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Cake day: October 11th, 2026

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  • The city spent decades growing and sprawling

    I lived there for a little bit and saw that obvious glaring issue but also the fact that there isnt an easy way to fix it.

    There was tons of development that kept happening just outside city limits where the city had no control over development. Then every few years the boundaries of the city would be expanded to include the new development and they’d get hooked into city sewer + water at that point.

    Also going on at the time I was there (pre-pandemic) the real estate market was going crazy so any pressure to reduce the sprawl may not have gone over well if the politicians even saw a problem happening.

    Also also, I don’t know how true this part is, but locals would tell me about the rampant corruption in infrastructure projects where even after suspected fraud was exposed, nothing changed. The road/infrastructure projects near me at the time seemed crazy expensive, poorly thought out, and prone to failure. Mainly, concrete for every fucking road ever. The concrete would crack and fail in a few years then they would do concrete again.

    That city blew my fucking mind.




  • IDK if it’s true but I’ve heard he’s one of the few hyper competent CEO’s. Like he actually gets what’s going on and shit. If that’s true then I kind of understand why it would be a bad idea to fire him. At the same time he was fucking a Chinese spy and giving her puppet company some sort of special treatment so I don’t see how they could possibly NOT fire him.

    Also, havent the Chinese tried the honeypot thing on a LOT of people in the tech industry? I thought this was a known thing they were doing. So was the honeypot just the excuse for allowing a bunch of cards to be funneled into China? Wouldn’t you be concerned if you were going to invite this guy to run your company that his poor judgement would strike again?

    I’m just rambling at this point. Fuck that cheating piece of shit.








  • director of operations for Conquer Transport, told CBC News in June 2026 that he helped his son and daughter-in-law set up the Alberta operations in 2022 after the Manitoba branch was closed.

    I’ve heard this is a common play when running shady businesses. Keep going until you get shut down or someone gets sent to jail, shuffle the assets around, reform the business with a different family member running it. Maybe someone serves some jail time but it’s ok, the family will take care of him once he’s out.

    When I write it out like that it sounds a lot like organized crime.



  • TheSecondVariety@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•vegan rule
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    10 days ago

    When it comes to misogyny or rasicsm you wouldn’t tell someone to just try and do less of it.

    Idk, these are very different things. If I think about how much I hate (some group) then I may be a racist based on that alone. If I don’t consume animal products but I fantasize about eating a cheeseburger I would still be a vegan.

    Nobody is going to literally say “just do less racism” but in practice we often only deal with small parts of someone’s racism.