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Ron Dyck<p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Farcical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Farcical</span></a></p><p>CRTC calls on Big 3 telecoms to lower international roaming fees - The Globe and Mail<br><a href="https://archive.is/M3bLY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/M3bLY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Jonathan Wright<p>HS2 may not run through to central London</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64421566" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64421566</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/UKRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKRail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HS2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HS2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WasteOfMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WasteOfMoney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Farcical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Farcical</span></a></p><p>The amount of time and money that has been pored into this scheme.</p><p>Costs are forever increasing; a lot of countryside and other areas destroyed forever; it still can't deliver.</p>
SherBeareth<p>#🎥 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TheAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheAtlantic</span></a>— For a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/lavish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lavish</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/expensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>expensive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/epic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>epic</span></a> about <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/1920s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1920s</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Hollywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hollywood</span></a>, Damien <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Chazelle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chazelle</span></a>’s new <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Babylon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babylon</span></a>, introduces itself about as <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/scatologically" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scatologically</span></a> as possible. In its first sequence, a harried gofer named Manny Torres (played by Diego <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Calva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Calva</span></a>) tries to transport an elephant into the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Hollywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hollywood</span></a> Hills for a big-shot <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/producer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>producer</span></a>’s party, a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/farcical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farcical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/task" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>task</span></a> that ends with the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/elephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elephant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/pooping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pooping</span></a> on the camera <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/lens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lens</span></a>—in a way, on the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/viewers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>viewers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/themselves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>themselves</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">theatlantic.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Fake Metro Trains<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThrowbackThursday</span></a> to the time when Melbourne's train system was run by a team of highly trained chimpanzees. You never knew what you were going to get, but at least the delays were always a surprise! <a href="https://aus.social/tags/farcical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farcical</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/melbournetrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>melbournetrain</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/commuterstruggles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commuterstruggles</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/MetroTrains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MetroTrains</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a></p>
Sigma (she/her)<p>Why call myself a "<a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/moderate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moderate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchist</span></a>" rather than a <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libertarian</span></a>? Unfortunately, many of those people that call themselves "libertarians" are really blind to any <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> that is not in the hands of an <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/elected" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elected</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a>. For them to continue calling themselves "libertarians" is ultimately <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/farcical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farcical</span></a>. I reject the idea that the <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/richest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>richest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/1percent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1percent</span></a> or even 10percent should have a right to command more than 50% of all <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/financial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>financial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a>. That leads to <a href="https://mastodon.lol/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a>.</p>