If the voters are already committed to voting democrat, the party doesn’t need to care about what they think.

I think you and I are on the same page, but everything I know about this country and government has stripped me of your optimism.

You sound like a reasonable person who’s given up, and I get that. Given everything we see, it may even be the rational choice, but it’s not the moral one. It’s fine if you want to check out, but that doesn’t explain the cheerleading for policy that will make everything worse. It turns you from a bystander to an antagonist.

If this planet is going to end in fire, I have to believe that Good people are going to fight for it, even if we know we can’t win because “if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do”.

Evaluating a six year old based on their likelihood to perform as a worker is deeply fucked up, and identifying them for “help” to become employable is not what they need.

It’s addressing a problem from a backward position. Underemployment is objectively a problem with availability of work paying livable wages, so a reasonable solution would be addressing that fault, not pigeonholing children based on their likelihood to contribute to GDP.

The fuck is wrong with this country?

So this is what we’ve come to.

First it was “global warming isn’t real”, then it was “it is, but it’s not our fault”, then “it’s our fault, but there’s nothing we can do about it”, and now you’re taking the position of “it’s all gonna burn anyway, so I might as well get mine.”

Putting the emotional argument aside for a moment, this is a blisteringly naive position to take. In a world on fire, and with Canada’s terrain the way it is, what could possibly make you think that your home isn’t going to be burning next year? A “full stomach”? In a world on fire? Where do you think the food is going to come from? What in your head tells you that you’re going to be able to afford to feed yourself or your family in a world where crop yields are cratering everywhere? The people with the money, who stand to profit further from policies like the one you’re supporting here will gleefully let you die and not even notice.

For every litre of oil & gas Canada leaves in the ground, the cost of accessing those fossils elsewhere increases. Driving up the price drives divestment and innovation everywhere, and that means fewer burning forests and a better chance of survival.

While it’s true that resource extraction can drive an economy, extracting resources that literally burn the future is at-best shortsighted… extractive if you will. We could be pushing money into electrification, transport, and education, fields in desperate need of support that objectively lead to a stronger economy nation-wide. With the US cratering, we could position ourselves as a cultural hub, or a manufacturing bridge between Asia and Europe… but instead Carney is choosing short-term profits for private companies (protected by public funds!) and increasing our already sizeable contribution to burning the world.

But I guess it’s ok if a few people have some jobs for a few years. You best hope your home isn’t next on the to-burn list.

It also burns the planet. We kinda need that.

I followed all the except the pansexual bit. Is that cannon?

She makes an excellent point that an opening is being made on the left that’s backdooring some truly horrible influencers into the hearts and minds of otherwise good people.

However the suggestion that we need to reach out to Zionists to mend that hole is… well it’s nuts really.

There’s a growing convergence out there and we should embrace it. People traditionally on the left and right of a two-party system that’s been largely aligned in its support for evil are finally realising that there’s a lot of things we agree on that’re not supported by either party. The only way we get those things is to break the hold the old guard has on us.

It was surprisingly common, though due to the cost of buying tapes, it wasnt as common as it is now.

VHS tapes have this nifty feature where you could store video on it in 3 different formats. While the tape from the rental place was stored in the format that fit roughly 2hrs on a tape, you could record three 2hr movies to a tape if you used the lower quality EP format (I think that was the acronym).

This lead to people like my friend’s dad keeping shelves of tapes with hastily scrawled labels on them for 3 different movies or 6 different episodes.

All you needed for any of this was 2 VCRs, which from the early 90s were pretty affordable.

What do you use for voice synthesis?

OMG I love this. Thank you for sharing!

Tow every last one.

Am I the only one that thinks it’s a little silly to blog $2B on a hybrid when you can just run wires along the tracks and go full electric? Given that the grid clearly needs investment, you could expand its capacity and range at the same time with theoretically limited costs.

Well I’m not the site maintainer, but I’d argue that this would be fine. The question is about whether you’re writing the code yourself: understanding what you’re writing line by line rather than taking an “agent” to do the work, robbing you of that understanding.

Accepting criticism/review from a bot or a human for that matter wouldn’t interfere with that understanding, so I’d argue that it doesn’t apply.

There is however the ethical question of paying for such a bot, given that it’s the product of massive IP theft and environmental arson. It probably doesn’t apply to this specific declaration though.

I really liked VOY: “One Small Step” (s06e08) wherein the crew work to salvage the wreckage of an ancient Earth probe from a dark matter asteroid

It’s a nice acknowledgement of the reality that space is fucking dangerous, and of the bravery of the men and women who shot themselves into it with little more than a few layers of metal and their wits to protect themselves. All this in the name of advancing science and exploration.

It closes with Seven reading a eulogy for the centuries-dead astronaut who died diverting all power to the sensors so that knowledge would be preserved.

Repentance is s07e12.

It’s always nice to see Greens following through on their promises.

I used to work with a guy who was so afraid of losing the use of his hands in “a freak tractor accident” that he claims to have taught himself to type with his feet.

That was great. This is why I subscribe here.