Pierre

[Pierre @phoneyman]

"Oh, but they had a baby with them."
That's on them. They're terrible people, and they killed their kid.

[Pierre @phoneyman]

Shoplifting like this is often done by people paid by organized crime. They steal things that are easy to resell on places like Facebook Marketplace. "Oh, it's a misdemeanor." One of hundreds to benefit criminal enterprises without any single participant taking on too much risk. It's a big problem, and it should be treated seriously. Retailers have to close locations because of this kind of behavior. Minimizing it as no big deal is why mom and pop stores have to spend thousands on security guards every year. Shoplifters belong in prison, and the police are right to pursue them aggressively.

[reason @reason]

Police in Mississippi shot into a fleeing car, killing a 1-year-old boy. The crime that apparently justified lethal force? Suspicion of shoplifting diapers. https://t.co/EqyGknUQUX

[Pierre @phoneyman]

Shoplifting like this is often done by people paid by organized crime. They steal things that are easy to resell on places like Facebook Marketplace. "Oh, it's a misdemeanor." One of hundreds to benefit criminal enterprises without any single participant taking on too much risk. It's a big problem, and it should be treated seriously. Retailers have to close locations because of this kind of behavior. Minimizing it as no big deal is why mom and pop stores have to spend thousands on security guards every year. Shoplifters belong in prison, and the police are right to pursue them aggressively.

[Chris Selley @cselley]

Bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, per kg.
ALDI: $4.80. NO FRILLS: $9.70

Large eggs, dozen
ALDI: $2.06. NO FRILLS: $3.93

Pound of butter
ALDI: $3.93. NO FRILLS: $6.18

This is why we're poor.

(2% milk was almost exactly the same, for the record. 🤷‍♂️)

[Pierre @phoneyman]

The mother and grandmother are 100% to blame. Police *should* show up for shoplifting complaints. The adult guardians of this child recklessly endangered him. They decided that a child's life was worth a pack of diapers.

[reason @reason]

Police in Mississippi shot into a fleeing car, killing a 1-year-old boy. The crime that apparently justified lethal force? Suspicion of shoplifting diapers. https://t.co/EqyGknUQUX

[Pierre @phoneyman]

This is where Carney is taking Canada.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Britain now arrests more people for social media posts than China, Russia, and Turkey combined nearly matching the rest of the top 10 countries combined

Britain really leads the world on these thought crimes

Insane how the UK, which used to be a free country, turned out to be so totalitarian

[Pierre @phoneyman]

Racism is so hot right now.

[National Post @nationalpost]

FIRST READING: In Canadian first, Yukon to get Indigenous-only parking spots https://t.co/kQNulqZU0n

[Pierre @phoneyman]

The last one took ~50 years to build. B.C. should look at the regulatory and lawfare barriers to building projects here before we get too excited.

[The Province @theprovince]

B.C. eyes new hydro megadams to meet soaring power demands https://t.co/3jMAQ7gq6k

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

I apparently understated the power of the Commission. The new privacy bill strips the Privacy Commissioner of Canada of private-sector authority, transferring it to a newly constituted Commissioner who is a government appointed member of the Commission, now called the Digital Safety and Data Protection Commission with a new Privacy and Consumer Data Commissioner. Full digital regulator in Canada.

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

Fun fact: the BC NDP funded a “harm reduction” guidebook on how library bathrooms can be turned into de facto supervised consumption sites. Among other things, the document recommended installing egg timers in bathroom stalls to alert staff if addicts overdose.

[Pierre @phoneyman]

LOL
A $15M anti-racism model. I'm sure it'll be just as good as Fable.

[Rob Hamilton @Rob1Ham]

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨🚨

BRUSSELS: In response to Anthropic's Fable being disabled, the EU has invested $15 million in AI to strengthen European digital sovereignty. The investment is pending environmental and anti-racism studies, with deployment expected in 2030.

[🏴‍☠️✒️Bennett🔧 @NoLongerBennett]

have they considered printing mythos on a t-shirt

[Pierre @phoneyman]

But non-citizens in the US were allowed to own and operate them.

[Justin Schroeder @jpschroeder]

Fable isn't the first.

In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold.

Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.

[Stephen Gordon @stephenfgordon]

I will believe that a Canadian politican or a Canadian pundit is serious about how monopolies make food prices higher than they should be the minute they start pointing their fingers at the Dairy Cartel as the absolute worst example.

[Pierre @phoneyman]

Prison.

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

There just has to be a better way to protect the public from people that police warn pose a danger.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Ah, memories.

[Pierre @phoneyman]

This retard thinks Elon has $1 trillion in cash sitting around he can write cheques on.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American.

And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars!

You don't think that's worth it?

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Well-behaved men rarely make history.

[Pierre @phoneyman]

Carney wants to use the power of a ministry and a government regulator to make this kind of official misinformation the only legal source of news for "socially divisive" incidents like this.

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

The story in four parts

[Pierre @phoneyman]

Apparently, foreign gang bangers involved in extortion and other violent crimes are "financially vulnerable young men," according to whatever source Global BC was using. Could we stop with these euphemisms?