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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • AI is data scraping from a landfill of the internet. The only difference is that it’s a gonewild version of it. I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

    Tell me how it needs to be said for someone to feel like it’s a human empathetic response but it comes from AI. We aren’t there. And as it progresses we will never be.

    I’ll bet my last dollar that this AI movement for replacing people and jobs is nothing more than the same we have seen in the past with self checkouts, speech to text and the likes of that. It will be uses in areas where data is finite, but human subjective is a different beast.




  • Not to rain on that parade, but there are some pretty inovative companies using AI for the betterment of society as a whole. What we all hear and see in the media is really stupid corporate types of AI use, which ultimately will fail because AI lacks one thing we all possess, and that is feeling. AI lacks the ability to insightfully mix in feeling to convey the output.

    Where it’s great is where it’s all used for calculations similar to how super computers were used.


  • No idea about recourse in BC, but in Ontario former tenants have a year after a bad faith eviction to go after landlords for moving costs and a year’s worth of rent difference the tenant has to pay at the new location, there may be some other things I’m missing. Unfortunately, I think the max is up to 35k, which sadly may not even cover the cost in loses.l, but better than nothing.

    I hope there is something like that there. greedy landlords are a big part of the housing issues we are experiencing. Too many landlords that operate like cowboys in the wild west. They need to be penalized.





  • Was thinking about that aspect as well.

    IMO, this is a legit protest and concern. If it was some billionaire whose body was dumped in the landfill, you can be god-damned sure the place would be searched piece by piece.

    Imagine trying to say, it’s out of our control, best we can do is pile more garbage on those remains.

    Maybe there is some way to swing it as a indigenous burial ground and have the politicians actually put pressure on investigators to investigate.

    I hope the city riots if there is even a mention of physically removing the blockade. Address the real issue.






  • Oh, I’m not saying they can walk away and just hand in their keys, done and dusted. Granted bankruptcy? You do understand that all loans in Canada are civil matters. If you move through the proceedings of declaring bankruptcy, and it’s genuine because you don’t have the money to continue to pay you mortgage, bills and debts, you think that you will be denied the option to proceed with that? Or do you think a consumer proposal to pay out all the outstanding charges on a defaulted mortgage and loan will be suitable when you can’t pay it?

    I don’t even know of any places where you can just hand in your keys and walk away without reprocussions. But trying to pay for a repossessed house isn’t really for many in that situation.



  • Bubble has not popped.

    When people are handing the house keys back to bank and saying fuck it, then you will know it has popped.

    A good indication of that is when you start seeing for sale signs popping up everywhere and those signs stay there.

    Seen it before elsewhere. Canada has done an amazing job with smoke and mirrors to keep the bubble inflated but Canadians have run out of money to prop it up.

    When it pops, the government will have already run through all the ink in the money printing machines to do anything about it. Rough times ahead. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, but it seems the writing is on the wall.