BinzyBoi

If this is gearing towards a referendum vote to separate from Canada, this will be this single dumbest thing the province has ever done.

So you mean to tell me Alberta would be better off with the people that shrugged Danielle off after all her effort to negotiate? That the province would somehow be able to magically do what it wants as a separate entity from Canada? I love when I'm a landlocked nation and need to ship my resources through foreign countries in order to get it to buyers.

Idiots. Fucking idiots.

Oh, that's my bad, it's really one idea. I meant I would be compiling games not yet available on GOG that one can vote for on the Dreamlist.

Folks it's not enough to just vote if you want actual, legitimate change. Register for the party that aligns with you most, and get your boots on the ground by volunteering, attending events, and becoming a registered party member.

People are crazy if they think the average person is alright with this.

Ah yes, the real boogeymen of the world on their way to kidnap you for your opinions. Firefighters.

Come on man, you could have at least made this somewhat believable by saying cops instead.

My reasoning for doing so in the community I mention is just because it's a music community, and I really don't want new people to the community getting the impression that they and their music tastes aren't welcome, especially if the downvotes are coming from people blanket downvoting their All feed rather than from community members themselves.

This would likely just be with people I see who have a history of doing this according to modlogs, and not with regular users who happen to downvote a post.

Giving the thread a read, thanks!

If you're a moderator of a community on Lemmy, you can view the upvotes and downvotes on posts for what I assume to be moderation reasons.

I don't think it's always hidden data and more dependent on the fedi software you use, since I do remember people a while ago getting upset with Kbin and their public upvotes and downvotes.

This one is new to me! Giving it a listen and I love it ha.

Answering my own question, lol, but to throw my own hat in the ring and participate, there used to be this radio station in Edmonton called Capital FM that I would listen to every so often at home and also be the only station my workplace would play over their intercom system. Bunch of classic rock stuff.

I remembering hearing "Go for Soda" and "Patio Lanterns" a tonne those days, and was shocked when I brought it up to some American friends who liked classic rock, and they told me they never heard of either of those songs. Apparently Kim Mitchell isn't that big a name outside Canada.

I don't listen to a lot of Snotty Nose Rez Kids, frankly their music isn't quite my taste having trying to give their music a chance on multiple occasions.

That said, this is a tragedy, especially considering all the duo has done to put a spotlight on indigenous music on the national stage, and I've always had a great amount of respect for all that they've done and what it symbolises.

Please feel free to donate on their GoFundMe if you wish: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rbrth-and-snrk-rebuild-after-devastating-fire

This was a long time back, but Blahaj Zone defederated with the LemmyNSFW community a while ago since LemmyNSFW had a community by the name of "Adorable Porn", reason being that they thought it was content that appealed to pedophiles and the likes.

The community had some irl pornographic content with cutesy sorta vibes, mainly of petite women. The admins of Blahaj Zone basically demanded LemmyNSFW remove the community, or they would defederate since they thought it was reverse jailbait, adults made to look like minors.

The community description didn't really help at all seeing that it had the term "child-like" there, which is likely what set the spark for the entire interaction, but it was copy-pasted from a dictionary definition. Also pouring fuel on the fire iirc was the fact that the admins of LemmyNSFW have English as their second language, so that might have also gotten in the way of things.

It's been a while since this all happened, but from what I remember they removed "child-like" from the community description, but Blahaj Zone ended up defederating anyway still of the opinion that the community's purpose was to appeal to pedos.

I just remember seeing this all go down cause for a time since I was windowshopping for a new instance to move to, and was using Blahaj Zone's website to check what was posted to 196, and saw it the defederation notice stickied to the homepage.

Had a conversation with Liberal candidate for my riding during her campaign office opening about PR.

Honestly, while it wasn't quite the answer I hoped for, I did appreciate that she didn't beat around the bush with her stance, and it did have me thinking about things. Essentially the gist of her stance was that while she as an individual did think it was a good idea to institute PR, she felt that doing it with the House of Commons might be a huge undertaking that would take time, and that a faster approach would likely be to reform the Senate from being by appointment, to having them represent voters proportional to the vote share.

End of the day it does come to actions in the House of Commons, but seeing that she seemed to be a very genuine and down-to-earth candidate despite her involved political background definitely has my hopes up that there will be movement within the Liberal party to get things shifting in the right direction, even if it takes a little more time than what's preferred.

"Not a tiny selection of them who want to maximize rent seeking".

Ah yes, indigenous people. The greediest people in the country. Get the fuck out of here with your garbage. Human rights are not on the debate table, and you frankly saying they want to "maximize rent" as if they're leeching to profit off the country rather than have a means to reasonably support themselves fiscally is downright disgusting.

If a rich person decided to buy the resources off the indigenous, and they decided it was in their best interest to take the offer, then yeah, while I'd be opposed to the idea of that, it's still their treaty rights to decide for themselves.

Treaty rights are human rights and they are not on the table, and to suggest otherwise in any matter is to ignore the bullshit indigenous people have had to deal with for generations. They are to be included in the conversation because they are quite literally more "Canadian" than anybody else in the country and deserve to have their voices heard and their standard of living raised just as any other person's should be with harvesting our natural resources.