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As Alberta Pushes Private Clinics, Surgeons Allege Conflict of InterestCharles Rusnell/The Tyee posted:Six weeks ago, Alberta Health Services appointed head and neck surgeon Dr. Daniel O’Connell to a senior administrative position. His permanent appointment means he will continue to wield influence over where patients are seen and ultimately undergo surgery — in a province where private clinics and surgical facilities are rapidly expanding. I once had a surgical trainer ask me if I was going to do family med because it's 'all I was able to get.' True enough; however, nobody backstabs you when you work in a homeless clinic and I still have a job, so that's a plus. Albino Squirrel fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Jan 8, 2024 |
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Jan 8, 2024 21:25
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Guys, I've got a question: What the gently caress is up with Can Pol on Twitter? It's always been bad, but I feel like it's now solely the domain of the hardline right 'Trudeau = Super Hitler" convoy crowd. Like, take a look at this: https://twitter.com/theJagmeetSingh/status/1744396114705383815 A completely normal, run-of-the-mill post by Jagmeet Singh trying to hype up the new government dental coverage...And all 500 and some replies are by blue check weirdos parroting the same conservative talking points about "tHe DeFiCiT". And every time I see a Canadian topic in the trending sidebar it's just more of the convoy crowd making noise. Opinion polls show that these guys are nowhere near the majority opinion, yet they're the only ones I ever see being promoted on Twitter. Have all the non-CHUDs just abandoned the platform in light of the enshitification?
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Jan 8, 2024 23:00
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twitter and reddit have been astroturfed by right-wing groups for the last 5-10 years. anyone without brain damage on the left has already moved on from those sites and don't get sucked into the arguments
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Jan 8, 2024 23:11
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The only remaining battleground of ideas is in the comments on CBC news articles. The ideas are all stupid.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:14
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Slotducks posted:twitter and reddit have been astroturfed by right-wing groups for the last 5-10 years. anyone without brain damage on the left has already moved on from those sites and don't get sucked into the arguments Add to this that fact that no one is passionate enough about the dental plan to defend it online.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:18
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Slotducks posted:twitter and reddit have been astroturfed by right-wing groups for the last 5-10 years. anyone without brain damage on the left has already moved on from those sites and don't get sucked into the arguments It’s really disheartening to see this garbage float to the front page of Reddit. Canadahousing2 and Canada_sub are regular features there now.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:27
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Online was a mistake.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:55
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KingKalamari posted:Guys, I've got a question: What the gently caress is up with Can Pol on Twitter? It's always been bad, but I feel like it's now solely the domain of the hardline right 'Trudeau = Super Hitler" convoy crowd. Aye, I was shocked to discover that there’s roving Musullman hordes terrorizing Toronto and doing Sharia, and also Olivia Chow and Justin Trudeau lust for Jewish death Well it’s either that or Twitter isn’t a very good news source.
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Jan 9, 2024 00:29
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PT6A posted:Aye, I was shocked to discover that there’s roving Musullman hordes terrorizing Toronto and doing Sharia, and also Olivia Chow and Justin Trudeau lust for Jewish death I mean the roving Muslim hordes part is true, but it’s just Palestinian protestors lusting for store death (indigo and Zara)
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Jan 9, 2024 00:45
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Im not sure it brings me any comfort to know we live in the dumbest timeline and not the worst one.
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Jan 9, 2024 01:11
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The number of people I know that say being forced to use someone's preferred pronouns and Justin "Super Hitler" Trudeau are the biggest threats to Canada would be funny if it wasn't so depressing. Like these are (seemingly) normal, non-political people that I've know for years who've just gone off the deep end over the last 3 - 5 years Every issue that pops up, no matter how small or trivial, is because of Trudeau. Like some of these people can't even afford a house yet all they talk about is "the trans issue" and how the cost of housing is just a smoke screen so Trudeau can keep forcing kids to become gay or something.
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Jan 9, 2024 01:32
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I'm just in awe of the professor who had no choice but to resign because the university didn't force people to agree with him
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Jan 9, 2024 01:34
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Hey, remember that memorial to the "victims of communism" they're building? Turns out it could sour relations with ASEAN and also, oops, there might be some Nazis being celebrated on there. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/victims-of-communism-memorial-focus-on-vietnam-could-create-backlash-documents-warn quote:Canadian government officials have identified some individuals who served with the Waffen SS among the names submitted for the memorial, according to the federal documents. Other alleged Nazi collaborators associated with the memorial have also been identified by the Department of Canadian Heritage, but the exact number is censored from the records.
