I feel the same way. I like the streaming/VCR experience of hitting play and seeing the media. Those old DVD menus that wanted me to mess with extras sucked.

[citation needed]

My kid says “bro” a lot. I guess I’ll call CSIS now. Maybe I should spend an hour staring at social media first.

After approaching the man on his own initiative and explicitly introducing himself as a “Canadian journalist,” Zivo says he began to notice “red flags.”

He claims the man told him he once lived in the Ottawa-area, had an Ontario driver’s license, was covered in tattoos and also “said ‘bro’ a lot.”

Acting only on this bad “vibe,” Zivo says he looked the man up on Facebook and began compiling a dossier on him which he later sent unsolicited to CSIS. The National Post columnist claims he “spoke for an hour on the phone with CSIS” about what he found on the man’s social media profile but was told the spy agency would not accept a PDF of his dossier for “cyber security” reasons.

Frustrated, Zivo claims he took a taxi to a Ukrainian military checkpoint surrounded by sandbags and was led to a “little wooden shed” by armed guards where he spent a full day using Duolingo to walk a perplexed group of soldiers through his suspicions about the stranger whom he had approached at the shopping mall.

In a subsequent meeting with Ukrainian intelligence agents, Zivo says he volunteered to wear a wire and record himself dining with the man at a restaurant called Kompot, which he describes as the “Olive Garden of Ukraine.” Zivo says his handlers expressed concern for his safety but he insisted he would ultimately “feel safer” if he caught the suspected spy himself.

It sounds like Zivo thinks he’s an MC and wanted to play James Bond. From that explanation, it sounds like he got a polite brush off from CSIS, but the Ukrainian intelligence agency gave him some rope.

I’m not a fan of the National Post, but I’m not sure they’re to blame if one of their content creators goes off their chain.

Zivo probably should be limited to writing op-eds after this.

I hadn’t thought of that, but you’re right. When I was growing up, incandescent bulbs and massive short-lived batteries made flashlights suck. Now flashlights are tiny, throw a tonne of light, and last a really long time.

I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

I really need to work on that.

At this point I start with a big “I agree” and state something about it, so we have some common ground. Then, if I have further questions/disagreement then I mention it.

Not a single comma. Tch tch tch.

They see me bowlin’

They hatin’

Ditto. I enjoy some of the hobby/local communities on Reddit.

In my experience the lack of downvotes does make for a better instance.

I think we need to consider the norms Lemmites enforce. From what I’ve experienced: it’s often nitpicks (“I think one thing you said is wrong”), or mild insults when an opinion is outside our slightly-left-of-centre POV. Disagreement is rarely friendly, gentle, or constructive.

From what I’ve seen, we’re great at getting the big stuff right - people react quickly against child porn or overt racism/insults. But we reply with the same anger if someone has an opinion different from ours.

I have a better time in small Reddit communities because people have more shared interests. Here our prime commonality is that we like FOSS and dislike Reddit.

It’s friendliness of the community and willingness to treat randos with respect. Responses here seem to fit a general pattern of “I agree and…”, or “you’re wrong and stupid”.

I generally have a better experience on Reddit. I’m less likely to get responses, but I get fewer downvotes there and the responses are usually nicer.

They can apply all they want

Gboard is pretty good. I switched off Swiftkey because Gboard has the lil space bar cursor thing. Swipe typing is pretty great, and the predictions are fine.

I would prefer a non-Google keyboard, but I haven’t found one that’s easy to install and works the way I want it to.

I viscerally dislike some people on meeting them. There’s no good reason, that’s just how it is. I bet there are people who feel the same way about me. That’s life.

I try to treat everyone well so we can get along. For the most part, other people seem to do the same for me.

Cardy laid out five policy planks on which he says the new party will be campaigning: reforming government programs, increasing Canada’s defence spending to two per cent of its gross domestic product, reforming immigration through “better gatekeepers,” making life more affordable by “dismantling protectionism” and increasing competition in the airline, telecommunications and agricultural sectors.

Climate change? Cost of living? The housing crisis? Collapsing healthcare?

“Increasing competition” without lowering prices is meaningless. Protectionism is fine, so long as we generally benefit from it.

There are so many great reasons to hate on Disney. This one is so incredibly over the top.

That’s awesome! I’m glad that progress is being made. In theory, government measures meant to increase builds will start kicking in soon, so that will accelerate.

Price/cost is another story and I’d never live in a new build because its not rent controlled.

This is really important. If we don’t have units people can afford, the number of available units doesn’t really matter. The CMHC estimate of 3.5 million new units by 2030 may be one way to get there. Governments building low cost/rent units is another.