The conservatives in Canada have been going wild over carbon pricing.
The current government recently removed carbon taxes on home heating oil for the Maritimes, where home heating oil is used a lot, to make things more affordable during the cold winter months.
The conservatives are collectively screaming that this should be evenly applied to everyone and that home heating carbon pricing (but really all carbon pricing) should be removed. And that the PM is only doing this to retain votes in the maritimes.
Because this is a hot button issue, the conservatives are trying to claim that this legislation makes Ukraine agree to implement a carbon tax, but as is often the case with conservatives, this isn’t reality at all. In reality if I recall correctly, Ukraine needs to put in measures to reduce carbon emissions. This is something they have already agreed to do to be part of the EU.
Fascist Milhouse, the opposition leader, just wanted to spin the issue into a culture war topic that touches on a lot of things he’s been yelling about like affordability (he has no plan to improve this).
The last part is purely my conjecture: I would not be surprised if he is cozy with Russia. He was cozy with the “Freedom” Convoy in Canada that conveniently spun up right as Russia invaded Ukraine. The troll farms on Reddit were heavily commenting/ arguing/ advancing the cause of the Convoy, and Facebook groups/propaganda about it was thick. I notice that conservatives in Canada use Facebook groups like “Canada Proud” and “Ontario Proud” to advance their causes and these spin up like crazy around election time. These groups have dubious ownership at best and I suspect are foreign influence operations. Interestingly for a while the conservatives were chomping at the bit to investigate foreign interference in Canada’s election but hmmm oddly wanted to ignore Russia and focus on China instead. If you’re squeaky clean wouldn’t you want to focus on all foreign interference, no matter the source?
This, imo is also why they were trying to tie the previous speaker of the House’s dumb decision to honour a Ukrainian war vet (oops he fought on the side of Germany) to = Ukraine supports Nazis/the PM supports Nazis. That’s not reality and it was a dumb oversight by the speaker of the house and his office who has nothing to do with the PM. But I do recall that one of Russia’s favourite attacks on Ukraine is that they are Nazis so this line of attack by the conservatives here in Canada seems questionable at best.
TLDR send help, Canadians are falling for the lies of a fascist shitbird
Thanks for the detailed answer! :) I have discovered a matrix bridge that can puppet my account which is pretty cool. Need to find out how to use it properly though. I moved to matrix and its great so far.
Peertube is a bit of an odd one. It has good content but i hate the discoverability. I just opened an issue with the creators. Let’s see if that helps. So find peertube content, use sepiasearch.org.
I understand a fantasy and a one time thing like tipping on a guys night out at a strip club, but some of these guys think they are in a relationship with someone they will never meet and don’t even know their real name or life details.
Do people who buy lotto tickets expect to become billionaires? Do high school athletes sacrifice their bodies and their futures to some day get their shot to go pro? Do artists starve while hoping to one day be discovered and become famous?
Hope is an irrational, self-destructive concept, reinforced by the fact that nobody who ever became one of the lucky few gave up because the odds were against them.
I like spending my money on beautiful women. Personally this is something I like to do in person, for someone I actually know. I guess I can kind of see how somebody might fulfil a similar drive virtually, but it seems very odd to me.
I know the majority opinion is not to do it for various reasons, but basically I started to backup the majority of my dvd collection that I created over the years since I have the time and they were just collecting dust. Turns out though I guess I’m doing it “wrong” or at least not in the original quality since I used...
If you’re doing it for preservation and data hoarding then it’s probably worth it to redo it, but unless you’re very picky odds are there isn’t much difference depending on what you saved them as in Handbrake. If you plan on keeping the DVDs then I would watch a bit of one as it’s then play a bit of the file and if you don’t have a problem with the difference then I wouldn’t worry about it too much. DVD is only 480 SD typically anyway. I’m not an expert though, just a fellow ripper of DVDs.
Hmmm… this seems odd, based on the specs I expected the Pi 5 to offer a very solid Android experience, since they now use Cortex A76 CPUs. Same Microarchitecture as for example a Kirin 980 and Snapdragon 855 which to this day perform very well.
Matter of fact this comment was sent on an LG G8S using the 855
The best math teacher I ever had was my high school algebra / geometry / calculus teacher.
Our class format was 1) first half of class, students group together to practice the thing from the day before, 2) second half of class, new concept for the day is taught.
With the class format, his method was to deliberately block the board as much as possible when teaching the new material. He knew that when we got together in group the next day to review it, we’d basically have to teach ourselves what he introduced the day before using our textbooks and the main-point-scraps he allowed to shine through, and it would stick better that way. And it worked.
In effect, give them the resources, and teach them to teach themselves. Sounds odd and counter-intuitive, but it can work if you structure it well.
In 2020, the online news organization The Intercept revealed that HRW’s then-Executive Director, Ken Roth, accepted a $470,000 donation from a Saudi billionaire based on the condition that HRW would not use the money to protect the rights of the persecuted LGBTQ-plus community in the Middle East....
