarred loose from their train of thought.
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Lemmy needs a little more work on rule 3, but is otherwise doing pretty good.
It’s bad for everyone, therefore ban it for everyone. There. Done. Of course, the protests would be immense once the “think of the cheeeldrun” figleaf was pulled off.
Or, write strict and well-enforced laws regarding data collection and retention and on-line moderation and forbidding the more addictive qualities of commercial social media—but even then, some nastiness will inevitably slip through the cracks. Some people are just evil, and we have no way of heading them off before they’ve already done harm.
Why not just say we’ll hold them for this known incubation period, and then reassess if we need to hold them longer.
Bad/incomplete initial research regarding how (and how well) testing for hantavirus is supposed to work? Someone muffed the press release? Stupid mistakes do happen, and they seem to have sorted it in time.
Well, beyond the high end is fine in terms of safety for the general population—just a little annoying for anyone being quarantined.
Sgro said the Prime Minister’s Office has not contacted her about the trip and MPs have never needed permission for such visits.
In short, our government doesn’t care what China has to say about this. As it should be.
What happens if one of those businesses gets hacked?
As recent history has shown, it isn’t “if”, it’s “when”, alas.
(This kind of BS is exactly why I do all my banking in person.)
This is a Thing That Happens with bouncy castles, unfortunately. One incident in Australia a few years ago resulted in six deaths.
It’s bad that we’re selling them anything at all, but when looked at from another point of view, it’s a drop in the bucket. Israel’s military budget is in the tens of billions of dollars. $15 million wouldn’t even buy them one fighter jet.
“Genocide” is in fact appropriate when speaking of some specific tribes—ask any Beothuk. Oh, wait . . .
Granted, not many tribes were completely destroyed, so the pedantically correct charge in most cases is probably attempted (but not successful) genocide. At what point does the government, and by extension the non-indigenous population of Canada, cease to be held responsible? All I can say is, not yet. The last residential schools didn’t close all that long ago, and the government is still periodically lashing out in court against its treaty obligations toward Indigenous peoples. At minimum, we have several more generations to go.
Short version: no one in Ontario wants to hire trade apprentices, and there are multiple problems with the certification process (many of which may be traceable to the fact that the testing is run by a third party, which has no incentive to do more than they were contracted to do, rather than by the body that’s technically issuing the certifications). Plus the usual issues of discrimination that have been there forever seem to be causing women, in particular, to leave the trades before getting fully certified. And misallocation of provincial government funds that were supposed to be put toward fixing some of this, because Doug Ford.
Yes, that’s another workable solution, but one that requires more planning and upfront investment (and possibly negotiation with landowners in some areas). For the two-plus years it would take to get the additional fountains through city budgeting, planning, finding contractors etc, the bottled water would still be needed.
The problem is that the other measures may not be enough for some people to avoid heat stroke.
Filling stations require you to have an existing reasonably clean bottle to fill. Drinking fountains require there to be one located within a reasonable distance to whatever else you’re doing. And some of the people who were being given the bottled water were drug-addicted or metally ill and off their meds, which might not exactly do wonders for their planning ability.
Handing out bottled water isn’t really the best way to fill the gaps, but it’s easy to get bottled water, so the only problem is deciding how to pass it out. Any other solution requires more upfront planning, and likely more investment.
I doubt our government was so stupid as to miss the fact that China mounts its goalposts on carts. It all comes down to where and when and how we want to clash with their version of Manifest Destiny. Chong’s tolerance for their rhetoric is just lower than Carney’s, it seems.
City-destroying major disaster, probably, and I’m not even sure about that.
Mean wealth isn’t actually a good predictor of quality of life (beyond a certain point—obviously if you’re starving in a gutter you have low QOL, but there’s a point at which studies have shown that you have enough and more doesn’t help), and anyone sensible should be more interested in the latter. No, we do not need more selfishness and greed in the rest of the country.
It’s early days yet, and they’re testing the waters. The solution is simple: don’t buy the expensive models, and they’ll reduce the number they bring in, because leaving unsold inventory sitting on dealership lots doesn’t benefit anyone.
I think you would be surprised. Look at the (admittedly short, since it’s a young institution) track record of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and where its graduates end up, for instance. Not every one of them becomes a GP serving in a rural or remote community, but a good percentage graduate with the intention of making that their career. I can’t see why similar efforts elsewhere wouldn’t work.
You staff it by making it easier for the local kids who are interested to get medical training. In remote areas, they’re the most likely to come back and stay. They don’t all have to be doctors, either. Midwives help. Nursing stations help.
Sorry, but Quebec and Alberta are parts of Canada. Even they admit that they are presently under the control of Canada’s federal government, and were not forced into that at gunpoint (Quebec, in particular, voluntarily joined Confederation when it was first set up and has been a part of Canada from the moment there was a Canada). That a minority of their citizens don’t like that state of affairs is does not make them separate countries.
Taiwan, on the other hand, is not part of China, even if China would like it to be. It is acknowledged as a separate country by the international community, and its government is in no way beholden to that of China. The difference is not subtle and not a matter of debate.