Let me give you a bit of the outside of the story as well.

For sure tiktok and meta and Google want you in their walled Garden for all the obvious reasons. However, and it’s gotten even worse as of late, if you have any kind of computationally expensive but desirable content/data the crawlers/scrapers/scripters will pummel your site. Despite how annoying you find the captchas and bot detection a computer doesn’t give too shits about it and at this point they basically serve as a rate limit or effort to make your content too computationally expensive to scrape and be worth it.

While accounts don’t necessarily solve this problem they do help as another impediment.

It all started that day Day road up on that seadoo…

Actually I’ll never forget Air Farce lampooning Preston Manning, good times.

I disagree that he is effective in anything other than being not Trudeau and being a contrarian in the American conservative mold. If he was at all a good politician he would not have fumbled this election the way he did. The liberals made some good plays but if PP had spent one minute reading the room instead of playing party over country he might have been PM.

If he manages to hang around until the next one he will probably get in when the left splits again but it won’t be because he’s good at his job it will be because he has a pulse and a name on the ballot under conservative.

The conservatives still turned out a lot of votes. The left just voted strategically to keep them out. Next election the left will split again and we will get the conservatives again. Given the parties recent history even if it isn’t Poilievre I’m sure they will pick another alt right sycophant.

Same regarding the last referendum. When that happened I knew for sure it had to be introduced in a smaller lower stakes way which is why I was pretty happy when London used ranked choice (a bright spot for a city whose politicians suck more often than not). Removing that is one of the things I hate most about Doug.

You will never get it top down. The major parties all prefer and benefit from different systems.

If you truely care about electoral reform your best bet is bottom up. Start getting your preferred form into municipal elections. We almost had that in Ontario until Doug showed up and fucked us.

Like the Americans they are party over country. The country has major economic issues. I don’t need to hear the prattle on about shit being “woke” or whatever. I need them to provide actual solutions. The modern conservative party like their American counterparts can’t govern, they just go on about bullshit and attack the other side.

All PP had to do was not be a boot licker. He couldn’t even do that.

Everyone I’ve known who has done has always been an incredibly low information voter. It isn’t that hard to make a choice. Expecting to have a federal party that matches 100 percent of your beliefs is not realistic and presenting it as an option is just used to suppress votes.

I don’t think Doug is a viable federal candidate and the only reason he remains in power in Ontario is because the Ontario liberals are in disarray and decided running Doug -lite was a good idea in 2025. Never the less it would be nice to see a classical fuck you I got mine conservative at the head of the party again.

It makes perfect sense though. The party has spent a lot of time being the “not Trudeau” Party. A lot of voters vote on vibes and don’t read the platforms or anything else.

If they don’t have a platform or positions then they can be whatever a potential voter projects on them. It works. Ask a conservative voter why they are voting conservative and the majority won’t talk about the conservatives they will talk about the liberals or NDP.

I mean they were built to make money, the fact that you can send them a national security letter is just a happy accident that keeps the NSA from having to run more datacenters.

I mean they don’t make it very hard to play their first party Games. Just pay the online free. The main issue is that not all of those games from 1997 are their games. They are just made for their system.

They are that’s true, but it’s because their parents bought it for them when they were young.

That’s true and not true at the same time. The one advantage Windows has in this regard is that everyone is working on the same “distro” as it were. With Linux the various components can vary enough to be confusing. I think that is why it’s important to choose a distro with a sizeable community.

Something like Ubuntu, or an arch derivative like endeavouros are a good choice for that reason.

I would also warm against the copy paste of commands that you don’t know what you are doing with. The one nice thing is that in 2025 you can drop a command into your choice of LLM assistant and get a pretty good description of what it does without breaking out the man pages.

I mean I’m pretty sure the massive game sizes we see today are almost exclusively caused by high res textures and assets.

I mean it can.

You’ll just have to go and download your data again from the public disclosure (assuming they disclose all of it)

Probably because it was on a stat

Good to see regardless of the reason

I wonder if it was increased turn out due to it being a stat

That actually sounds like it might be an improvement…