Godort @ Godort @lemm.ee

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I live in a small town and even I had to wait about 15 minutes in line.

Last election, I was the only one there outside of the volunteers and was in and out in about a minute. I want to think this is a good thing and we'll see massive voter turnout

Yeah, that tracks for Canadian politics as a whole.

Conservatives and Liberals haven't really changed their tune and are both running essentially the same platforms they were in the mid-2000s. The NDP is headed by someone who got into politics to really try and change things for the better, and get outplayed every time by the establishment. And the Bloc really only cares about the culture of Quebec, which makes them a non-candidate for anyone far away from Quebec

Lobbyists as they exist now? Definitely.

The original concept for them is an important thing to have in a democratic system. You can't expect politicians to be intimately familiar with the ins and outs of every industry, which leads to ineffective regulation. It makes sense to have a person whose job it is to translate the needs of the industry to the politicians.

The problems come when that person has an incentive and a sizable budget to twist policy to the advantage of shareholders rather than consumers or workers.

I pre-ordered this game because I loved Psychonauts and this game was marketed as a sort of heavy metal themed Zelda game.

I then learned about 2 hours in that its also an RTS, which is a genre I never got along with and set it down never to be played again. Thankfully, when you're a patient gamer, you can't be lied to by advertising.

What, like ET for the Atari? The game that was so bad, it very likely caused the video game crash in North America?

There was slop in the old days too, just like there are good ideas now.

There was a short story I read a while back that also featured that plot point, but I don't remember what it was called.

Only that I found it after reading into inspirations for The Laundry Files by Charles Stross.

Time to restore a whole machine backup to a VM with no network connectivity, and manually pull the command?

I'm not surprised. I'm disappointed, but not surprised

This sucks, but I can understand both sides here.

Canada has strangely high standards when it comes to food regulations. Especially in restaurants. And lowering those could result in an influx of low quality processed foods entering the market.

On the other hand, the reason it's failing to meet the standard is that it has added vitamin B which feels a bit absurd since those additions are allowed in other products here.

I hope this gets resolved in a way that lets this dude keep selling Vegemite at his shop.

on my last thread somebody wrote that unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments

How do I stop having expectations?

This is almost certainly not what they meant. You can't expect someone to read your mind and solve problems you might have.

If management is not meeting your expectations, then the answer is to have a conversation with them about it(ie: make them spoken expectations), not to remove them altogether.

That actually sounds like a rad date

"We had a good thing going here selling homes for well over triple what they are worth! Why are you messing with that?"

Would be hell to play, though, there's definitely better horny RPGs to try

My issue with horny RPGs is that if you can find people to play with that are into whatever kink the book is catering to, why would you bother to play at all? Just have sex.

And on the flipside, if you dont want to have sex with the people you're playing with, why play the sexy game? Just play a regular RPG

Judge people for what they do, not what they are.

I kind of want to meet the person who agrees with me on all beliefs except trans rights. Like, how did they come to that conclusion when so many other things they support rely on having some basic empathy for people.

It's not fear of the freedom, it's choice paralysis. People want to go to one website, sign up for one account and then be part of a network with absolutely zero research beforehand. I like the fediverse, but the barrier to entry is higher than that because it first requires you to understand the technology at a base level.

Internet services getting shitty and then dying is nothing new. Look at MySpace, Digg, or any BBS. people just abandon the old one and join the new popular one. They'll leave when it gets shitty enough and join the new thing

I'm sure that no one would ever think to abuse this. The conservative government has always been strictly honest, right?

I just want to go back to the children's age bracket. Tell me about cool new toys and less about life insurance

Things are weird out here. People by and large don't really like what Smith is doing, but they elected her to fight Trudeau, not help Alberta.

For some reason, they can't see that we can't just keep going to the oilsands for infinite money. I thought things were finally getting better when we elected the NDP that one time, but it turns out that unless you can fix Alberta's substantial problems overnight, convincing the Conservative voter base that you aren't the second coming of Stalin is impossible.