Quebec's  housing tribunal rules no-pet clause in rental lease violates provincial charter of rights and freedoms

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-no-pets-clause-rental-housing-tenants-landlords-9.7138728
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Le Tribunal administratif du logement du Québec  a jugée que les clauses interdisant les animaux de compagnie violent la charte provinciale des droits et libertés

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#Québec #Housing #Logement

The Giant Kitten

https://streetartutopia.com/2024/04/07/the-giant-kitten/

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

🏇 🐎 🐴

Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

The ten pillars of fascism

1.The mythic past: Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future.

2.Propaganda: Propaganda in fascist politics often operates through inflammatory speech, stirring hostility and manipulating emotions, and displacing reasoned public debate with fear and division.

3.Anti-intellectual: Fascist politics attacks education, expertise, and language, weakening the tools necessary for informed public debate and leaving power and group identity as the only basis for judgment.

4.Unreality: By flooding the public space with falsehoods and attacking trusted institutions, fascist politics destabilizes reality and shifts truth from a shared understanding of reality to the authority of a leader.

5.Hierarchy: Unlike liberal thought, which expands dignity and rights to all, fascist ideology sees hierarchy as rooted in nature, using myths to legitimize dominance by the powerful. Equality is portrayed as a denial of this natural order.

6.Victimhood: Fascist politics blurs the line between equality and discrimination, portraying the dominant group as victims of a hidden conspiracy.

7.Law and order: A healthy democracy ensures equal justice and mutual respect among citizens and authorities. Fascist law-and-order rhetoric, by contrast, divides society into the naturally lawful and the inherently criminal, portraying those who defy traditional norms, such as women outside gender roles, nonwhites, immigrants, or religious minorities, as threats to order simply by existing.

8.Sexual anxiety: Fascist politics ties national strength to patriarchal manhood and the traditional family, treating any deviation as a threat. It exploits sexual anxiety and economic insecurity, fueling panic over race mixing, gender nonconformity, and nontraditional sexuality to reinforce ideals of purity and order.

9.Sodom and Gomorrah: Fascist politics idealizes rural life as morally pure and central to national strength, while depicting cities as corrupt and influenced by outsiders. Policies are framed to protect rural communities from urban and foreign “contamination.”

10."Arbeit Macht Frei”: In fascist ideology, aid in times of crisis is reserved for the so-called chosen nation: “us,” not “them.” Those excluded are portrayed as lazy and undeserving of state aid, with hard labor seen as a means of reform, an idea symbolized by the Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" at the gates of Auschwitz.

From "How Fascism Works" by Jason Stanley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Fascism_Works

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2032012809433723158

There you go, there it is. Yup.

Nuorten tulevaisuususko on kriisissä. Arjessa on lähinnä paineita eikä toivoa paremmasta edes uskalleta elätellä. Tämä ei ole pelkästään nuorisobarometrin viesti, vaan on suunta nähdäkseni ollut tulkittavissa myös monista muista nuorten asenteisiin ja tunteisiin keskittyvistä tutkimuksista. Aiemmin tyypillinen ajattelu, jossa maailman tulevaisuus saattaa kyllä näyttää synkältä mutta oma henkilökohtainen tulevaisuus suhteellisen toiveikkaalta, näyttäisi olevan murtumassa.

Jotain tarttis varmaan tehdä.

Mehän ollaan jo tekemässä! Inkeri Rissanen ja me muut TeacherMind-hankkeen tutkijat olemme ensi syksynä toteuttamassa opettajille suunnatun täydennyskoulutuksen Opettaja toiveikkaan tulevaisuuden tekijänä. Koulutuksesta opettaja saa välineitä kestävyyskysymyksiin liittyvän muutosajattelun tukemiseen lasten ja nuorten parissa. Muutosajattelun avulla voidaan pyrkiä palauttamaan lapsille ja nuorille tulevaisuususkoa.

Täältä lisätietoja: https://www.tuni.fi/fi/tule-opiskelemaan/opettaja-toiveikkaan-tulevaisuuden-tekijana

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.