Very quiet, I lived in Whitehorse for a total of six months and it's really like just being in a small town. The nature is beautiful, the people are crazy and nothing is ever crowded. lol Things are very expensive, food, building, bills. You name it. Cellular and Internet and power are all quite unstable, Whitehorse currently has higher power draw than their own production and they've been trying to fix it for the last few years. Some cellular towers seem to have barely working links so you can find that you have connection but can't load anything.

Overall I'd say at least for specifically Whitehorse it is the perfect place to live if you have money and love nature. Just don't expect to be doing any fun events unless you're the one who made them. XD

Never heard of it, and we have a pretty large French population here in Manitoba.

Still do. Every year i prépare a few dozen of fishes with double aide tapes ready to stick.i keep some to myself and distrbute thé test to collègue i know will use them. Im in Montréal. There are many of them left over around thé shop from Years ago.

Poisson is sometimes used to describe someone who is gullible. So "poisson d'avril" does actually translate to april fool.

The fish gag is based on the wordplay.

I did but my family is québécois and I grew up in northern NB. I remember it being a thing there but not after moving to northern Ontario.

"Poisson d'avril" is synonymous with "April fools" in my experience even in Ontario but without the actual fish part.

Tactical-Merc@retrofed.com How many times will you delete this post?

Wen you see .ml after their name, and when you see content that is from a place with .ml after its name, shit isn’t good.

What does a super majority even mean in a unicameral system?

**Edit Or should I say in a Westminster system, with no easy way to amend the constitution?

Edgy jokes.

That works in real life, but not on the internet. Too many artists that will in fact read the rules in their entirety. That's why they keep them vague.

Yes but the phenomena I am specifically trying to underline is the way in which a community of conversations can be silenced by simply applying overly restrictive categorization "THIS isn't the place for THAT" type moderation rules to communities.

This both makes it so that people who hold a view that is in conflict with the architects (not necessarily the majority) are forced to attempt to create new alternative communities and try to get them off the ground and it also allows narratives to be silenced through selective moderation according to a byzantine set of rules that you are pretty much always breaking (and nobody cares 99% of the time).

The censorship is spatial, it is never complete, it is like being told by your parents to ask the other parent for permission in an endless ping pong that doesn't ever provide a space for a conversation to happen while simultaneously leaving you nowhere specific to point your finger and blame.

This is a very similar phenomena to society making so many things illegal that the average person can be assumed to be breaking the law by law enforcement and thus law enforcement is able to enact biased policing policies under the guise of unbiased enforcement of byzantine and impossible rulesystems....

...which again is precisely why absurdist theater and literature plays so much with these patterns and motifs as a form of wholistic resistance.

edit To be clear I am not arguing that "this isn't the place for that" isn't needed to some healthy degree, but people don't think about what happens when you don't monitor the growth of that tendency like how in Jurassic Park they assumed the dinosaurs couldn't reproduce so why have the capacity to count any more than they started with...? It is dangerous in a way people assume is benign.

Lemmy.world I am afraid is a great example of this.

I think you might want to distinguish between rules and bureaucracy.

Often, rules/laws become excessively vague to allow inconsistent enforcement. Bureaucracy becomes byzantine to prevent easily changing the results of the initial enforcement action.

I think a more realistic example would be:

Written rule: no bigotry.

Appeals process: message the appeals mod (not listed) on Friday the 13th under a full moon on a good day and include your face scan, ID and credit card number.

The rule itself seems perfectly innocent and good, even, but is intentionally extremely vague, allowing power to arbitrarily decide what constitutes "bigotry". Questioning that decision is also, technically, possible.

That's a good description of how they come across...

I always assumed they were far right trolls cosplaying as (their biased image of) leftists for shits and giggles...

when they start parroting right wing talking pts to label everything as "lib", plus they start banning you for very vague reasons.

they are "we are not like these "other tankies""

Ghosts is the worst call of duty game, it’s where it sharply went downhill.

Constant frame rate drops and pay2win gun.

edit ahhh I missed the community name somehow, I am not Canadian sorry facepalm

With respect to 1. the opposite state is just as likely that rules become endlessly byzantine to avoid dealing with fundamental questions or irreconciable truths.

This is really why a lot of absurdist literature and film tends towards the byzantine, it is to make the political apparatus of fascism strangling art and individuality concrete in some way that can be perceived by an audience through aesthetics and motif... which is often through endless arbitrary rules and measurements that categorize and categorize endlessly in a way that feels bluntly unbiased because of an association with sorting, order, measurements, names and numbers but is in architecture silencing of narratives that attempt to weave categories together in different ways or find meaning.

A dystopian society run by a totalitarian state, where departments with names like the Ministry of Information oppress citizens through empty rhetoric and labyrinthine bureaucracy; an everyman protagonist (Jonathan Pryce) longing for escape who resists the authorities through an illicit romance with a similarly rebellious lover; a sinister room of torture where his hopes are finally broken – the literary influence of George Orwell’s 1984, as well as the bureaucratic absurdity of Franz Kafka, is overtly clear in Brazil (1985).

https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/brazil-terry-gilliam-influences

The lack of this closure is one of the hallmarks of weird fiction. The inexplicability and productive ambiguity emphasized within the mode ensures that the unsettlement of the narrative is mirrored for both character and reader, avoiding closure for either, thereby channeling Robert Aickman’s dictum that an effective piece of weird fiction “must open a door, preferably where no one had previously noticed a door to exist; and at the end, leave it open, or, possibly, ajar.” Weird fiction doesn’t enclose discordant energies or possibilities; it thrives in their ungraspability.

https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/reading-weird-fiction-in-an-age-of-fascism/

edit Exhibit A. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/77525991

There's plenty of exploitation around COD. The question is why Ghosts is the one you identified specifically.

There’s nothing wrong with the franchise trying a different game mode, yes cod shouldn’t release a game every year as that splits up the player base.

Are there any issues with worker’s exploitation?

It started with the runaway success of Call of Duty 4 making Activision turn its Eye of Sauron on the franchise and the developers, bringing in more studios to work the COD mines and turning it into a cash cow. Black Ops 2 for example had that attempt at turning the series into an e-sport with an MLG mode that went nowhere.

Ghosts didn't have anything particularly special about it in terms of predatory practices, but it was the worst entry in the series up to that point.

Can you go into more detail about before Ghosts?

COD got corrupted long before Ghosts. Ghosts was just a bad game.

Also, Andrew Jackson.

Daaamn... That's the 2014 fb formula/2018 reddit formula right there.

It may happen as when cool concepts gets popular certain sections become corrupt.

Windows XP-8.

PS1-3.

Xbox-360.

1776-Nixon-Reagan.

Battlefield 1942-BF6.

COD-Ghosts.

Google 1998-2017.

NES-Switch.

Mastodon was born but then Truth Social spawned from the infernos. The latter collects ungodly amounts of data through their app.