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Open letter from Elizabeth May (leader of the Green Party of Canada)


"As the leader of the Green Party of Canada, I feel myself first and foremost to be a servant leader, to the Greens, as an employee of my constituents, and - hoping not to sound too goody-two shoes about it! - to the people of Canada. In that role I have probably never felt the need to put Canada first, and my party second, as I have had since the issue of foreign interference started to dominate the headlines...Now we are immersed in an even more shocking series of revelations that a foreign government has actually murdered Canadians on Canadian soil."
nationalnewswatch.com/2024/10/…



in reply to Luddite (under protest)

As with all the different federated platforms, each will require its own account, which IMHO is actually a good thing.

Yes, you can link videos within a Lemmy/Kbin thread that points to the video, just like you would with any other video link.

However, when it comes to interactivity/comments in order for this to happen a user needs to follow the channel, for example try following this @Blender

From the point you start following, it will pop up in your timeline like any other user and your comments to it will show up on their instance, just like a YouTube comment.

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in reply to LPS

I have been able to post in a Lemmy community from an Mbin instance without having a Lemmy account, so the separate account limitation is not a universal limitation. Hence why I asked. In any case, I appreciate the answer.

I’ll also say that there is a privacy issue with this design. If I am in a video, my appearance, voice, & part of the world I am in are all revealed & subject to facial rec. I don’t generally want my biometrics to then be linked to my threadiverse accts.

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in reply to Luddite (under protest)

So this limitation creates an burden of having to register and maintain more accounts. Registration is increasingly slow and tedious to fight bots, so we often have to write something about ourselves and possibly solve a captcha to create a new Lemmy account.
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in reply to Luddite (under protest)

When it comes to the video, you could make it using your actual identity as you do on Youtube, no difference. Since it's only a peertube account there is no link to any of your other fediverse accounts ... which is why I prefer separate identities as well.

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in reply to LPS

I would never touch Youtube. YT also blocks me anyway. Nor would I disclose my identity to peertube beyond what’s unavoidable as far as biometrics goes.

It would be useful if peertube would add the capability to post to Lemmy (as Kbin does). Until then, we have the burden of creating an extra kbin or lemmy acct just to add a link.




As a visual artist myself, I found this video to be so incredibly inspiring and at the same time it expresses something I've always felt but had difficulty expressing to non-artists.

Danny Gregory goes into how he uses his sketchbook as a visual journal of his life, it's impact on how he experiences the world around him, and how it also creates joy and connection in his life.

I don't believe this is limited to any specific creative pursuit, but rather all creative pursuits. In this day and age where society is obsessed with money and all things quantifiable, we often forget how essential Art is to the human experience.

Take a look, it will make your day:)

10 things about drawing I wish I knew when I was 35.

#sketchbookskool #art #creativity #passion #mindfulness #dannygregory

youtu.be/T1vocYVtotw

in reply to LPS

Yes, interesting. Similar with writing and journaling...










#Israel comes up with new lie to bomb #Lebanon #hospitals


There is no limit to their lies and justification of their war crimes.

Of course, the world is silent and complicit and already forgotten about the ongoing #genocide in #Gaza.




Ed Zitron: Requiem for Raghavan, "the man who killed Google Search"


"An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn't mean anything."
wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-ra…




This is what happens when you allow a rogue regime to go unpunished for all the crimes they have committed in the past 70 years.


#Israel #France #Impunity #Politics #Genocide #UN


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in reply to fionag11

You know what we did to the Water Protectors in North Dakota? We arrested them. We arrested them for rioting on the high plains!
in reply to fionag11

... notably, Barack Obama stood by and did nothing and said nothing. For Shame.

;-(



My favorite little bit from TROM II....the end.


TROM II: How Mindblowing it is - https://videos.trom.tf/w/nXfbyGrxEVdiuYt2ERWwo9

We are the Universe pondering about its own existence. How sad is it that we've created a society that denies people of this privilege...

#universe #trom #trom2 #tromsite #society #evolution




TROM II: How Mindblowing it is - videos.trom.tf/w/nXfbyGrxEVdiu…

We are the Universe pondering about its own existence. How sad is it that we've created a society that denies people of this privilege...

#universe #trom #trom2 #tromsite #society #evolution

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How Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency colluded with industry to avoid a neonic pesticide ban


1. Receive wetland sampling data from Canadian scientist that clearly shows neonic levels that cause harm and must be banned under Canadian law.
2. Share that data with industry groups without researcher's permission, urging them to find "other results". Give them 4 1/2 years to do this.
3. Industry, Bayer and others, finds pretext to throw out "problematic" sites on the grounds that they can't be found on satellite imagery in autumn (normal for seasonal wetlands). Submits their own proprietary, cherry picked, non peer-reviewed data, much of it from simulated rather than real world data collection.
4. Lo and behold a ban on neonics is not needed after all!
5. Ignore scientist's rebuttal.

nationalobserver.com/2024/10/1…

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British Columbia, Canada election - Results still uncertain


"It’s a strange time in politics when during an atmospheric river people come out and vote for a party that’s denying the reality of climate change." - Sonia Furstenau

It seems the majority did not, but 43.5% did, WTF?

They believe conspiracy theories without seeing the one right in front of their nose that they are falling for.

thenarwhal.ca/bc-election-resu…