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@vanliberals @Southsiders Hang on.. how do we save them? Seems like if we lose the caps we know who to blame.

Statement from Kareem Allam, Mayoral Candidate for the Vancouver Liberals: Let’s save the Whitecaps. Here is how: With bidders now entering the process to purchase the Whitecaps who want to move the team, the likelihood of the team staying has decreased. But it’s not impossible to keep them. It will take courage, hard work, and sincerity—none of which we’ve had from Mayor Ken Sim. 1) The PNE site offer was a distraction. A feasibility study for a new ballpark there, with adjacent activations, quickly shows that without rapid transit (SkyTrain), the project won’t pencil out. 2) Being away from the downtown core negatively impacts suite capacity and the entertainment district, both essential to making the finances work. 3) This Whitecaps problem didn’t emerge in the past three months. It has been on the books for at least a decade. 4) To ensure a new local bidder doing due diligence on a significant acquisition can outbid others or at least give the MLS Commissioner pause, the project site needs to be much more substantial. 5) There has only ever been one site that works: the original Central Waterfront District proposal Kerfoot suggested in the 2000s. 6) Kerfoot still owns that land, but CPKC Rail owns the right of way on top of it. 7) What’s changed since that plan? The Minnesota Twins built a ballpark over railroad tracks, demonstrating that safety and engineering technology have come a long way. Wrigley Field, Minute Maid Park, and T-Mobile Park are all adjacent to or over rail lines. There are dozens of other examples. 8) Rather than dig into the file over the past four years, Ken Sim ignored it. He could have used this knowledge to bring rail companies, the Port, and the Feds together. The city also owns land immediately adjacent to the Kerfoot lands—at the nexus of a SeaBus line, two SkyTrain lines, and the West Coast Express—in the heart of our corporate core. 9) If we’re going to keep the team, we need the best. It’s time to hire Mortensen, who helped lead the Twins stadium project, and get to work to show local bidders and regulators a path to real financial viability, along with feasible engineering and safety—not a PR sleight of hand with the PNE site. 10) We don’t have anymore time to waste. Let’s save the Whitecaps!

@crypto_zeek @KenSimCity Letting the team stay will not affect your mortgage or taxes. Take care of yourself.

@KenSimCity I mean people are going bankrupt paying mortgages and taxes, while our Mayor's agenda is to keep a sports team around.

STATEMENT FROM VANCOUVER MAYOR KEN SIM: The Whitecaps have been Vancouver’s club since 1974. Many things have changed throughout the years: the players, the logos, the kits, and the stadiums, just to name a few. The one thing that has never changed is Vancouver’s love of this team. The Whitecaps are one of the top teams in the MLS, they were the runners up in last year’s championship, and they sit in the top ten of league attendance at an average of 24,000+ per game. While we understand that professional sports is a complex business, it would be a mistake for any team to leave a market with such a longstanding history and ready-made fanbase. The City of Vancouver has done its part to create a path forward for the team’s future here by offering prime space at Hastings Park for the Whitecaps to construct a new stadium and entertainment district. Now, we face the difficult part. BC Place is owned and operated by the Provincial Government. In fact, it’s the only stadium owned and operated by a government found anywhere in the MLS. In order for the team to stay in Vancouver, the Whitecaps and Province must sign a bridge deal that will allow BC Place to become viable in the near term while a new stadium can be designed and built. That's why today, we are calling on the team’s ownership to publicly and clearly articulate what they need to stay here in Vancouver, and we are calling on the Provincial Government to come to the table and make that a reality. To all Vancouver Whitecaps fans, to the @Southsiders, and to all of the supporter groups, we need you to keep the fight going. We need you to stay strong, and we need you to stay loud. Losing the Whitecaps is not an option. #SAVETHECAPS

@al_sciola you just made a post of Top 100 coffee shops in the world and named 4 MTL shops that are in the top 100, but I looked and none of them are mentioned. Can you show me where you got your information?

@Naaackers @StreamWithMeld You just had a very biased debate with yourself. Congratulations. Also, just because you do one thing that is not okay doesn't mean it's okay to do another thing that's not okay. Silly goose.