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Jan 9, 2024 01:48
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Whoever could have foreseen this? No one, probably.
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Jan 9, 2024 02:08
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It makes sense in that no one else is as good at killing nazis than communists.
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Jan 9, 2024 03:32
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HackensackBackpack posted:Hey, remember that memorial to the "victims of communism" they're building? Turns out it could sour relations with ASEAN and also, oops, there might be some Nazis being celebrated on there. Lmfao. Could you imagine? The Canadian government paying tribute to a veteran of the Waffen SS? Boy glad they caught that one befo- Oh. Hmm. Well, in that case I have a suggsstion for a keynote speaker people will already be familiar with
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Jan 9, 2024 03:40
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But seriously tear that stupid thing down lol
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Jan 9, 2024 03:41
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KingKalamari posted:Guys, I've got a question: What the gently caress is up with Can Pol on Twitter? It's always been bad, but I feel like it's now solely the domain of the hardline right 'Trudeau = Super Hitler" convoy crowd. Iirc one of Elon's "brilliant" ideas was to make blue check accounts be promoted. Any time a blue check account makes a tweet or replies to a tweet, they get "promoted" or "highlighted" or whatever the gently caress, so they always are the first thing you see when looking for, well, anything. Similarly, in how "engagement" on YouTube and other places is mostly driven by this raging pieces of poo poo, Elon hosed with Twitter so that idiots dumb enough to pay a monthly subscription always get seen above regular users. You can find the normal responses, you just have to scroll past all the blue checks, especially since, I think, a decent majority of those accounts are bots (thought you were supposed to get rid of those, Elon)
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Jan 9, 2024 07:13
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KingKalamari posted:Guys, I've got a question: What the gently caress is up with Can Pol on Twitter? It's always been bad, but I feel like it's now solely the domain of the hardline right 'Trudeau = Super Hitler" convoy crowd. Yes, the vast majority of reasonable people have left Twitter because it's a shithole full of bigots and fascists that get promoted to the front page because of 'algorithms' and also because they gave Elon 5 bucks. It's absolutely shameful that government entities and politicians are still on there, using it as their main mode of communication. Apparently if I don't want to support that festering pile I don't deserve to see communication from my representatives and government. Putting what is basically the sole means of communication in the hands of a private corporation was a fantastic idea. They could at the very least cross-post on federated social media from government-controlled servers.
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Jan 9, 2024 15:27
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What's the best way to get Canadian news now? I'd kind of like to just visit one stop shop application (some kind of RSS) or purchase a subscription with the most decent national paper with a Toronto section. Social media is unacceptable to me unless via some aggregator that gives me controls over the advertisements or content it pulls. Do websites need to have an RSS format link/release format or can I PvP websites and scrape content to consume later? The RSS feed might be very important, because you can totally throw the gazette in there and that's cool. RSS is a nice idea and would let me connect blogs, small indie newspapers and the big un's in one place. But it would be good to have options to meet desktop viewing and app viewing needs.
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Jan 9, 2024 16:07
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Toalpaz posted:What's the best way to get Canadian news now? Sounds like you want a Toronto Star subscription.
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Jan 9, 2024 16:09
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I just check out the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and CBC News websites every so often.  One thing I don't understand about the whole Canadian news and social media companies dispute, are people only getting their news by clicking on promoted "news stories" in their feeds? I guess that would suggest that there are a lot of people that only experience the internet through whatever their main social media platform of choice feeds them which would explain a lot.
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Jan 9, 2024 16:17
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Arivia posted:Sounds like you want a Toronto Star subscription. Maybe I'm more of a national post girl though. quote:One thing I don't understand about the whole Canadian news and social media companies dispute, are people only getting their news by clicking on promoted "news stories" in their feeds? I guess that would suggest that there are a lot of people that only experience the internet through whatever their main social media platform of choice feeds them which would explain a lot. This is absolutely true! Think about the article adverts. Think about Firefox pocket. Algo blog recommendations. People are overwhelmingly just handed things to read and process and in my experience tend to take a back seat in controlling what they decide to read. Some people are probably better at it than me but the way I choose YouTube videos or documentaries to watch, is basically wholly just letting the algo feed me content. Toalpaz fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Jan 9, 2024 |
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Jan 9, 2024 16:17
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Toalpaz posted:Maybe I'm more of a national post girl though. You said “most decent.” National post still has op eds from Lord Crossharbour on occasion.
