Victor Villas

jfc why is this news

As domestic steel and lumber needs new clients, I wonder what industries have a good opportunity to make use of the cheaper prices. Construction? Furniture?

Are these things that the minister can truly achieve, though? Aren’t sanctions up to the MPs? And the interpol arrest warrant, up to interpol?

I agree this is just a tweet, but how do we know there’s “zero” action behind it? What available options are not being pursued by the minister?

If he actually does it, then it will be there… Taking up space… I don’t think anyone is going to buy it.

This is exactly why it isn’t tone deaf. He can just issue the ask, hope that not all premiers will follow, and even the provinces that do follow, consumption will still not recover fully; he can say “hey I did all I can, Canadians just don’t wanna drink it” and the US loses a negotiation leverage.

I do think a significant amount of people will buy it, though. They US booze will come out cheap and in droves. And we have a dumber third of the country that’s actually a fan of the US still

For one, many Albertans who would otherwise be your allies are now offended.

Meh, I kind of agree that the parent comment is needlessly antagonistic but I doubt that this would be the thing that tips someone over, someone this easily swayed would have found other reason to not be an ally already.

So agree on “making the situation worse rather than better” because it degrades the discussion, but it’s not like being offended by this will meaningfully change someone’s view on the matter.

the Internet is flourishing with femboys and fursonas

once the moral panic around trans people fade (hopefully I’ll be alive to see it), what will be left behind in peace will hopefully be a bunch of institutions that were able to thrive on that pride despite all the pushback

Because not giving a damn bubbled up from its sources as teenage angst and toxic masculinity… into the actually dominant role model for rich men

I always knew they were into this kind of thing considering how much they shill for crypto, private equity, direct indexing, leverage, option trading… literally every product offered beyond the basic ability to buy ETFs is a scam. The financial industry is by and large financed by scams. We had old school scams like selling trash mutual funds to retirees (TD style), and we have new scams like Private Equity where you get “exclusive” access to trash mutual funds. And now instead of getting people addicted to gambling with stock options, they are straight up aiming for regular gambling with prediction markets.

I’m disappointed but not really surprised. If anything, I’m thankful they made it a separate App instead of shoving it into the main Wealthsimple App, at least for now.

OP we all agree that China shouldn’t be deciding what gets platformed or not in Canada but Shen Yun is the wrong hill to die on regarding this. We should be helping Shen Yun be shut down because we want fewer fringe cults overall

The issue is that regardless of how Meta markets this product, making it sleek and inconspicuous was the whole point. Meta glasses succeeded because they latched on the Wayfarer design which was already widespread and accepted.

Unfortunately being inconspicuous and fashionable also lends itself as means to use these to record covertly. Whatever Meta does to fix this, folks will find a way to work around and disable. The glass already has a flashing light to indicate that it’s recording; it’s not enough. Creeps are going to creep.

Maybe society just isn’t ready for “affordable” recording-capable wearables.

Do they work when driving?

Yes

Maybe a sunglass version?

You can get them in sunglasses yes, and prescription lenses. Basically any lens you want.

“they might be into that” is clearly a joke about perverts who already like that “torture”, there’s no re-conditioning for that and even if there was, it’s obviously not to be taken seriously

Yeah that’s a good use case too — though I do remember seeing folks use it to take pictures of things you weren’t supposed to (like temples interiors).

The “covert recording” aspect of it is a big problem, but from the privacy standpoint I honestly think this is less worse than walking around with an Insta360 that is literally recording everything. At least for now the Insta360 is less problematic because it’s so bulky that it’s not as useful for perverts; but in terms of filming a bunch of people out and about without consent it’s worse.

whoosh

I don’t think folks are upset about these for the “surveillance”, it’s more about how it enables creeps. In terms of privacy these aren’t any less worse than iPhones in that anyone can record you without permission — in privacy terms, overt or covert recording are both wrong; but folks are taking issue with covert recording because of course douchebags are going to leverage it on women.

It was fun while these were just used for sports and actually interesting outdoor activities, it serves me really well while cycling and snowboarding. I gave away the original wayfarer version so my family can experiment with it for accessibility and now I have just the sports version, which hopefully it’s too dorky for these pick-up-artist idiots to start popularizing.

Guess I’ll have to go back to a go pro in my helmets like a Teletubby… and find a decent combination of open ear headphones and a microphone that works against the wind. sigh maybe if they made a camera-less version that would solve most of it