Yeah, it’s on purpose. Not even pulling out the tinfoil to make a hat for this one. Companies know that, for a large portion of people, if they make it difficult to cancel/quit/unsubscribe…well…a lot of us are downright lazy, and will just keep paying.
Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
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I mean. Postmedia is already mostly funded by the federal government. Think it was in 2022, they received $9.9 million, while their operating profit was 13 million.
A list of their Assets:
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Broadsheet dailies and weeklies
National Post Financial Post (administratively part of the National Post) Belleville Intelligencer Brantford Expositor Calgary Herald Cape Breton Post Chatham Daily News The Chronicle Herald (Halifax) Cornwall Standard Freeholder Edmonton Journal Kenora Daily Miner and News Kingston Whig-Standard London Free Press The Gazette (Montreal) North Bay Nugget Ottawa Citizen Regina Leader-Post The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) Sault Star Sudbury Star Timmins Daily Press Vancouver Sun (not related to the tabloid Sun newspapers also owned by Postmedia) Windsor StarTabloid dailies
Calgary Sun Edmonton Sun Ottawa Sun The Province (Vancouver) Toronto Sun Winnipeg SunCommunity newspapers
Postmedia owns newspapers that serve smaller communities across Canada, including:
Airdrie Echo (tabloid) Bow Valley Crag and Canyon (tabloid) Brockville Recorder and Times (broadsheet) Chatham This Week (tabloid) Clinton News-Record (tabloid) Cochrane Times (Alberta) (tabloid) Cochrane Times-Post (tabloid) Cold Lake Sun (tabloid) Drayton Valley Western Review (tabloid) Edson Leader (tabloid) Elliot Lake Standard (tabloid) Fort McMurray Today (tabloid) Fort Saskatchewan Record (tabloid) Goderich Signal-Star (tabloid) Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune (tabloid) Hanna Herald (tabloid) High River Times (tabloid) Hinton Parklander (tabloid) Kincardine News (tabloid) Kingston This Week (tabloid) Lakeshore Advance (Grand Bend; tabloid) Lloydminster Meridian Booster (tabloid) sold to Lloydminster Source Ltd Mid-North Monitor (Espanola; tabloid) Mayerthorpe Freelancer (tabloid) Nanton News (tabloid) Owen Sound Sun Times (broadsheet) Peace River Record-Gazette (broadsheet) Pincher Creek Echo (tabloid) Red River Valley Echo (tabloid) closed 2020 Sarnia Observer (broadsheet) Sherwood Park News (tabloid) Simcoe Reformer (tabloid) St. Thomas Times-Journal (tabloid) Stratford Beacon Herald (broadsheet) Vulcan Advocate (tabloid) Vermilion Standard (tabloid) Whitecourt Star (tabloid) Winkler Times (tabloid) Woodstock Sentinel-Review (broadsheet)Former assets
24 Hours (Toronto, Vancouver) sold to Torstar and closed, 2017[40] Barrie Examiner sold to Torstar and closed, 2017[40] Bradford Times (tabloid) sold to Torstar and closed, 2017[40] Camrose Canadian (tabloid), closed 2018 Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin sold to Torstar and closed, 2017[40] Niagara Falls Review (broadsheet) sold to Torstar, 2017 Norwich Gazette, closed 2018 Orillia Packet & Times (broadsheet) sold to Torstar and closed, 2017[40] Pembroke Daily Observer (broadsheet), ceasing print edition 2018 Peterborough Examiner (broadsheet) sold to Torstar, 2017 St. Catharines Standard (broadsheet) sold to Torstar in 2017 Strathmore Standard (tabloid), closed 2018Magazines
Financial Post Business Living Windsor Muskoka Magazine Kingston Life Magazine Interiors Magazine Backpack Magazine Cannabis Post Muskoka Visitor Guide Ontario Farmer Magazines (Hog, Beef, Dairy) Swerve TVtimesOnline
Canada.com Infomart.com Canoe.com celebrating.com connecting.com driving.ca househunting.ca remembering.ca shoplocal.ca SwarmJam.com
2·2 days agoShadowy international cabals used to be competent and stylish.
Rose tinted glasses my dude. The only reason Ye Oldetimey Shadowy Cabals seemed competent is because everything they did wasn’t televised. Our interconnected, info on demand, world means we get to see a significantly higher amount of their ineptitude.
If all the idiotic jumping about and hamfisted ass-hattery of the rise of the OG Nazis or the Soviets was televised to the extent we’re seeing now…idk, I just feel like we’re maybe getting our shadowy cabal off Alibaba instead of temu, you know? (I know you said wish)
1·2 days agoOnly if it actually worked as the salespeople said it does
That’s the thing. It’s been talked about for over a year now, but LLM “AI” won’t ever lead to AGI. It doesn’t matter how big you make the model, it’s never going to actually qualify.