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Jan 9, 2024 16:21
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Toalpaz posted:Maybe I'm more of a national post girl though. Oh no
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Jan 9, 2024 16:24
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I don't advise the National Post. I think it's the one source I've straight up banned from my Apple News feed, because it's always full of the most blithering idiocy. Thinking on it, I should expand this policy and banish any outlet which claims, in a news story or op-ed, that protesting Israeli policy is somehow anti-Semitic, because that poo poo gets my blood pressure up.
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Jan 9, 2024 16:28
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I've found the CBC app to be acceptable, although the Canadian news to American news ratio is not quite what I'd like, especially going into An Election Year down south. It's at least not filled to the brim with breathless reporting on local vandalism like my actual local paper.
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Jan 9, 2024 16:41
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Toalpaz posted:What's the best way to get Canadian news now? The something awful dot com forums
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Jan 9, 2024 16:51
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The pages of the Toronto Sun meet national standards for decency and even technically exceed local ones.
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Jan 9, 2024 16:54
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Precambrian Video Games posted:The pages of the Toronto Sun meet national standards for decency and even technically exceed local ones. They want news, not Sunshine Girls.
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Jan 9, 2024 17:14
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ZShakespeare posted:The something awful dot com forums Unironically I wind up getting most of my news here. I'm sure this is healthy and will have no untoward side effects.
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Jan 9, 2024 17:25
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Albino Squirrel posted:Unironically I wind up getting most of my news here. I'm sure this is healthy and will have no untoward side effects. Alcoholism is a potential side effect. Check with your doctor if CanPol is right for you.
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Jan 9, 2024 17:56
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Muscle Tracer posted:I've found the CBC app to be acceptable, although the Canadian news to American news ratio is not quite what I'd like, especially going into An Election Year down south. It's at least not filled to the brim with breathless reporting on local vandalism like my actual local paper. hey at least you have a local paper! my town used to have one, now every small town in this area is served by like one local online-only site that carries a lot of advertorial content
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Jan 9, 2024 18:25
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MatchaZed posted:Alcoholism is a potential side effect. Check with your doctor if CanPol is right for you.
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Jan 9, 2024 18:44
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KingKalamari posted:Guys, I've got a question: What the gently caress is up with Can Pol on Twitter? It's always been bad, but I feel like it's now solely the domain of the hardline right 'Trudeau = Super Hitler" convoy crowd. It's because Twitter is being run by a Boer Nazi nepo baby who gets wicked high on a custom blend of ketamine and his own farts and makes bad decisions but can't backtrack on them because that would make it harder to win the adulation of terminally-online shut-in neckbeards (no, not the C-SPAM ones, the other ones).
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Jan 9, 2024 19:44
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I use the Apple News app (paid) and the CBC app for news. And also the forums, yeah. Thanks for the private healthcare story btw, Albino Squirrel. The Sandy and Nora podcast is good, but can be a downer.
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Jan 9, 2024 21:15
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Yellow Ant posted:Thanks for the private healthcare story btw, Albino Squirrel. Charles Rusnell posted:O’Brien is now a surgeon in a non-profit hospital and an associate professor at Creighton University in Omaha. He and his wife still have to figure out how to complete the PhDs they began at the University of Alberta. B33rChiller posted:Bad news, I think they are the thread Dr.
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Jan 9, 2024 23:01
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MatchaZed posted:Alcoholism is a potential side effect. Check with your doctor if CanPol is right for you. And here I thought doom scrolling was a side effect of my alcoholism...
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Jan 9, 2024 23:10
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MatchaZed posted:Alcoholism is a potential side effect. Check with your doctor if CanPol is right for you. Well, I would think the deterrence of being sent to the Leper Colony for posting while drunk and/or high helps with that.
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Lars Blitzer posted:Well, I would think the deterrence of being sent to the Leper Colony for posting while drunk and/or high helps with that. The trick is to post so badly sober that your drunkposting is indistinguishable.
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