Me personally? I’d love to say yes, but I’m a bit skint atm…could I get it on IOU?

Doesn’t everyone just eat in like an apple?

Chew?

Hey now, not all us Canadians are hillbillies! Some of us are rednecks, thankn y’kindly

shudder fuck the pipes, won’t someone think of the poor plumbers that have to come deal with poopknife family homes?

Whack-a-mole sadly, but I will say that not every user on an instance you don’t want to interact with is necessarily going to be promoting content that you find objectionable.

I’d actually be interested in seeing if anyone has any sources.

It would take someone being willing to host something like that, and every other instance agreeing with the idea. It’s a nice idea, but I really don’t think that it’d happen, too many moving parts, too many people to convince, and honestly too much risk of ending up a hotbed of unsavoury content, CSAM etc.

shrugs I agree, just gotta wait and see how things pan out. Hope that America gets their shit together.

Look, it’s different if you tried to vote and weren’t able to. If you literally made no effort, then stfu. I should have been a bit more clear on that.

There’s a lot that needs to be done to make the American system better, electoral college, gerrymandering, blatant voter intimidation, better worker’s rights that include the right to have leave to vote.

Perfect! I’ll edit my post.

So the Tankie Triad is:

• lemmy.ml
• hexbear
• lemmygrad.ml

Edit: The trouble is that, as far as I know, there’s currently no way as a user to block an entire instance. You can play whack-a-/C and block communities as you bump into them. The other option is to look for instances that have de-federated from these instances, and make a new account on one of those instances.

As @Samskara@sh.itjust.works pointed out, instance blocking is possible:

You can block instances in your settings. For your instance, that’s lemmy.ca/settings then selects blocks and add the instances you want to block

Are there other servers which amplify problematic content?

There’s a lot more than the 3 listed above, the ones I listed are militant in their belief that Russia and China are Marxist-Leninist utopias. There’s some communities and users across all the instances that are problematic. If you see something you don’t like, block the user or community.

Idk, I came here with no idea about the instance system, I joined one that was near the top of the list, realised it was entirely Tankies, and made an account on the instance this account is on. I think people are likely to have a similar experience.

Hear about Lemmy -> join one of the first instances they see -> realise how things actually work -> make an account on an instance that’s properly researched and more aligned with the person

Unfortunately, if they didn’t vote, they have no right to complain when shit blows up in their face. I don’t feel represented by basically any candidate in my home country, Canada, or where I live, the UK. I still participate and vote for the person closest to what I’d like to see. If you don’t participate, you don’t get to bitch.

There’s dozens of us!

Architecturally significant and historically significant are totally different things. It was offered as a PM residence for less than 100 years, but it’s almost 160 years old, and that should count for something in and of itself.

Isn’t it also riddled with asbestos?

One of the reasons I moved from Vancouver to Scotland was because I was sick of doing stonework on multimillion+ mansions. I work in Conservation here. It pays…well it pays like shit. But I get to work on buildings with proper history. We, North Americans, have a tendency to just knock things down instead of maintaining them.

As an example, the oldest building in Vancouver is only 15 years older than the house I live in here…

I think it’s really important that we maintain significant structures. Personally, I agree with you. 24 Sussex should be relegated to a museum. It should be restored, maintained, but it’s no longer suited to task.

As I kinda alluded to in a different comment, it might be a better strategy to recruit from Red States. Medical folk from Red States, that are willing to leave, are likely to be more liberal than the general population. They’re likely to want to jump ship as they disagree with things like:

• stripping woman’s rights
• dehumanising trans and other LGBTQ folk
• the parasitic, life destroying, for profit medical system in the US

Idk, just spitballing I guess.

California, Oregon and Washington all have huge numbers of Republicans, they’re Blue States, but their rural areas are super conservative. Also, arguably, any nurses or doctors from Red States willing to move to BC and practice are likely to be much more liberal than the majority of people in those states. The medical practice people fleeing Red States are the ones who are typically pro choice, either pro or at least not anti-lgbtq+ and are willing to have them as patients. BC also has a massive Bible-belt, and many very conservative communities. So…idk. 🤷 My hope is that nothing comes of Trump’s constant threats against our sovereignty, and shit gets so bad for Blue States that they come knocking asking about joining Canada. That’d be cool.

I’d like to see stats on how many of the publishers that get approved for payment are in the Postmedia group, making them American owned. In 2022, Postmedia received $9.9mln in federal funding, and had an operating income was $13mln. Making over a 3rd of their income for that year directly paid by taxes. They are majority owned by Chatham Asset Management, which has strong, long time, ties to the GOP.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmedia_Network

There’s a list of their assets on the Wiki, I would strongly recommend boycotting their publications.