It’s been bad for a few years already but it is getting worse. A good chunk of the internet isn’t indexing anymore (places which require logins to get the content), and those that are largely exist to earn from the advertising, not to be helpful.

There’s actually an opportunity for a disruptive force here. If you can be better at search than Google, you could steal users. But duckduckgo and related are mostly trying to be old Google rather than better Google.

Ask yourself which things you’re buying from a certain southern country with a regime that is hostile to Canada. And whether you can grow that at home. I’ve identified cabbage and carrots as a good fit for my zone (3b) which don’t have a Canadian supplier in my local stores. Looks like I’m having a lot of coleslaw this summer and freezing borscht for the fall.

Considering how crazy fuel prices are, I’m surprised this isn’t higher actually.

Time to start lobbying within your industry I guess :)

Our small business just bought a server and installed NextCloud on it. We’re doing our part.

There’s a killswitch scenario where a malicious US executive order shut off our civilization by banning Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon from serving Canada. Almost every business would be immediately hamstrung and the economy would collapse in a week. This is too fucking dangerous.

Exchange rates vary. Cost of living varies. Purchasing power parity varies. Travel one year, and it’s cheap, and the next it’s expensive. Pick destinations accordingly.

(I recommend Chile).

The article is targetting an American audience, but it is interesting to read this perspective

Hi, it is me, Poland, in 1936. Nothing bad will happen. Just focus on the cost of living and ignore what’s happening next door.

They’re still publishing it. Which is more than before.

What’s interesting to me is that Canadian MSM is now saying this out loud.

Fight, flight, or freeze. How would you respond? How will you prepare for one of those three?

You disappoint me using a US pop culture reference. (Am I doing this right?)

Simplest solution is often the most correct. However, according to the article, he was actually in jail at the time. So it’s possible they are the fence, but I suspect someone else actually stole it. Interesting nevertheless.

When I worked in the Arctic (mineral exploration), someone from the small community we were staging in broke into our helicopter and stole the emergency kit one night. Without it we were grounded. We put out a “reward for return, no questions asked” and got it back a few hours later by someone who “found it on the side of the road”. We didn’t pursue legal action, because doing so would mean the next time something like this happened in the community, we couldn’t offer a reward and expect it to work. Conversely, we probably encouraged them to do it again. Game theory is weird.

Yeah, found that funny. Like did they hire a private firm to take a lie detector tests to create evidence or something?

Since I’m in Winnipeg, I buy it from a Co-op grocery store near my house. The article suggests that the company making it might just be badging it for Co-op and you may be able to get it directly. https://borealheartland.ca/

Penner is a common Mennonite surname, and there are are a lot of Penners in Canada. Mennonite low German (Plautdietsch) is more weirder.

The wiki page has some good sample texts comparing it between Dutch and Low German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch

My surname (Unrau) is also Mennonite, but could be German.

This concludes my TED talk.

Yeah, would be an interesting lawsuit if she had proof of that statement.

On the flip side, I like that our courts publish proceedings. If we’re having an open and transparent society, and we want to trust in our institutions, then this transparency is required. An conundrum, to be sure.

I mean, our courts publish proceedings. Wouldn’t be hard to assemble a database from that info.

The accuracy of such a database (particularly when interpreted by an AI) would be hugely suspect. Also, hard to argue with a database when you’re at the border being detained – the guy detaining you didn’t create the database.

Whole thing reeks.

Copy pasting their list, which may or may not be accurate.

tenaquip.com
spicers.ca
glbc.com
actionpaper.ca
keypak.ca
enveloppe-quebec.com
cabotss.com
prairiepackaginginc.ca
chitchats.com
lorponlabels.com
heartlandshippingsupplies.com

thepackagingcompany.com
cookesales.ca
clearbags.ca
eddies.com
whitebird.ca
creativebag.com
hubert.ca
quantumstoragesystems.ca
foodpak.com
grandandtoy.com 

Uline is more like “warehouse supply” than office. Like, if I want an anti-static workbench for an electronics tech, then Uline is where I would previously go.