lol and fair.

Didn’t realize Kash was from Anfield.

As a Manchester United fan, I did a double take when I saw he was wearing a Liverpool tie.

Liverpool, I am sorry.

…right… sure he is…

In my experience, they think the exact same thing is what makes some people rich, when often it‘s dumb luck. Or, more likely, rich parents.

How did anyone understand what he said as he was gargling Trump‘s balls?

The real question is what would happen to an ordinary member of the public. If it‘s just pay the difference with a penalty fee, but nothing else, that is what should happen. You could argue the fine should be bigger because she should know better, but the law is the law.

It‘s only a problem for her job if she used her position to influence the outcome. It sounds like she didn’t.

My mind immediately went to this being censored/etc…

Either way, this article does deserve to be read

The main link wasn‘t working (at least for me) so here it is again but it‘s worth clicking through to read the article.

Tempted to buy the book now, as it sounds like a perfect reflection of everything I thought the British royal family always has been.

https://slate.com/culture/2025/08/royal-family-harry-meghan-william-andrew-entitled-book.html

They did. It was called Cadfael…

The trouble with making things idiot-proof is they‘ll just keep making better idiots

If that‘s the case, is he trying to tell us he’s also Trans or Gay, too?

We were told the cloud was supposed to be a „forever“ memory device. Nothing forgotten. We uploaded our lives to it. Then companies proceeded to gain massive benefits from our data, from profiling us for advertising to training their „AI“ models.

I am guessing the corporations have extracted all the value they can now. Those sentimental memories are now just burning a hole in their pocket. So, people, give them up as we did the commons. These poor corporations need all their compute power back so they use AI to replace as many jobs as possible.

I see two reasons. Most people that are “left leaning” value both critical thinking and social fairness. AI subverts both of those traits. Firstly by definition it bypasses the “figure it out” stage of learning. The second way is by ignoring long establish laws like copyright to train its models, but also its implementation which sees people lose their jobs

More formally, it’s probably one of the purest forms of capitalism. It’s essentially a slave laborer, with no rights of ability to complain that further concentrates wealth with the wealthy.

Maybe he was busy that weekend, being peed on by Russian prostitutes?

I feel for the CBC - We all know they are underfunded, but a comparison with the BBC is a little unfair. That is funded mostly by the license fee. No one in Canada will pay that on top of cable fees, but I guess that’s part of the corporate freebie to Bell/Rogers/et al.

The only beef I have with the article is that the CBC really isn’t any of these things the article cites. It’s news coverage is poor at best and it’s original programming is lacklustre. We do not need any more adaptations of Anne of Green Gables and nor do we need any more hokey Sitcoms (though I did like North of North)

As a taxpayer, I really do want CBC to succeed. I just don’t how it can in todays media landscape.

I concede this is complicated, but i think we can all agree that paid lobbying groups are a cancer on society.

Paid is by definition anyone paid to do the lobbying. Corporate is definitely harder to define, but let’s say you’re only allowed to lobby on behalf of your own organization (or self)

And, better yet, let’s make every single lobbying effort public - Times, dates, people involved, and the subject raised (but perhaps not the outcome). Good legislation should happen in the open

Paid corporate lobbying should end.

I agree that North America is appalling. I grew up in Europe, so that is my main comparison.

The two new lines would be helpful, but as someone that lived in Toronto for 15 years until very recently, I believe they were horribly mismanaged. Like most of the city is…

Public transport policy in Toronto is a disaster. It is a complete disappointment of a city and an ugly blight on the landscape that serves only captialism and vapid mediocrity