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Cake day: October 11th, 2026

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  • director of operations for Conquer Transport, told CBC News in June 2026 that he helped his son and daughter-in-law set up the Alberta operations in 2022 after the Manitoba branch was closed.

    I’ve heard this is a common play when running shady businesses. Keep going until you get shut down or someone gets sent to jail, shuffle the assets around, reform the business with a different family member running it. Maybe someone serves some jail time but it’s ok, the family will take care of him once he’s out.

    When I write it out like that it sounds a lot like organized crime.


  • I believe so, but this guy wants to go after everything else like getting trades to use it and make metric the default setting on electronics.

    IDK if thats the best plan or if he realizes what an uphill battle certain things might be. Like ovens; our oven somehow switched over to metric on thanksgiving and it totally messed me up, I spent a LOT of time figuring out how to change that back to F. Another issue is industries that just aren’t going to want to change: aviation, boats I think are imperial, railways are, home building, etc.


  • TheSecondVariety@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•vegan rule
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    When it comes to misogyny or rasicsm you wouldn’t tell someone to just try and do less of it.

    Idk, these are very different things. If I think about how much I hate (some group) then I may be a racist based on that alone. If I don’t consume animal products but I fantasize about eating a cheeseburger I would still be a vegan.

    Nobody is going to literally say “just do less racism” but in practice we often only deal with small parts of someone’s racism.











  • Its clear to me that you’re not really worth engaging with. But I’ll basically restate my point. There are a ton of really great games out there; you’re playing the wrong ones.

    • It Takes Two and Split Fiction. Two excellent split screen games that came out from one studio within the last 5 years.

    • Factorio. One of the best single player games I’ve ever played. There is multiplayer co-op but that’s not really the point of the game.

    • Peak, RV There Yet, and other games in the “friend slop” category. They’re not the best games ever but they’re pretty enjoyable and I play some of these at home with my kids, steamdeck vs PC. They’re just fun games.

    • Tape to Tape. I havent played it yet because it’s not quite my type of game, but it’s a roguelike hockey game that does local multiplayer (its not split screen if you don’t split the screen right?) or single player.

    • Bopl battle. This is kind of an obscure oddity but my son was playing it for a while. Its sort of an arena battle game like smash bros but different (of course). Supports not local multiplayer (like smash bros) or online play.

    • Battle Bit. It’s kind of semi-abandoned now which makes me sad, but it was a battlefield style shooter which was simply amazing for a brief period in time.

    • Age of Empires II DE. I hesitate to put this in here, but Microsoft reworked the original game a while back so it runs properly on modern computers and gave it just a little bit of a graphics improvement without killing the spirit of the original.

    • Minecraft. It’s still good even if it’s mostly seen as a kids game. Supports split screen still but that has always been on consoles only.

    These are just the good games I’ve been playing over the last few years that come to mind. There is a lot of trash out there but there are also a lot of gems