UN says that Canada has an immigration system that can be abused for modern slavery not too long ago. It hasn’t been updated

Conservatives say that the law favours immigrants.

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Make your pick?

As someone who hasn’t been following what’s going on, this reads like a really weird post.

What does it mean for a language to… “drop”? Did you mean language usage? Why would Linux “grow” (whatever you mean by “grow” here) whenever this language “drops”?

And assuming I understood your post correctly, why should we consider Chinese users of Linux as “noise”? In what context are you posting this such that they can be considered “noise” instead of “more data points”?

Sorry for blasting questions at ya, but this is really out of left field.

Presto essentially had that sort of potential in Ontario, if it just expanded beyond being a transit card.

There are lots of such examples outside of NA. In Japan, their transit cards can be used in lots of convenience stores, vending machines, and even claw machines. In Malaysia, the old highway toll debit card called TouchNGo can now be used essentially anywhere where the vendor pastes their QR code.

I’m gonna need some citations or sources for that.

AFAIK, the service tax was not “put in place ages ago”. It was put in force in June 2024, literally last year, and the first payments were expected literally yesterday, on June 30th, 2025. It’s retroactive, but still only goes back to 2022, which isn’t “ages ago”. Source

And what’s this wheat market steal you’re talking about?

I see a whole bunch of low effort negative reviews from Chinese players that seem to be hating on Capcom. Not sure if something triggered that.

But there are also a lot of player concerns that have basically just surfaced with about 4 months into the life of the game:

• bad performance and optimization continues to plague the game
• constant crashes for a lot of people
• too little content, and people really don’t seem to like the slow release of new contents, and wonder why aren’t they just putting em all out at once (though many big titles are trying to go for a cadenced content release cycle to keep people interested in the game, and it’s always a bit of a debate on whether that’s good or not)
• story is too low effort (but MH has never really been a story-centric game; and imo the story in Wilds seem to contradict with the gameplay itself: talks about the cycle of life and the ecosystem around it, but here we are just hunting everything down)
• the monsters are too easy
• older players of the MH series find that the game has made itself too easy and not punishing enough: rare items are easy to get so there’s no satisfaction to be found there, builds are too shallow, etc

Welcome to the painful world of DRM that we live in :’)

And to be fair to Steam, they did recently issue a statement and tried reflecting it in their stores to say that you don’t actually outright own all the games you “bought”, as, for some, you are merely purchasing the license to play games that the publishers have decided to put behind a DRM. This has always been the case since the dawn of DRMs, and it was implied that people should understand it, but recent events have made it clear that a lot of people aren’t even aware of it. So you’d be forgiven for not knowing.

Ehh… It seems like Carney’s comment is just lip service, and imo it just skirts around things that you just can’t say anything good about. “Transformational” isn’t necessarily a praise, and a “relentless focus on the American worker” doesn’t focus on the policies (which we know have been really bad for American workers) and basically just reiterates Trump’s claimed motivation in some way, so a nothing burger. “Securing your borders” is also a nothing burger cause while it’s what they’re trying to do, is hasn’t necessarily been done successfully or in a good way. “Ending the scourge of fentanyl and other opioids” is just another self-proclaimed point, and in the case of fentanyl, 21g in a whole year from Canada, and of unknown effectiveness from Mexico. And “securing the world” is also a nothing burger cause he hasn’t, but he’s doing things that he thinks is securing the world.

I don’t think it shows what Carney’s true plans and motivations are going into the meeting, so I’d recommend not reading too much into it at the moment. We’ll see what comes out of this whole discussion, and we’ll find out what have Canadians voted into.

Given the current situation in Canada: a poly-crisis where many feel like they’re just not making it out well in life, it’s the perfect conditions for fascists and populists to come in and peddle hate and false solutions to a confused and angry public, and Smith plays very well in these sorts of situations, as a serial liar who will lie for anything that would benefit herself and her benefactors. And it’s especially easy these days, with the States and various far-right parties around the world as samples of what she can do.

Unfortunately, the Western world is becoming more and more polarized due to how effective right-winged leaders have been able to sell to a lot of people a convenient false reality, and capture and direct their hatred towards incumbents, and sell themselves as the solution to all their problems, a common fascist tactic we’ve seen many times in modern history by now. Trump’s supporters down in the States are very much captured by this and would believe almost any reality Trump would propose, and we all know Trump is a successful conman that will bend his interpretation of reality to whatever fits his narrative. Smith is playing exactly that same game here. Frame every problem as an existential crisis and label dissuaders as enemies for the force that’s threatening your wellbeing, and you have a group of supporters whose minds will be difficult to change by others.