I wish I had something I could say to help or to sway your fears but I’m a 30-odd year old gay man and I’m terrified for myself and everyone else in the community. For a brief period there was some light that things started to get better but it was just painted faces. This world is… well let’s just say there’s a reason I’m such a big Star Trek fan and there’s a reason why Stamets being gay meant such a fucking enormous amount to me. Finally I got to not only see the world I wanted to live in but also got to know that there is a place for me in the future. That we are real. That we matter.
It’s definitely not too late to heal Google. It would require some shake-up at the top of the company, moving the centre of power from the CFO’s office back to someone with a clear long-term vision for how to use Google’s extensive resources to deliver value to users.
Why would this happen though? The change the author is describing came from the company’s shareholders and their desire for profit. Shareholders who have no connection to the core domains of Google, who vote for directors on the board that further profit extraction, who then maintain executive leadership who implements that. You have to convince those shareholders that they should want Google to focus on something other than profit maximization. But they don’t understand you. They can dump Google’s stock at a moment’s notice. Why care about some long term profit when they can make it now and dump the stock as soon as it stops making it? And then, you can’t even talk to them because you’re sitting behind the exec layer and the board layer, both of which are shareholder creations. So you have to tightrope your exec team into believing you, then they have to tightrope the board, and then the board has to tightrope the shareholders. The odds are stacked against reversing course. If on the other hand you’re not acting alone but you are the head of the union that can shutdown Google at a moment’s notice, then not only you can talk to the exec layer, you don’t have to tightrope while doing it. Better yet, you can simply broadcast your message and it’s gonna hit the board and the shareholders directly. That’s why I don’t think Google can reverse course without a strong union. I think the incentives are simply not there.
A mind-plague of our time to call mediocrity greatness, as being exceptionally intelligent and being a tech wizard has absolutely nothing to do with being a great person. That is the same as saying the top %1 of Plumbers are great people. When faced with tough life choices, these Plumbers may show negligible character. Stop devaluing greatness.
It’s a serious overvaluation of self and commodization of the term, a weakening of the term, so as to devalue it. It’s a mind virus to say flippantly, “that person is great” when in reality they are average. The meaning of the word is being dilluted.
Greatness is doing the right thing without being compensated or even recognized for it!
Greatness is doing great things on your own (person). Group goodness is good people, action.
Greatness is not involved in any way with Corporations. Corporations are profit above all else.
Greatness is achieving what others could not achieve. Many awesome search engines were bought out and ruined by Big Tech, as they do with any competing technology.
Greatness is not involved with violating the privacy of the whole world in any manner.
Silicon Valley is an immense perspective bubble that is equivalent to personality re-write. That anyone at Google can be thought of as a “great person” is a total and complete failure of perspective. Super smart, great Programmers, great Engineers, sure.
Being a great person almost always involves hardship, perserverance, and success against all odds. Read any classical book. Having a Billion dollar company pay you to turn a digital wrench has not one basis for “greatness” in any way, shape or form.
Think about all the “Great” people in the History of Earth. What did they have in commmon? How many people can be “Great”? Hundreds or even dozens at one Corporation? Gimme a break, that doesn’t even fit the definition of greatness, unless your cognitive dissonance is confusing it with mediocrity and that is a societal mind virus.
So, let’s be precise with our life terms like an actual programmer would be with technical terms except applied to your own life. So, you follow rules, you get along well with others, you don’t hurt anyone physically, verbally or emotionally, you donate and work for causes, you create great stuff. This is expected of all people so that makes you average. You are an average person.
Making a comparative judgement against failed people does not make you great. In fact, that brings you down a notch.
Maybe along with all those other traits instead of creating great stuff you create exceptional stuff. The term applied to you is now "an exceptional ‘job title’ ".
it won’t be a thing in the foreseeable future and the good will and sympathy that the people in Gaza had with many Israeli probably suffered a lot as well.
Does goodwill that doesn't translate into action even matter? I mean the only time they elected a guy who was willing to solve the whole thing he was assassinated and Netanyahu came in his place. This is like saying the Irish lost the British's sympathy because of the troubles, which is like yeah I guess but unless that goodwill generates action it doesn't matter. Important historical context here is that Israel never came to the negotiation table without use of force by Palestinians. Even the Oslo accords only came by because of the first intifada.
That is to say, Hamas's approach doesn't have good odds of success, but it's good a much better shot than whatever the PNA is doing in the West Bank, and Israel has created a situation where only these two options exist.
A man who won one of the largest lottery payments in U.S. history has filed a federal lawsuit against the mother of his child in an attempt to keep his identity concealed....
I briefly worked at a convienice store that sold lotto tickets, and people should be aware that the default is the smaller lump sum. The operators have to change a couple things when they get the ticket made.
However most people do a random “quick pick” over filling out the associated forms to select individual numbers, pay out type, etc.
That being said, mathematically if you do win, and take the lump sum and invest it positively, it can out “earn” the staggered payments, resulting in more money.
