[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

I should have voted for the NDP, and I should have convinced the rest of complex to also vote NDP. and the NDP should have campaigned here more than once, and reached the people who aren't living in mcmansions and driving cybertrucks. and I should have volunteered for the NDP

forgive me

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

Something about this.. I would want the storage to be offline, and collected at the point of an event with signoff from a judge, not another flock of virtually 24/7 camera streaming data to a datacenter somewhere.

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago

I feel this. But also, you aren't the only one in your community feeling like this. And you aren't wrong, there is a lot of horror out there. But there are also a -lot- of people who give a shit, and we need to talk to each other more, face to face. We need to be building movements locally and having more of a shared understanding.

I want you to organize a barbecue with your neighbors, start a club, join a band, listen to the middle aged poet at open mic, whatever it is, and start listening to people around you. You have more in common with them than you think, and as a group, you can level each other out, enjoy life, and maybe even help steer the boat away from the iceberg, just a lil bit 🤏

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 month ago

can more canadians please let your mps know you're not into having backdoors in supposedly secure platforms that criminals would take advantage of?

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

what are we even doing in this country dude?

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't claim to have the most sophisticated view on this.

There are some attractive aspects to being a part of the EU at the moment, but they could become less attractive, after building a major dependence on them, at which point leaving would be extremely harmful and difficult. In some ways, a bit like being so close with the USA, but moreso. And while Canada's voting could help to mitigate that in theory, the chairman of the IDU being Stephen Harper and our mass export of freaks like JP or Lauren Chen suggests we're not unlikely to fuck it up (wish it were not so, it'd be almost like giving Florida EU membership).

I think what could make sense is having a very strong relationship with the EU, including some bilateral regulations, maybe even some pooled funding for shared purposes, without necessarily being fully managed by the EU, and without necessarily having undue influence within the EU.

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago

clearly the greatest province in Canada

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 months ago

I am opposed to antisemitism, I've seen people spewing some vile shit, and we don't need to tolerate hate speech, especially that which is amplified on Twitter.

But we don't need to conflate criticism of Israel or the violent settler colonialism with anti-semitism, and we don't need to pretend it's something other than what it is. If we did, what would that say about our own commitment to truth and reconciliation?

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

"we want a diplomatic solution! you know, the kind where you kidnap and sentence their leader to death, or just outright blow them up, and then extract any precious resources theyve got while propping up a corrupt west-friendly government after tearing up previous diplomatic agreements! you know, diplomacy!"

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 months ago

I feel a certain kind of way towards Canadians who are willing to take foreign money to promote separatist views that would be used to extract from them. I feel a certain kind of way towards Canadians who would work with our enemies against us and sowe pointless division between us

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by bluejade@lemmy.ca to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

The video is David Doel's breakdown of the recent NDP leadership debate, and covers a lot of angles. I wanted to focus discussion on a specific element, the argument for public options, which takes up a good chunk of it, citing programs in other countries or certain provinces.

I'm not necessarily arguing that you should vote for your NDP candidate, or like any of the NDP leadership candidates. But it would be good to focus on some of the benefits (and tradeoffs) of the public option when it comes to things like telephone costs, healthcare, groceries, housing, etc.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by bluejade@lemmy.ca to c/privacycanada@lemmy.ca

If we have any real plan for data sovereignty, the time to start implementing it is before I was born.

[-] bluejade@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In order to benefit from their promotion, it requires registering for their checking account, which itself requires agreeing to their terms and conditions, which include language about collecting and selling information like where you shop, or what you buy, or how much you spend. Which, I'll admit, is likely an issue with every bank. But it needs to become less of an issue, this should not be permitted. We should not be allowing ourselves to be profiled like this.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by bluejade@lemmy.ca to c/personalfinancecanada@lemmy.ca

I'm sure there are members using WealthSimple, who have seen the promotion. I personally moved all of my registered funds from other banks and firms in order to get the most of it. At this point, I'm feeling it was a huge mistake, requiring a checking account to receive the funds.

I had already previously looked into registering a checking account with them, the advertised interest rate is appealing. However, the terms and conditions were royally offensive to me. It's just more data broker BS. To be fair, I'm sure you can say this about any financial institution, especially any under the "fintech" umbrella. But I'm extremely pissed about it, we deserve better than this. The norm needs to be moving in the opposite direction.

I just wanted to vent about it, hopefully get other people planning for their future in the increasingly vain hopes that we get to experience one at all, on board with being enraged by the entire business model of building profiles on everyone and selling them to whomever.

If you have any suggestions for funds that would make good alternatives after I pull everything out of WS, I'd be happy to hear about them. What I don't want to hear is any self promotion, family-promotion, employer-promotion, or any "oh just buy Dimensional ETFs every week yourself and pay $9.99 to TD every time".

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