And the unfortunate reality is that for many many years, internal politics in the Western world has been relatively calm and stable enough that many have become complacent and think that world events and politics aren’t important to their lives, and have ended up taking politics for granted. When they can’t find a job, can’t earn enough to live, or can’t get to live the life that they’ve come to expect to live in, blaming the incumbent is an easy answer, even if they don’t necessarily understand what or why their situation has anything to do with government policies, especially when they don’t even know which level of government is responsible for their plight.

And some recent publications have revealed that people will gladly support whoever that speaks their plight, and rationalize whatever problems there are with the speaker. In the case of Trump, people support him in spite of his crimes, and you could even say it’s because of his crimes, as they see him as a rule breaker that will do whatever it takes to do what he says he’ll do for them. Christian evangelicals rationalize their support for Trump by using their history about a king who wasn’t a Christian in the past who purged their enemies. There are also many amongst the Republicans who believed they could keep Trump reigned in once he helped get them into power, and we all know how that turned out in Trump’s first term. And we see similar episodes playing out, not just in the States and Canada, but also in the EU.

This whole situation around the world is just nasty and sad. In some ways, it’s not too different from the many past empires where a significant group of people are essentially brainwashed into supporting the very people who are making their lives worse, and be used to further the agenda and pockets of a few.

I’m part ranting, but all I want to say that it’s just really difficult to have other Canadians convince Albertans that nobody else is out to get them and take advantage of them like Smith is claiming, aside from Smith and her cronies and those behind her, precisely because of how the propaganda machine is ran. And I want to say thank you for actually coming in and voicing your thoughts as a non-Canadian (though, I’m actually not one myself either, though I am a PR living in Ontario). Unfortunately, lemmy.ca is mostly left, and are frequently technologically inclined, whereas people who’ve bought into the right wing narrative are generally on Meta’s services, X, and Reddit, so your voice might not reach them from here.

Way to blow a good lead and give your opponents ammo, and especially at an opponent that’s trying to grab onto every possible thing that could be an ammo.

Edit: And I also wanna say, man I just can’t with the CPC. Their rhetoric sucks, their role as the opposition is juvenile af (just look at this childish comeback!), and their entire existence feels like they just pull Canadian politics down to the sandpit and make people fight like dumb kids who don’t know and can’t act better.

I’ve definitely heard of irrational hatred towards the Libs from South Asians, but not so much from those of Chinese descent, but tbf my real life circle isn’t that big and we don’t really talk about politics. As an immigrant myself from a similar demographic (am Southeast Asian), I have to say that I don’t understand this rightward shift in voting sentiments. Is it cause they’ve never been under Harper, or never heard of what things were like under him? (I’ve only been here since Trudeau) The Cons never came across as being friendly to non-Whites, and that should already be a warning sign.

But afaik, a good number of the Chinese that I know of are generally supportive of being tough on crime and see Canada as being unsafe, especially the older generation. They praise China for having strong police presence and for its seemingly lower crime rate, and then says things like, “It’ll never be like that in Canada. And to think that we came here because it used to be bad there and was much safer here.” One that I’ve talked to said that he supports the CPC for being tough on crime (allegedly I would say, but nonetheless), and support scaling back immigration even further to hopefully bring back how Canadians used to be much more friendlier (he sees the large increase in new immigrants as a reason why Canadians have become less friendly overall). Perhaps to these people, they would rather trade being possibly oppressed for a chance of having lower crime rate? Idk how that’s more assuring from a safety standpoint but it makes sense to them.

If I didn’t see the domain name I would’ve thought this was a parody website.

These people are whackos.

Says the guy who literally decided to slap tariffs on Canada over a flimsy pretext.

If his goal is really to depreciate the USD, he’s doing a fucking good job while sabotaging Canada at the same time. Not sure if he thinks this’ll make Canadians consider moving their businesses there, which is one of his goals, but this is also a man-child who doesn’t understand empathy and assumes everyone works like the stone-cold (failure of a) businessperson he is. There’ll be some who’d do that, but idk if they’ll find a depreciated USD all that alluring to earn. Trump essentially wants the US to become China though, as the global factory of sorts, and wants to force others to buy US products, in a way that so far seems to be more heavy-handed than China, who typically looks more for weak points and pressures other nations into buying their products if they don’t already buy enough. He claims that this’ll make Americans rich, but in truth, this only enriches the rich, just like, well, right in China.

Might be my dumb 2 cents but it’s what I’ve gathered from the material consequences of his actions so far.