a cargo ship can be used to ship a lot of trains, like hundreds of trains

Not disappointed because I expected no more, these companies already pray on day traders gamblers, they were just missing out on the latest “products” so it was a matter of time

No, my dude. It’s an open ended question in the sense that it purposefully asks a question about a concept which is inherently personal. That’s how this goes for this kind of research.

The whole point is to let each person define what their own version of gender expression is, and answer based on that. The fact that more (or fewer) people are choosing a charitable and supportive definition of gender expression is, that’s the signal being measured.

If this number goes down, it signals that people are increasingly holding definitions of “gender diversity expression” that are harder for them themselves to accept. No measurement is perfect, but they can still be useful. If this “flawed” question carried no information, we wouldn’t be seeing trends on it.

heh a bit of an oversharing/thinking out loud moment; it happens

Not only it’s very much possible, it’s the whole point of open ended questions. Where are you pulling those confident assessments from?

For one, many Albertans who would otherwise be your allies are now offended.

Meh, I kind of agree that the parent comment is needlessly antagonistic but I doubt that this would be the thing that tips someone over, someone this easily swayed would have found other reason to not be an ally already.

So agree on “making the situation worse rather than better” because it degrades the discussion, but it’s not like being offended by this will meaningfully change someone’s view on the matter.

the Internet is flourishing with femboys and fursonas

once the moral panic around trans people fade (hopefully I’ll be alive to see it), what will be left behind in peace will hopefully be a bunch of institutions that were able to thrive on that pride despite all the pushback

According to whom?

Because not giving a damn bubbled up from its sources as teenage angst and toxic masculinity… into the actually dominant role model for rich men

I always knew they were into this kind of thing considering how much they shill for crypto, private equity, direct indexing, leverage, option trading… literally every product offered beyond the basic ability to buy ETFs is a scam. The financial industry is by and large financed by scams. We had old school scams like selling trash mutual funds to retirees (TD style), and we have new scams like Private Equity where you get “exclusive” access to trash mutual funds. And now instead of getting people addicted to gambling with stock options, they are straight up aiming for regular gambling with prediction markets.

I’m disappointed but not really surprised. If anything, I’m thankful they made it a separate App instead of shoving it into the main Wealthsimple App, at least for now.

OP we all agree that China shouldn’t be deciding what gets platformed or not in Canada but Shen Yun is the wrong hill to die on regarding this. We should be helping Shen Yun be shut down because we want fewer fringe cults overall

Yeah it’s not super impressive right now but also gotta calibrate expectations, Canada Post is not going to launch with a product selection and UX that rivals the big e-commerce platforms in one go…

that’s a possibility, but then it’s such a bad attempt that it doesn’t really register as one for me

The issue is that regardless of how Meta markets this product, making it sleek and inconspicuous was the whole point. Meta glasses succeeded because they latched on the Wayfarer design which was already widespread and accepted.

Unfortunately being inconspicuous and fashionable also lends itself as means to use these to record covertly. Whatever Meta does to fix this, folks will find a way to work around and disable. The glass already has a flashing light to indicate that it’s recording; it’s not enough. Creeps are going to creep.

Maybe society just isn’t ready for “affordable” recording-capable wearables.

Do they work when driving?

Yes

Maybe a sunglass version?

You can get them in sunglasses yes, and prescription lenses. Basically any lens you want.

“they might be into that” is clearly a joke about perverts who already like that “torture”, there’s no re-conditioning for that and even if there was, it’s obviously not to be taken seriously

Yeah that’s a good use case too — though I do remember seeing folks use it to take pictures of things you weren’t supposed to (like temples interiors).

The “covert recording” aspect of it is a big problem, but from the privacy standpoint I honestly think this is less worse than walking around with an Insta360 that is literally recording everything. At least for now the Insta360 is less problematic because it’s so bulky that it’s not as useful for perverts; but in terms of filming a bunch of people out and about without consent it’s worse.

whoosh

I don’t think folks are upset about these for the “surveillance”, it’s more about how it enables creeps. In terms of privacy these aren’t any less worse than iPhones in that anyone can record you without permission — in privacy terms, overt or covert recording are both wrong; but folks are taking issue with covert recording because of course douchebags are going to leverage it on women.

It was fun while these were just used for sports and actually interesting outdoor activities, it serves me really well while cycling and snowboarding. I gave away the original wayfarer version so my family can experiment with it for accessibility and now I have just the sports version, which hopefully it’s too dorky for these pick-up-artist idiots to start popularizing.

Guess I’ll have to go back to a go pro in my helmets like a Teletubby… and find a decent combination of open ear headphones and a microphone that works against the wind. sigh maybe if they made a camera-less version that would solve most of it