its so awesome how toronto is unable to do anything to improve itself because theres a legion of suburbanite hitlers who come to the city twice a year getting mad at everything the city does that doesn’t cater to them
These are Toronto City police deployed to block Toronto citizens from protesting against the removal of bike lanes that were installed to protect cyclists, drivers, and pedestrians.
It cost $30M to put them down, and Doug Ford wants to spend $50M more to remove them out of spite.
toronto oomfs i’m gonna need everyone to start getting serious. election’s on the 26th, bring everyone you know. whatever you’re mad at chow about i promise bradford will only make it worse.
At some point the genre of "video essay" shifted from "interesting 30-minute video I can watch on my lunch break" to "some guy retelling the plot of an entire show for 8 hours".
actual criticism like this is so interesting. this is what i want to read. ppl expanding on their thoughts, how plot points that are celebrated by the world make them feel as ppl belonging to the cultures, ethnicities & races the story borrows ideas from. art is political as hell
So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.