SamuelRJankis

SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

I read the responses and they were pretty generic to begin with. It was also about 14hrs after the AMA started and he answered only a handful of them.

I imagine with a competence and morality perspective this should knock him out of contention.

SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

Not sure if it's mentioned in the since the article is paid wall but I think skeezy tech bro is a real understatement for the people that run the company.

They're not a the extreme overt level of far right, white nationism like Elon but they're part of funding and lobbying for much of that stuff.

https://pressprogress.ca/shopify-executives-right-wing-media-website-rails-against-immigrants-while-defending-a-legally-designated-terrorist-group/

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SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

He's a piece of shit.

But also to signal that he's on a specific side. People would call these dog whistles but I think it's bit to overt for that.

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SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

I can't believe we pay for people to post this stuff.

Postmedia Tells Shareholders $35 Million in Federal Government Handouts is Now a ‘Key Pillar’ of Its Business Strategy

https://pressprogress.ca/postmedia-tells-shareholders-35-million-in-federal-government-handouts-is-now-a-key-pillar-of-its-business-strategy/

SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

I would file this under socialized things Liberals slowly ruined and Conservatives threaten to destroy the second they get in power.

SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

I'm 6'2" and things were already tight for me as well.

The problem with thier shuffling method is it compounds the already bad flight delays(there's also the carry-on shuffle they caused) and most of their seats won't even fit me so at a certain point you might just get bumped off the entire flight and they don't even give you a real number to make decisions with. I actually don't even know which seat fits me because aside from padding the seat angle also changes the real leg room so the pitch measurement is almost useless.

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SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

I think that is the crux of it aside from readers having little expectations of being informed for these reportings, it also seems that the news outlets no longer have viable revenue models that allow them to staff to the level it would take to write proper articles which is why the Toronto Star was the best out of them.

Will point out that CBC does take a lot of revenue from us collectively and this low effort type of reporting is become very common for them. That's addition to clearly trying to pander certain crowds with titles like this

Greenland has become the island that could break NATO

I'll still defend them as being the best large scale news outlet in Canada but they're becoming a astonishing poor place to be informed about events.

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SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

Since one of the top post here this week is from Fox News I wanted to take the opportunity to let people know how bad news is even from real news organizations and they should probably avoid interacting with places like Fox altogether.

This is a pretty widely reported about Westjet cutting the legroom. Almost all these articles has little useful information and largely just convey a sentiment that people should be angry at Westjet.

To provide examples of useful information this information took me about 25 minutes to gather:

These sites show how small the seat are even on a global level.

Has most of the airline - https://www.airlinequality.com/info/seat-pitch-guide/

Has less airlines but different plane model - https://www.netflights.com/useful-tips/legroom-chart

The Toronto Star article shows that more than half the seats is the smallest size.
Pitch is a industry term that doesn't clearly represent actual leg room.
Westjet does not present this information clearly when booking to allow the customer to make a informed decision.

This for an airline cater to taller people, proportionally longer femurs and probably larger back sides. The global adult femur length is around 18 to 20 inches accounting for the factors above these seat barely fit most adults in Canada.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/cramped-conditions-questioned-on-recent-westjet-flight/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-seat-overhaul-pause-9.7014320

https://globalnews.ca/news/11601466/westjet-shorter-legroom-flights-costs/

This Toronto Star one actually has some useful information:

https://archive.is/20260107185039/https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/28-inches-is-torture-viral-video-captures-lack-of-legroom-in-some-westjet-flights-what/article_4d3ec532-d038-4a8b-8a21-1129137cee42.html

SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

Even without Venezuela Trump has been very clear about wanting to drop oil prices. Whether it be lobbying OPEC, global trade instability or whatever "drill baby drill" is suppose to be.

For the latter part of your comment. I'll point to Trump's approval ratings, while as whole it's dropped noticeably his MAGA base is still pretty positive on him after pretty shit year for Americans. Alberta has a base where they'll point to Trudeau even though he'll be years removed and they saw peak outputs/revenue during his time.

SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

I think you're confused about what municipal, provincial and federal governments should be advocating for their constituents. I'm from BC which is 4th by GDP and I believe we crack the top 3 in Income tax paid. For that the only recollection of federal involvement lately was them criticizing our infrastructure spending(buying ferries from China) and how we'll get to take on most of the risk from a pipeline with little of the reward and even less input.

This isn't a criticism of Charlie or even what he's doing, it's completely fair he wants to do things on his own accord. It's about the general ideology that exists on what needs to be done to truly make changes.

To put it another way many Liberal supporters(I'm not one) want Pierre to stay on like some hardcore Conservatives do. Pierre staying is bad for Canada but good for the Liberals, in the same light Conservatives would love for all progressives to operate outside of the actual political system. It just pushes Canada towards the American system where real progressive politics exist almost entirely outside of the system with influence.

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SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

I've seen some takes where Charlie is allowed to be his authentic self now that he doesn't have to worry about keeping his seat.

The honest question is he doing more for Canadians right now then he did with his seat? For anyone wondering he held his riding from 2004 to 2025 and now it's Conservative seat for the first time in history. Not saying he was guaranteed his seat by any means, but there's this odd progressive idolization of people working outside "the system" that has be extremely unproductive historically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapuskasing%E2%80%94Timmins%E2%80%94Mushkegowuk

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SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

It pretty hard to take this place seriously when this is the first thing you see from the same author.

Along with stories like Taxes are bad, First Nation is taking your land, Goverment is after your free speech, Goverment allowing food dyes, Goverment is blocking natural resource profits.

SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

Referendums and the specific topic is a bit different. But I think looking at Trump and America should make people very wary of what having 30% of the population as fanatics can do.

SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

Another thing that a lot of Conservatives will fight you tooth and nail over, but if you say they want to move back to a society where things a dictated by Christian values they'll nod in agreement. This also discounts a bunch of the most popular Conservatives personalities literally saying it.

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SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

For people wondering about the general creditability of the source.

Wall Street Journal quietly walks back false claim Charlie Kirk shooter had pro-trans messages on his bullets

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/wall-street-journal-quietly-walks-182931692.html

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SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

For anyone wondering it shows ~9m people eligible in 2025 in the original doc titled: A Proposed Framework for the Canadian Dental Care Plan from the Dentist Association

Also I think it should be mentioned that the wording used in the StatCan data is "Approved applicants".