The article doesn’t say if the women were laid off because of maternity leave, only that they were laid off around that time. We don’t know if anything illegal happened - for all we know one of the employers may have closed an entire branch office or something.

The rough idea is that services like social media, apps, etc. don’t want to have to implement age verification and be held liable if they get it wrong. Instead, their preference is that the OS just tell them what age category to use and then they trust it.

IMO setting my age once during account creation sounds 100x better than having to scan my face and ID for every online service I use, so if I have to choose between these options I actually prefer the OS one. Probably though we’ll get both - i.e. OS will want our age AND online services will expect our ID.

Update: https://www.cbc.ca/news/editorsblog/cbc-9-11-language-guidance-9.7324662?cmp=rss

NDP is center-left, BC Liberals were center-right (later renamed to BC United, then didn’t run last election), and the BC Conservatives are turning out to be far-right, which a lot of the former BC United who joined them are regretting.

Nah Nvidia’s all for local models - people need GPUs to run them! OpenAI is trying to develop their own chips, so it isn’t in Nvidia’s interest for OpenAI to win. Probably ditto for Anthropic. Nvidia wins in a world where there is no AI provider big enough they can invest enough to bypass Nvidia. This is probably why Nvidia has been releasing their own open models, training sets, etc.

If he’s still alive by the end of his term, he’s going to claim it hasn’t been 4 years and that the deep state has faked the calendar.

Ditto for me. It’s really, really sad and I’ve never wanted to go back since.

Also because browsers support OfflineAudioContext, which lets you do the same things but doesn’t try to output to speakers.

Yeah, tariffs also hurt the importer. Hopefully they’re going to target industries that Canadians are less reliant on / can easily substitute with domestic or allied nations’ goods. The restrictions on US alcohol worked well for this.

There may also be some industries where, if you are reliant on America and you believe that’s a problem in the long-term, then cutting that reliance down may justify the harm of the tariff.

Politically, Carney needs to signal to voters that Trump is the reason we can’t get a good deal, not the Liberals. You and I already know that, but my conservative voting parents don’t. If Carney had walked away day 1, many voters would be thinking that maybe the Conservatives could get us a good deal.

I think there was other value too - I think if we had walked away months ago, tariffs like this would have been imposed even sooner. Delaying tariffs like this is providing real value for Canadian exporters at the relatively cheap cost of some politicians’ time.

I like their razor but I use other blades. I’ve had previous safety razors that had hinges to open the top part to put the blade in. Those were fine until I dropped them. My Henson razor though is just 3 aluminium pieces that screw into each other, so virtually indestructible.

Some US states are also wanting to prosecute him and a presedential pardon doesn’t protect against that, so he has an extra reason not to testify.

I think this is blaming Canada for wildfires.

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Basically don’t use drugs or you’ll destroy your life.

Sex was avoided as a topic, but we were taught that premarital sex is a sin. I was also teased as a kid about having crushes on girls (I’m male), despite my adament (and truthful) denials, and othertimes they’d joke that I’d change my mind once I was older. I won that though - turns out I was gay and never did change my mind.

As for LGBT issues, it was so taboo / not talked about that I didn’t even connect my confusing feelings for male classmates with me being gay until I was 18. I thought everyone felt like that and was frustrated when they wouldn’t reciprocate those emotions back.

Afaik US Social Security running out of money is kind of an illusion as all the money is “invested” with the US government anyway, which is to say that the money is already coming out of the same pot of as all their other spending. It’s not as if once that account hits $0 that to maintain benefits they’d have to ramp up their spending - rather once it hits $0 they’ll be cutting spending, and to maintain benefits would require them to spend what were before it hit $0.

It’s kind of akin to their “debt limit” - it’s just an artificially constructed barrier to their spending they impose on themseves but can tweak whenever they want. This isn’t to say that real barriers won’t appear - for instance maybe the bond market is expecting them to cut spending once it hits $0 and will react poorly if they don’t.

Run ‘bash’ and then follow the guide, assuming it’s too complex to tweak for fish.

My weird proposal is that I think the western provinces should be permament daylight savings, while the eastern provinces should be permentantly standard time. The impact would be to narrow the time difference between east and west by 1 hour, which should allow for more options in the job market.

For instance, a company based in Toronto may not be willing to start an office in Vancouver if there’s only 5 hours of overlap per work day, but may be if there’s 6 hours of overlap. Ditto for remote workers.

On the topic of indie films, can people in-the-known share some suggestions for what’s worth watching?

Saskatchewan is effectively on year-round daylight savings time and has been for decades, and they love it. History is not as clear-cut that it will get reversed.