4·2 days agoI was hyped when I first heard about it. And with them dropping the shitty mechanic that was putting me off, I’ll definitely grab it at some point.
Looks like it’s 20% off right now, but reading through the recent(ish) reviews, it looks like it’s still in a state that I would likely find aggravating. Namely AI jank, and enemies spawning/despawning while in view.
That said, a positive review makes an excellent point:
@Mango-killa
We bullied the devs into releasing the game early and are upset that it’s unfinished. I love the concept, but still needs a ton of polish and tweaks to be perfect. Give em time to cook.
It’s been on my wishlist, despite the now defunct water mechanic, since I heard about it. And I’ll give the Devs the time they need to cook.
Sorry, I should have been clear, I by no means thought you were hating on it!
I’m literally just hearing about Revolt now. And I’ve had a bad day so far, that obviously came through in my previous comment. I’m sorry, rereading my last comment, it’s a bit belligerent.
Thanks for taking the time to explain like I’m 5 and throwing a tantrum. 🤦 Sorry again.
- File size limits on the default instance are 20mb.
But it’s configurable right? Should be looking through configurations anyway.
- Its not federated.
I’d argue that not everything needs to be federated. Some things would definitely benefit from federation, but I’m not entirely sure that this is one of them.
- It’s not encrypted.
This IS a bit of a major negative. But point 2 and point 3 seems to be in conflict. I’m definitely not an expert, and don’t pretend to be. But to my limited, layman’s, knowledge wouldn’t being federated and encrypted not really work out? What would be the point in encrypting all communication between the server instance and client, to then federate it out to other servers?
I’m not trying to be contrarian here, I’m really asking, is that something that would:
- Work.
- Makes sense to do
Or is the lack of encryption a security risk for server operators? I’m not getting the point, obviously. And I’d like to know what your thinking on this is.
Yeah, that works too
It was a stupid mechanic, and the reason I lost interest in the game.
6·3 days agoI’m a Canadian in the UK. I love to read, but I don’t have the bandwidth or time to sit and read right now. As such I fit into this statistic…
That’s a Skill Issue…git güd chump! /s
Definitely get that. Honestly think the difficulty scaling in the game is completely fucked. The first hour and a bit is just right. Everything after is pretty much a cakewalk, with occasional instances of having to replay a section repeatedly because all your equipment and skills that smeared everything into a red mist prior suddenly is like throwing pebbles at a BattleMech… That’s pretty much my only gripe with the game. Inconsistent difficulty.
52·3 days ago⅗ of those already fit the statement. No I won’t be elaborating on which.
Dunno what you’re talking about. When it came out I had a 1060 6gb, an AMD FX 8320 and 8gb of ram. It ran satisfactorily, when the bugs weren’t too bad, and I had to be happy with slightly lower gfx settings. Never had a play session on CP77 that was a slideshow. Maybe our bar for satisfactory performance is way different?
That’s the thing. They always were shit, just with Trump’s War on Woke, they now feel like the money they’ve always spent on good will of the public, DEI programs, keeping a muzzle on the racist/misogynistic/bigoted person running the company isn’t really needed. Now all that “wasted” money can go where it belongs…into shareholder profits.
2·3 days agoTack on “The Gays” and you’ll have to drop the probably.
UNLIMITED блять! (blyat, fuck? Idk, I don’t speak russian, Google translate says Da?)
FTFY
“I can tell you that we worked hard to avoid a repeat of Trump’s tax. We know tariffs are bad for people and businesses on both sides of the border,” Houston wrote on X. “Unfortunately, some people need to touch the hot stove to learn, and while we cannot control or predict their behavior, we can control how we respond.”
Savage. Love it.
I’d never gone and read anything Hitler had written. Maybe it’s partly the inherent inaccuracies introduced when translating something. Idk… whatever it was…that quote from Mein Kampf was absolutely insufferable. Not the topic, disgusting as it is. The…hmmm… slightly flowery, holier-than-thou-esque tone… patronising, like you’d speak to someone you think is really dumb. Which I guess probably was what was going on. Get the feeling Hitler thought he was a pretty smart cookie.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fuck! I’d completely forgotten about that! What a fucking mongrel…
I do this with stonework. My wife’s started doing it now too. When we first got together, we’d be on vacation and she’d point out what she thought was great stone work. Without being a dick about it I would automatically point out things that are super obvious to me, 15 years in the trade next summer. “That’s a structurally severe crack, that’s an obviously amateur patch, why the fuck that person was let anywhere near a restoration job is beyond me, that’s got another 5 years max until it could potentially fall and kill someone…” Etc etc etc.
Now our vacations tend to be us going from restaurant to attractions or whatever, and stopping along the way to criticise shoddy stone work.