[–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I got an email about it.

Dear Valued Customer,

We are writing to let you know about an incident involving your personal information.

Our team discovered unauthorized activity occurring on one of our servers on October 13 and took immediate action that day to shut down the server and launch an investigation with a third-party cybersecurity expert. The incident was quickly contained, and we are in the process of notifying the appropriate authorities and privacy regulators.

We have today confirmed that your name, and, if provided, address, phone number, email addresses and date of birth on the More Rewards database were accessed during this incident.

Based on the information available to us, no other personal information (e.g., passwords, credit card data, or transaction history) was accessed, and your More Rewards account remains secure.

We will never contact you for sensitive information such as your password, verification codes, banking or payment card information, Social Insurance Number, or security question answers. If you receive communication that appears to be from us or anyone else requesting sensitive personal information or asking you to click on a link or open an attachment that you were not expecting, we encourage you to verify the request using contact information you know to be legitimate, and not any contact information included in such request.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I wish we had Carney controlling external affairs and trade and NDP handling everything internal. Every domestic policy he's made has sucked, but he's done such great things with trade relationships and is a very skilled diplomat.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    L4D2 - it upset me that the disc just had an install of Steam and I would have to download it.

    I really miss when buying PC games was fun.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I suspect it's more of an implementation complexity than a true legal issue with geography, but I'm open to anything that gets us closer EU ties.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I gave Carney a wide net because I knew he was conservative but still the "right guy for the job" right now. But privatization is crossing the line... Cuts can be uncut, taxes can be restored, but we're permanently fucked when we privatize.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    Age verification would be fine if it was an OAuth type thing - I sign in with the government on the government's website, they report back that I have the 18+ grant. I don't know why they're going in this direction of just requiring that private companies collect a bunch of personal information to "verify" me

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That's apocryphal actually, according to wikipedia:

    The origin of "guinea" in "guinea pig" is unclear. One proposed explanation is that the animals were brought to Europe by way of Guinea, leading people to think they had originated there.[1] "Guinea" was also frequently used in English to refer generally to any far-off, unknown country, so the name may be a colorful reference to the animal's exotic origins.[27][28]

    Another hypothesis suggests the "guinea" in the name is a corruption of "Guiana", an area in South America.[27][29] A common misconception is that they were so named because they were sold for the price of a guinea coin. This hypothesis is untenable because the guinea was first struck in England in 1663, and William Harvey used the term "Ginny-pig" as early as 1653.[30] Others believe "guinea" may be an alteration of the word coney (rabbit); guinea pigs were referred to as "pig coneys" in Edward Topsell's 1607 treatise on quadrupeds.[1]

    They also just have lots of strange names in different languages

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Colonialism, "$" is a derivative of the shorthand for peso which was the name for the Spanish dollar. So all the locals were calling their money a dollar before the actual "dollar" currencies became a thing.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    I think Conservatives will actually be very happy about this behind closed doors - currently they are helping the Liberals push everything through parliament and committee, so whenever they bark to media about stuff they look like hypocrites. Now they get to complain without looking like hypocrites!

    Also, I'm pretty sure the alternative here is an election where the Liberals would win >210 seats, so...

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