However, the mathematically inclined rarely play lottery type games, I mean they give you the odds on the ticket.
You’re more likely to be hit by lightning on a clear day than winning the jackpot.
But hey, a couple bucks, some wishful thinking, and its cheap entertainment for a short while imagining what to do with the winnings.
I realize the odds are totally stacked against me, but when it gets to 1b I’ll buy a ticket, just on the off chance, lol.
Yeah the sex ones are more odd… When you chose race and sex I think they don’ give you the stats at all, they just mention in text what a race is better at. They don’t mention there being gender differences or those differences differing between races at all.
The big issue with “trying” communism is that it historically has only really occurred through violent revolution. The political instability in these situations gives a perfect opportunity for the seizing of power by exactly those kinds of people.
Gradualist Socialism was the political project for Social Democrats in post-war Europe. They had 30-odd years to achieve it in several countries. The issue becomes that once they started notching up victories, radicalism decreased, and that when they’re not starving and oppressed people categorically will not vote to let someone collectivize their farms and expropriate their homes. It seems clear to me that in real-world conditions, a Socialist state can only come about through revolution, because the path in a democracy is far too long and leaves far too many angles of attack from a liberal opposition.
That’s the most odd thing anyone said about culture and history of civilization. Events should be fun, it should let future generations learn, it should become better and should bring new ideas.
The American culture gives nothing fun, there’s no generation learning because they block it, it doesn’t become better because things like concerts cost $200 or a walk to the park cost federal money to enter. Zero ideas instead they are killing all ideas including their own like Rock and Roll.
When people say America has no culture, it absolutely does mean they don’t have culture.
I always think the revelation types that think they’re definitely getting saved before the apocalypse is funny. The Bible says 144,000 will be saved, but the current estimate of Christians on earth is about 2.2 billion from what I can find. So you just gotta hit that 0.006545% chance.
While they’re at it, they can go to the casino, bet their entire life savings on a single number on the roulette wheel, do that twice in a row, and their odds of winning that are 11x higher than being picked for rapture.
didn’t we all grow up needing to be secretive? is it because of the adage of how ‘everyone thinks women are hot’ so like even straight women would get turned on more by their own moaning?...
I am not lacking in the department of reading comprehension, but it seems you are in regards to both reading and writing. When you write something like that, it heavily implies that you either do what you said or you ateast understand it.
I am simply asking why one would have to stop after reaching climax once. You, for some odd reason, are totally deflecting the question or somehow oblivious to your own statement. If you don’t feel comfortable talking about it, I totally understand.
Trudeau blames ‘MAGA influence’ for stirring debate on Ukraine (www.politico.com)
In a surprise move this week, Canada’s Conservatives voted against a new trade deal with the war-torn country....
Who went "full fedi" yet?
Bit of a simple question: Some people on lemmy are still posting stuff from youtube, xitter and the like....
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Do guys that tip cam models hundreds of dollars week after week think that model actually likes them?
I understand a fantasy and a one time thing like tipping on a guys night out at a strip club, but some of these guys think they are in a relationship with someone they will never meet and don’t even know their real name or life details.
Question regarding ripping dvds (yes DVDs)
I know the majority opinion is not to do it for various reasons, but basically I started to backup the majority of my dvd collection that I created over the years since I have the time and they were just collecting dust. Turns out though I guess I’m doing it “wrong” or at least not in the original quality since I used...
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No ‘unusual’ virus behind rising Pneumonia cases China has clarified, reveals WHO (www.firstpost.com)
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Why several big-box stores have ditched their self-checkouts | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
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Human Rights Watch Under Fire For Allegedly Accepting Millions In Qatar Funds (www.i24news.tv)
In 2020, the online news organization The Intercept revealed that HRW’s then-Executive Director, Ken Roth, accepted a $470,000 donation from a Saudi billionaire based on the condition that HRW would not use the money to protect the rights of the persecuted LGBTQ-plus community in the Middle East....
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Oscar Pistorius to be freed on parole - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved (ln.hixie.ch)
Switzerland moves to ban Hamas and supports Israel's self-defence (www.euronews.com)
Derailed train sparks molten sulphur fire in Kentucky (www.theguardian.com)
Winner of $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot in Maine sues mother of his child to keep identity hidden (www.cbsnews.com)
A man who won one of the largest lottery payments in U.S. history has filed a federal lawsuit against the mother of his child in an attempt to keep his identity concealed....
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For context: The thread was about why people hate Hexbear and Lemmygrad instances
Hey, it's Thanksgiving today in the USA and Brazil, and also kind of in Japan, so maybe it's a good day for me to ask, WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR? (a-z-animals.com)
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Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election: Exit poll (www.politico.eu)
The anti-Islam, euroskeptic radical Geert Wilders is projected to be the shock winner of the Dutch election....
Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't?
didn’t we all grow up needing to be secretive? is it because of the adage of how ‘everyone thinks women are hot’ so like even straight women would get turned on more by their own moaning?...