With the release of @StreamWithMeld new Spark update, there is going to be a divide among the community, because each creator chooses where they draw the line in the AI/LLM sand. I see a lot of creators taking a stance on never using a tool like this, and it makes me ask questions. - Do you play music on stream? Are you currently using the VOD track to route audio so you don't get dinged with a DMCA? Do you consider monetizing content using assets you're not licensed for to be stealing, or do you consider that $10/month for spotify almighty absolver of guilt? - I also assume you've never used a mp3 or mp4 downloader for YouTube, whether it was to grab a scene, sound effect, funny clip, etc. etc. Is that different? - You also don't watch YouTube videos on stream then, correct? How do you differentiate? Is it "fair use" to watch videos from beginning to end, using that content to monetize your own? - If you're against how spark works - does that mean your streaming app canvas is completely void of any images from Google? Any screenshots of things you've found on the web? I assume all your visual assets have either been sourced by artists, or created from scratch. I'm sure at some point you needed an image for a background or a wallpaper for stream or for a youtube video. Whats easy? Go to google, search for "colorful polygon wallpaper" and use it. If instead of that, I ask claude to create that wallpaper instead. Is that the same? Why not? I always see the argument "well it's just background music, it's not the whole stream and the reason for the content..." Look, at the end of the day, if the music wasn't providing you some kind of value, you wouldn't be using it. - I think you have to be naive to think that the artists or developers you purchase assets from are NOT using any LLM tools to help them do their job. And I'm not specifically talking about using generative-AI for art. I just mean using any kind of LLM tools helping out with certain parts of workflow. How do you vet that? Are you asking every merchant how their assets are created? The plugins for OBS you're using - are they all free of vibe coding or code agent workflows? These questions make me look inward as well. > Have I ever used generative AI to create me a visual asset like a Notion header, or a wallpaper for my PC? Absolutely. Have I ever shared those assets with anyone, especially people that have asked for my wallpapers? Never. > Have I ever used AI to write me a script for a video? Never. Have I written a script for a video, and used an AI tool to go over it, clean it up, provide suggestions for edits? Yep. > There are many tools out there especially for short form content that just scrape the top performing videos, pull the script, and reword it so you can just read the script and post to cash in on the views. Never would I do that. But would I look at the data of the video to see why it performed that way and try to apply it to my own? Absolutely. I'm not going to tell you where to draw your line in the sand, rather just take a look at all the aspects of creating content and be honest about how you acquire all the things you use for creating said content before you cast a stone. Because don't tell me you'll never use spark because reasons and then edit with CapCut. oh and Spark is optional. Use it or don't, you Meld Studio will work the same if you don't.

@elie_mcn Saying you experienced this shows that you know it's a lie, because everyone knows it's not true, including you. If you know you're lying then what are you even fighting for? It doesn't make sense.. you're fighting against a world that doesn't exist. Why?

@boondockmillion @emilyjuniper_ So he was lying? He is a master negotiator for sure. Everything is back to how it was 3 months ago. Genius! It's almost like he could have done nothing and US troops and innocent children would still be alive. Ultra Genius!

@panicdots @emilyjuniper_ Yes and millions of you did , not lying he was playing poker !

Democrats genuinely seem to believe that Trump is about to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran tonight. What a bunch of hysterical morons.

@boondockmillion @emilyjuniper_ Yeah, imagine reading what the POTUS said and believing it! Idiots. Everyone knows he's a lying sack of shit.

@emilyjuniper_ They are deranged, I have also seen timers set to 8 pm . Trump has bombed over 80 targets since Sunday and he continues. They think something is going to happen at 8 . He will not use any nuclear bomb .

@MMonster5 💐

@LiamArchitect @TheExtremeMusi1 No it doesn't tell us everything, why don't you tell us what it means. I will bask in your silence now.

@TheExtremeMusi1 Naming a band after a torture method used against Irish Catholics, while proclaiming to support other victims tells me everything…

Do you actually like Kneecap???

@johnny45436859 @GavinNewsom On what planet can you not hate a Nazi?

@GavinNewsom Careful spreading hate Mr. Newsom, that's the job of Republicans. If you do the same there is no difference.

Good riddance. You ruined lives. Spread fear. And spewed hatred. If you’re remembered, it will be as the smallest man who ever lived.

@Jesii_ca_M Protect pedophiles

Name something America has done better than other countries.

@GUYmayhem You're a fool. I wish people would shut up until they have the full story. Too busy trying to get retweets and spread hate.

btw im talking about this guy… the other men are weirdos. this one looks like he genuinely was there to meet their idol

imagine being a fan just wanting your idol to sign their merchandise only for them to film you and say to get away from them…. we made the wrong person famous

@Onepeg @neugassh Are you not from USA? You have a pdf as a president. That's literally the lowest possible standard. USA is not really in a place to call other places names right now.

@neugassh As a European it sounds like you already do

Ok. Marathon kinda bangs, but the test will be when the “discovery” phase wanes.

@axel__tv Woke? Did something offend you? 😂

@HMcPhersonNDP Can someone explain why it was relevant or useful to express their sexual orientation? Please don't reply with your hate spewing BS from any political side, I'm genuinely interested, I do not understand.

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@TheGreatGernzo @WAngvv75728 @axel__tv Lol you probably don't even understand what just happened here. So dumb.

@WAngvv75728 @axel__tv ive only seen him be rude to retards.

Am I the only one who thinks Airdrops in EFT need a buff ? in other games if you see airdrop - you know you should go for it since it unconditionally provides top tier loot. In tarkov airdrop loot is useless unless you get 0.1% luck and get a LEDX from a medical drop

@nikgeneburn Like this if you are a pdf

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@realMikeBlue @electionsjoe Wow.. think about who you are sticking up for. Like for real.. take a moment.

@electionsjoe Visited the island. Which still doesn’t mean anything illegal happened

HE CONFIRMS HE DID WHAT???!!!

So everyone put their sign back up when trump walked on stage. He goes onto full them with lies and they clap. #NewWorldOrder

@YourAnonNews did you guys forgive and forget? Can you do something...