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sbv@sh.itjust.worksOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Cabinet ministers told to find ‘ambitious’ savings by end of summerEnglish5·11 hours agoI suspect if you polled the Carney voters from the last election, all but the NDP/Green ABC-crowd would be fine with these policies.
Ironically, many of the voters worried about the collapsing middle class (in the form of stagnating wages and the housing crisis) probably went with the CPC.
sbv@sh.itjust.worksOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Cabinet ministers told to find ‘ambitious’ savings by end of summerEnglish8·11 hours agoThat’s been the LPC strategy since the early 2000s. It works.
sbv@sh.itjust.worksOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Cabinet ministers told to find ‘ambitious’ savings by end of summerEnglish25·12 hours agoThat’s what many of his left-leaning detractors have said. Unsurprisingly, the central banker is a dyed in the wool neoliberal who wants to trim government spending while shoveling money towards the private sector to grow the economy. Maybe wealth will finally trickle down this time. 😅
Federally, only two parties have formed government. They change their names etc, but it’s pretty close to being a two party system already.
It’s fair to say other parties have had an effect (like the NDP before the last election), but they haven’t gotten anywhere near forming government.
sbv@sh.itjust.worksto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Learning to program in rustEnglish491·3 days ago?
sbv@sh.itjust.worksto British Columbia@lemmy.ca•City of Victoria pledges over $10M for public safety following violent long weekendEnglish0·3 days agoThere’s more than just policing:
In addition, the city will investigate and establish new short-term shelter options, including $1.95 million for up to two managed, secure and short-term emergency shelter spaces, $850,000 for operations and $300,000 for property rentals.
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The plan includes $624,000 in additional support for existing housing non-profits to expand existing relocation services, but doesn’t specify which non-profits will receive funding.
Sorry, I just can’t stop myself from shitposting sometimes.
sbv@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you support the Fediverse financially? If so how do you distribute contributions between Client/Instance/Platform?English22·4 days agoI’d donate a bit to all of them (your home instances, and the respective devs) because you’re using resources from each. But that’s just me.
This is ncd. We have compassion for the needs of the military/industrial complex here.
/uj you’re right
sbv@sh.itjust.worksto Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Proposal spot (Life Magazine, 1918)English9·4 days ago
I’m more disturbed by the lack of tread on their shoes!
It’s hard to tell but she’s actually skating
sbv@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you support the Fediverse financially? If so how do you distribute contributions between Client/Instance/Platform?English33·4 days agoI’ve donated to development. Instances need support, but the platform won’t improve without developers.
It’s popular to shit on lemmy.ml and the tankie devs, but that’s where most of the development and beta testing happens. It’s wild that software that allows users to ignore the silliness of that instance isn’t funded because of the instance.
(It’s possible for devs to be distasteful enough that I wouldn’t use their software, but we haven’t gotten there yet with Lemmy)
sbv@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•‘I blame Facebook’: Aaron Sorkin is writing a Social Network sequel for the post-Zuckerberg eraEnglish136·4 days agoLet’s fucking go
The Facebook Files made – and provided evidence for – multiple allegations, including that Facebook was well aware of how toxic Instagram was for many teen girls; that Facebook has a “secret elite” list of people for whom Facebook’s rules don’t apply; that Facebook knew its revised algorithm was fueling rage; and that Facebook didn’t do enough to stop anti-vax propaganda during Covid-19. Most damningly of all, The Facebook Files reported that all of these things were well known to senior executives, including Mark Zuckerberg.
It’s clear which side Sorkin is taking. “I blame Facebook for January 6,” he said last year. “Facebook has been, among other things, tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible. Because that is what will increase engagement … There’s supposed to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity. There isn’t. It’s just growth.”
sbv@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is a movie that "looks like" it would suck, but actually is well written and acted and a good time?English1·4 days agoDude, this is a SFW instance. lemmynsfw.com is that way 👉
sbv@sh.itjust.worksto Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Jaguar population doubles around Brazil’s Iguaçu FallsEnglish8·4 days agoTo any of you wags who are about to say “oh good! Now there’s two!”
But cross-border collaboration — between Brazil’s Jaguars of Iguaçu Project and Argentina’s Proyecto Yaguareté — has helped the population grow to at least 105 individuals.
It is not a good movie, but my kids enjoyed it, so I got some vicarious pleasure out of the experience. I wouldn’t watch it on my own.