Their point was no one else is covering it
You’d have to provide a quote for that, as I don’t see it.
FYI this ain’t it,
And silence from main street news.
I’ll refer you to this definition of “main street” to prevent further confusion, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/main-street
I’m with girlfreddy on this.
I don’t recall watching this on TV the evening news, or hearing about it over the radio.
It’s good that the major Canadian outlets are covering it online (and I hope in print?) but it sucks that the visibility is not so high. Unless you’re watching the right feeds, it’d be easy to miss that this happened.
I’m partial to ecosia.org myself. Search while helping to plant more trees!
If anything we want to encourage this.
I like the example of SAG AFTRA hosting their own instance to be official, for example. Celebs typically have their own domains and websites, so easy enough to hire a team to create and manage their own instance that supports the celeb but federates. And you know it’s legit just because it’s on the celeb’s own domain. Ditto for gov’t agencies having their own instances.
Even without federation and such it’s an issue. Old twitter actually did a really good job of this, but other social networks have had problems in the past,
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/katie-hopkins-impersonated-parler/
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/02/republicans-parler-trolls-347737
We don’t have to guess if trolls will try to impersonate celebs and be successful at it, because it’s already happened elsewhere.
That said, there are two nice things about the fediverse. First, verification is explicitly not offered, so folks have to do the digging themselves to see if an account is official or not. (Which is as easy as checking a person’s web site). Or perhaps confusing a regular person’s account with a celeb of the same name.
Second, you can host your own instance. Celebs might not bother, but official gov’t agencies set up their own domains and websites - and in particular under domains like .gov which aren’t open to regular folks. So seeing if a gov’t agency is really authentic is potentially as simple as checking the domain that the instance is using.
A difference between kbin (and mbin?) vs lemmy (and pyfedi) - the former would show the entire name, including instance. If instance was not included, it was because it was local (so you could assume ‘@kbin.social’)
On lemmy/pyfedi the name shows up alone - though you can hover over and see the instance name. But at a glance I can see how someone could get confused. Not the best UX IMHO.
And for those who would like to cite sources, here’s a couple (where the feds hinted, without directly saying, that an invention was on the table).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY4DN8Q-yrU
In fact, I think you could get the sense that they’d have intervened as far back as May, when the feds used the Canada Industrial Relations Board to delay a possible strike back then, https://www.canadiancattlemen.ca/daily/federal-government-moves-to-push-back-possible-rail-strike/
I can’t ask, because years ago I watched a video on twitter. It was funny. I tweeted “That killed me”. I was banned
youtube doesn’t seem to have a direct messaging system.
Does this person have a patreon or something similar? Could sign up and then ask there. Or leave a youtube comment on a recent video sharing your email address.
Heck, I might risk creating a new youtube account over VPN just to ask in a public youtube comment for peertube (so if YT bans the account for mentioning peertube, it’s no loss to me, and the creator has still gotten the message).
They’ve never heard of mastodon.
Makes sense if this was years ago, back when it was younger and less wide spread… I also imagine you just heard and saw this, but didn’t directly ask because, well yeah.
The gov’t did the right thing this time around by refusing to intervene. If they had hinted otherwise, we wouldn’t be hearing about an agreement today.
Ah, that’s brilliant! The dream is back on.
Happy to hear that things worked out for you in the end!
Knowing something in someone’s life worked out - that actually does have a lot of meaning for me.
What surprises me is that these seem to be all on other instances - including a few big ones like just.works - rather than someone spinning up their own instance to create unlimited accounts to downvote/spam/etc.
Thank goodness for that. Finally something good came out of COVID. Fingers crossed, and here’s hoping that the pilots get the pay raises and etc that they clearly deserve, either way.
Being alive in the time fire was invented - well it’s hard to say since it was Homo Erectus who did so, some millions of years ago. Modern humans are very different from good ole’ Erectus, and we think differently, so… the tale of Prometheus is a good one for sure, but it’s also much younger than the actual history of human control over fire.
Source: https://study.com/academy/lesson/how-did-stone-age-man-make-fire-discovery-importance-facts.html
Can you explain further? I don’t recall that Prometheus was mentioned at all by that particular religious group.
I can not find a reference now but I thought back in the day (almost a decade ago now) one of the goals of the Trans-Pacific Partnership would have been to lead to a union or confederation between it’s members, akin to how the European Steel and Coal Community eventually became the European Union.
The author (who isn’t OP) is using federated wordpress blogs, so expect to see this pop up if you are subscribing to them.
That being the case, and also considering the rough edges around the fediverse right now, I think the link sharing is reasonable. I’ll add that this isn’t the first time I’ve seen it shared.
No, thank you.
I don’t see any evidence of lying from OP, rather it seems like OP only checked https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-shooting-elsipogtog-family-statement-1.7321343 instead of going through every page.
And OP is technically correct that there are three more names not mentioned by your sources, but that’s besides the point. You would no doubt find them if you looked - but I didn’t hear about these names back on TV or the radio when they were first reported (or even see it in print when I got the newspaper for free on the TTC).
So I would definitely that an awareness issue still exists in the public mindset, though at least it’s good to here that the House is debating it…