I was just talking about the Youtube channel, but maybe he’ll reach some of the boomers there at least.

I watched yesterday and I’m still at a loss. The arguments Fawcett made are logical and make me want to hope for better, but it’s not like I can shut off my memories of all the other instances where I’ve seen Carney catering to business-related lobbies (and in this case it may be military equipment manufacturers or others that use fossil fuels) without any hint of consultation with independent experts, and in ways that won’t really benefit most citizens.

If there weren’t already multiple examples of Carney using misleading language that causes public confusion over his government’s intentions, I’d probably be more inclined to trust this, but as things are I’m still apprehensive. Also, the rush to build excess pipelines that don’t seem worth the expense gives me ominous flashbacks to Trump’s insistence on bringing in crude from Venezuela after his coup of Maduro, even though refiners didn’t want a market glut. Feels like finance bro logic.

I don’t know what the landscape is like in the gaming industry these days so I can’t say if it’s the case here, but often that kind of pattern is about eliminating competition (i.e. market manipulation rather than innovation).

Energi Media has been on my radar for a couple of months now. They tend to have interesting takes on Alberta politics, as proponents of clean energy. I’ll definitely check out their perspective on this. Thanks for the heads up!

Looks to me like they were talking about (or to, as the case may be) Hoekstra.

The thought did cross my mind that Internet cafes may offer too much anonymity for the liking of the ones pushing all these surveillance laws globally.

For someone with your username, that sounds incredibly eugenicist (choosing who can vote), and more typical of someone who believes in liberalism to say (the elitism in blaming people who fall for the propaganda instead of the propagandists themselves). Surely this kind of language plays a part in disenfranchising people who are simply misinformed. Kind of counterproductive.

As they realized in Europe, Microsoft will turn data over to the US govt if requested, so using it on sensitive systems should be seen as a bigger security threat than some video app.

aka “Tim Apple,” at least to Trump

It would make a nice museum, and they could have regular tours.

Alien vs. Purrdator.

This year for the first time there are 10 African World Cup teams participating, and that makes me think of how passports are handled internationally in general. If our officials haven’t done much about the way things are normally handled, it could cause a lot of fans to get locked out for no good reason.

I saw an explainer video recently about this topic, and was surprised how people with less valued passports are treated. Apparently it’s not just where you’re a citizen but where you’re born that determines what barriers a traveller will face. Doesn’t matter if you have no criminal record or other connections to crime. Those of us who were both born and have citizenship in countries on the good list are very lucky. (The vid, for those interested: Youtube | Invidious)

Interesting. This would be an incredible boost to uplift at least some people’s spirits… if Israel weren’t participating.

Though it’s obviously not to the extreme there yet like it reportedly is with Amazon warehouses and drivers, it also reminds me of the famous factory scene from Modern Times. They’ll just keep on speeding up that assembly line until somebody snaps.

Public debate was shut down and turned “private” so there’s no public record of what anyone said.

Although my own comment was more about slowing the roll of people who go into politics as a career choice from the get-go (red flag imo), there are arguments for having both minimum and maximum ages. 25-ish to 65-ish sounds reasonable. (I also think there should be baseline and follow-up tests for both empathy and cognitive capacity.

Agreed. And maybe it also shouldn’t be someone’s first job out of school.

I found this rather amusing:

The form also gathers sensitive answers, including each registrant’s "political leaning,” which Dialog promises “WILL NOT be shared in the app or with other participants, ever.” That data, and the matchmaking responses, were exposed in the leak.

Me too but apparently they won the same suit against Ontario? Not sure how things will go this time. (I don’t know if Ontario’s lawyers had any evidence on all those cases of rebate fraud at the time, for example.)

Yes, also sea ports. (I’d hoped both were implied in my comment.)